There are so many things I love about this time of year (except for the dread of extreme heat on the way!) and berry picking is one of those things. Starting with strawberries while it’s still cold out, followed by blueberry and blackberry picking when the weather is nice to downright hot. We live in a great place to do all of the above without going much more than a mile from home. Specifically, we can blueberry and blackberry pick while out on a wagon or jeep ride on any given day and I LOVE it! I don’t eat the berries myself, but I love picking for my sweetnesses.
We’ve been berry picking on a walk twice this week already. While picking blackberries along a fence line along the road, Jacob was explaining to Josiah that they weren’t planted blackberries like on a farm, but instead they grew wild, to which Josiah replied with all seriousness, “if you eat them, does it make you wild?” We burst out laughing!
Strawberry picking at Roger’s Farm:
This is our neighbor’s blueberry patch. They are kind enough to let us pick here as long as we don’t take more than we can eat ourselves.
And I guess I didn’t get any pictures of us blueberry picking at Parrish Family Farms where we go to fill our freezer with enough blueberrys to last us the year. I also neglected to take pictures of us picking blackberries along the road to our house – probably because I was busy keeping them from getting stuck by the thorns!
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