Their cows like to hang in this barn, and there is lots of manure to prove it.
Check out this totally unscientific discovery I made. Compare the berry picked near the manure (left) vs. a berry from elsewhere in the patch (right).
If you have never tried composted cow manure on your crops, you may want to start!
Later that day we made a large batch of blackberry jam plus this delicious blackberry crumble.
This recipe is great for anyone too lazy to make pie.
Preheat oven to 375F. Crumble up some butter, flour, and sugar in a bowl until you have a nice doughy crumble. But don't make it into a ball. Salt to taste.
Next, fill a pie pan with berries and add sugar to them, whatever amount you think will make it dessert-like. Spread crumble on top. Bake for 25 minutes or until golden.
Another cool trick I learned a la Terry Noonkester: to freeze berries, put them on a cookie sheet, then put them in the freezer on the sheet.
Once they're frozen, take them off the cookie sheet, put them in freezer bags, then put them back in the freezer. You will have nice whole frozen berries to cook with rather than a frozen berry brick.
Thanks, Terry!
