This is what 49 pounds of fruit looks like. My billy and I spent his day off from work picking 19 pounds of sweet cherries (a late-breaking discovery at Rowand Farms! Open Sunday!), 10 pounds of blueberries, and 20 pounds of peaches. Stay tuned next week for posts on peach sherbert, peach jam, cherry jam, blueberry lime jam, peach chutney, dehydrated cherries, freezing options for cherries and berries, and who knows what else.
Rowand doesn’t have a Web site, but it’s near Glassboro, New Jersey. Blueberries and peaches are from the ever-dependable Mood’s. All were a fabulous deal: $1.50/lb for cherries, $1.15/lb for blueberries, and $0.85/lb for peaches. Happy picking!
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