Seems to be a good year for blackberries. Very nice stewed with apple and served with yoghurt hot or cold. They also make a delicious bramble jelly to spread on your toast. A gift from nature.
' What else can you offer the earth, which has everything. What else can you give but something of yourself ' (from Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer)
And a bumper year for sloes, the astringent fruit of the blackthorn.
Sloe gin is rather overrated in my opinion but they do look tempting. Offer one to a friend ! !
Some of the other berries adorning the hedgerows and woodland edges are haws on hawthorn . . . . .
. . . . . and hips on roses.
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