Pick Strawberries Day - May 20

Yup there’s a day called “National Pick Strawberries Day!" 🍓🍓🍓👌🏾 😋

AND I happen to have (several!) pics of me picking strawberries at sundry points, times and places right here in the ‘Big Apple’, aka NYC, including at a neighbor friend’s urban oasis patio garden, the Old Stone House of Brooklyn and the beautiful New York Botanical Garden way up in the Bronx …

Growing and picking strawberries is something my African American ancestors did for centuries before me with economic freedom in mind. In fact

Strawberries hold a very special place in my and my home town’s history (i.e., Mt. Holly NJ, settled in 1677 and nearby Timbuctoo est. in 1826) and played a key role in the entrepreneurial ventures of many African/Afro/Colored/Negro/Black-American Women who came before me along the historic timeline there and elsewhere throughout the 13 original continental US colony states especially…