South Barlow Berries

The U-​Pick experience here was top-​notch.
My boyfriend and I went to pick our own strawberries today to celebrate my birthday. After driving down some country roads for awhile we arrived at this quaint family farm. A nice young lady greeted us, weighed our containers, and showed us where the strawberries were.
For a smaller farm, there sure were plenty of fresh berries to choose from! Rows and rows of delicious, juicy berries. We ate ourselves silly as we picked and filled our buckets until there was no room left.
When we went to pay, we were delightedly surprised that they only charge $ 1 per pound. So for all our berries, we paid less money than I sometimes do at the grocery. I can’t wait for July so we can come back and pick they other berries they grow!

Bummed. Purchased a half flat of strawberries today. Over half were old and squishy… they were also refrigerated. I didn’t think strawberries did well with refrigeration. Pick em yourself or find another place! My chickens were happy…

Although the weather this year didn’t produce the biggest strawberries, we got a huge basket of surprisingly sweet berries. The kids had a terrific time running back and forth down the long rows of strawberry plants, picking berries, and probably stomping a few hundred into jam as they ignored my pleas to not step on the plants.
I recommend bringing your own bucket or basket for easier picking or you can use one of the buckets or boxes kindly provided by the South Barlow Berries staff. (But it’s hard to pick while holding the large rectangular box.) The young woman who helped us was great in cheerfully explaining where to go and what to do. I mean, it’s pretty simple, just pick berries and come back to weigh them and pay by the pound, but for those who’ve read my reviews recently, I am from Oahu where we can’t grow berries due to the annoyingly year round sunny weather. So this whole berry picking thing is about as foreign to me as eating poi and reading street names in Hawaii would be to someone born and raised in Oregon.
We got about five thousand pounds of strawberries for about five bucks. I don’t know how we’ll ever eat all these sweet and juicy berries but we ate them all the way home in the car and then for dessert. With the four thousand pounds I had left over I froze them in freezer ziploc bags to use in smoothies or just eat frozen. Where and when is a good place for blueberry picking? I’m so ready for another thousand pounds of berries!