Secret Revealed: Strawberry-picking at the hills of Bucari, Leon, Iloilo

When you're told to pay P10 apiece for the strawberries you will be picking, you will immediately snob the overripe, damaged, green or unripe, dry, small and all that you think are imperfect. You are being reasonable, afterall, it's a bit pricey for a fruit. I even bought Sayote for P10 per kilo and tomatoes for P20 per kilo. Imagine how far my P10 can go.

Look at what we spotted among the growing and fruiting strawberries. We paid and enjoyed all ripe, red, and fresh strawberries. They are grown organically and the fruits are separated from the dirt by a garden plastic cover that we did not even wash the berries anymore before eating them.

The important disvovery I made was that the greenish strawberry tastes superb that I wished half red and half green berries. Try them on your visit and I guarantee, you will love the green strawberries. Or is it yellow strawberry as used by Jose Garcia Villa in his poem? Mmmmm perhaps!

They sell key chains aside from Sayote (you will pass by a canopy of sayote before reaching the strawberry farm) and tomatoes, lettuce and sweet potatoes or camote.

Opposite this bucolic scene with a little church is the dirt road leading to the farm of strawberries callef TORIL FARM.

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