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The Price of Strawberries
Brookwood
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I really like strawberries in season but 5 bucks a quart is a bit much! 😥
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I would gladly pay 5 a quart. I have seen some places around here getting 8.50 a quart. I eat all of the fresh strawberries I can eat while they are in season.
I do not care for frozen strawberries so I gorge on fresh ones when they are in season.
I did buy some for 5 but my usual case I get to make jam will not happen this year.
Strawberry shortcake has been a family tradition for the 4th of July all my life and I'd probably pay double if I had to. I buy direct from local farmer insuring home grown and not those oversized bloated California berries that are in the supermarket.
Just had some last night .. local grocery store had them 2 qt. for 3 dollars. However watermelons were 6.99 each. 😃
That's because at this time of year, watermelons are either hothouse grown or flown in from somewhere like Chile. Either one will naturally cost more.
Granddaughter won't eat them anymore; those in the stores are from CA or Mexico, & are usually bitter. Driscoll's are nice looking, but no longer have flavor. For $9 I can get a 14 oz Driscoll's "Sweet batch" box that tastes like home grown.
A local farm sells flats for $35, & you have to pick them yourself! At least, they side dress them so they are sweet.
Neal
Just got back from a our favorite fruit stand, freshly opened for the season. All the melons were labeled "Product of Mexico."
Cantalopes, Crenshaws, Honeydews, and others were $3/lb. When the local ones come in later in the summer, they'll be a buck apiece. (Or were last year - Bidenflation hits everything.)
$2.99 - $5.49 per pound in S.E. VA.
$5.00 for watermelon - average price..
Local grown strawberries were $18.00 a flat . Local grown melons are running $5.00 .Sweet corn fresh from the field at $5.00 a dozen . Blueberries and blackberries are abundant. Neighbors gave us 2 gallons she picked from her bushes in the backyard .
I picked up some Driscoll brand strawberries for $2/pound. 4 bucks for a 2 pound container.
Sweet corn was 29 cents an ear.
Mexican strawberries
I live within a couple miles of the largest strawberry farm in the state and know the owners.
Your right, prices have gone up 50%, but then the fertilizer they must have to grow them has tripled thanks to Joe Biden halting once was a booming natural gas industry.
First time in decades I bought fresh strawberries two Sundays ago. I went to the farmer's market looking for "Something" Choy but the usual seller didn't have any. So since I was there I looked over other items. There were two venders selling strawberries and they looked good (no white near the hat). So I bought 3 baskets from one $12 vendor and also 3 baskets from the other. Got to figure out who's is better. The older Mexican vendor had the sweeter berries. For all I know they're from the same field.
Now Driscoll's got every plot of land near my neck of the woods growing strawberries and they're horrible. If they're not molding in the package or bruised to the point of mush they are sour. Got to put like a cup a sugar to a basket of berries to make them palatable.