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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Around nineteen eighty one, I was about twenty years old,
and I said, Dad, there's a new thing out there
where people come and pay to pick their own strawberry.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Thomas and Martha Hanson tell me this year's June harvest
is bearing more fresh, vibrant strawberries than almost they know
what to do with.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
We're going to have our ice cream bus open with
strawberry Sundays, strawberry shortcake and our usual flavors.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
This weekend is the first of many in June when
people can come out to Hanson Farm and framing him
and pick their own berries, a tradition that has a
funny history here at Hanson.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Dad was kind of old fashioned, so he said no,
I don't want to do it, and I kept pushing
him and I was like, no, we got to do this, Dad,
and finally said why, But you gotta run it, and
you gotta stay open late so people can do it
on their way home from work.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
So that's how I met my wife forty one years ago.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
A tractor shuttles out the folks to the fields which
are full.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Of those delicious plump fruits grown with no pesticides, so
you can eat them right there.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
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