"PICK YOUR OWN" RASPBERRIES

LESLIE AND ALLISON AT ROCKY ACRES

TODAY'S PICKIN'S

BUYING BERRIES ON THE HONOR SYSTEM

ALLISON AND THREE POUNDS OF RASPBERRIES

Tuesday,  8:00 AM.  62 degrees F, wind N, light.  The sky cloud cover has two distinct layers this morning; a high overcast, and lower black storm clouds.  The humidity is 82%, and the barometer is slightly up, at 30.11".  I won't be at all surprised if we get some showers.

   Yesterday we went picking raspberries at Rocky Acres Berry Farm on Hw. J in Bayfield's orchard country, which is just west of town up on the bluffs.  Rocky Acres is a family business which grows strawberries, raspberries and blueberries.  It was a beautiful morning and we picked three pounds of succulent ripe berries in less than an hour.  Anyone who thinks picked berries,  cherries and other small fruits are too expensive should try picking their own.  Stoop field labor is very, very hard work, the kind that is truly "back breaking."

   This year's Bayfield fruit crop will probably be a record breaker, if there are indeed such records to compare.  I was informed that on a good day over a hundred and fifty pounds of raspberries will be harvested at Rocky Acres.  Pick your own raspberries are $2.50 per pound today, picked berries $4.00.  They probably should have weighed us before and after we picked berries, and charged us $2.50 per pound for the difference.