It's time to visit Secrest Organics U-Pick at Coverts Farms because the strawberries are ripe and ready for picking! These organic strawberries cost $2.75 a pound when u-picked. The are pails for picking but bring your own containers to take the berries home. I get...
On our way to the pumpkin patch I was congratulating myself on getting everyone out the door with lunches packed and time to spare. Not only were we going to be arrive early, a rarity around here, it was a beautiful morning. We were all quite excited to find and carve...
Today was our first u-pick day of the year. We started up at Covert Farms and picked their sweet organic strawberries ($2.50/lb). The picking was easy so it didn't take long to fill our cardboard box. Teddy wasn't too keen on standing between the rows of strawberry...
/This morning we spent some time at one of our favourite organic u-pick farms. I was hoping to pick a bushel of strawberries but the plants were picked over and we only gathered half a pail, minus a few that Teddy ate. There will be more strawberries in a...
We have been to the U-Pick at Covert Farms almost half a dozen times in the last few weeks. More than half the trips I've braved alone with my three little children (4, 2 and 6 months). I think I'm starting to understand how to make these U-Pick trips fun (for...
Our stuff is slowly finding spots around the house. There are still many boxes to unpack but I've moved them to the basement so that they can be conveniently ignored. There hasn't been much time for unpacking, not with all the produce needing to be...