The Gather and Sow: June 2026 issue is all about strawberries.

With so many strawberries in so many kitchens this month, now is the perfect time to merge botany lab and breakfast preparation by working through the many parts of a strawberry. We kick off the strawberry love with some explanations in Food for Thought. You can learn quite a bit about flowers by cutting up a strawberry, as we do in this month’s Botany Lab of the Month. As it turns out, this enigmatic little gem is packed with coincidences and apocrypha along with its citric acid and anthocyanins. We conclude with recent relevant media and journal articles in Gleanings and Baker’s Dozen.