Strawberry Pickin'

We were SO excited to finally get to go to Gieringer's Orchard today for our annual strawberry picking festivities. We have had SO much rain & cool weather during the month of April that our strawberry picking trip was postponed until late May due to slow growing & wet crops. But this week they made the announcement that the strawberry fields were OPEN!!

Chris Cakes was there serving breakfast when we got there so we had our fair share of pancakes, sausage links & juice before we headed out to the fields.

It was a beautiful morning to be out picking strawberries! We were there right away when they opened so there weren't a ton of people there which was nice!

Mason needed no instruction & immediately got to picking!! There were TONS of big, red, ripe strawberries ready to be picked & so we all got our pickin' ON! Almost 11 lbs of strawberries by the time we were done.

We absolutely LOVE doing this annual tradition all together & look forward to it every May! It will be a super sad day when Mason doesn't want to go with us to pick strawberries anymore :( Hoping we have several more years before that happens!

I ended up making 18 jars of strawberry jam once we got back home as well as strawberry muffins & lots of strawberries were left over to be snacked on! In my opinion, there isn't anything better than fresh picked strawberries from a strawberry field! YUM :)