We spent the afternoon picking fruit at a local orchard.
If you have the opportunity to get out to an orchard, I highly recommend it. It is a fun time for the kids – my son enjoyed looking at all the different plants – even the ones we were not picking.
We picked about 7lbs of fruit for under $20.00. I couldn’t purchase in the store at that price — plus, it was fun family activity to keep us busy on a Saturday afternoon. Another bonus – nothing taste as good as fresh picked fruit. I see a blueberry pie our very near future!
Do you pick your own fruit? How do the prices compare to the grocery store?
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You must have gone to Weaver’s! We went last week for blueberries and red raspberries, they are SO good! I hope you used the coupons in the coupon clipper, they always have a coupon for Weaver’s!
@Brandi,
yes! I did . The blueberries are amazing. Nothing taste like fresh fruit.
one of the CSAs i belong to is offering free u-pick cherries (normally they charge $2/#) so i’m headed out to get me some of those, because you can’t beat free cherries!
We have a plum tree in our back yard. We look forward every summer to pick the fruit. I have bags full of them, that I have been giving away to friends and neighbors.
I just took my 14 month old son to Linvilla Orchards yesterday, we got blueberries and raspberries. The blueberries were $2.99/lb and I think the raspberries were $4.99/lb. It was so cute watching my son picking the berries and try to decide whether he eat them or put them in my container.
I totally agree. We’re planning to pick organic strawberries tomorrow. In July, it will be blueberries. Apples in the fall are fun, too. I haven’t found a good farm for raspberries yet. When I lived in California, we picked berries in summer and kiwis in early winter. How fun is that?
The people who owned this house before planted all sorts of trees in the backyard, and one in the front yard. There’s 2 lemon trees, one apple tree, one orange tree, 2 apricot trees (those apricots look extremely nasty though – I think there’s something wrong with the tree), and 2 trees where whatever is growing right now is green – I have no clue what it is! There’s also a mandarin orange tree in the front yard. It’s like a fruit farm in our backyard, and we live in an urban city in the Bay Area. =)
Oh, also I have been known to pick 2 gallons of blueberries at one visit! EEK!
Oh, cool! Did you go to Highland? The ones here are all a good drive away
. BTW, blueberries were free last week at Publix down here, we got 2 quarts, but I agree it is normally extremely cost effective to pick your own and definitely tastes better!
@Sally,
I went to Weavers, just a few miles from where the Walmart is on 23.
I live out here in the sticks of North Eastern PA and the pick your own fruit is SO cheap. Our strawberries are $1.00/lb and our blueberries are $1.15/lb. Woo hoo! I look forward to June and July all year – and I drag all my friends out there for playdates. The kids sit in a bush and eat their fiber while we pick cheap berries!
That looks amazing!!! We have not done any pick your own yet. I think Tommy’s still too young. My grandmother used to take us to a pick your own strawberry patch when we were little. I wonder where that was???