Go berry picking

Maybe when I go to see my parents this year, we could do this….or my husband and I will go to Golden Gate Park. I love berries, strawberries in particular.

Fun fun fun, but really messy don’t wear something nice it might get ruined. I have a berry bush in my front yard and I go picking every spring when they are ripe it is fun.

and we used to camping and hiking… we would eat our way through the trails while picking raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, etc. Yu-um!

has BEARY delicious straw-bearies!

The blackberries are ripe and ready for picking. These are not the nice, evenly-planted, thorn-less blackberries you find at orchards, etc.. They’re wild and woolly, and full of stickers. SO, I have to prepare for my adventure bright and early tomorrow morning:

• old clothes
• bug spray
• sunscreen
• water bottles/thermos
• Bella (she helps to scare away the snakes)

when we went camping at Lake Kachees (sp?) we canoed to a spot where we picked berries then took them and mixed them into pancake batter. yum

I’ve been lucky enough to live in places where I’ve been able to pick wild berries from time to time. I’ve also gone to berry farms to pick berries as well. I first remember picking berries in a vacant lot down the street from where I lived. The blackberry bush there wasn’t very big and it didn’t have great exposure and irrigation so there weren’t many berries and they didn’t get super sweet, but I still enjoyed them.

We have berry farms along the coast that we visit during the berry season. We really like the strawberries we get from this organic farm and there’s a place where we can get great ollaliberries. We never seem to get out there during raspberry season, but maybe we should shoot for doing that this year.

My favorite berry picking memories include picking blackberries with my wife and sons from one of the paddle boats on Stow Lake in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. I think the biggest, juciest and sweetest blackberries I’ve ever picked came from along the road on one of the San Juan islands off the coast of Washington. My wife and I were bicycling around the island and came across these incredible berry bushes. They were amazing.

I didn’t pick any blackberries last year, but I hope to find some good bushes this year.

Eat as many as you can!!!

I’ve blueberry picked and raspberry picked in Maine at the Devereux homestead. My grandma Jean made pies from our pickings and sometimes fresh pancakes. Yummy! I’ll be blueberry picking again in July up in Maine! Possibly…my last time as times are changing in the family…