Description: After our artistic stop, we drove down the road to La Trinidad, the town beside Baguio where one of the major vegetable trading posts is. I wanted to go to the trading post to buy vegetables; nowhere else in the Philippines can you buy vegetables as cheap as in La Trinidad. We weren't able to find the trading post; instead, to our delight, we saw a large sign pointing to the Strawberry Farms.
The Strawberry Farms is exactly that, a strawberry plantation along the side of the road in La Trinidad. Visitors are allowed to walk in the fields in which not only strawberry but various vegetables and flowers are also grown. Tourists may pick strawberries for a fee (double whatever the going rate for strawberries is at the time; when we went, strawberries were P70 per kilo [they were in season], so the picking rate was P140 inclusive of the price of the strawberries) and if you want to walk in the individual strawberry patches to take photographs, you have to pay P10. It's free, however, to simply walk in between strawberry patches.
On the side of the road, a row of vendors peddles various strawberry products: fresh strawberries by the kilo, strawberry jam, strawberry ice cream, strawberry wine, strawberry taho (taho is a Philippine delicacy made of beancurd and syrup), and various other delicacies. We sampled a bit of everything before leaving.
Later on, we brought out a kilo of the strawberries we bought and ate them every way we knew how: with cream, with condensed milk, with melted chocolate, with pepper (someone told me about this and it's pretty good!).
To get to the strawberry farms from La Trinidad's main road, make a left in front of the last gate of BSU where a large sign points toward the strawberry farm.
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