The world’s first strawberry pickers

The world’s first strawberry pickers were likely indigenous peoples who foraged for wild strawberries in their local environments. As agriculture developed, farmers began cultivating strawberries in fields and hired laborers to pick the fruit. In the United States, slaves were often used to pick strawberries on southern plantations before emancipation. As technology advanced, machines were invented to automate the process of picking strawberries, but human labor is still widely employed in many areas of the world.