Strawberry Fields, Forever!

It's still MAY here in Michigan, and our glorious strawberry patch has been already spoiling us for over a week with a cup to 2 cups of fresh, delicious, ripe little strawberries each day! My kids are thrilled! For the past 3 years we can hardly get the kids to even swallow a store-bought strawberry anymore--after having fresh, organic, home-grown strawberries fresh from the garden--they know the difference in taste without a doubt. They munch them down almost faster than we can pick them. With how fast they eat them, I wonder if we'll ever have enough to freeze or jar for the winter? Given how large and lovely our strawberry patch is expanding every year, I certainly hope so. In fact, I hope we have it John Lennon-style... forever.

This morning I snagged out a book on Strawberry Plants from our basement library to read along with, making the kids' breakfast snack into a short (and sweet!) school lesson. Happy summer!!

Yum! Homegrown Organic Strawberries! :)

The strawberries from our garden this year are doing awesome and ripening by the bowlful every day. The kids love to snack on them and we all feel the added strawberry-specialness that we've grown them ourselves in our backyard organic garden. Yummy!!