Full ‘Strawberry Moon’ will rise over Ontario this month

The first full moon of the summer will grace the night sky towards the end of June.

According to The Farmer’s Almanac, a full moon referred to as the “Strawberry Moon” will be visible on the early morning of Monday, June 29.

The moon will be at its most visible at approximately 7:57 a.m. EDT, with the best views of the moon starting on Sunday night, June 28, into Monday morning, June 29.

The name Strawberry Moon was conceived by Algonquin and other North American nations who timed their strawberry harvests to this moon. The wild strawberry, Fragaria virginiana, hits peak ripeness in June.

“Wild strawberries ripen in the meadows, gardens push their first real growth of the season, and the Sun rides its longest arc of the year,” says The Farmer’s Almanac.

Due to the strawberry’s role as an early-season food, the name traveled across nations. The Algonquin, Ojibwe, Dakota, Lakota, Chippewa, Oneida, and Sioux all called the June full Moon by some form of “Strawberry Moon.”

It’s said to be one of the few Indigenous Moon names that crossed wholesale into mainstream American almanacs and never went out of use.

Other names for June’s full moon from other places around the world include the Rose Moon, Honey Moon, and Mead Moon, depending on what mattered most on the land at midsummer.

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