Seib’s Berry Farm offers berries ripe for the picking
Typically, late July marks the end of the berry-picking season. This year, however, Everett Seib says the season is much later.
Seib is the owner of Seib’s Berry Farm, which offers berry picking with 2,000 bushels of Saskatoon berries and 500 cherry trees, located just outside North Battleford.
“I always open right around the 17 of July, and this year, I did the same, but probably only about 15 per cent of it was ripe at that point,” he said. “With the quantity of the berries here [now], we could probably handle quite easily another 100 pickers to come in the next week or so.”
While it is not unusual to have the season extend here or there from year to year, Seib said this season seems to be a bit of an extreme case with the berries likely to last as late as the early portion of August before drying up, something even the veteran berry farmer says would be “pretty remarkable.”