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Strawberry Festival draws big crowds to Jaemor Farms for music, fun and lots of ripe fruit
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Jaclyn McGlone helps Tripp McGlone, 3, pump water into a pipe move a rubber duck Saturday during the third annual Strawberry Festival at Jaemor Farms in Alto. Various activities were available for children during the event. - photo by Erin O. Smith
Thousands of visitors flocked to Jaemor Farms on Saturday to celebrate one of spring’s greatest gifts: the strawberry. For the third annual Strawberry Festival, Jaemor officials decided to up the bar from previous years, adding live music, vendors, farm tours and a strawberry cook-off to the event schedule. But the most popular draw of the event was the “u-pick” fields of newly ripened strawberries.