Published on: April 18, 2022 at 9:00 AM

By Eric Velasco
SoulGrown

In our household, we love to celebrate Alabama’s strawberry season. I taught my children early in life that one of life’s great joys is eating a fully ripened strawberry that’s been freshly picked nearby.

Many supermarket strawberries, with flavorless ghost-white ends and cores, cannot compete. And the longer the distance that strawberries travel from farm to store, the less likely they’ll ever properly ripen.

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