October 27, 2009 – 9:12 am
Finally, we declare our strawberries ready and everyone is welcome to come and pick their own.
With this perfect spring weather, it’s just lovely up here and we have pretty good “picking conditions” right now. There are enough ripe ones for you to have a good pick, but I wouldn’t say the berries are abundant. I [...]
October 20, 2009 – 2:45 pm
Now it looks like it’s going to be first week of November for official opening of the strawberry season this year. As you can see here, the strawberries are taking their time to ripen and there are more green than red. Sally
October 20, 2009 – 10:06 am
Last night it was a great honour for us to win the Australia Post Large Business category of the SA Great Regional Awards. I attended the presentation ceremony and dinner following (nice chicken with orange sauce for mains) and enjoyed seeing some truly excellent Adelaide Hills businesses and community groups receive some well-deserved recognition.
In my [...]
October 16, 2009 – 3:06 pm
Great news! The Beerenberg Huey range of four products that I talked about a month or two ago are going into Coles Nationally around Australia. The four products are already on Coles supermarket shelves from Broome to Hobart!
Speaking of Huey, today was an interesting day. Iain “Huey” Hewiston came in for the day and did [...]
October 15, 2009 – 11:58 am
The strawberries are getting there – plenty of red colour but the rain over the last two days hasn’t helped. Pick your own should be open later next week. Sally
October 6, 2009 – 10:44 am
Okay, I’ve just been out to the strawberry patch and taken this photo. We’ve had all this overcast weather and rain with very little sunshine, so the strawberries just haven’t had a chance to ripen. This is what most of them look like – green. It’s going to be another couple of weeks before we [...]