tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27945607.post5141187480273503106..comments2024-01-12T18:41:52.560-05:00Comments on Dave's Cupboard: Berry Picking at Kuras Farms in West Suffield CTDavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17866627809585257034noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27945607.post-39682322537388969242012-07-24T19:53:36.885-04:002012-07-24T19:53:36.885-04:00I am SO jealous. I love blackberries but they don&...I am SO jealous. I love blackberries but they don't seem to grow well here. Though mulberries grow like weeds and so do the tiny super flavourful wild strawberries.MsMurderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04659553852179113027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27945607.post-6749926780766696632012-07-23T12:44:33.311-04:002012-07-23T12:44:33.311-04:00I remember killing a lot of blackberry bushes in c...I remember killing a lot of blackberry bushes in central Louisiana as a teenager. Now that they cost roughly $6 a pint at the local grocery store in south Arizona, I feel bad for killing them. <br /><br />It was my job though. I worked for a lot of cattle farmers throughout high school. One of my jobs was to spray herbicide along fences. Grass and bushes would degrade the fencing over time, and it would bring cows to the fences. When the cows lean on the fences to get to the grass and bushes on the other side, they would break them. So it was best just to kill all the plants on the fence line. <br /><br />I remember times that I would eat probably pounds of blackberries in a day. I would come up on a big thicket of bushes in the middle of the woods and fill my t-shirt with wild berries. Then whatever I couldn’t hold got sprayed with poison. By the time I finished eating that bunch, I’d come up on some more bushes for a refill. <br /><br />I’m not too worried about them though. It seemed like every year new bushes grew where the old ones were. I like to believe that there is another teenager back home enjoying all the fresh wild blackberries he can handle, just before murdering the plant.Icecycle66https://www.blogger.com/profile/03439842754083206287noreply@blogger.com