tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post5111967761181009938..comments2024-03-12T22:31:46.500-04:00Comments on What Would Phoebe Do?: (Cough)Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-47540781633564618712012-05-07T09:18:14.475-04:002012-05-07T09:18:14.475-04:00Britta,
Fruit-picking does seem like it would eit...Britta,<br /><br />Fruit-picking does seem like it would either be free (foraging) or close to it. But it seems there's been a move towards turning it into a yuppie tourist activity - or so said a 2006 <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2009/10/against_apple_picking.single.html#pagebreak_anchor_2" rel="nofollow">Slate piece</a> on apple-picking.Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-4123524661594169622012-05-06T23:31:05.761-04:002012-05-06T23:31:05.761-04:00As a kid we used to pick our own berries and often...As a kid we used to pick our own berries and often peaches every summer, but the draw was that after a 45 min drive and hours of hot sweaty monotonous labor, your berries were much cheaper than they would be in the store, plus it was all you can eat while you were picking. (And...my unbiased opinion is that Oregon berries are far superior to berries from anywhere else.) If you didn't want to pick yourself, you could buy picked berries from farm stalls, which were midway between store prices and pick-it-yourself prices. <br /><br />I guess I am now officially a crotchety old person.Brittahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02224221011978374915noreply@blogger.com