What A Discovery.

When we moved into our house, almost four years ago, there was a small section of our backyard that was overgrown and wooded. We left it in it’s natural state, partly because it was pretty to look at, and partly because it was full of so many briars we just never felt like tackling that project.

In previous years, we have worked a little at a time to “clean it up”, by removing some of the underbrush, but never really making any headway. This year we had planned to get in there and pull out all the briars. I am sooo glad we didn’t.

Today, while we were outside doing other things, we noticed the entire wooded area is inundated with blackberries and muscadine vines.

Below is a picture of the four cups of blackberries we picked in about 15 minutes. They have since been washed and are currently being made into homemade blackberry jam.

I can hardly wait for fall (aka muscadine season). Life in the sticks is a good thing.