After the fun morning at Burnham Park, the challenging and adventurous midday at the Igorot Stone Kinggdom, it's time to chill the day down at the Strawberry Farm at La Trinidad. The thrill about DIY-ing your trip is that you don't really know what to do and you have to ask around to figure things out.
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Since this is my first time gojng here, I haven't the faintest idea what activities await us on every attraction we visit. After getting off the taxi, who just dropped us off somewhere out of at La Trinidad near the farm, we had to walk around a bit to find out what we should do.
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I saw a huge signboard saying "Strawberry Picking Information." That was our major clue that told us that wr could go strawberry picking. There were tables after tables of strawberries at the front. We planned on looking around first before we make a purchase when someone asked ud if we wanted to go strawberry picking. I knew the little one would want to experience this.
Let me tell you outright, it was really expensive for me. Strawberry picking is charged by the kilogram. It costs Php750 per kilo. They insisted that that was the minimum. I'm all about experiencing such and such, but it was just too much. Another guy allowed us a half kilogram minimum. So the little one went strawberry picking at Php350 for half a kilo of strawberries.
We walked through beds and beds of strawberries and lettuce before we got to the piece of land where the strawberry picking is done. I liked the strawberries that we usually buy at the groceried but these freshly picked strawberried are divine!
The guy that assisted us taught my little one which strawberries are ready for picking. It was quite straightforward. As long as it's red, as in the reddest red it can get, it's ripe. The smaller ones are sweeter. But the bigger ones are also good tasting too.
I did not get to experience the strawberry picking. I was having a bit of a ladies' crisis during that time of the month at the moment. Thr only comfortable position was standing up, resting. I just contented myself with taking snaps of their strawberry picking activity.
It was refreshing seeing where the strawberries are planted. It was my first time seeing strawberries still attached to its stem, with the leaves and the flowers.Its flowers are beautiful too.
After we're done strawberry picking, we headed to the shops. I was particularly looking for the strawberry jams that had whole strawberries in it. It has been a long time since O had one, of course, I had to hoard buy a couple of bottles. Some for mg loved ones, a lot for me. 😅
They also offer other strawberry flavored products. There's the marshmallow with a strawvmberry jelly thingy in the middle. Then there's strawberry jam, strawberry wine. The lady kept on asking my husband if he'd want some strawberry wine. We dodn't buy one. They accept cash and gcash payments.
After the strawberry picking and pasalubong buying, we had our photos taken with the huge strawberry at the backdrop. There were sunflowers here and there as well. Flowers really do grow everywhere here in Baguio. It was mid-afternoon when we finished strawberry picking. Our next stop is the Hangar Market, I'll tell you more on my blog post on Monday about my yarn haul as well as the scarf I finished crocheting in the bus on our way to Baguio. Toodaloo!
