A Cambridge fruit farm has put an end to its 40-year-old pick your own strawberry business, as too many customers are eating fruit without paying.
Mark Spight, who runs Hacker’s Fruit Farm, said he was annoyed at the amount of people eating fruit as they picked. One family were even caught taking a pot of cream around the farm.
According to the BBC, some people were eating up to £15 worth of strawberries walking around, then only paying for a handful. Incidence of unruly behaviour leading to trampled plants and damaged fruit had also risen at the farm.
Spight said: “We don’t mind people going picking and trying some strawberries but we once had a family come with a bowl of cream. It was shocking.
“We used to have a lot of children playing in the fields and trampling the plants. We thought it was not worth it.”
The farm still operates a farm shop and pick your own blackberries and other berries, said the BBC.
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