Last weekend I really wanted to take the kids to pick strawberries in Dawsonville. Well we drove an hour all the way there and found out that they were closed. I even called and listed to their answering machine and it said that they were open. We were really frustrated. So I looked and looked at www.pickyourown.com and found a place in North GA that has pick your own cherries. So we thought we would give it a try. We drove an hour and a half to Mercier Orchards and were very pleasantly surprised. The people there were so kind! We paid $15 for a bag that would hold 5lbs of cherries, took a ride behind a tractor and started picking. There were several different kinds of cherry trees and so many trees. They said next weekend they are going to have blueberries ripe. We drove by the blueberry bushes and they were packed full of big blueberries!
Emma excited to pick cherries!
The tractor that we rode behind
The branches were plenty low enough that the kids could pick too!
Our family
Daddy and Jack picking the cherries
Emma showing off a few that she picked
Yummy cherries
Ya think there were enough to pick?
These were my favorites! Kind tart, but still sweet.
Joshua and I-he got to do lots of tasting!
Emma and Jack acting goofy
The fields
The tractor coming to pick us up. We had such a great time. The people who work there told us to have as many cherries as we wanted while we picked. To taste the different variety of cherries to find the one that we liked the best. After we went back to the main building we had lunch, shared a piece of pie and sampled their homemade cherry ice cream. We had a great time!
Last weekend I really wanted to take the kids to pick strawberries in Dawsonville. Well we drove an hour all the way there and found out that they were closed. I even called and listed to their answering machine and it said that they were open. We were really frustrated. So I looked and looked at www.pickyourown.com and found a place in North GA that has pick your own cherries. So we thought we would give it a try. We drove an hour and a half to Mercier Orchards and were very pleasantly surprised. The people there were so kind! We paid $15 for a bag that would hold 5lbs of cherries, took a ride behind a tractor and started picking. There were several different kinds of cherry trees and so many trees. They said next weekend they are going to have blueberries ripe. We drove by the blueberry bushes and they were packed full of big blueberries!
Emma excited to pick cherries!
The tractor that we rode behind
The branches were plenty low enough that the kids could pick too!
Our family
Daddy and Jack picking the cherries
Emma showing off a few that she picked
Yummy cherries
Ya think there were enough to pick?
These were my favorites! Kind tart, but still sweet.
Joshua and I-he got to do lots of tasting!
Emma and Jack acting goofy
The fields
The tractor coming to pick us up. We had such a great time. The people who work there told us to have as many cherries as we wanted while we picked. To taste the different variety of cherries to find the one that we liked the best. After we went back to the main building we had lunch, shared a piece of pie and sampled their homemade cherry ice cream. We had a great time!
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