Blueberry Picking Extravaganza

This was such a fun activity!  I knew that there were places you could go and pick your own berries but had no idea there were some not too far away from me!  We went to The Berry Patch just south of Kansas City.  It is a pretty large U-Pick berry farm (their website says you would walk 10 miles if you went down every row of blueberry patches).  I definitely got my exercise in from walking and squatting for 2 1/2 hours!!

We had told Tyce the night before that we were going to wake up really early and go and pick our own blueberries.  He was so excited.  He went to bed like a champ and got up super easy in the morning.  We got there before the crowd got too horrible (seeing as it was a Saturday).  It was a great learning activity for me and Tyce.  Chris had been before when he was younger.  So here is a photo recap of our blueberry picking extravaganza.

Tyce ready to go with his bucket all tied up.

The boys finding berries to pick.  The best ones were actually at their eye level so it worked out nicely.

The yummy yummy blueberries.  Not that we ate any while we were picking....hehe!

Chris showed Tyce how to know which ones to pick and he did a wonderful job.  He kept telling Will "no Willie those are red ones, we need dark blue big ones"

Will didn't really care about picking the ripe ones.  He would pick berries and just wanted to throw them in the bucket. Or he would pick them and they would go straight into his mouth.  Then he decided to just save himself some time and eat straight from the buckets from what Mommy, Daddy, and Tyce had picked.

Such a little stinker!  He was getting so hot poor guy!

Tyce did a great job and filled his bucket more than me (of course I had to keep dealing with the little blueberry thief)

After picking Tyce got to relax and go on a train ride....such a cute little train!

Our haul of blueberries.......we had almost 12 lbs when we were done!  But you can't beat the price (probably half what you would pay in the store).

We had a great time!  I can't wait to do it again sometime :)  Stay tuned as I attempt some blueberry recipes...but for now I am just going to have some blueberries and whipped cream...

 

You could check out my pancake recipe that I like to add blueberries to (scroll to bottom to find the blueberry version)

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