KRAUSE BERRY FARMS

Here as promised are some pictures from my trip to the berry farm today.

We went to Krause Berry Farms in Langley, B.C. It was a fabulous sunny day and we met at Zenberry for coffee at 9:00. This is our usual meeting place Monday to Friday for our coffee group. We sometimes go on road trips to interesting places that for some reason always include food.

I zipped over the new bridge and my transponder chirped for the very first time with the joy of it's first $2.75 charge. If you knew what the traffic on the old route was like you would see what a deal this is. Shaves off close to an hour of driving in heavy traffic.

This is the garden bed when you are heading to the buildings from the parking lot. This is also a U-pick farm but I am not the berry picking type. First off I would eat more than I would put into the bucket. That would necessitate my being weighed on the way in and out of the fields. Let's just say that ain't gonna happen. Note that they do have strict rules about eating in the fields. This is the main building and store. They sell fruit smoothies, shakes, lattes, corn pizza whatever that is? I hope there is some left for us.
A little Q&A. Unfortunately I didn't look at the other side but now I figure that is where the answers to these important questions must have been.Like all farms nowadays they have a gift shop too. Although the farm store was out of strawberries today (unless you went and picked) the shelves were full of strawberry accessories.They have an interesting variety of pancake mixes and berry syrups. Note the cute little strawberry hats. Say awwwww. Come on.They sell frozen pies but my eyes were glued to these fresh berry pies. Too bad we were in a hot car and would still be traveling around for the rest of the day. We brought a cooler but it wouldn't have been big enough to take one of these behemoths home with us.They had some breads made in house and I wished later that I had bought some. I had a taste of one of them dipped in a raspberry balsamic vinegar. How tasty was that. You can see some of the prices here. Remember that the Canadian dollar is worth about 88 cents American. How do they compare? I paid $16 for 10 lbs of blueberries.They had lots of fresh produce but I didn't need much in the way of vegetables. I did buy a half dozen corn on the cob. Cuteness alert, cuteness alert. Even cuter than the little strawberry hats were these bee bonnets. Almost makes one long for winter...nah not really. The round thing on the wall is actually a screen food cover to keep the bugs off. The photo doesn't show the curved shape of it. Beeswax candles, soaps and decorative pieces. I came home from there with 20 pounds of blueberries, 2 of those blue trays of raspberries, 6 corn and a bag of nugget new potatoes. Now this was just the first stop on our road trip. We pulled out of the parking stalls and stopped at the end of the road to plan our next stop. Stay tuned for more on the Lindsay and Lori road trip or as it is more commonly known "Paddle faster, I hear banjoes".