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Re: PHOTO - 4 = irrigating lettace
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Posted by Jonfarmer on July 06, 2006 at 15:28:54 from (165.121.144.64):
In Reply to: Re: PHOTO - 4 = irrigating lettace posted by Matt from CT on July 06, 2006 at 13:27:09:
The local berry patch used to be kept pretty nice, but that was back when the old man who started it was healthy, but he died a few years ago, and his heirs haven't kept it as nice, lots of tall weeds in them. It is mostly U-pick, they do pick a few themselves and sell them at the head of the field, but they make the price difference enough so most folks pick their own. I haven't been this year, but it must be getting towards the end of the season. It takes real ambitious people to do something like this, and they can't lose their ambition, otherwise they'll lose out. Used to have a couple strawberry farms just across the border that had beautiful strawberries, but last I knew as of a couple years ago, it got to the point where you could only go pick just a couple days a week because somebody got a contract for most of the crop, so they picked them and sent them on their way. I imagine there is money in this, but I think strawberrys is an awful lot of work.
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