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Pick Your Own             Strawberries - 2008 

update -  Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 

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We are now closed for the 2008 season.  Thanks for your support.  

PYO Flowers and herbs are available at the farmstand during normal business hours.  37 Main Street, New London.  

 Please call our bee-line at 603-276-3426 before you make the trek to the strawberry fields.  The message is updated daily with picking information. 

The prices this year are as follows: 

Under 10 lbs is $2.25/lb. 10-50 lbs is $2.10 / lb. Over 50 lbs. Is $1.85/lb. We will have a cumulative discount card available for those of you who wish to make several trips throughout the picking season. 

We will also have a community supported weeding project, whereby you can make your kids or grandkids do some weeding for us while you get a price break on the strawberries you pick. We’ll be weeding the strawberry patch that we just planted this spring.  Details at the pyo hut.

yes, the bee-line number is different than last year, which is different from the years before...its a long story...it will probably be different next year as well.  

To reach the Pleasant Lake Fields, go to the middle of New London and turn onto North Pleasant St. between Artisan's and Lake Sunapee Bank.  The fields are 1.8 miles down the hill on your right.  You will see Pleasant Lake just before you get to the fields.      

Michael Seamans

Quarts at the farmstand

PICK YOUR OWN STRAWBERRIES

Spring Ledge Farm's Pick Your Own Strawberries facilities are located about a mile from the farm on the back side of Pleasant Lake in New London. We offer four different varieties throughout the season which generally peaks in mid July. The whole season ranges from late June through lOur Pleasant Lake Fieldate July. Prime picking times are in the morning, before the mid-day sun. Thus, picking hours are generally from 7:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. The 2 acres of strawberry rows are bedded with straw, which is a little kinder to your knees. Feel free to bring your own containers to pick into or use one of our quart boxes or larger trays. Call the bee-line to find out specific days and times for picking during the season. Directions to Pleasant Lake Farm are relatively simple so see you there!
Useless Strawberry Trivia  
by any other name, its still a strawberry
Dutch aardebei
French Fraise
German Erdbeere
Spanish Fresa
Danish jordbaer
Italian Fragola
Botanically, the latin name is

Fragaria x ananassa Duschesne

Strawberries are in the Rosaceae family, the rose family, along with raspberries, roses, and thousands of other plants both familiar and foreign. 

The Strawberry plant is a perennial plant, meaning it will survive the winters up here in NH and come back again in the spring.  Commercially, most strawberry plants survive and produce well for about 3 years. We planted 8,000 plants this spring which will produce for us starting next June.  Every year we plant another succession of plants so that we always have some plants that are at their peak of production while others wane and new ones start.    Did you know... the tiny seeds on the strawberry (called achenes) are what makes the strawberry fruit grow.  Each seed, once it is pollinated, exudes hormones that grow the red fruit around each particular seed.  The more pollination you have, the better your strawberry because each seed will be viable.  If you took off some of the tiny seeds while the strawberry was still green, you would end up with a warped strawberry - growing red flesh only where there were seeds and not growing at all where you removed the seeds. 
Strawberries are high in vitamin C. Here is their basic breakdown of nutrients: per 100g. edible portion
% water Kcal Energy Protein Fat Carbo Fiber Ca P Fe Na K  
92 30 kcal 0.6g 0.4g 7g 0.5 14mg 19mg 0.4mg 1mg 166mg  
Vit A Thiamin Riboflavin Niacin Vit. C Vit. B6          
27 IU 0.02mg 0.07mg 0.23mg 56.7mg 0.06mg          

IU = International Units

I'm not sure how many strawberries make up a 100g. edible portion, but I aim to find out...

says here that about 8 strawberries are equal to one orange in terms of vitamin C content.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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