04/29/2026
Happy Spring! Every year as the weather warms up and Florida-grown strawberries show up on sale in the grocery store, we start getting a lot of questions asking how our own berries are doing, so we thought we’d give you an update! 🍓
A few weeks ago, we raked back the straw that covers the strawberry plants over the winter. Our straw is made from the stems of triticale, a cross between wheat and rye that we grow and harvest ourselves (it also makes up the bales we use for seats on the “hay” ride to the pumpkin patch, making it *technically* a straw ride). In the winter the straw acts as a blanket over the dormant strawberry plants and helps prevent them from being affected by frost heave as the ground starts to warm up. Once the plants are uncovered (usually in early April), they start pushing out new growth pretty quickly, with fresh, bright green leaves reaching towards the sun. A few of the plants have just started growing clusters of flower buds, which will open into pretty white flowers in mid-May, then be pollinated by our friendly local bees, and finally by the end of the month the berries will start forming! While our plants are looking great, we won’t have an idea of how this season’s crop will be for several weeks until the berries themselves are growing, but we will continue to post updates as they progress!
