Blackberries are ripe!

[Babble64]

The blackberries are ripe here too! We were out fishing this past weekend and got to enjoy a nice streamside snack! I just moved to a new house and we have discovered a blackberry bush in the yard!

Isn't it wonderful? I just love surprises like that!

 

[scl0428]

It is wonderful! especially when my son is at the age where he soaks up all kinds of knowledge. He loved the fact that he could eat the berries from our yard. We took that opportunity to also point our berries that he may not eat.

 

[Marie]

I don't know if I'd recognize all those things or know what was safe to eat or not. I agree with your comment about people being afraid to eat something from the wild. Silly, really....it's probably healthier than what you'd get at the store.

I was brought up to learn about what's available in the wild; I was lucky really, my grandfather always took me out as a child and he just seemed to be a human-encyclopaedia. He knew what I thought was all you could ever need to know about plants, fruit, veg, flowers.. Wild or cultivated. He's taught me everything I know. He also gave me a book, which I use as my "bible" for anything I'm not sure about.. It helps you to recognise all types of plants, tells you where you tend to find them etc, including a section on the poisonous or inedible plants and how to avoid those. I tried to find a copy of it online, but it's quite an old book.. Must be around somewhere though.

This is quite a useful book though, too, if you were looking to learn more about wild-food foraging. It's kind of a lost art, I think.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Self-suffic...=UTF8&qid=1375615915&sr=8-3&keywords=foraging


On the blackberry front, we now have abundances of huge green, pink-tinged berries all over the place: I'm guessing if the weather we've been having these past few weeks continues, they'll be ready towards the end of the month. Yummyy!

 

[Shellyann36]

Oh goody! Our season is close to being over. We don't have any wild blackberries near us. We have to go and pay to pick them on a farm but they are so good!

 

[blueeyes]

That's wonderful. Unfortunately we don't have any blackberries around us to pick. I sure wish we did, though.

 

[elysebpink8686]

Blackberries are awesome! I love to put them in my yogurt or vanilla ice cream. It tastes so yummy together.