Strawberry season is almost here

Strawberry pie for everyone!

This will be the issue with all summer harvest produce.

Strawberries are showing up fairly cheap in Texas grocery stores right now.

R3, I'm guessing with the surplus, they will be particularly cheap this year?

Yum! More for mee!

Strawberries are served best with tequila

Why will there be a "surplus"? If people aren't buying them via restaurant patronage, they will buy them in the supermarket. Just price them low and they will sell.

R7, I meant with restaurants not buying, farmers might hope to sell their excess strawberries to supermarkets/farmers' markets and price them lower than usual.

Do strawberries keep well if you don't use them all right away though?

"industrial" strawberries keep very well in the fridge. farm fresh ripe berries from a mom and pop farm do not keep well

R9, you can freeze them. Lots of places still use those for smoothies and such.

I love strawberries! But my favorite fruit are cherries! Strawberries are #2!

I If it's your land and crop, and you can hang on, plow it under .... rich soil!

R13 strawberries are perennials, duh. you don't plow them under.

They are only perennials if you grow and train them properly. Otherwise they will die. They reproduce by sending out runners. They are also capable of reproducing by seed, but virtually everyone grows them from plants.

They are only perennials if you grow and train them properly. Otherwise they will die. They reproduce by sending out runners. They are also capable of reproducing by seed, but virtually everyone grows them from plants.

R2, cherries are my fave as well.

Really? There are no shelters to donate them to?

If they don't know what to do with them, they can send me a few boxes.

They could be combined with all the milk that’s being dumped down the drain. Strawberry milk for everyone!

How are the strawberry fields in England doing?

Now is the time to plan ahead and start growing your own.

This is how I prefer my strawberries.

you can freeze strawberries. Why are the republicans/trump not do this?

I used to work in hunger relief for many years which included working directly with farms when they had surplus product. The logistics and distribution challenges for something like this are much more challenging than most people realize. The charitable food distribution system is underfunded and limited in its capacity. This is especially true for highly perishable foods. So many factors. Can't list them all here.

Fuck strawberries, when is it Dylan Sprayberry season, cause he looks ripe to me.

Send them to the U.S.S. Caine!

If grocery stores are open, why can't 'pick your own' produce places be open? Easier to maintain the 6' distance in a strawberry field than a grocery aisle anyway.

[quote] They are only perennials if you grow and train them properly.

Never had strawberries die out on me.

Send them to meeeeeeeeee!!!

No loss here, I avoid pesticide laden fruits, and strawberry is at the top of the list, I rarely eat them at all.

The picking farms in NC are open this year. Precautions in place. No cash.

Here is EWG (Environmental Working Group) annual list of dirty dozen, once again strawberry tops the list.

1. Strawberries

2. Spinach

3. Kale

4. Nectarines

5. Apples

6. Grapes

7. Peaches

8. Cherries

9. Pears

10. Tomatoes

11. Celery

12. Potatoes

Luckily we grow our own fruit!

Time to make jam!

[quote] The logistics and distribution challenges for something like this are much more challenging than most people realize.

They just need to hire a dozen butch lesbians in 18 wheelers. Problem solved!

The EWG all have stock in junk foods.

I never had strawberry shortcake until I was an adult. Is it more of a British dessert?

A recipe for it.

Strawberry shortcake, with locally picked berries, for my birthday all through my 70s childhood. That or homemade strawberry ice cream. Midwestern middle class stay-at-home mom glory days are over.

^^Was going to say the same thing, R40. I had shortcake in May for my birthday, my brother for his in July. And all throughout the summer, really.

I think there was a strawberry shortcake pictured on the front of my mom’s favorite BH&G cookbook in the 70’s. Probably alongside a lovely gelatin salad (yuk!).

Beulah, peel me a strawberry.

I bought some at the market so I guess the season is here.

How come people never bake with strawberries?

R44 Color and flavor are unstable in heat.

Mexican strawberry season is the winter, Spain too, so "strawberry season" is all year.

R44, what R45 said. Strawberries tend to wilt and turn an unappetizing color as well.

This strawberry gin and tonic looks good.

they can be good as a sweet gelatinous base in a fruit tart. With big slices of apple or pear as the primary fruit.

It’s really distressing R25. It’s unbelievable to me that 40 million people suffer from food shortage in this country. How is that fucking possible? It blows my mind that giant restaurant depots are just throwing food away all day every day right now, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. And food banks are crashing and burning as we speak and are criminally underfunded and can’t even accept physical donations of food because of Covid.

There has to be a way that we can fix this problem so food can go to everyone in this country. There is zero reason for starvation. 40% of this country’s food is lost to waste and spoilage. This is INSANE. Something fundamentally has to change.

[quote] How come people never bake with strawberries?

Here's a baked strawberry pie. It's the first time I've heard of one like this.

Strawberries were $1 per plastic box at my store! I bought a bunch.

Asinine. Freeze dry those berries, can them, jar them! preppers want to hoard shelf stable foods.

I am making strawberry margaritas tonight! Ha!

I didn't know that restaurants were the main buyers of strawberries. What do they make with them?

I automatically recoiled at the photo because of the leaves. Mock strawberry vine takes over my yard & flower beds. Has the same leaves/vine as regular strawberries.

R56, little known strawberry leaf use: you can boil them for a tea!