Jones'n on the 4th

Yesterday we celebrated our 4th of July by visiting the Jones Family Farm located in Shelton, Connecticut. For as long as we can remember, we have always come to this farm to pick berries on the 4th of July, and we love it! There is nothing better than biting into a freshly picked juicy strawberry!

Last year we heard loud booms -- what we thought were firecrackers being shot off in the area. But we were told that they have a cannon that they shoot off at regular times. The reason they do that is to frighten the birds. Frightened birds tend to leave their crops alone. That's good, because the strawberries are super delicious and we really don't want to share them with the birds!!

We have an Uncle that owns a little cannon, but we don't think he would lend it to us for our corn field, or that our parents & neighbors would appreciate hearing big booms everyday for the rest of the summer.  That's OK.  Right now birds are not a problem in our corn field.  It's those with hoofs and paws that we need to concentrate on.  

When we got home from strawberry picking we looked in on our garden.  We're going to get some interesting results when we go out there to do the official weekly measuring!

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