Guess what we're planting next week? Strawberries! Lots and Lots of Strawberries. Every crop that we harvest for you takes very careful planning and care. It takes 8 months before we will harvest our first strawberry for you in 2019. But lets back up even further. A farmer can't just plop down 10,000 strawberry plants in a grassy field and expect them to grow. We've been preparing this soil for the past 24 months in preparation for strawberries. We've cover cropped, grazed cattle, planted potatoes, harvested potatoes, loosened soil, raised beds, laid plastic, and numerous other things in order to harvest strawberries (if there aren't any crazy weather patterns, late frost, hungry deer, mean groundhawgs, skunks, you get the idea :))
And even if we do harvest a good crop, we have to work hard to keep the berries cool enough to get them to you without a blemish within 36 hours of harvest.
We can't wait to bring you strawberries in 2019!
Sincere thanks, Ford
