April showers bring May flowers, which bring wild strawberries in early June. Uuummm! Patches of wild strawberries are abundant throughout the fields at Wild Rose Meadows. The key is to first find a patch of ripe strawberries, and then to pick the berries that are exactly ripe. All wild strawberries taste good, but when picked at exactly the right time, they are exquisite. Plump, juicy, sweet, glowing bright red against the dark green backdrop - they are wonderful.
Wild strawberries are much smaller than their domesticated cousins. The berries vay from the size of a pencil eraser to the size of a marble. A person has to pick a lot of wild strawberries to get full. Wild strawberries taste even better than domesticated strawberries. After picking and eating a few, our fingers are bright red for the rest of the day, but we don't mind.
The cows like wild strawberries, too. When we walk through a pasture where the cows have been, the strawberry plants stand out, but there isn't a berry left on the plants.
