Hall County is about to get its strawberry fix, and peaches aren’t far behind.
The half-breed berry is a bit more than a week away from harvest in the fields at Jaemor Farms, according to Alto farmer Drew Echols.
“We’ll be into some pretty good production by the middle or end of next week, and hopefully it’ll run until the middle of June or first of July,” said Echols, standing in his strawberry field on Tuesday, April 3. “That’s the game plan, anyway.”
Berries began trickling into the farm’s Alto shop this week, but it’s been slow going. In what is becoming a tradition in 2018, the weather isn’t playing along.
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