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Berry Picking Encore!

Beautiful LadiesEncore berry picking performance!  We will be open on Sunday July 3rd to pick. Early pick 6AM – 10AM and Late pick 5PM to 9PM.  There are still berries and this mom and daughter team found a lot of both blueberries and blackberries during this last pick.  They are also some of our best customers and win the title of most return visits.  You know its a good thing when it deserves an encore.

2016 BlackberriesWhat’s left?

More blackberries are ripening daily and will continue to ripen for the next few days.  The blueberries are almost finished but there are still some left.  Any that were shaded are ripening a little later.  You will need to bend down to find them though. Smaller kids totally have the advantage in picking the blueberries because they can see them easier.  It seems that keeping the berries in the bucket may be more difficult for the younger kids. Some early pickers did find some red raspberries on Thursday.

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Is this the last pick day?

We are not sure, but its definitely getting close to the end.  Bottom line is to get them while you can.

Big Smiles on Opening Day

Pretty in PinkBig beautiful smiles were everywhere Sunday at RabbitEye Farm for Opening Day.  It was cool in the morning, rained a little in the afternoon, got really humid for a while and then cooled back off later in the day.  Lots of BerriesMany folks were avid pickers and got some nice amounts.  By the end of the day, the rows were pretty well gleaned of the ripe berries.  As you can see from this first picture, there are a lot more berries ripening for Thursday’s pick.  The ripening process will continue all month, so there will be plenty for everyone.  It is best to come early in the day though.

We are happy to see that the blueberries have improved this year.  If you recall, the blackberries outperformed the blueberries by a large margin last year.  But the blueberries are catching up and are producing quite a few berries.  Hopefully the crows won’t pick them before you have a chance.  We’ve had to make two scarecrows and also have had to keep moving them around.  The crows here are smart and rather bold.  The dogs aren’t a help at all with keeping the birds out, so the idea of making another scarecrow that looks like a dog was quickly overruled.

Here are some happy berry pickers at our first pick of 2016.

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Upcoming pick times:

Sundays and Thursdays in the month of June
Early pick: 6AM to 10AM
Late pick: 5PM to 9PM

Ripening Blueberries
Picking is easy.  We provide the buckets with a liner so you can easily tote your berries home.  Hope to see you soon!

Berry Picking Season Opening!

Blackberry 2016Blue2016
RabbitEye Farm first pick of the 2016 season on
Sunday June 5th.

From 6AM to 10AM and again from 5PM to 9PM.

It’s difficult to predict exactly when enough blueberries, blackberries and an occasional red raspberry will be ripe but this is a pretty good guess. We took these photos today (Memorial Day).

Black

Unripe2016BlueAbout a week ago

We have lots of berries in all stages of becoming ripe.  Here is an amazing sight of how the blackberry and blueberry bushes looked about a week and a half ago.

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We are limiting the picks to 2 days a week to make sure the bushes have renewed the berries enough for a good experience.  Extra pick days may be added according to how things measure up and, of course, Mother Nature’s decision on when to provide rain.  We will keep you posted here on this website and also on our Facebook Page.

SistersWe use no pesticides and grow our berries with only sustainable organic practices.  We eat them right off the vine and we encourage you to taste the subtle differences between the varieties.  Let us know which berry and which variety you like the best.  Our blackberries have no thorns and little ones as well as adults can reach both the blackberries and the blueberries easily. We hope you come out this berry season and taste the summertime in our blackberries and blueberries!

“They’re sweet and tasty!”

(yes, that is a direct quote from this happy customer)

 

 

Blooming Blackberries

Blackberry Blossoms 2016Our bees are busy in the blackberry rows.  The blackberries are in full bloom right now, and are beautiful (photo at right).  Hopefully we will have a great crop of blackberries like last year.  Our blueberries have finished blooming and have set fruit already.  You may not recall, but last year, our blueberry crop was very sparse due to something called Mummy Berry.  This spore causes the fruit to dry up and fall off the bush.  It apparently continues to be a problem year after year by overwintering in the ground around the bush and re-emerging in Spring. The suggested remedy is to spray, spray, spray… but we’re organic!…  After much research on what to do, we finally found some organic farms in the Northwest that had success with extremely heavy mulching in February.  Why February?  The theory is that by mulching overly heavy it creates a barrier and will keep last years spores from surfacing while the plant is blooming.  This is supposed to keep the spores from effecting this years crop. Blueberries bloom rather early in March, so February for mulching was exactly right.  So far, things are looking good.  I took a photo so you could see all the berries! (below, left)

Mother Nature hasn’t wasted any time bringing Spring to Georgia this year.  Lots of Springtime things have been happening, including honey bee swarms.  Bees, or rather, bee hives swarm to establish new hives.  What happens is that the hive creates a new queen, and the older queen along with many, many more leave to create a new colony somewhere.  Most of the swarms that we see here on the farm are from our own hives.  If we catch the swarm, then we have another colony with a queen.  If we don’t catch it, then we’ve just lost a whole bunch of bees.
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Blueberries 2016Spring Rain

RoofWith all this Spring rain, the roof on the barn decided it had enough and began to leak.  We certainly didn’t think we would have to deal with a roof right now, and who has time?  The weather forecast says we should have several dry days in a row, four and a half days exactly, so here we are tearing off the old roof.  The brown and silver tarps are supposed to catch all the old shingles and nails.  It mostly worked… luckily, we have a huge magnet that’s great to find stray nails.

Blackberry Cobbler

Sometimes you just need to make Blackberry Cobbler.  If someone you love requests a cobbler, that makes it even better.  The anticipation in the household of eating it is wonderful. The best cobbler begins early in the morning with picking the blackberries and hopefully there are helpers tagging along.  This is an important step because the love that goes into the dessert cannot be denied when you (and your helpers) have taken the time to hand-pick the berries!  Then, once back in the kitchen, everyone usually marvels at how many berries you picked.  The transformation process begins when the person in charge of the kitchen starts giving directions.  Turning blackberries into cobbler is an art form.  No two are ever identical.  Berries are different and if you are like me, you mix it until it “looks right”, which can be challenging to explain.   Different tastes appreciate different types of this dessert and there are several ways to achieve a great cobbler.  Some have a pie crust on top or in a lattice pattern or even mixed in.  Some have a biscuit type dough that is dolloped on top of the berries and baked in.  Some have batter on the bottom and berries on top, which eventually mix and bake together.  No matter what type you prefer, it’s usually delicious… and if not, then a little ice cream usually fixes any shortcomings.  Here is the recipe that I use, but I usually double it:

Blackberry Cobbler Recipe

CobblerIn an 8 inch square baking dish, mix:

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3 cups fresh blackberries
3 tablespoons white sugar
1/3 cup orange juice
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
…set this aside for now.
In a bowl, combine:
2/3 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1 pinch salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
In another bowl, mix together:
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup white sugar
1 egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Then mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients.  Drop this batter by rounded tablespoons on top of the berries that are already in your baking dish.  Bake in preheated 375 degree oven for 35 to 40 minutes, or until the topping is golden brown.  (I usually double this recipe.)  This is adapted from a blueberry cobbler recipe on allrecipes.com.

JulyPickJulyPick2Blackberry season is closed, but these wonderfully smart folks were able to squeeze in and pick berries before they were gone.  One person told us of a friend who just returned from Afghanistan.  This friend mentioned that during their deployment, they kept thinking about blackberry cobbler.  Of course she had to make him one and include the extra effort by hand picking the berries.  Love was definitely one of the ingredients in that cobbler!  What a great welcome home gift.

We are already busy pruning the plants and preparing for next season.  You should make a list of fun summer activities to remember and put RabbitEye Farm on it.  You’ll be glad you made a list right around the end of May 2016.  I’ll bet you will have some eager helpers when you mention “cobbler”!

Blackberry season starts right around the beginning of June and goes through the beginning of July, but it all depends on when Mother Nature thinks the time is right.  We’ll keep you posted.