Pickin' Strawberries

While we were in Blue Ridge, we stopped by Mercier Orchards for their U-pick strawberries. We bought our baskets and hopped on the blue tractor and rode up the hill to the strawberry patch.

There was a man giving us instructions during the ride. His number one instruction was to taste the strawberries before you even put one in your basket and to continue eating them every once in a while as we picked them! Well, Michael had absolutely no problem with that!

Look at those dirty fingernails...oh my!

I really am not a huge fan of strawberries unless they have lots of sugar, are really gooey, and are eaten over some fresh baked p0und cake, but these were the absolute BEST strawberries I've ever had. They were red and juicy all the way through! I probably ate most of that basket...rarely sharing with my family!

We had so much fun! The fun part about this orchard is that they do all sorts of different fruits during the different seasons. They're about to have cherries and blueberries! They have apples in the fall. They also have the cutest little gift shop with the BEST strawberry pepper jelly (that I eat with cream cheese and crackers....yum!)

We will DEFINITELY be going back!