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Out of curiousity... how much are you paying for pick your own berries? (strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, etc.)
I just saw a price of $11/lb for blueberries. The place where we usually pick sells by the quart container and I'm not sure how that compares. But $11 sounds high to me.
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My goodness...in our area we pick blueberries from 55 year old bushes...they charge only $1 per pound...the berries are incredible...the site is scenic and sheltered...when we pick in mid-August, it feels like we're on a splendid woodland vacation. Hope you find a place that's less expensive...blueberry picking is such a special treat.
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Seriously, call the place and ask whether that's right! That price completely out of line with believability! (And please let us know what you learn - I am definitely curious). 
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Holy Smokes 
We don't have blueberries here (too hot) but our Strawberries are $3 a container (maybe 1/2 gallon?)
That seems like A LOT!
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We have a U-Pick blueberry farm in Michigan and will be charging $1.60 per pound (same as last year).
I would definitely double check the price.
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Are they organic? Seems really high.
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Maybe I missed a decimal point. I'll check; thanks!
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In case anyone has been on pins and needles, wondering if it really could be $11/lb  ... it's not. It's $11/GALLON. Which makes more sense!
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I wouldn't say I was on pins and needles, but I was very interested to hear the outcome. I just couldn't believe that some place would charge that much.
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I was hoping you would let us know. I've never heard of selling them by the gallon. Now I'll be obsessed with figuring out how many pounds that is. A quart is usually about 1 and 1/2 pounds . . . . does that mean a gallon is 6 pounds? Hard to say for sure.
Anyways, a much more reasonable rate :)
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The farm we've been picking blueberries this year is $2.50 a pound, and I think that's what I paid for strawberries last month at another farm also.
when we lived in Ga, the farm we picked strawberries at sold them by the bucket - you used their buckets to pick and it was about $6.50 a bucket and then you dumped them into your own boxes or bags to take home. I can't recall how big the containers were but I'm sure it's much faster to just charge by the container than have to weigh.
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I am way late seeing this (too busy selling berries....) but FWIW, we charge a dollar a pound for our blueberries and strawberries. Blackberies are .85 a pound, and raspberries were $1.10. Those prices are for pick your own.
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