Our Field Trip to Sweet Berry Farm

The buddies enjoyed their first berry picking experience today. We joined some friends on an adventure to Sweet Berry Farm, a popular destination about 50 miles West of Austin. All eight cars in our caravan enjoyed the scenic drive, winding through the Texas Hill Country. We arrived sun-screened, bug-sprayed, and ready to pick berries!

Sweet Berry Farm offers their customers the opportunity to hand-pick strawberries, blackberries, tomatoes, pumpkins, and gourds, depending on the season. Ace and Ben LOVED picking berries. It took a few reminders to get them to stop picking the green berries but once they figured out how tasty the black ones were, they only picked the juiciest ones. Both boys sampled berries as they picked, especially Ben, who after 15 minutes of picking, sat down in the middle of the row and ate and ate. At the conclusion of our picking, I had too very purple boys on my hands. They loved it!

Afterwards, we joined our friends for a picnic lunch and fed the goats and horses at the petting zoo. The buddies even got to chase chickens and cats around the grounds of the farm.

When we returned home, we turned our hand-picked blackberries into a blackberry crisp, using a recipe from Grandma Pat. All in all, it was a great day. Two very tired buddies went to bed a half hour early and their mom may just do the same.