The greens are gone, but the berries are here. Ahh, sweet summer.
Well, the summer solstice is past and we are in the thick of summer. We ate the last of the wild greens (in the form of poke sallet and lamb’s quarters lasagna) earlier this month, although we’ll still find some greens here and there. Nate introduced us to the use of just a pinch of nutmeg in cooked greens, and it was delicious. And now we have berries: juneberries, cherries (although the season is just past now), and raspberries. Next month we’ll have blackberries.
- bowl of juneberries
- pitting cherries
We forgot our baskets, but we had our hats - and filled them with raspberies.
The rabbits are feeling “frisky” with the longer days, and the chickens are laying lots of eggs and begging to be let out of the coop well before we usually get out of bed (and we’re early risers). And we’re playing in the creek with crawdads and salamanders and spraying each other with water cannons.