Fraser Valley Strawberry Season 2012
byFresh, ripe, and locally-grown strawberries are ready for devouring around Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley. With a healthy dose of rain and now a helping of sunshine, the sweet, plump berries are ready to be picked.
There are 13 farms that belong to the Fraser Valley Strawberry Growers Association so you’re bound to find a great selection from Richmond to Chilliwack.
There are pre-picked and U-Pick options along with a variety of products like pies and jams available at Bisset Farms, Driediger Farms, Ellis Farms, Emma Lea Farms, KBF Nursery and Farm, Krause Berry Farms, Maan Farms, Surrey Farms, W and A Farms, Birak Berry Farm, Abby Produce, Shoker Farms, and Neufeld Farms.
If you would like to enjoy the bounty of the strawberry harvest, I have a gift certificate available for a 10 pound box of strawberries. Here’s how you can enter to win:
- Post a comment naming your favourite way to eat strawberries (pie, jam, whole, etc.) (1 entry)
- Post the following on Twitter (1 entry)
Follow the Fraser Valley Strawberry Growers Association on Facebook and Twitter for more information about the crop this year. I will draw one winner at random from all entries Friday, July 6, 2012 at 12:00pm.
The gift certificate will have names of farms on it, listing where it can be redeemed. This is a quick turnaround as this first crop of strawberries is going fast. Be sure to get out to the farms this weekend if you can otherwise there will be another crop from the ever-bearing berries later in July.
Update The winner is Shauna!
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Strawberry smoothies for sure!!
Strawberry jam and smoothies!
With Oatmeal
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I love my fresh local strawberries mixed in some vanilla yogurt and sprinkled with Chia seeds.. so good for you, and fresh tasting!
Pie (with Rubarb)
Jam
Fresh
with Ice Cream
in Ice Cream
Slushed
All of the above
I love strawberries cut up into medium size pieces, over ice cream, with whip cream on top. Yummmm
Oooh! Yes, please!
fresh and with a bit of nutella on them!
Just plain strawberries, eaten outdoors on a sunny day with friends!
I love to eat them fresh.
Just in there own is the best!!!!!
I like to eat them whole, but in pie comes very close 2nd;)
Fresh off the bush! In a salad. Smoothies. Pie. Gotto go make something to eat now. I’m hungry.
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Mmmmmmm – warmed up on ice cream or waffles is my favorite – or how about on waffles WITH ice cream on top!
Strawberry parfaits!
Smoothies! Mmmmmmmm.. so delicious 🙂
To make ice cream with!
Strawberries in vanilla Greek yoghurt! Yummmmyyyy!!
Fresh local strawberries and organic vanilla yoghurt. Heaven in my mouth and tummy.
fresh of course!
onto top of vanilla ice cream!
Strawberries and sugar!
Let me count the ways! With yogurt! On pancakes! Dipped in chocolate! Just straight up on their own!
strawberry cheesecake O__O
Sliced with a little balsamic vinegar! Mmmm!
My fave way to eat strawberries is whole! I love them straight from the vine from local farms in the Summer. Other months buy from grocery store. I love strawberries & am enjoying some right now actually!
In pie, whole or cut up in a bowl with a little bit of cream and sugar 😀 yum!
add strawberries to all the mixed fruits to make it a healthy, yummy fruit salad!
I like them whole, warm from the sun and plentiful.
I also love them in a spinach salad with candied toasted almond slices and feta cheese with a tangy balsamic dressing… so good.
Oh, and strawberry shortcake. I love that too…
Strawberry Shortcake
I love to eat strawberries with whipped cream and pancakes!! mmmm
Dipped in a chocolate fountain!
in a pie of course! – Or chocolate covered strawberries!!
Definitely whole, maybe cut in slices!
Fresh is best!Mmmmm!
I love em fresh
I like them in a pie
Love strawberries on a spinach salad with feta and pecans!
Strawberry shortcake, of course!
strawberry juice
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I love to make French-style strawberry preserves like my Mom used to make for me. Makes me remember her sooooo fondly ..
Eton Mess: meringue, whipped cream and strawberries. But I also love them chopped up on top of my morning breakfast cereal.
Strawberry cake: angel food cake with whipped cream frosting, and decorated with fresh strawberries.
a Strawberry Trifle is the way I enjoy eating strawberries.
Strawberry shortcake
Fresh strawberry taste good if they are eaten as they are after washing them in cold running water. Or they can be eaten with freshly whipped cream or milk powder 🙂 yum-o!!!
I love strawberry shortcake!
Strawberry jam on ice cream!
Just as nature grew them!
I really like making strawberry smoothies though usually I use frozen strawberries for that. For fresh strawberries I like eating them on with yogurt or on top of my morning cereals. If I win this, however, I’m most likely going to be using them in my smoothies. I have two or three of them a day 🙂
With ice cream
Freeze them for smoothie in the winter
My kids fav way to eat strawberries is dipped in sugar… lol
Mine would be blended up in a smoothie!!
First choice has always been to eat them fresh but a close second would be a no bake strawberry pie (think White Spot style!) Yum!
I love strawberries on my icecream!
Pie & on ice cream
I love strawberries fresh and whole.
Straight from the strawberry field, still warm from the sun.
Dipped with black pepper and for drink Asti Spumante.
mashed up with sugar and served over vanilla ice cream
I like to cut them into bite-sized pieces and sprinkle salt over them…this actually makes them taste sweeter! Really 🙂
strawberries with nutella!!
Fresh
I love fresh strawberries by themselves.
fresh garnishing a pavlova……yum!
I love strawberries dipped in sugar!!
I like them fresh off the vine!!
Or even better—dipped in hot chocolate!!
With brown sugar, phyllo crisps and mascarpone cheese…just like Karen Barnaby used to make.
Strawberries 1st dipped in plain yogurt and then brown sugar
I love strawberries dipped in chocolate or cut in halves with cream cheese chilled inside of them. Yum!
By the fistful!
with ice cream
Sliced strawberries and whipped cream:)
Strawberry pie. No contest.
On their own, I freeze a bunch every summer so this would be perfect. Thaw for smoothies, in a bowl of cream, baking etc. slurrrrrp
Fresh and in smoothies~
With Greek yogurt, granola, and a drizzle of honey 🙂
As nature intended! Or into a sauce to drizzle on cheesecake, or in a smoothie.
As is!
Pie!! Or tart
With vanilla ice cream
Deliciously plain
Strawberry jam is my fav. I make at least 20 jars every summer and give half to my friends and family!
strawberry rhubarb crumble with a small scoop of vanilla icecream.
Strawberries shortcake and whipped cream
Fresh, with yogurt or ice cream
Homemade jam!
Au natural!
Daquiris!!!!
Jam
Mmmm where do I start?!?!
Well Strawberry Cheese Cake is one of my favourites but I would have to say I really enjoy a bowl of vanilla icecreme with sliced strawberries with a drizzle of Ameretto! =D
Vegan strawberry rhubarb pie. 🙂
I’ve been enjoying them off the vine from my hanging strawberry plant. However, they are also great in a mixed greens, goat cheese, and strawberry salad with balsamic dressing.
with vanilla ice cream
covered in dark chocolate!!
strawberry jam
I love strawberries dipped in chocolate or just all by themselves! Delicious!
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Home-made strawberry ice cream 🙂
Strawberries and full fat yogurt drizzled with honey – Magic!
Strawberry rhubarb cobbler with a scoop of vanilla ice cream
Just “as is” or covered in dark chocolate!
Sliced over vanilla ice cream!
Fresh, with a side of BC Riesling
I love jam, but am generally too lazy to make it, so I eat them whole!
whole strawberries!
I love eating them fresh, maybe dipped in some dark chocolate.
Strawberry and yogurt blended and froze in to a popsicle!
Fresh, dipped in sugar, sorbet. Chocolate covered, in pie,…so many great ways to enjoy them in season
Strawberries dipped in melted bittersweet chocolate! Yumm! 😀
eaten oven the sink
I love them in pies or just plain
On ice cream. In a smoothie. Fresh.
Fresh fresh fresh… although this year I have asked my Mom to help me making strawberry jam this year. these berries would be handy for that… 🙂
I like to eat local strawberries with sugar in a white bowl
Sliced over ice cream 🙂
Strawberries and fresh whipped cream, Wimbledon style!
I’ve inherited a killer strawberry jam recipe, plus, with the fresh strawberries I love to make angel cake.
Striaght out of the bucket! Love them fresh.
Strawberry milkshakes are tops…I made jam 2 seasons ago, and still have some left over. Clearly in need of a better strawberry jam recipe!
Strawberry sundae
Freah Strawberries with ice cream!
Strawberries and cream ice cream, strawberry jam and whipped cream on scones, and strawberry and rhubarb pie. Yum!
Au Naturelle!!!
Strawberries and cream, the traditional English way.
Hands down, strawberry freezer jam.
I love eating strawberries whole and then I freeze the rest I can’t immediately eat. Those go into smoothies and baked goods. Yum!!
SMoothies SmOOthies SmooTHiezzzz!
Fresh…plain and delicious
With oatmeal or yogurt
Sliced on top of vanilla ice cream, drizzled with 15-year-old balsamic vinegar.
I core them (using the cores for a strawberry balsamic salad vinaigrette)and stuff the cores with dark chocolate chips. They are a perfect summer sweet snack when I want to “cheat” on my diet!
I love strawberry freezer jam
Pure!
Fresh strawberries on top of vanilla ice cream are a wonderfully refreshing healthy treat.
…strawberry jam. Hands down the BEST way to eat strawberries!
I posted this contest on Twitter 🙂
Strawberry Rhubarb pie is the best. 😀
strawberries on my cereal first thing in the morning!
Strawberry pie!!!!
On top of my waffles!!
Fresh strawberries with whipped cream. YUM!
Freah Strawberries with ice cream!
Fresh strawberry spread on a warm, heated crepe.
Strawberries and creme
Fresh strawberries but I also like to make freezer jam.
Dipped in chocolate! Or fondue
Fresh ! Sliced up
strawberries with my ice cream!
i love strawberries fresh off the plant! Also seasoned with flaky sea salt, fresh ground pepper, fresh herbs (tarragon, rosemary, sage, mint), ginger or balsamic vinegar and served with ice cream or cheese. Yum!
I love eating them freshly washed and whole. They are nature’s candy!
Plain strawberries! Or homemade jam, yum!
Fresh strawberries dipped in homemade lemon curd. Nothing better.
Fresh local strawberries on vanilla ice cream is my fav!!!
Blended with vanilla ice cream and milk in a milkshake – but still chunky enough that you can actually see the REAL strawberry bits! Krause Berry Farms makes an insanely good milkshake.
warm from the sun!
berries for my pancakes!
with whipped cream
I love fresh strawberries with alittle bit of sugar on them, and smoothies of course!!
Chocolate dipped strawberries 🙂
Cheese cakes tastes oh so mouth watering, I can chew them all they long. My mom used to bake lots of cheesecakes when i was a kid and this was favourite since then. “”;’
I absolutely love to eat strawberries with vanilla yogurt and my homemade granola! Its the best breakfast or healthy snack!
Fresh, cold. 🙂
Strawberry Jam is my favourite!
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