I received an sms just after 6 pm today from one of Estelle's classmate, Holly's mom.
"Hi, today seems good to pick strawberry. Would you like to around 6.30-7pm?" she asked.
I replied: "My husband is not in. I don't have GPS..."
Since we live rather close by, we arranged to meet somewhere (actually, it's the Nokia office since my knowledge of Espoo is limited), then their car led ours.
I've picked apples, pears and peaches on the outskirts of Beijing. This is my first time picking strawberries.
At farms like these, visitors are typically allowed to eat all they can on-location. Visitors can bring their own baskets or containers and are charged according to the weight of fruit collected.
The farm is just less than 10 km from our home. We are thankful for friends with local knowledge! We arrived after 7.30 pm and had only half an hour because the farm closes at 8 pm.
Nevertheless, the kids had lots of fun running around the large field. We ate as we picked and had a pretty good harvest. The strawberries were very sweet.
During the 5-minute walk from the field to the weighing station, our yield dropped 20% as the kids munched along. Good thing anyway, since we pay 80% less than what we would have.
In the next 5 minutes between the farm and our car, our stock had nearly halved. We had some more for dessert tonight...
So we now have a good reason to go down to the strawberry field again next week. Summer is short in this part of the world - we have to enjoy while it lasts.
PS Do you realise it's really bright for past 8 pm? These two pics were taken on the way out.
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