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Blueberry Picking at Harkins Slough

I have always wanted to pick blueberries! We pick olallies every year, but I've never had the chance to pick blues. Then, yesterday, I saw an email from our CSA farm, High Ground Organics : "You are invited to a Blueberry U-pick at High Ground Organics tomorrow 10am to 1pm." Oh, yeah! Jake had to do homework, so I took the mini-boys up to Harkins Slough and we picked almost 5 pounds of blueberries. What a beautiful location! Jeanne gave us a quick orientation and in we went... They grow four varieties of blueberries in the blueberry patch - Southmoon, O’Neal, Misty, and Jewel. The Jewels were giant-sized and gorgeous. But we found that we preferred one of the other varieties. They were smaller but much, much sweeter. The boys were great helpers. In fact, they did almost all the picking. I just took photos and enjoyed the sunshine. Of course they did do some tasting along the way... R said that one of the varieties tasted like a peach to hi...

Liberating Cherries from Gabe's Trees

Every year we pick cherries at the end of Gabe's birthday party. They have Bing and Stella trees; I'm not sure what we were picking, but we had a blast! Look for cherry recipes to come. Dylan had his cherry pitter out as soon as we got home.