One
of my favourite places to visit in Maryland is Baugher’s, a fruit and vegetable
farm in rural Westminster. It must be the farm girl in me but I can’t get
enough of the place; from trawling through all the jars of interesting
condiments to ordering pie and ice cream in the cute diner. This year we arrived
in prime fruit picking season and we just knew we’d have to get a piece of the
pie (pun intended). Sweet cherries were in seasons so we headed over early one
morning before the searing heat got too searing.
We
took the tractor and trailer out into the orchards which sprawl across the
hills. It’s funny, even though a tractor is very much the norm for me I still
got excited! Some things will never change. Arriving at our destination we were
handed some old metal buckets and told we could climb the ladders to pick the
ripest fruits. Each tree was heaving with deep plum-coloured cherries and it
took all my will power not to nibble a few.
With
a basket heavy with ripe fruit we escaped the heat and waited under the trees
for our lift back to the farm shop. It’s safe to say the cherries did not last
long- the perfect snack to enjoy in the rising temperatures!
L.
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