Fresh Picked

These were some of the yummy black raspberries I picked from my backyard garden this spring.  NOTHING is better than a berry warm from the bush, except maybe one warm in a pie from the oven, (the jury is out on that one).   My kids were worse than the birds this year… they swarmed the bushes, stripping them of all the ripe fruit.  Compared with say, an apple, this is a pretty unusual fruit.  The kids ate it because it was not unusual to them.  After watching it grow, and waiting for it to ripen, I think eating it just seemed the next natural step.  This willingness to try any fruit or veggie we grow has been an unexpected benefit of our garden.  Almost everything is gone by now in the hot Florida sun- and we miss the real taste of fresh produce.  The downside of a backyard garden?  Try serving an anemic, supermarket, not really ripe tomato to 6 year olds that know better.  (They’re right.. it’s yucky).  If you didn’t try a garden this spring- no worries-this is Florida……… you get another chance.  Plant your Fall garden in late August, and serve what you grow for Thanksgiving.

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