Strawberry season for Florida is December -April, with peak crop around March.. Which is why they are out around Valentine's Day.
Strawberry season for California is April-August, with peak crop around June.
Strawberries from Aug-Dec are almost always imported, but we produce in season for a little over half of the year.
Seriously, one time I was up in Oregon during the summer and I got to eat the reddest, juiciest, most delicious, local home grown strawberries I’ve ever had in my life.
They were almost blood red, not pink/white like most out of season, mass grown, store bought strawberries at the local Kroger chain. I need to go back there again next summer and try to get some more.
i dislike those huge white-on-the-inside strawberries! they’re so bitter and not at all sweet. ONCE i’ve had them where it was $12 for a pint but they were grown locally in Maine and they were good! now I live in texas in literally ‘the’ strawberry town and i don’t like them. but we have delicious cantaloupe
Then, I would like to register a complaint with you about my last batch of Poteet strawberries. Completely tasteless. I was devastated because they looked beautiful and were expensive.
I don’t think I’ve ever had in season fresh cantaloupe. That sounds amazing. Although, cantaloupe sometimes gives me an allergic reaction in the form of an itchy, tingly mouth but it’s not every time. When I was younger bananas used to do the same thing but they don’t anymore. I should look up what that means.
Found a chart that lists bananas and cantaloupe under the “Ragweed Pollen” category. Must have a Ragweed allergy. It’s funny that it’s not all the time though. I was eating bananas everyday for a few months earlier this year with no issue.
Reminds me of the scene from Firefly when Shepard Book helps pay for his passage on Serenity by bringing Kaylee strawberries and because this is a crummy future where fresh fruits and vegetables are rare on the frontier planets so the strawberries are a massive hit
So, funny thing there, we've actually built a farming facility that can grow anything, anywhere, anytime.
I love the commercial, but, given beings able to control the temperature and amount of light - which in our case is a balance of natural sunlight and supplemental when needed - we're growing 100% in soil, beyond organically (organic actually can include plastic and other junk in the soil, we don't do that, but it's hard to avoid all microplastics). We can also grow hydroponically and all next to mushrooms in one tiny building.
Out of season doesn't necessarily have different nutrient profile if you can make them think that it's in season.
So, if you do it our way, you literally can grow some of the best food imaginable whenever.
No BS here. My wife and I just tallied the hours these past 7 years and we've worked more than 50,000 hours on this so far.
No catch. No frills. No BS.
We've tested out here where we get swings from 30F to 120F, we still need to test in a snowy place, but we're pretty confident that our humble growing facility and system is going to make an impact on agriculture. We can't rely on seasons staying constant with climate change.
I live in Germany and asparagus season, as well as strawberry season is a real and serious thing (but we go hard on Spargelsaison, you really won't find asparagus in the stores out of season). It's a national past time.
I only eat them in season. Nothing beats an actual ripe strawberry picked within the last 24 hours. The ones at the grocery store aren't worth the disappointment.
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u/Lazy__Astronaut 1d ago
Just imagine how much more celebrated things like strawberries would be if you could only get them in shops during season instead of all year round