The Blueberries are Running! The Blueberries are Running!

Okay, well, considering that we JUST planted our two little bushes this year and they were baby bushes as well… I’m actually very very surprised that we’re getting any berries this year, but well, the little guys are beautiful and ripe and ready to be harvested.

We donned our gear and headed out in the early dawn to labor at the blueberry patch… we were prepared for some hard work… fruit of our tender gardening care and water and good compost…. yes, we were ready to share of our harvest with the family and add to our ever growing poundage off the farm. (We’re up to 4.5 pounds so far!)

Yes, this is only our first harvest, we expect to double our harvest in a week or so, there is that much more fruit waiting and still a little green.

Ahem. Hee hee… well, you know first year fruit is always a little on the lean side. The fact that I’ve gotten about 15 strawberries off my patch is amazing… and look…. the raspberries are trying hard and I expect at least 3 or 4 raspberries as well!

Well, to celebrate, we whipped up a batch of pancakes… and since Jessy was the one that wanted blueberries in our yard…. she got the first and only pancake with the 5 little berries!

And then we added a skillet of fresh farm eggs and our local made pork sausage to compliment the celebration breakfast! Yum!

It’s amazing how good such a simple breakfast is after the rigors of harvest time at the Moby farm… aching muscles and the hot summer morning air on your body, the seconds of effort…. hahaha…. okay, it’s just a good breakfast!

Jessy even shared one bite of the precious little blueberries and man, they were tasty. Can’t wait for next year and maybe we’ll get like a whole handful off the little bushes!

I will admit, the berries are some of the best eating on the moby… so sweet and perfectly wonderful. Fresh picked and eaten fruit is just so good, it’s almost sinful. We’ve even picked a few ripe sweeties and eat them in the YARD… they don’t even make it to the house. Can’t wait for next year…