Ally and I got the opportunity to see the inner workings of a real Wexford Strawberry farm at the weekend, thanks to Photowalk.ie and Boro Valley Fruit Farm.

On Saturday several members of Photowalk.ie met up at Boro Valley Fruit Farm where we were made feel at home by Murt Murphy before being taken on our ‘fruitful’ journey.

An amazing journey it was too!

There were more strawberries than I’ve ever seen.

Huge polytunnels, and a state of the art greenhouse with a computer controlled heating and ventilating system, housed long rows of strawberries.

These well looked after berries are grown in long containers suspended at chest height.

Rows and rows of ‘em!

Murt gave us a complete rundown of the lifecycle of the strawberry, from planting to picking.  I never realised there was so much involved in looking after strawberries, and I pity the five strawberry plants growing in a container in my back garden with only me to care for them.

I haven’t tasted my own homegrown strawberries yet as they’re still green, but I did get to sample some of the Boro Valley Farm crop on Saturday and they were gorgeous!! Even Ally, who is not a fruit eater, declared them to be ‘delicious’ and said ‘It’s no wonder Murt was eating so many of them!’. (I ‘lolled’ out loud at that because it was very true.)

I think Ally had a job to stop herself from eating them too though.

We spent a couple of hours taking photographs of the strawberries (photographers delight really), and then had fun taking photos of this lot!

And the best bit?

We got to EAT everything afterwards!

Thanks to Murt, the Murphy family, and everyone at Boro Valley Fruit Farm for an enjoyable day. They’re lovely people and I wish them continued success.  And thanks to the members of Photowalk.ie who were great fun and who even lent us some of their gear to try out. (We loved this fish eye lens)

Ally and I are both looking forward to the next photowalk already!

Oops! I almost forgot to mention.  Pop over to Brian’s Blog for more photos from Saturday.

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