I haven’t been to a Pick Your Own farm for years, but I have been guilty of this. Same with raspberries. I ate almost as many as I put in my basket, which I know was naughty, but I couldn’t help myself.
Best part of PYO.
Otherwise I’m paying more than a shop to pick them myself. Once I realised this I’ve never been to a PYO again.
Our farm used to weigh the kids on the way in and out!
Sounds like this PYO farm is trying to compete with retailers. This will only ever result in the retailer winning and the farm going out of business. The ONLY way they can compete is by making the whole experience something the retailer cannot mimic and charge accordingly.
At this rate they’ll want you to grow the fucking plants for them too.
How silly. Mark up the prices to account for this and keep the experience unique and enjoyable?
A much, much more efficient way at preventing *theft* would just be to say “feel free to eat up to 6 strawberries on your way round!” and increase their prices by 20% or whatever.
Tuesley farm near me did a one-off pyo day and it was £1 per punnet. I had many many strawberries that week.
Huh. No, I have never done that. Definitely would’ve got told off for stealing by my mum!
I remember doing this as a child with my mum and granny. I went off on my own to fill my punnet. Came across a particularly large strawberry and my lizard brain took over. I crouched down over it and farted on it, then picked it and put it in my punnet.
Later that day I laughed after tea because my mum or my granny had just eaten my fart strawberry.
I was an odd child.
Whatever container they give you, by the time I’m at the till, I’ve already eaten the weight of it
Our local PYO banned people from bringing cream in with them. Surrey folk are wrong’uns!
Followed by three days of the runs.
I remember going to one as a kid with my mum, had “one for me one for the punnet” kind of thing going. Take home three punnets. My mother put them in the back of the car with me. Half way through the drive home she turned to look at me because I was apparently “quiet”. I’d eaten two of the punnets in less than 10 minutes. Suffice to say my mother was both amused and annoyed.
PYO has a lot more wastage I guess? From stompy boots all over and the fact people are only going to pick the best.
Just put up a sign saying they’ve been treated and need washed before eating. Simple
If they don’t want customers this is the way to go.
I’ve heard from a pyo farmer As a pyo farm you can expect upto 15,000kg of fruit to be sold per acre. That’s taking into consideration the amount that gets eaten and ruined.
Ate so many as a kid when we went that I haven’t liked strawberries since. Almost puked in the car on the way home. Farmer was fine with it tho, I guess he knew it’d only happen the once haha
Our local PYO has a donation box on the way out for the fruit you ate in the fields, best way to do it imo
As a 3yr old I apparently ate myself sick! Mum still teases me. I recently went to a PYO blueberry farm, yum
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I haven’t been to a Pick Your Own farm for years, but I have been guilty of this. Same with raspberries. I ate almost as many as I put in my basket, which I know was naughty, but I couldn’t help myself.
Best part of PYO.
Otherwise I’m paying more than a shop to pick them myself. Once I realised this I’ve never been to a PYO again.
Our farm used to weigh the kids on the way in and out!
Sounds like this PYO farm is trying to compete with retailers. This will only ever result in the retailer winning and the farm going out of business. The ONLY way they can compete is by making the whole experience something the retailer cannot mimic and charge accordingly.
At this rate they’ll want you to grow the fucking plants for them too.
How silly. Mark up the prices to account for this and keep the experience unique and enjoyable?
A much, much more efficient way at preventing *theft* would just be to say “feel free to eat up to 6 strawberries on your way round!” and increase their prices by 20% or whatever.
Tuesley farm near me did a one-off pyo day and it was £1 per punnet. I had many many strawberries that week.
Huh. No, I have never done that. Definitely would’ve got told off for stealing by my mum!
I remember doing this as a child with my mum and granny. I went off on my own to fill my punnet. Came across a particularly large strawberry and my lizard brain took over. I crouched down over it and farted on it, then picked it and put it in my punnet.
Later that day I laughed after tea because my mum or my granny had just eaten my fart strawberry.
I was an odd child.
Whatever container they give you, by the time I’m at the till, I’ve already eaten the weight of it
Our local PYO banned people from bringing cream in with them. Surrey folk are wrong’uns!
Followed by three days of the runs.
I remember going to one as a kid with my mum, had “one for me one for the punnet” kind of thing going. Take home three punnets. My mother put them in the back of the car with me. Half way through the drive home she turned to look at me because I was apparently “quiet”. I’d eaten two of the punnets in less than 10 minutes. Suffice to say my mother was both amused and annoyed.
PYO has a lot more wastage I guess? From stompy boots all over and the fact people are only going to pick the best.
Just put up a sign saying they’ve been treated and need washed before eating. Simple
If they don’t want customers this is the way to go.
I’ve heard from a pyo farmer As a pyo farm you can expect upto 15,000kg of fruit to be sold per acre. That’s taking into consideration the amount that gets eaten and ruined.
Ate so many as a kid when we went that I haven’t liked strawberries since. Almost puked in the car on the way home. Farmer was fine with it tho, I guess he knew it’d only happen the once haha
Our local PYO has a donation box on the way out for the fruit you ate in the fields, best way to do it imo
As a 3yr old I apparently ate myself sick! Mum still teases me. I recently went to a PYO blueberry farm, yum