Take Your Pick
Quick Trip Details for Cincy Parents:
Where: McGlasson Farms (Hebron, KY – a quick drive from Cincinnati)
Cost: Great prices – We paid about $14 for 2 pounds of fresh berries!
Pro-Mom Tips: It gets hot in the June sun, so go early! If you have a baby who isn’t a fan of the grass, definitely bring your baby carrier. Don’t forget hats, sunscreen and water bottles!
If blueberries aren’t your speed, they will soon have U-pick blackberries and peaches!
It's that time of year again: BLUEBERRY SEASON.
If you happen to have a toddler, you know what a hot commodity blueberries can be. Nothing can break a cranky toddler out of a post-nap funk quite like a handful of sweet, delicious blueberries. And nothing gets them into that long luxurious nap like a morning of blueberry-picking in the June sun.
To that end, I present to you McGlasson Farms. My friend, Rebecca, and I packed up our kiddos and made the trek to Hebron, Kentucky for a little Family Friday Adventure. We visited McGlasson last year and couldn’t get those amazing fresh-picked fruits out of our minds so we knew we needed to go back.
Upon arrival, we were given buckets and directions to the lines of blueberries bushes. Rosie and Maeve were our official bucket-carriers and hustled us along excitedly. The girls fell on the little bushes like locusts, picking handfuls and moving quickly from one plant to the next. We had to remind them a few times to only pluck the bluest berries (Maeve wanted to collect the “rainbow” ones.)
Rebecca and I helped, but the girls were honestly very focused on their little collections, often holding them up and proudly showing how many they had. Baby Isla was much more interested in grabbing handfuls of berries to eat, and little Ruby mostly stayed strapped to me in the carrier as the alternative was sitting in the grass (her nemesis.)
The heat eventually caught up to us and the girls were ready to head home. We each paid for our buckets of berries (Two Pounds for $14!) And we snacked on a few before driving home.
My girls were fast asleep before we hit the highway.
– Shae Huth