Berry Season!
Every season comes and goes year by year, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, and blackberries always come with the seasons as well.
Strawberries are the first of three seasons. They come in hot, muggy, humid June, my mom always tries and get us up early in the morning so we don't get caught picking strawberries in the heat of the day. Some days, clouds cover the sky and it rains while we pick. To make the time fly while we picked, my sister Fiona and I would have contests on who's strawberry was the biggest. Normally I always ended up winning. After dealing with sweating from the heat, and wet clothes from the rain strawberry season came to a end. Our family has strawberry cake with homemade biscuits and whipped cream to celebrate. We always invite our Aunt and Uncle over for the end of the strawberry season celebration!
Soon after strawberries have gone by raspberries start to turn red and get sweet. Since we don't have to many raspberry bushes, mom says we can't eat too many so we have some to make pies and freeze as well. I love raspberries, so I will sneak some when no one is around (muhaha.) Our family rarely goes picking raspberries at a farm because it can be expensive, but we only go when our raspberries aren't doing well. I say raspberries are only the best when you pick them off the bush and eat them immediately. We couldn't enjoy raspberry season without a sweet, delicious, butter-crust, raspberry pie! Its one of my favorite kinds of pie.
Blueberry season is right behind raspberries, mid July is blueberry season and the blue jays can't wait to devour our fruit. Dad rounds up the family to get us to help him set up the netting on the blueberry bushes. The blue jays try and get the berries but are very unsuccessful, my brother Guthrie is pretty much a blue jay himself. When I am done doing chores in the morning I head up to the house, and sometimes Guthrie will be sitting under the netting munching down blueberries. Blueberries go all the way to August, my brother Jonny and my dad's birthday are in August. So nothing beats their favorite pie, raw blueberry pie, this pie involves no oven. My mom knows how to make it so it mounds with blueberries, and it is covered with whipped cream. I don't really find favor for this pie but the rest of my family does, and they can have my piece! My family is big on freezing blueberries for the winter so there is always some fruit to put in our homemade goat yogurt. So my mom and dad make sure we save some for the freezer.
Blackberries are my sister Fiona's favorite berry of all the seasons, she loves to go blackberry picking and I don't mind tagging along. Its fun to see which way is the easiest to move around in the blackberries. When Fiona and I were younger we used to make tunnels under the blackberry bushes and pop up where ever we saw blackberries. This was a pretty good idea, until we got older. I love the sweet taste that blackberries have, sometimes I just pick a whole handful and stuff them in my mouth. Our Uncle's birthday is in August during blackberry season, so Fiona and I always make a blackberry pie for our Uncle. Even though its really hard to to push through the blackberry bushes and get to the blackberries, there is always a rewarding feeling afterwards because you know that you will be able to get to eat them, or you can make a pie out of them! My family is big on pies if you couldn't tell!
Berry season is sooo awesome!
