North Alabama strawberries are back and people are berry happy. 🍓
|Freshly picked strawberries filled at table May 5, 20023 at Brown Farms in Madison County, Ala. A late freeze killed an earlier crop but the berry farm is back in the business of letting buyers pick their own or pick up a bucket.North Alabama strawberries are back and people are berry happy. Multiple exclamation points follow Facebook posts with pictures of buckets of berries brought home and one of the area’s biggest strawberry farmers is breathing a sigh of relief.
“We covered them up, but we couldn’t protect them down to 19 degrees,” Noel Brown of Browns Strawberry Farm said Friday of his crop in north Madison County. Brown’s business is a popular pick-your-own or buy-a-bucket spot. A night or two of 19-degree temperatures killed the early buds. Farm workers covered the plants, but Brown said they couldn’t protect them at that temperature.
Brown also grows cotton, corn, soybeans and corn and has been in the strawberry business for 26 years. People come back every year, he said, and the farm has accommodated them with a gift shop and a choice between pre-picked strawberries or buckets to fill yourself.
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