Aug. 13, 2008 - Harvest Time
Suddenly there is an abundance of zucchini in our garden, so I have been making muffins this morning, huge batches to freeze, freezing grated zucchini for future baking and serving it sautéed at nearly every meal! We have tons of Basil, so making and freezing pesto is on my list as well. My dad came to pick up Peace for the first blackberry picking club adventure of the season. Yum! Although we don’t preserve a lot of foods, I find it really satisfying when we do, both the process now and in the winter when we’re eating berries from our freezer. Here is a story Peace wrote for her writing class last year.
The
By
Bethany Peace
Mmm the fresh berry still warm from the sun beating down on it before it was picked. Blackberry, blueberry, or strawberry it doesn’t matter as long as it has been picked by a member of the Berry Picken’ Club. As part of the
You see, I went to my papa, who has been in the Berry Picken’ Club for a long, long time and asked him how the Berry Pickin’ Club came to be and he told me:
“ Once an old man took his children to a berry patch to see if they could pick many berries. Slowly the children started to lose interest so the man went to his grandchildren and inspired by a book called ‘Blueberries for Sal’ the old man and his grandchildren had began berry pickin’ trips. Well that’s how the Berry Pickin’ Club got started.
Once when I was too little to go on berry picking trips, my older brother, Gabriel was coming back from a black berry pickin’ trip. My brother and I went outside our house. Gabriel and I chowed down on the berries. We had purple stained faces from the blackberries’ juice. But it was very nice of him.
There are also the rules for the Berry Pickin’ Club. First a rule from “Blueberries for Sal”, you must say kurplink and kurplink until you fill the bottom of your bucket. Second you have to share your berries with the other members of the Berry Pickin’ Club. Third and last, big pickers absoloutly must help little pickers in any way they can.
Berries, berries, berries. Our family eats them so many different ways. We eat ice cream which is one of my favorite ways to eat blackberries because the sections break apart and freeze. We also eat them in cobblers and jam and so many other ways or we just eat them right out of the Folger Coffee bucket.
A few weeks ago my cousin, Alethea was going to the zoo. When she woke up her mother asked her if she knew what she was doing that day.
“Going blackberry picking with Papa?” she asked.
She was wrong but really cute. Papa and I decided that soon we would make a special trip for her.
Alethea is one of the future members of the Berry Pickin’ Club. So will be two aunt’s babies that they will have soon. I love being in the Berry Pickin’ Club so much and it’s a great family tradition.
That is the
Comments
Sep. 15, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Sue
Good job on your story Peace! I loved it!
