One of my earliest memories picking berries on old strip mines in eastern Ohio. That and watching grandma snapping green beans for canning.

Praise God. We need to go back to those days!

Great memories...thanks for sharing! My mom passed in 2005. She would take us kids with her blackberry picking every summer back in the '50s and early '60s. She made the best cobblers with them...YUM...! And blackberry syrup on pancakes (make mine buckwheat, please)...double YUM...! I think of those experiences every summer or when I see or hear about blackberries.

When my husband and I first married 1971 he would go pick blackberries and my Mama would make a big blackberry cobbler. It was the best. She could make the best homemade biscuits also. I think of Mama daily. BTW, she & I didn't like picking berries because we were afraid of snakes. Mama passed away at age 64 from a massive heart attack. This fall she has been gone 25 years. If living she would be 89.

DLR Young This comment thread is beautiful, if poignant. My dear Mother, as I called her, died this Memorial Day 5/25. She was 91. We didn’t do a thing w berries. We were Cubans in the Chicago suburbs. We did have a small suburban garden w plenty of corn (7 children);and grapes. Mother made grape jelly and what a mess it seemed. Purple countertops. Such a blessing our memories can be. I read a very old quip about this. “How can they be gone when they are always here with me?”

I totally agree about your memories of your own life experiences. Wild strawberries were growing on the hill across from our house. Yes, we were busy picking a lot of days in June

Since we're all sharing things here☺... I'm 40 this year. I have been canning now for 19 years. Typically, 21 year olds weren't canning back then, and I'm not sure what possessed me to start. I made a batch of apple butter my first time ever canning. I gave my parents a jar, nervous that it wouldn't be as good as the stuff they would buy from the grocery store now and then. My dad opened up that jar and dipped in a spoon.. then took a spoonful, then another spoonful. Then he fed my mom a spoonful, and as her eyes closed and her smile widened, the quiet "mmm" as she savored it told me I won. My dad put in a batch of biscuits as I was leaving, I didn't partake because I really don't like apple butter. (Can't tell you what possessed me to start making iy, other than a friend inviting me over and we picked apples) Few days later, Dad rang and asked for a refill! Mom canned a bit when I was small, very small. I don't remember her canning, I just know she did, because we three kids would bicker about who would go downstairs to pick the best jar of beans or carrots or tomatoes. I do, however, just once, remember her pushing grapes through a sieve for jelly. She said there's no way I should remember that, I was only a year and a half old, and she only made grape jelly the once. Now, I still can apple butter, it's my specialty, the one everyone asks for. Last year, I made for the first time, ladies and gents, my 6-fruit seedless "Jumbleberry Jam" with my mother-in-law in mind. I finally had all the berries I needed to make it. Huge success, but darn it all, I could only produce 5 half pint jars. One for the MIL, one for my mom and dad, one for the neighbor behind, who I traded zucchini for, one for the neighbor next, who always gives treats to my dog, and one for the neighbor across, who gives me eggs. Eggs to bake the chocolate zucchini bread that I promised my neighbor behind me. Other things I can are of course, tomatoes in several forms, yellow peppers (6 plants is a little excessive), salsa, applesauce, apple bbq sauce (pork chops... wowwie!!)apple pie filling, cherry pie filling, cherry jam, strawberry jam, wild raspberry syrup, pickles, sweet relish, dill relish, and successfully pressure canned beef tips, seasoned ground beef, pork, and chicken. This year I look forward to my peaches, my tree only produced two or three last year, and I lost them to a torrential downpour. BUT today I counted the little baby peaches and I have about 3 dozen, about the size of a dime! SO, I'll be searching recipes for peach preserves! I dont have a huge yard, but I plant quite a bit. I live in Michigan on a quarter acre in a 950 sq ft 3 bedroom house in a neighborhood where everyone seems to have something to share or trade... to use for something else to share or trade. All that's missing is a general store, cattle, and a fishing hole. Township might frown upon the cattle... 🤔 Thanks for reading my long... long story. Lol

Praying for your family Darrell. Myself and my family made it through COVID 19 just fine including my mom and step dad ages range from 18-69. I figure your boy is in that range somewhere. The weirdest part is not being able to smell ANYTHING! May God bless you and give you peace.

God bless you and yours. 🙏

Heavenly Father please give Darrell and his family peace and guidance, and healing, physical, mental and spiritual, that they needs so they can get through this season of grief and worry. Be with Darrell Lord, heal him and his family and bring them all out the other side of this with joy, health, and prosperity. In the name of our Savior Jesus Christ in whom all things are possible, amen. Darrell, pray like you never have before, and give thanks and praise to Him who sustains you. Put Jesus in your heart, so you may live in His.

Prayers.. ❤️

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I do. Lol I miss the ducks in there first house. They'd come out like they were racing to get to the food and water. But that routine felt like a great transition into the video.

Don't mix chickens and berries. The berries will disappear fast 🐓😋

I loved watching that one silly duck fall head first ever time 🤣😂

Really miss seeing those ducks. They just brought such a big smile to my face every time!

Carpcrappie meohmy see if theres a Master Gardener club near your new home. Contact the County extension service to find out about whats available in yournew area. Other garden clubs or homesteading clubs might also produce results

Carpcrappie meohmy There are ladies with your same interests still available. Talk with your Pastor in your new town about your situation. Pray and know you are being prayed for as well.

Blackberry and apple is my favorite, I cook them separately, sieve out the pips then put together with the sugar and jam as usual. Never used a waterbath just a large pan and boiled to setting point. Waxed paper circles and cellophane tops with a rubber band. One third to one half blackberry to apple.

We must be related. Seriously my favorite dessert

You can just do it

Thank you.

Thank you.

Copperhead and black snakes loved blackberries in SW Virginia, too! So, yes, be careful....

I put one of my big pans on a chair by the stove, and just let my juice drain into it...put it in jars when it's done...(but, you could put the jar in the pan)...

Ah, the huge blue canner! Just got one myself, "used" but the sticker was still on it, with the rack, $5. And they threw in two jar grabbers, two metal funnels, and AND AAAAAND... 6 cases of smooth side pint and half pint mason jars with lids! Perfect!

**** garage sale

@@CaroleHaddon wonderful find! God bless

I was wondering what she did with the pulp.

Yes! Can also make an awesome fruit leather from the pulp.

fanciterv How do you do that? I was also wondering about what to do with what's left. If there is any flavour left in it, there must be several things, but I have no idea how to go about making fruit leather

I think I'd try dehydrating the pulp. Powder it to put in smoothies, in oatmeal, on ice cream etc.

@@Jomama02 I love that idea. I think I'll do that with my cranberry hulls after making my juice.

I bought a complete set of those and my dishwasher ate all the paint off of them😳they are worth a small fortune in good shape. Nancy from Maui

They are the Pyrex mixing bowl set, and are usually expensive when you find them. I have my mother in laws’ set from 1939. Only missing one bowl. But you can find them at yard sales and thrift shops much more cheaply.

Praying

That crossed mind too when Sarah said she didn't have any marbles lol

Use a couple quarters, or nickles instead of marbles

Elizabeth Wilson Look for “pick your own” locations in your state.