With cooler weather and rain expected every day for the coming week, berry season is quickly coming to an end in southeast Michigan.
Which meant if I wanted to have more Michigan-grown berries to eat fresh, makes jams, or freeze, I needed to go out this weekend to do some picking.
I found a new local u-pick farm that not only had fall red raspberries, but also yellow raspberries as well as fall bearing blackberries.
What a treat!
I’ve never been to a u-pick farm that had fall bearing blackberries.
The owners have a strict policy for COVID-19:
- Social distancing
- Masks
- Washing sinks in the field as well as the entrance of their fields
Fall berries in Michigan start coming in during early August and continue to bear fruit until a hard frost.
I usually pick berries in late August and plan to do another picking in late September.
But given we already had two nights of frost a couple weeks ago, I didn’t want to press my luck and miss an opportunity to pick more berries.
You never knew when the next frost will be a hard frost!
I’ll be freezing most of the berries for making jam later, but will save some to make a pear raspberry tart to enjoy this week!
