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Nuns pick berries on Farina farm to help harvest
In Farina Illinois a strawberry glut prompts farmer Glenn Ernst to donate ripe fruit to St Francis Convent Effingham. Faced with no local labor and rising ripening, he offers up to 240 acres of berries to the nuns who plan to freeze and share them with patients. Sister Jolina Snyder notes sore knees after hours of picking.
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Farina
Ill
Glenn Ernst
Ernst
Sisters of St. Francis Convent
Effingham
Jolina Snyder
Springfield
Jolina