Strawberry Festival

I volunteered this year to help out at the local Plant City Strawberry Festival. I worked with the Plant City Historical Society. They raise money to help maintain the Historic landmark of the Plant City High School.

Here is a photo of the process of making a mass of strawberry shortcake.

It starts with the flats of berries.

The first step is that the berries get stemmed to remove the leaves.

The berries get placed into five gallon buckets and then moved to the wash room. The berries then get triple rinsed to remove dirt and debris.

Then the berries get strained to remove the water.

Then the get dumped into the strawberry slicer which cuts them into edible bite sizes.

Then the strawberries get sugar added to the bucket, the buckets get numbered and placed in the cooler to go to the festival to make the wonderful strawberry shortcake.

I know this has nothing to do with my farm but I did enjoy the process of moving berries along the production line. Plant City pretty much shuts down for the strawberry festival so I thought that I would join in the fun.