Strawberry Fields Forever!

We have just discovered that in Cape Town, there are many farms that allow you to "pick your own" fruit - the first of which was strawberries. 
We eagerly drove off to Stellenbosch, to the farm called Polkadraai - and were greeted with endless rows of strawberry plants, and amazing scarecrows!!

So many strawberries, such a small bowl!!

Big brother scarecrow is watching to see you don't eat all the strawberries.

Happy Family with many strawberries!!

Luckily there are 5 of us, so our "crop" was quite large - and within just a few short days, we polished it all off - along with making some jam and sorbet (we're not such pigs, y'know!!)

Some of them were truly enormous!

I endeavoured to make jam for the first time ever, and was quite happy with the outcome : 4and a half bottles of jam (the 1/2 bottle served well as a sampler!!)

Extreme close-up showing chunks of strawberries in my jam!!