Strawberry season begins in Middle Tennessee

Strawberry season is here, and patches across Middle Tennessee are opening up. The early freeze hurt some crops, but most farms around the area have recovered.

At Batey Farms in Murfreesboro, they’re opening up so the public can handpick their berries.

Batey Farms operator Brandon Whitt said they did lose some berries due to the late freeze but says they recovered nicely since the season was on track to start very early.

“When you think about a strawberry, the skin itself on the strawberry is very delicate, so as that strawberry is ripe on the vine and it’s getting pounded by the rain, that’s not a good thing. That strawberry can only stand so much moisture,” he explained to News 2.

Whitt says to keep up with their schedule on their Facebook page since the weather can change things day-to-day.

Courtesy of WKRN News 2