Rocky experience, Don't U-Pick
Rocky Creek Strawberry Farm的点评
点评:Been picking strawberries here for over 15 years but new owners have let the U-Pick down.
Now with a toddler I was so excited for 1st strawberry picking experience but the girl at ticket booth gave vague directions to field. No proper signage and not a single staff member in the fields to help direct. We arrived a few minutes after opening and a lot of us groups were looking for over 10 mins for the upick field only to stumble upon 20+ pickers already going for it. Only after 25 mins of us all picking did a tractor tell us we were in the wrong field but didn't say where to go. Probably 50 picking by that point.
We then had to walk an additional 10 mins to the furthest field and by then my toddler was asking me to pick them up and carry them. Felt like 1km from ticket booth!
Quality of strawberries was 50/50 you really had to work to find any fully red ones or ones without mould or bug eaten.
I won't be coming here again to pick.
This is such a difference to the Silvan farm we visited the day earlier for u-pick cherries where the staff were everywhere to help and guide if needed and went above and beyond to educate us.
Sunny Ridge was so great 10 years ago but unfortunately newly named Rocky Creek is not living up to this high standard. Go employ more staff in your fields and get more signs to help paying customers who don't have time to wander aimlessly.
翻译:我在这里摘草莓已经超过15年了,但新老板让自助采摘体验大打折扣。
现在带着蹒跚学步的孩子,我非常兴奋地期待着第一次体验采摘草莓,但售票处的女孩给的指示含糊不清。没有清晰的指示牌,田里也没有一个工作人员可以指引方向。我们开门后几分钟就到了,我们一行人找了十多分钟才找到可以采摘的田地,结果发现已经有二十多个人在采摘了。我们采摘了25分钟后,一辆拖拉机才告诉我们走错了田地,但也没告诉我们该去哪里。那时大概已经有50个人在采摘了。
然后我们不得不又走了10分钟才到最远的田地,这时我的孩子已经开始让我帮他捡草莓了。感觉离售票处足足有一公里远!
草莓的品质参差不齐,你真的得费一番功夫才能找到完全鲜红或者没有发霉或虫蛀的草莓。
我以后不会再来这里采摘了。
这跟我们前一天去的西尔万农场(Silvan farm)的自助采摘樱桃体验截然不同。西尔万农场的工作人员随处可见,随时提供帮助和指导,而且非常热情地为我们讲解各种知识。
十年前的阳光岭农场(Sunny Ridge)非常棒,但可惜的是,现在改名为落基溪农场(Rocky Creek)后,已经达不到以前的高水准了。你们应该多雇佣一些工作人员,多设置一些指示牌,方便那些没有时间漫无目的地闲逛的付费顾客。