Blueberries from Larriland |
Out in the fields |
I had to laugh when we finally go to the far end and found plans with more than three or four ripe berries. At th far end, you could just stand and pull handfuls. By the end, we had 10 pounds of fruit. I canned some. I hope those will become a base for drinks and ice cream sauce. We'll freeze the rest and make sorbet over time.
Larriland is spectacular. If you haven't been, you need to plan on blueberries now, tomatoes, peaches, and blackberries in the summer heat, then apples and pumpkins in the fall. The fruit just tastes better. I have been popping handfuls of blueberries, and they're absolutely perfect.
Honey sticks! |
Larriland is a great activity with kids. It's a project for a serious picker who wants to cook or can. Don't miss their expanded barn where they sell already-picked produce and some other treats. We always get dried fruit candy for the ride home. We also bought McCutcheon's sodas -- black cherry and sarsaparilla -- and some of the honey sticks.
The vegetables are still a deal, but beets were more than we paid last fall. It was 99 cents a pound if you buy 20 pounds. That was 79 cents last fall. Remember the beet rule: Bring a knife to slice the stems. Keep the greens that you'll saute with garlic and dress with a little oil and vinegar.
If you want to try Larriland, remember that you can get food for a picnic out there. Harvest Fried Chicken is just north of U.S. 70. Town Grille in Lisbon sells barbecue almost between U.S. 70 and the farm.
If you want to try to can, I recommend buying a canning pot from Amazon. Ball sells jars all over the place, including Kendall Hardware in Clarksville. But the price of the big pots makes that a deal.
4 comments:
Do they dry the dried fruit themselves? Is it their own fruit?
What was the price on the PYO Blueberries? Thanks!
We picked today and it was $2.50 a pound for more than 10 pounds and it was easy to pick this amount in under an hour.
@BMoreCupcake -- They don't say where the fruit comes from. So I assume it isn't their fruit.
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