Most recent crop status report:

The severe cold temperatures in the early part of April took out 75% of our crop and therefore we will not open the farm for strawberry season this year. We will take phone calls and set up times for you to pick up berry orders. Strawberries are available on a limited basis and must be ordered ahead of time. We will take berries to the area farmer's markets that we attend, subject to availability.

Once again it's strawberry time here at Naber's. This is our 11th season. This year has again given us some weather events that really haven't been all that welcome in terms of strawberry production. Most notable has been the unusually warm March that brought the plants out of dormancy early and which was followed by that terrible cold snap in early April. This scenario resulted in the loss of 75% of our crop.

Rest assured, next year we will have strawberries, Lord willing. We are putting in new plants towards the end of June for next year's production. These plants will spend their productive life indoors since we will also be putting up 2 unheated tunnels, (greenhouses), to protect the plants from weather that is all too often unfriendly to strawberry production.

 As you recall we discontinued the U-Pick portion of our business in 2005 and it worked very well for us, so for that reason we will stick with that decision for this year.  At some point in the future we may again offer the U-pick option, but for now we will proceed without it. We know many of you will be disappointed by this decision, but due to the very high cost of establishing a strawberry field we cannot afford to have the crop go to waste. With a u-pick farm you have to leave crop in the field so the customers have a place to pick, but if the customers don' t show up in sufficient numbers on any given day, then that portion of the crop that was ready at that time will then go to waste. As always we intend to have plenty of berries on hand for purchase at the farm and at the farmers markets we attend.

We highly recommend that you call us before coming out to the farm to ensure product availability and for large orders this enables us to have your order ready when you arrive. Phone number is 402-728-5565. We have a fine staff of professional strawberry pickers who are happy to fill your orders.

Open by appointment only for 2007.

Our picking crew laying down on the job.          

            One of several icy early mornings.