Here in Canada, June is a special month. It is when our strawberries come into season. The short, and I mean a very short season lasting barely 3 weeks, weather depending. So when the berries are ripe, people come en masse to pick their own or buy ready picked baskets and gorge themselves until there are no more.
The local berry farm is about a 10 minute drive away, down a dusty dirt road made dustier by road reconstruction along the way. Arriving at the farm, I pull into the gravel lane and head over the front lawn which serves … Read more...