North Carolina strawberry season underway – The Coastland Times

With the arrival of spring and hotter climate, strawberry farms are opening for buyers and, undoubtedly, strawberry lovers are prepared for native berries.

“Growers have achieved an excellent job defending the crop from current cool temperatures and due to their onerous work, this 12 months’s strawberry crop appears to be like to be plentiful,” stated Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler. “In actual fact, some fields are opening up for pick-your-own friends this weekend.”

Strawberry season sometimes runs from mid-April by Might, though the addition of high-tunnel and greenhouse-grown strawberries within the state has moved up the supply of native berries to March in some places.

“There are much more methods to develop strawberries and we’re seeing farmers use greenhouses, excessive tunnels and different forward-thinking manufacturing strategies to maneuver up the time when now we have contemporary, domestically grown strawberries,” stated Kevin Hardison, horticultural advertising and marketing specialist with the N.C. Division of Agriculture and Client Companies.

For enjoyable household or group outings, go to the N.C. Strawberry Affiliation’s itemizing at www.ncstrawberry.com/farm-locator to discover a native you-pick strawberry farm and phone data.
Farms open when the strawberries are plentiful sufficient to create a memorable you-pick expertise, Hardison stated. All the time contact your native grower to confirm occasions and availability of strawberries earlier than you go.

North Carolina ranks fourth nationally in strawberry manufacturing, rising 1,100 acres of strawberries yearly.

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