My tiny little pocket of land is an over abundant producer of berries right now. I have gooseberries, raspberries, cherries and blackcurrants currently and the apple tree is already laden with apples which ripen steadily. So I pick and I pick. I spend most of the evening hours, watering, picking and snipping at the plants as I wander in the cooling air. It's lovely!
A typical day's harvest looks like this
The blackcurrant crop is the best we've ever had, so I've been busy using my strainer
And turning the resulting juice into
I need more practise, but the way the crop is coming on I shall have lots of opportunity! See you next week with some sewn things, as a new little one has come into the world!
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