{"id":147,"date":"2017-06-16T02:24:38","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T02:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shaworchards.com\/blog\/?p=147"},"modified":"2017-09-08T01:18:08","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T01:18:08","slug":"pick-your-own-dos-and-donts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shaworchards.com\/blog\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"Pick your own DO’s and DON’T’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

We do a lot of business with pick-your-own. \u00a0In fact, it has become the core of our retail offerings. \u00a0To help you get the most out of your experience, here are a few tips:<\/p>\n

DO: \u00a0Come prepared. \u00a0You probably don’t need hip boots in our well manicured fields. \u00a0But high heels are not a good idea (don’t laugh, we see it pretty often). \u00a0A hat is also a good idea for berry picking. \u00a0Sunscreen is advisable.<\/p>\n

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DO: \u00a0Come early in the day. \u00a0Several reasons: \u00a01) it gets hot in the afternoon; 2) the morning light gets under the vegetation (on the eastern side) to make it easy to see; 3) you’ll beat the crowds and have easier picking.<\/p>\n

DON’T: \u00a0Stop at the first sight of fruit. \u00a0Chances are good, everybody else stopped there too and already picked the good stuff. \u00a0Spend a few minutes wandering around so you know if you are in a good spot.<\/p>\n

DO: \u00a0Try a bite. \u00a0Yes, you technically should wash your food before you eat it; but we never use any chemicals within the designated “pre-harvest interval.” \u00a0Which means you don’t need to worry about residues. \u00a0And since the BIGGEST factor in a fruit’s flavor is its degree of ripeness, you’ll want to learn quickly how to know by sight how ripe the fruit is. \u00a0And the best\u00a0way to learn is trial and error. \u00a0In short, we want you to harvest the fruit you think tastes best.<\/p>\n

DON’T: \u00a0Eat all our profits without paying for them. \u00a0As we say, “sampling is encouraged, gluttony is theft.” \u00a0You wouldn’t eat your way through the local grocery store would you? \u00a0Why would you do it to your local farmer? \u00a0Seriously, we ask these kind of customers to leave.<\/p>\n

DO and DON’T: \u00a0Enjoy your stay, but don’t stay all day. \u00a0This is tricky for us: we are an authentic family farm with wide open spaces and a laid-back approach to crowd control. \u00a0But if everyone spread a picnic blanket under every tree, it would be more like a city park than a farm. \u00a0We want to be a farm. \u00a0So you are welcome to have lunch at our picnic tables, and we want your kids to run and do cartwheels, but please be mindful that we are not a park.<\/p>\n

DO: \u00a0Ask an employee for advice on the varieties, and the best places to pick.<\/p>\n

DO: If picking a fruit that is sold by weight (not apples), feel free to bring a container if you like your container. \u00a0Or use the ones we have available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We do a lot of business with pick-your-own. \u00a0In fact, it has become the core of our retail offerings. \u00a0To help you get the most out of your experience, here are a few tips: DO: \u00a0Come prepared. \u00a0You probably don’t need hip boots in our well manicured fields. \u00a0But high heels are not a good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaworchards.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaworchards.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaworchards.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaworchards.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaworchards.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaworchards.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaworchards.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaworchards.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaworchards.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaworchards.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}