berry pickers
Summer orchard workers
Berry pickers are people who harvest berries, whether commercially or recreationally.
The term extends to tools designed for the task—handheld scoops with tines that strip berries from bushes more efficiently than fingers alone.
We rented a cabin near the berry pickers' camp.
She bought a berry picker at the hardware store.
- foragersThose seeking wild food
- harvestGathering mature crops
- bucketsOpen-top carrying vessels
- bramblesThorny wild shrubs
- bushesLow woody perennials
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- seasonal workfarm workers, farm labor, farm hands, field workers, harvest work
- berry industry
- Pickers
- prehistoric humanscaveman, cave dwellers, cave dweller, Neanderthal, Neanderthals
- indigenous womenclan mothers, medicine women, chieftess, colonial impact