Recently we have been running down the frozen fruit in our freezer, and we don't plan to replace it, as that requires buying more plastic. Equally you can't really buy berries in the supermarket without plastic packaging. The solution for now, was to get to a pick your own. We went on the first Saturday they were open of the year.
We have visited many times over the last few years. mostly we freeze a little and eat a lot fresh.
We arrived at opening time, and there were already a few people there. We grabbed a small and large punnet, one plastic, one card with a metal handle, but we returned both of these at the end, I asked a member of staff if that was ok to leave them used, and they said, they prefer it.
We bought 1kg, and 2.5kg between the two punnets, we picked for about 45 minutes, and got lots of really red and ripe strawberries. I think it was 4.99 a kilo PYO, and 6.99 a kilo picked, maybe a little more than the supermarkets, but the taste is not comparable.
We also bought a jar of jam, some chutney and a loose broccoli, they offered lots of picked vegetables without packaging, but we were due our veg box so decided not to pick up too much.
We raided our cupboard for every empty storage box we had. In the end when we decanted the strawberries, we filled an entire cake travel tub, a big circular plastic tub with clip on bottom (or top). I didn't think we would have needed it, but we filled up the second biggest tub with the smaller 1kg punnet of strawberries. Mountains of berries!
We have frozen a load of the strawberries for smoothies, with the green leafs at the top intact, they are added nutrition guys!
For about 5 days after the picking we ate loads of strawberries every day, took some to our friends, and made some rhubarb strawberry muffins too!
We might get to visit again during strawberry season. But we are excited for the Raspberry, tayberry, tummelberry, loganberry and boysenberry seasons!
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