Kamikaze Berry Picker

Ann H GabhartAnn's Posts, One Writer's Journal 12 Comments

Blueberries, strawberries and blackberries are true super food. Naturally sweet and juicy, berries are low in sugar and high in nutrients – they are among the best foods you can eat. ~Joel Fuhrman Have you ever been blackberry picking? Not in a nicely mowed around tame blackberry patch but a wild blackberry patch out in the woods and fields of …

Blackberry Picking Family Tradition

Ann H GabhartAnn's Posts, One Writer's Journal 14 Comments

Have you ever been blackberry picking? Wild blackberry picking? We have some tame thornless blackberries in our garden now. It can be an adventure to pick those since we didn’t keep them trimmed as we should have and some of the vines are ten feet tall. The best berries are always the ones on the tiptop vines and just barely …

Through the Thorns to the Berries

Ann H GabhartAnn's Posts, One Writer's Journal

I made boysenberry jam a couple of days ago and posted a picture of the finished product on my FB page. It’s fun sharing things that are going on out here on the farm. But after I put up the picture there were a lot of questions about the berries. They’re like blackberries only bigger than wild blackberries and sweeter …