The Strawberry Farm

Compared to when we were there last, the number of trees had definitely at least doubled. The strawberries seemed fresher and there were plenty to choose from. It cost RM8 per 100g which I thought was pretty steep, especially when we had five pickers going rampant like maniacs along the rows of strawberry, armed with scissors and baskets.

It got a bit warm in there towards the end as the sun came out. But I was impressed at how well maintained the whole place was.

Got the strawberries in order in the baskets, got them weighted and then we were off to the next leg - the lavender garden!

More Strawberries

There were just too many photos to post in the main entry, so I thought I create another one. This would just be photos, hopefully .....

This was actually outside the main gift store, just after the boys had their fries. This led to the mushroom and fresh flower stalls.

Idlan was squeamish when he saw bees on the television monitor.Irfan and my LX-3. He does take a mean photo, and he were to keep this up, I might have to get him his own flickr account!The gift shop. Very important.Taking a breatherIdlan needed some fuelExploringMore stalls to be seenFresh corn. Apparently from Cameron Highlands. Not Genting.Don't really know what this was, but nice none the less.Then, there were pot of flowersPlenty of themThat was one huge pumpkin!I snapped plenty more, and you can see them in my PhotoBlog here.

Done with Strawberries

Just arrived from the downhill drive from Gohtong. Had a nice time over there, and managed to get the stock of fireworks as well - they stock plenty of them high quality hand thrown 'pop-pop' poppers that were my boys favorite, and my maids' scourge since they were the ones needing to do the sweeping after! We virtually cleared the stock from the stall!

All together, we managed to collect something like 400 grams of strawberries. Mainly it was Irfan's effort as Idlan was too picky - pun intended. After stopping for lunch - the boys had some nice hot spicy fries and unfortunately I couldn't join them being Ramadhan - we headed to buy some fresh vegetables and flowers within the compound of the farm. They were certainly fresh and since we arrived in the morning, the produce had only just arrived. The corn cobs certainly looked great.

Irfan also picked up photography with my LX-3 and was happy snapping away. At least from now on, I would get my photos taken. Not just me taking photos of others. On the way down, Anita stopped to buy some fish-head curry for iftar. Sadly, I was never into fish-head, unless it was prepared in a broth, Japanese style!

Now that I was home, it was time to get the photos sorted. I took something like 200 snaps. I could have taken more, but the place was getting too crowded by the time we were about to leave. More details of the farm can be read on my previous visits here and here. The farm website can be surfed here. More photo of the trip can be seen here as well at my photoblog.

Woot! Another picture used in an article!

Yes! I've gone green and started tree-hugging! One of my picture from back in 2003 was used in one of their article, with permission of course. It was taken when I wen strawberry picking with my parents and aunty just before I left UK for good. Over there, they just give you a basket, you pay the entrance fee, eat all the strawberries you want - cream not included of course. If you want to take some home, they weigh it at the exit and you pay for them. As simple as that! The article appears in treehugger.com via this link.