Hello all you lovers of locally-grown, super-sweet, Minnesota Grown strawberries and raspberries. Our fields are thick with white blossoms, reaching up for the blessed sunshine, while the roots are glorying in all the moisture they received this spring. Last week was a fabulous week out in the field, and the pollinators were having a blast. What's amazing to us is how many varieties are blossoming all at once with the recent heat. Instead of a long, six week harvest drawn out by the cool weather of last summer, this crop may go fast and furious. Farming is always so interesting!
You can get excited to taste our Annapolis and Sable varieties this season. Their blossoms were nipped by a late frost last year, and we ended up with only a few flats of them. This year, their queen berries promise to be both luscious and enormous. Those of you who come the first week of strawberries will likely get a delightful flat of one of these, though the faithful Cavendish are also blooming thickly, and instead of being a week behind the Annapolis, may only follow them by a day or two. Think of all the different kinds of apples you've experienced -- there are just as many strawberry varieties, with a fantastic range of flavors. It's such fun.
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