Two mornings last week I picked raspberries at a local farm. I love raspberries and am grateful to have places where I can go pick fresh fruit near-by when in-season: raspberries, strawberries and blueberries. The berries look so pretty on the bushes and being out in the crisp morning air makes the chore of picking berries more like a fun outing. When I bring the fruit home I fill a bowl for eating, freeze some for winter, and make strawberry and raspberry jam.
We have some friends who grow raspberries on their property. A few years ago, very early in the fall season, frost was predicted one night so I went over to help harvest the produce from their large garden. My friend put me in the raspberry bushes and I started picking the fruit. A while later she joined me. We were talking and she started to pick where I had just picked and I wondered…I’ve picked berries many times over the years and I know what I’m doing and I thought I was doing a pretty good job…but come to find out she was picking the yellow raspberries they had growing intermingled with their red raspberry bushes! I passed the yellow berries thinking they were not ripe.
We laugh about it still.
Looks so good those raspberrys😀….and the jam you had made and we tasted this summer was sooo good🤣
I have also made jam from raspberrys this year and also from plums that we picked at Kaldestad😁
Hope you guys are doing good. Nice to follow you here at the blog and see what you are up to👍😀
By the way, did you ever see again that guy who were snoring in all of your bedrooms when we visiting you and then came along with us on our trip….haha🤣
Plum jam from Kaldestad sounds wonderful!
The snoring guy found his way back to our house. We just might have to bring him to you in Norway.
I, too, appreciate when berries are available locally for picking. I’ve always wanted to pick blueberries. Is this farm local?
The Little Hill Berry Farm is located just a couple miles north of Northfield…they opened a couple of years ago and became popular immediately.
They have a website. Usually blueberry picking is in July.
Thanks, Valerie. Next year then.
Yum! Those berries look HUGE
They were…and tasty too.