strawberry

Now that the warmer weather is here, it’s time to head out­side and enjoy all that Knoxville has to offer. On Sat­ur­day, I packed up the kids and the hus­band and we headed to the Fruit and Berry Patch in NE Knoxville. Along with all the farm­ers mar­kets open for busi­ness this time of year, the Fruit and Berry Patch (4407 McCloud Rd., Knoxville, TN 37938) is a great way to spend a cou­ple of hours enjoy­ing and sup­port­ing local farmers.

My boys had a great time pick­ing straw­ber­ries and even more fun fill­ing up their buck­ets with their first love…rocks.
The sweet gal at the Fruit and Berry Patch told us that the straw­ber­ries were com­ing in a lit­tle bit late this year due to the crazy weather we’ve had lately, but that if we looked hard enough we should be able to score enough to make it worth the trip.

We ended up with about 2 lbs of straw­ber­ries and 10 lbs of rocks. Don’t worry, we left the rocks in the park­ing area for your child’s enjoy­ment, but we took the straw­ber­ries home for an after­noon of waf­fle mak­ing. You can read more about the waf­fle mak­ing here.

Although we were a bit early in the sea­son for straw­ber­ries and blue­ber­ries, the Fruit and Berry Patch was a blast, and we’ll be retun­ing soon to score some more fresh straw­ber­ries, blue­ber­ries, peaches and of course.…rocks.

Here’s a list from their web­site of when the dif­fer­ent crops are in sea­son. NOTE: most crops are run­ning a few weeks late this year:

  • STRAWBERRIES — EARLY MAY
  • EARLY THORNLESS BLACKBERRIES — LATE JUNE — JULY
  • BLUEBERRIES — LATE JUNE — AUGUST
  • PEACHES — LATE JUNE — AUGUST
  • LATE THORNLESS BLACKBERRIES — MID-JULY — AUGUST
  • GRAPES — LATE JULY– LATE AUGUST
  • APPLES — LATE JUNE –MARCH
  • SWEET CORN — LATE JULY — MID-SEPTEMBER
  • PUMPKINS & FALL DECORATIONS — OCTOBER

Photo by: Pep­p­y­sis