A lot of work to pick them. There is a strawberry farm about 45 minutes away. The wife and I went and got some delicious berries for about the same price as in the store, but they were fresh and ripe.
The farm had homemade strawberry ice cream using fresh berries. It was a soft serve style, and the berries were finely processed so there weren’t chunks of frozen berry like you get in a lot homemade ice cream. Some of the best ice cream I’ve ever had. The absolute coldest ice cream I’ve had, couldn’t eat more than two or three bites without having to stop and wait for my mouth and throat to thaw out.
Sounds so good.
I hope your strawberries were organic. Strawberries top the list for poisonous pesticides sprayed on them. Pesticides gather under every tiny seed.
Environmental Working Group in WA, DC, tests farm products, etc. and puts out annual list of The Dirty Dozen and The Clean Fifteen. Strawberries are the “dirtiest” of the Dirty Dozen.