Strawberry Flavor 101
We strive to have the best tasting strawberries.
However, there are many factors that affect berry taste, size,
and thickness for picking.
Varieties
A strawberry is not just a strawberry. Just like there are
many different breeds of dogs or cats with many different
characteristics, each produce item has many different varieties.
Some characteristics that can change include size, color, shape,
when it ripens, quantity produced, taste, plant difference,
hardiness, and many more. Our Wisconsin climate can grow many
great tasting varieties.
We grow about six different varieties on our
farm. These berries come on at different times so that we can
have berries available for about three weeks. Flavor is also a
huge factor for our berries. We want to make sure you have good
tasting berries no matter what size. We also try to grow
varieties that yield well to make your picking as easy as
possible. Berries change and move on so just because picking was
good in any one field one day does not mean it will still be good
there a few days later. We inspect our fields early every
morning to find the best berries for you to pick that day.
Weather
As in all farming, the weather affects berries. Lots of sun
and heat ripen the berries fast, and cool rainy weather
sometimes slows them down. While we wish we could predict how the
weather will affect the berries, it is sometimes hard to guess
until we can inspect each field. So, just because we have cool
weather do not assume that we will not have any berries. Weather
conditions can sometimes even affect how individual berries will
taste. |
