It's berry and cherry season at last! I called in at a berry farm the other day. True, you can probably buy raspberries for the same or less in the supermarket, but there were several reasons for getting them at the source. For a start, you can be sure of getting fresh fruit – you can see people picking it, and it’s nice to know where it came from. There were also some of the more unusual berries such as gooseberries, red currants and Kentish Cherries which you don’t often see in the shops. The gooseberry fool* I made afterwards reminded me of summers past when most families had a backyard, a Hill’s hoist and a berry patch with at least one or two prickly gooseberry bushes. * see instructions at the end of this post, also about the origin of the word. Looking South East Wolfe's Berry F arm lies in a lush valley beneath Mount Wellington and has been operated by the same family for over a hundred years. That may not mean much by European ...
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