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Showing posts with label apple picking. Show all posts
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Sunday, August 7, 2011

Picking and Harvesting Blueberries






If you can't use your blueberries right away, rinse them off in a colander, dab off with a towel or paper towel, place on a baking sheet you would use for cookies, and put in your freezer till firm. Then pour them into a zip lock bag or plastic container with cover. I at times, have just poured the fresh berries right into ziplocks without pre-freezing first. It works.

My friend lives on acres of land in Maine. I love love love harvesting fruit and vegetables, so even though I was feeling so sick, I figured maybe I could sweat out the virus and pick blueberries. I did enjoy myself but my daughter had to go in earlier than me. It was just too hot. I picked about six to eight cups of blueberries and they are smaller than bush blueberries. These plants lie low to the ground and have real reddish leaves. Sweet flavored and very versatile for baking. It was so hot that many of the plants were crunchy, and so many plants that it was hard to not step on plants. Many blueberries were dried already, so I snacked on a few of them to see if they were like dehydrated blueberries. They were good but extremely small after shriveling up.

The raspberries were too small and hard, not ripe yet.

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Hurricane Earl in New England, making Art, Harvesting Herbs, Picking Applies and Clothes Shopping

Well, I realized after watching the news for over an hour, that if Earl hits us where we are located in Massachusetts, I am not really prepared. I have enough food, but I don't have water, or proper flashlights.
If the weather is bad though, I have so much to do for artist trading cards-Marie Antoinette is due this month and I need to make six cards. I was supposed to do two journal pages, but because they have to go to Canada, I don't think I can do it in time.
I have a vacation artist journal started, my cloth paper is finished to send to my girlfriend in Maine. I will be receiving a piece that she made and then we will be collaging on our own and each others piece of home-made paper. It is going to be a blast.
I have been working on a new blog and website, along with harvesting my herbs today: chamomile, two types of sage, lemon verbena and mint. I studied on the herb mullein today and had a piece but made a mistake and through it away in the woods because I thought I had to have fresh flowers, but I didn't, so I don't know if I will be able to find anymore now that it is fall. I picked apples off of the ground and off of the tree from my front yard. They are not great to eat, but will make great applesauce and I got a handful of blackberries. Washed two loads of laundry, folded two and put a load away.
I went shopping at Salvation Army. Maybe I'll put pictures up of my new outfit creations.

Hope all are safe through this hurricane on the East Coast!