Perfect June berries

There are very few things better on this earth than eating strawberries right in the strawberry patch. Oh, there is such a sweetness about them when you've just picked them. Delicious!

We love going up to Dew Fresh Berry Farm in Stanchfield. They are organic and natural, so you can feel good about putting the berries in your body. They have a whole bunch of varieties. We picked Wendys the day we were up at the end of June 2014.

Plus, they have raspberries, blueberries and apples. We'll be back!

When we got home, I froze most of them. I kept one box out, and that was eaten up by the next day! And some went into strawberry/rhubarb jam. Yum!

Dew Fresh Produce. 
404 375th Ave Stanchfield, MN 55080 763-689-2282

#21 - Pick Your Own Strawberries

We picked 5 1-gallon buckets from Dew Fresh Berry Farm in Stanchfield, Minn. Grandpa Rande may have helped Josey fill up her two buckets! (She asked so sweetly.)

You've got to taste test them to be sure this is the variety you want to pick!

Berry-stained fingers

When we got home, most of the strawberries were frozen and packed into Ziplock bags for smoothies and treats later. But some became this delicious strawberry chia pudding and this yummy strawberry cobbler.

Off-the-vine goodness

I’m a sucker for fresh taste. So the idea of off-the-vine strawberries was enough to lure me to a pick-your-own place this week. We go through a lot of strawberries round this place. Our Vita Mix gets used most days to make smoothies. So, I figured not only would I be satisfying my craving, but I’d also be saving the family money. Right?

Well, I’m not sure I did that, but the berries I plucked from the vines at Rob’s Berry Farm midway between Cambridge and North Branch off County Road 5 sure are sweet and tart. The worker who walked us to the fields and then weighed our heavy boxes later told us that the owner had feared he wouldn’t be open more than a week and one half, given the heat earlier in the season. But they’ll make it three weeks. This is the last one, and the fields are full of small to mid-size berries. Cost was $1.50 a pound.


I brought them home Monday night, saving the washing and freezing for Tuesday. Of course, we did make smoothies right away! Delish.

I did the washing in my sink, putting the berries on a towel to dry off. Then I popped them in a single layer on cookie sheets to fast freeze for an hour. Once they were hard and wouldn’t easily crush each other, I put them in gallon Ziplock bags. Any bets on how long these 4 gallons will last?