Yesterday we were invited to go Blueberry picking at a small farm just north of us in Harvest/Toney area (G&N berry Farm).
I personally have NEVER in my life gone blueberry picking, and feel a little silly even saying that. I loaded up the three little girls and off we went. They gave me 3 buckets to go out and pick berries in. Of course each of the kids wanted their own bucket. I picked berries and put them in Liams bucket. I really hadn't told him anything at first, thinking he'd just hold the bucket for me to put my berries in, and then he just started picking berries himself. He was so cute! He only picked the ripe ones. Pretty good 'free' help.
Then he would wander a little bit away from me, and he was picking berries for his bucket, at this point I'd have to hold a handfull and chase down one of the girls to deposit my berries into their bucket Then Liam decided he was done, and dumped his bucket all over the ground! and ran off with his bucket... I had to pick all of those berries up and then I put them in one of the girls. Then Marissa wanted to combine them all to see hwo many we had picked and Hannah was unhappy since she couldn't see how many 'SHE' had picked by herself... so she didn't really want to pick anymore, and I took over her bucket, while she chased Liam down. Then Marissa gave up on me too, after eating quite a few. She ended up playing with the little girl who was part of the family at the farm, about her same age.
By this time I wanted to fill a whole bucket, no idea how much it would weigh at all, just for the challenge of it! Hannah and Liam were tired of waiting for me, and so eventually I had to give up, and be finished, whether my bucket was full or not. I can't remember how many pounds I ended up with, but they cost me about 4 dollars or something like that. When we got home, marissa must have eaten a whole cup of them, I ate several handfulls as well, Liam at a few, and then I measured and bagged them up and I had 8 cups to freeze for later, a bunch to eat, and some to make in yummy blueberry muffins (when I get time).
I have a yummy recipe posted on my recipes blog
http://www.wendyrfulrecipes.blogspot.com/scroll down a little.
I have pictures I took at the berry farm, but can't find where they downloaded to... Oh well.