Berry Picking

We are off to spend the day berry picking. Both black berries and goose berries should be ripe. We have several berry patches scouted out. Last year some kind of cane boring insect hit all of the blackberries in our patch. The canes, which were hanging with green fruit, just dried up. It was very disappointing. This seems to be a good year for all sorts of insects so it may be the same this year. We did see a lot of berries on the canes earlier in the year though. While we are out we will check on the american hazelnut crop.We use them a lot when we have them, especially with wild rice and cranberries for breakfast. We will also check out the burr oak acorn crop. I like the acorn flour pancakes Ann makes and while we have a fair cache of acorn meal from last year, a basket of fresh acorns would be welcome. The pic above, which I threw in for lack of a better one, is of a local lake that has wild rice. The bright green along the edges of the lake is wild rice. Hopefully, Mid August will see Ann and I out there harvesting some of it.