Out Foraging for Wild Blackberries

This afternoon, making good use of the early Autumn sunshine, a gaggle of family and friends have come foraging for some wild blackberries. I have been keeping my eyes on this thick blackberry hedge throughout summer. Watching as the flowers are buzzed by bees turning them into green, then red and finally dark purple sweet berries.

With a handful of willing workers it doesn't take us long to pick enough berries to make a blackberry and apple crumble. The  apples for the crumble are picked from our trees we recently planted on our council verge .How local is that!

After licking his plate clean Edwin promptly asks "can we go and pick some more tomorrow". I think foraging is great. You get fresh local food. The kids learn how food grows. And we all get to learn about the seasons and harvesting fresh food.

You can tell who has done the most picking
by the state of their hands.

The end result. Blackberry and apple crumble.- there wasn't any leftovers!