We picked 10 pounds of blueberries yesterday and have plans for another visit to stock our freezer at a u-pick farm in Limerick. At $1.35/pound, picking your own is a real bargain.

L. loves frozen blueberries (she calls them little popsicles) and eats them year-round. And we all love blueberry muffins and cobbler so it's always been worth the effort to pick as much as we can in August and September.

Since Fino was home early from work yesterday, we dragged him along to help. He thought the sun was too hot so he caught some shade between the blueberry bushes.

Some blueberry fans prefer the wild blueberries but we have found picking the low bush fruit is hard on the back because we don't have a harvest rake. And although we have a lot of wild berries in our backyard and pick them regularly (although the chickens eat a lot before we can get to all the ripe ones), we rely on the cultivated berries at the u-pick farm to stockpile.

If you've never been blueberry picking, bring containers with handles for your little ones to use. Beach pails and cookie tins work great and prevent some of the spilling accidents that happen while picking with kids.

Blueberry picking season runs through the end of September at u-pick farm around the state.

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