Today was the most absolutely perfect day to go strawberry picking. I have always taken the boys (since they were little) to McCann's Berry Farm on Kishwaukee Valley Rd in Woodstock. It is a U-Pick strawberry and blueberry farm. We also got lucky today and bought some sugar snap peas.
Austin and I spent some time gathering the strawberries. I think that he ate more than he picked! I really love this farm because they never stop the kids from "sampling" the berries. It is so much fun to watch the kids enjoying themselves. I have a lot of happy memories from berry picking. I was thinking about some of them today......since.....Ethan left on Sunday to go to a camp for two weeks. It was the first time he has gone away. Time sure flies!
I used to make about 30 jars of strawberry jam. We ate so much of it when the boys were younger and I gave a lot of it away as gifts. I haven't made strawberry jam in awhile. Instead, I freeze them and use them throughout the year for crisps and strawberry bread.
Blueberry picking begins around the middle of July. We will be there! Probably eating as we pick.
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