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Strawberries mean Summer

Posted by Lisa Richardson on July 19, 2011 · 1 Comment 

There’s a hand-painted sandwich-board propped up outside the Scotiabank in downtown Pemberton letting people know that u-pick strawberries are in season just 4km up the road, at McEwan’s Farm.

And they’re not just teasing.

Thanks to the unseasonably cool summer, the berries are bountiful and the picking is still excellent.

Two hours in the berry patch today netted me 20 pounds of strawberries, which translated into a full belly, a freezer full of future smoothies, a batch of freezer jam and a batch of regular jam.

There’s no more effective way to conjure the best of summer than that.

And at $1.75/lb, the formula for happiness is simple: Pick. Freeze. Preserve. Eat.

(Choose any or all of the above.)