Cherry Picking

Our weekend trip to Terhune Orchards for Cherry Picking. They had 23 varieties of cherries.
For More Information visit:
http://www.terhuneorchards.com/

This is the first time we went cherry picking. It rained so heavily, but we did not cancel the program anyways. The trip was so worth it! Don't know what I was thinking, about how to pick the fruit in rain but, I was so glad to see the cherry trees under a white artificial shade. With so many varieties to choose from, we plucked a few from each variety. There were red, maroon, orange, yellow and different shades of red cherries.

Strawberry Picking

Kick started the picking season with Strawberries. We were the first ones on the farm, this Sunday morning, and got hold of the very best! My kids were very excited about picking, they both love Strawberries and both looked for the Perfect Strawberry, color and shape wise!

We picked all the fruit we laid hands on brought home a good 13 pounds of Strawberries. It is quite a lot of fruit, with such less shelf life, but could not part with any after hand picking each one of them.

We went to Melicks farm on Old Wick Road, Old Wick, NJ.
http://www.melickstownfarm.com/melicks-farm-market-pyo-strawberries.htm

Long lines of strawberry plants, they are runners.



In the farm market I found "Marovam", the sweet scented herb which we used while making flower mala with jaji and kanakambaram flowers. I hope it grows well on my deck in a pot.