Tubb's Berry Farm Fall 2012 Trip

I took Alex and the daycare kiddos to visit our favorite berry farm this morning. Raspberries are what they grow in late Summer/early Fall, and they just opened the rows for picking.

Alex ate about a third of what we picked on the way home since he skipped breakfast. I'll freeze most of the rest and use them for our green smoothies. Yum!

We used old milk jugs with a side cut out like a scoop and a rope strung through the handle to tie around our waist as carriers for the berries as we picked. Alex used a small one and I had a full gallon size. The farm supplies these for you! 

Here are a few of the animals we said hi to as we walked around the fields. The middle picture are the baby turkeys we visited in the Spring, only they are almost all grown up now!

I also picked up a big jar of raw organic honey and a lotion bar. This honey is my favorite flavor of theirs (they have several). Its got a little zing to it! It's from wildflowers, clover, and mint blossoms in and around Rock Creek Canyon, and you can actually taste a subtle minty aftertaste (or it could be my imagination). 

The lotion bar is a first for me, and I can't wait to try it. It's handmade on the farm with only natural ingredients and zero chemicals. It has beeswax, sweet almond, apricot, avocado and coconut oil, honey, and essential oils that are healing for skin- palmarosa and geranium.  

Farm Fresh Eggs

These are fresh eggs we brought home today. Alex liked comparing all the different sizes- some were huge, some were teeny- and variations in colors. Store bought commercial eggs are all uniform and boring in comparison! We've got about 50 or 60 eggs from our trip today, many of which will be used for our pancakes, eggs and bacon breakfast this Sunday!

Trip to Greenhouses

Today I took the toddlers to visit the greenhouses!

Pepper plants.

Both greenhouse/farms we visited were lovely to look at, but when asked, I learned they use chemicals to treat their weeds, and one uses chemicals on the plants themselves. I was really disappointed, because we couldn't buy anything, and I really had hopes of getting some fresh peaches today. :-(

Still, it was a nice trip to see all the things growing and the pretty flowers.

So the search continues for organic produce in Southern Idaho!

Tubbs Berry Farm

Early this season we visited Tubbs Berry Farm and picked our own fresh strawberries!

We ended up with about two gallons of strawberries! I made a super delicious pancake sauce with the berries using honey and cream cheese. The kids have asked for the strawberry pancake sauce every day since!

The farm has other animals, too. Here is where the turkey chics live. The kids really had a blast trying to catch them and hold them.

They engaged is some light competition to see who could find the biggest berries.

I think they all won!