Strawberries

Sun-ripened strawberries are sweet, fragrant, and picked at peak - nothing like the grocery aisle. We grow ours without synthetic pesticides in Lineville, Alabama and pick at peak ripeness. They're packed with vitamin C and antioxidants. Sold fresh through local Alabama delivery, farm pickup, and our farmers-market stand.

• Grown in: Lineville, Alabama (no synthetic pesticides)
• Freshness: Harvested at peak and sold fresh
• Availability: Seasonal - local Alabama delivery & pickup
• Storage: Refrigerate and enjoy fresh
• Why it's good: Nutrient-dense and picked at peak freshness

• Storage: Unwashed, unhulled, in a single layer in the crisper
• Shelf life: 2 to 3 days - and check them daily
• Washing: Right before eating, and hull after washing, not before. A hulled strawberry fills with water and goes soft.
• Using: Cold and raw is the best thing that happens to a local strawberry. Then: macerated with a little sugar, baked into a shortcake, or frozen whole for smoothies.

One berry went mouldy - do I lose the whole box?
Not if you catch it. Grey mould spreads berry to berry on contact, so remove the bad one and anything touching it immediately and use the rest soon. Leaving it in the box for a day will cost you the box.

Why do they last so much less than a supermarket punnet?
Because a shipped strawberry is bred and picked for durability - firm, underripe, and able to survive a week in transit. A ripe local berry trades all of that for flavour. The short life is the price of the taste.

Should I wash them before putting them away?
No, and this is the single most common mistake. Water sitting on a strawberry starts the breakdown. Wash only the handful you are about to eat.