While we're still waiting on the apples we've been collecting our hedgerow fruits. We have a couple of kilos of blackberries in the freezer, and still plenty on the bushes that we can collect in the next week or two, and this morning I have been out collecting haws and elderberries. I only know one elder tree close to me and it only has a few droopy branches, so I would like to find more, but I have a few bunches of elderberries that I will probably use in hedgerow jam.
There are plenty of hawthorns though within a five minute walk, I could collect buckets. I have never tried haws before in any form, so before I add them into hedgerow jam I am making a tester batch of haw jelly to see if I like the flavour.
I think I remember that hawthorn has a lot of medicinal properties so I need to have a look at that.
It was a beautiful windy autumn morning and would have been lovely for a walk, but after foraging in the rain for half an hour the wriggly baby on my back had had enough.
Yesterday afternoon we went out for a quick wander before Will had to go to the station, and the blackberry bushes seems to have hundreds of fruits on. Unfortunately all I had to collect with was an empty coffee cup - but these will do for Ivy's snacks for the week since I didn't buy any soft fruit to save a few pennies!
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