The best strawberries take you back to the best childhood summers — perpetually outside, running through a sprinkler, barefoot on freshly mowed grass, sprinting to the ice cream truck with quarters in hand — and make you chase after those sweet memories year after year.
In Oregon, these bright red jewels are beginning to ripen as summer nears and farms are opening their patches for picking. Folks like you and me are already planning how to stretch our enjoyment of them into fall and winter — jams, freezing — while restraining ourselves from eating the last of our haul.
Lookout Eugene-Springfield has a running list of where you can pick, buy and celebrate the juiciest strawberries in and around Lane County.
Regional events
June 4-7, Cheadle Lake Park, 37919 Weirich Drive, Lebanon…