Keeping up with the Joneses — and strawberries, peaches and produce
Chase Steele picks fresh strawberries from Jones Orchard's strawberry field on April 15. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian
Sweet, red juice drips from fingers, staining lips, clothes and everything else it touches.
It’s Wednesday, April 15, the first day of Jones Orchard’s strawberry-picking season this year, and people from across the U.S. are here.
There’s the Steele family, commemorating what would have been their older son’s 10th birthday. Each member of the family has selected an appropriately sized basket for their haul with the smallest in the group insisting on the largest basket.
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Ellen Chamberlain
Ellen Chamberlain is a global citizen who is happy to call Memphis her forever home. The Michigan native has worked in media for nearly 25 years as a radio broadcaster, journalist and ghostwriter. As The Daily Memphian’s food and restaurant writer, she gives readers inside perspectives of their favorite restaurants and the people behind them, suggestions for the best bites around town and the latest food news from in and around Shelby County.
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