Picha Farms: Get your first taste of local strawberries
Hankering for a first taste of this year's local strawberries?
Picha Farms has opened their berry stand and U-Pick in the Puyallup Valley. They open up at 8:00 am and usually go until they are sold out for the day in early afternoon. Directions and more info at Picha's website: http://www.pichafarms.com/berries.php.
Folks are out in numbers picking away. These are not your grocery store variety, bred for the long haul from many miles away, these are delicate, juicy, and sweet little (and big) things, sitting patiently, waiting for your fingers to pluck them off the plant. Today the going rate for U-Pick price for strawberries was $1.35/lb.
If you aren't able or ready to venture out in the field yourself, pick up a cup, half flat, or full flat at the stand. Today prices were listed as (potentially subject to change):
cup = $2.00
half flat = $10.50
full flat = $19.00
They say the strawberries should be here until around the 4th of July and then raspberries will be next up and should be ready for picking around the beginning of July (gosh, that's next week).
Mmmmmm Berries
