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Strawberries! Just say the word
and its brings a gleam to the eye of
most any good cook this time of
year - and especially Debbie
Lineberger who by now is the
strawberry expert.
Debbie and her husband Ervin
Lineberger are popular strawberry
growers in this area and every year
in May about 65 of the 100 acres
of their farmland is a beehive of
activity.
Migrant workers start picking
strawberries in the big 12-acre
strawberry patch as soon they are
ripe and others come from near
and farm to pick their own straw-
berries and stock up on other
ready-picked fruits and vegetables.
The farm is more familiarly
known as Killdeer Farm on
Goforth Road and named after the
Killdeer bird which resembles the
sandpiper and nests her eggs in the
strawberry fields each spring. She
lays her eggs on bare ground and
surrounds them with little stones.
She relies on the sun to hatch her
young ones, caring off any intrud-
ers with her loud shrieking cry.
Pickers are cautious not to disturb
her or her nest while working the
fields.
Seven big freezers in the
Lineberger kitchen are filled every
summer with fruits which Debbie
takes out for jellies and jams year
round. Migrant workers from
Mexico come to the community
every year about this time to help
pick the crops and Mexican fami-
lies live on the property.
Lineberger credits the success of
the 13-year business to the growing
of healthful, nutritious and attrac-
tive fruits and vegetables, using a
minimum of pesticides to control
diseases and insects with the safest
and most practical mans available,
harvesting crops and getting them
into the customers’ hands at the
peak of their maturity and nutri-
tional quality, encouraging cus-
~ tomer picking to save labor and the
consumer's money and eliminating
the middleman, thus allowing them-
and the customer to keep a bigger
portion of the food dollar.
Eight kinds of fruits and 15 veg-
etables are grown and harvested
every summer. The busy strawber-
ry season is now in full swing. The
farm activity slows down about
Halloween season with pumpkins
and hayrides.
A new sales building adjacent to
the family home helps the couple
to remain open until Christmas
offering fruit baskets and home-
made jams and jellies as gift ideas.
"I love to cook and collect
recipes and my customers have
given me recipes which I used in
my recent cookbook, " said
Debbie. A brand new book,
"Volume II, Cooking with Fruits
and Vegetables," comes off the
press soon.
April Thornburg, a junior stu-
dent at East Carolina University
and daughter of the Linebergers, is
a valuable addition to the staff this
summer.
On a recent opening day of the
strawberry season both mother and
daughter were rushing from field to
shop.
The strawberry farm is open
weekdays from 7 a.m.-7 p.m., on
Saturdays from 7 a.m.-5 p.m. and
on Sunday from 1-5 p.m. through-
out the month of May. From June-
August the market is open week-
days from 8 a.m.-6 p.m. and on
Saturday from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m.
From September until November
the farm is open from 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
weekdays and from 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
on Sunday.
Not only do customers pick their
own strawberries if that's their
thing but from July 1-20 they can
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Debbie Lineberger is a busy homemaker and strawberry grower who has written a cookbook using
recipes of customers and her own tips for preparing yummy dishes for family and friends.
pick half-runner beans and later in
the summer they can pick collards,
corn, eggplant, cucumbers, greens,
okra, peas, turnips, blackberries,
grapes, muscadines and scupper-
nongs. Tomatoes, squash, sweet
potatoes, pepper and watermelons
are expected to be in abundance
this summer.
Mrs. Lineberger has included in
her cookbooks recipes using the
various farm products: While the
supplies last they also offer fresh
baked Sourdough breads on Friday -
and Saturdays and homemade
strawberry shortcakes on Saturday
and Sunday.
Tuesday is Senior Citizens Day
in the strawberry fields with dis-
counts available.
"Our blackberries survived with
a 50 percent crops this year due to
freeze damage and we were left
with only a few varieties of surviv-
ing peaches but expect to expand
our melon crops,” said Debbie.
The farm staff will start schedul-
ing hayrides August 1 for late
September and October.
Visitors to Killdeer Farm receive
recipe sheets, canning, freezing
and jell-making instructions and
they can also get pectin for jelly
making and canning jars at the
same time they purchase their
fruits and vegetables.
Debbie enjoys serving fruits and
vegetables to her family and when
company comes they are sure to
sample some of her delectable
goodies.
Lineberger reminds homemakers
to store the berries in the coolest
place in your home or in the refrig-
erator if you don't plan to use them
for a day or two. Do not rinse off
the berries until you are ready to
use them; remove stems after
washing to keep berries from col-
lecting water.
Two family favorites are her
"Berry Basket Pie" and "Fresh
Strawberry Ice Cream."
BERRY BASKET PIE
1 ready-baked pie crust, Graham
Cracker or butter flavored
4 cups fresh strawberries, 1
quart
2 cups whipped topping
1 small box vanilla pudding and
pie filling
Reserve a few nice berries for
garnishing. Cook pudding accord-
ing to directions and cool. Arrange
whole berries in crust. Fold
whipped topping into pudding.
Pour over berries in crust. Chill at
least 4 hours before serving.
Garnish with reserved berries.
FRESH STRAWBERRY
ICE CREAM
1 cup sugar
1/4 tsp. salt
2 cups cold whipping cream
1 cup milk
1 tsp. vanilla
2 cups fresh strawberries,
crushed
2 Tbs. cornstarch
Sweeten crushed berries with
1/2 cup sugar. Mix remaining in-
gredients together, then add
berries. Pour into freezer can and
freeze according to directions.
Makes 1 quart. Double this recipe
if your freezer holds 1/2 gallon.
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