We had 2 moderate years of harvest,
but not enough for the public.
Now, the hay field has took over, we only mow.

How to plant strawberries, the hard way:
You take a big tractor and plow up a hay field.
You disk the plowed earth into loose earth and then with the tractor you move the dirt into long rows of hills.
You purchase bare-root strawberry plants and plant each one by hand.
After a month, the weeds are already growing as fast as your new strawberry plants, and you have to hoe out the weeds.
Then the plants put on runners that put down new plants and the deer, squirls, groundhogs, and birds come for their meals.

Then you wait and do the hoeing all over again, but don't wait too long or the clover will overtake the strawberries.

And then you get a surprise harvest!

     We planted our strawberries the first weeks of September, in the middle of November, my wife, Mary, and I went down to check things out in the berry patch.  Mary calls out, YOU HAVE STRAWBERRIES!  Yes, I ate the first one!
     The next day me and my older grandkids, Mackenzie and Kevin went back to the farm and picked over a gallon of strawberries.  I guess the berries thought it was spring!!

Strawberries hiding in the clover.

Life Happens, Things Change,
We had to sell the farm.
Don't give up, downsize in a new location!  Beside our home in Columbia, TN.
No more traveling - just walk out the door!

New Location for Strawberrys at our home in Columbia, TN.

Growing Strawberries in Raised Beds

Growing Blueberries in raised bed