Re: Apples.....lots and lots of lovely apples........!

StarrFarms1 · 2003-09-05T17:04:51+00:00

Hi Shaun, I share you're excitement with harvesting "free" fruits. Ilive in the Willamette Valley, where things just grow, and grow. I'vehad to get another freezer to store everything I've picked because myother one is full, as are all of my carboys and Corney kegs. My wifethinks that I am nuts. I might be, just a little.In the freezer now; 200 #'s Marionberries. 50#'s Boysenberries. 100#'s Blackberries. 20 gallons crushed Gravenstein apples. 30 #'sBlueberries.This doesn't count the Plum tree in the back yard that is absolutelyloaded and not ripe yet, and the wild plums and huckelberries Ihaven't picked yet!I'm a beekeeper besides, so I have all of the honey I could ever want.I just need a brewing partner! All of this picking and freezing iswearing me out!I wish there was a way to efficiently pick the blackberries in theValley. There are litteraly millions of pounds rotting off andfalling to the ground. Not many people around here pick them.

Sep 05, 2003 22 Replies

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Ray 22 years ago

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Dar V 22 years ago

Bearing in mind that this is a wine-making web site...I find this discussion of bears baring all to be slightly off-topic. ;o) Darlene

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Negodki 22 years ago

Well, seeing as the aforementioned bears are all cricket clubs, perhaps they more properly belong at rec.crafts.drinkingbeer.

But what if the bears make berry wine whilst bearing all and drinkbear? :0

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