Back in yesteryear, food was food. There weren't choices.......there was just food if you could find it. Wild, edible foods were picked with delight and thanksgiving. Blackberries were no exception. They were free, delicious, and could be eaten fresh, cooked, or made into pies, cobbler, jams, jelly, preserves. It took a lot of individual berries to make a gallon, but it was worth the effort.
Some of the hazards of blackberry pick'n were: chiggers (red bugs), snakes, thorns, and wasp nest, just to name a few. Most people tried to do their pick'n early in the morning while the weather was cool. A gallon of fresh berries would get a boy about 75 cents if he was lucky.
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I was out picking blackberries and saw where a black bear could have been sleeping. It was hard to pick them because I would eat so many. LOL
Joyce
My parents used to have boysenberry bushes and GUESS WHO had to go pick them! I hated those things at the time, but now I'd give a lot of money to be able to grow them (HA~~they don't grow here in the desert!) Come visit my blog: http://memoriesthenandnow.blogspot.com/
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