Day 213
There are so many kinds of berries to harvest in British Columbia: Bilberries, blackberries, blueberries, bunchberries, cloudberries, cranberries, crowberries, currents,elderberries, gooseberries, huckleberries,Oregon grape berries, saskatoon berries, salmon berrries, soapberries, strawberries, raspberries and thimbleberries.
Some of these I have gone out into the wild to pick such as Oregon grape berries, cranberries, huckleberries, blackberries, wild blue berries. We grow raspberries, strawberries and blue berries in our own yard! Oh the wonderful taste of summer is eating fresh picked berries!
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| Summer ~ Berry Picking |
We have an abundance of raspberries, which we will be turning them into jam, pies, tarts ,desserts and raspberrycello. Fresh picked we will be eating raspberries by the handfuls, on ice cream, yogurt, and on our breakfast cereals.
One of the many tastes of summer, fresh picked berries!
Until tomorrow,
Jewels
"Benefits from eating raspberries: Boost Heart Health, Help with Weight loss, Can Help Manage Diabetes, May help Prevent Cancer, Ease Arthritis Pain, Fight Aging."
(PS I am going to drink lots of Raspberrycello .. for the health benefits ..Right??!!)
This edible soft fruit is related to the blackberry, consisting of a cluster of reddish-pink drupelets. The raspberry is the symbol for kindness. The red juice was thought of as the blood running through the heart, where kindness originates. It is also the “sputtering noise” one makes (pressing lips and tongue together) to express either real of faux contempt, mockery or displeasure. Derived for the Cockney rhyming and used in British comedy “blowing a raspberry or raspberry tart” referred to things that would be unacceptable in polite audience. Of course many think politeness is old fashion, shame really. Raspberries were also used to describe bright red abrasions, likely because when one tangles with the prickly canes you are left with red scratches /rash on your skin.
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