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Instead of fishing Choke last week to avoid the seaweed in the surf, we went berry picking at Marble Falls. Burned $80 worth of gas on the round trip from Corpus that included stops in Stonewall, Fredericksburg and Boerne. Maybe some of you in the SA area should think about loading the wife and kids and taking a somewhat shorter trip around the Hill Country. Here's a website where you can find links for directions, opening times, prices, etc., and a recipe for what you collect. Hint: Go on a Thursday because they're closed Wednesdays, giving the berries two days to ripen. Go soon and there may also be strawberries, too.

http://www.sweetberryfarm.com/

Blackberry–Peach Pie

Blackberries 3 cups
Two large Stonewall peaches, sliced, but not skinned (approx. 1 cup)
Kraft Minute Tapioca 1/4 cup
Splenda or sugar 1 cup
Lemon juice 1 Tbsp.
Cinnamon powder 1/8 tsp.
Butter or margarine 1 Tbsp.
Pair of pie crusts

Combine berries, tapioca, sweetener, lemon juice and cinnamon in large bowl. Mix well and let stand 15 minutes. Line 9-inch pie plate with pie crust and fill with mixture from bowl. Place slices of peach on top of the mixture and top it all with dots of butter. Cover with top crust, seal and flute edge. Cut several slits in the middle of the crust. Bake in oven preheated to 400 degrees for 50 minutes.

This recipe just happened because after picking the berries at the Sweet Berry Farm in Marble Falls we made a stop in Stonewall for some early season cling peaches. On measuring out the berries into 4-cup batches for freezing, the last batch was a cup short, so, as the old Navy pharmacist’s mates used to say, it was “QSed” (Quantity Sufficient) with the peach slices.
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[Big John]

What are their prices Johnny? I live pretty close to these and it might be fun for Kaitlyn to pick some fruit.
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blackberries $2.75/lb; strawberries $2.25/lb. Check the website for the links to everything they have, including a maze for the kids, hayrides in the fall, and so on.
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[Big John]

Thanks Johnny!

BTW, love the new monkier and avatar.
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[ironmanstan]

save a slice for me.
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[omaka]

Nope, not me man. Where there's berries, there's Grizzlies

[Gib]

I grew up in the Marble Falls area some. We have berries in the garden. I do not know if they are "blackberries", but those things make the best cobbler out of all the fruits.

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Grizzlies aren't a problem in Texas, and not even black bears will bug anyone in Marble Falls.

Texas has both wild blackberries with rather erect canes and dewberries with canes that run along the ground or at best lean on fences. The dewberries ripen sooner and are often sweeter than wild blackberries. We used to gather dewberries after wet springs along the railroad between Ingleside and Gregory until the railroad dumped herbicide on them. I expect there are dewberries near Marble Falls as C.H.'s brother-in-law picks them around his home in Blanco. I also picked plenty along the railroad embankment back of TAMU at College Station when I was an undergraduate.

The worst tick infestations I ever found were in the berry patches along a powerline R-O-W near my apartment in Maryland. And some of the worst chiggers hung out in the dewberry bushes near the boatramp not far from the Seadrift office of TPWD.

The blackberry canes at Sweet Berry Farm in Marble Falls have been trained onto horizontal wires to make these stable and easiy accessed. I think that at times they have had at least four domesticated varieties, including a thornless one that the kids especially enjoyed. Last week we picked mainly the Brazos variety, although I also filled a couple of baskets with Kiowas, which ripens later than the Brazos and hadn't quite hit its stride. The Kiowas can be giants; sometimes 4 fruits laid end-to-end will cover the length of a dollar bill. Granny also let me pick a few from her private row of her Silvans, a much smaller variety. A Silvan tastes like a cross with a raspberry, but, besides being smaller and less prolific than the other varieties, it's soft and doesn't travel well. Still, I got about 6 cups that will alone and in combination with some Brazos berries nock the socks off any blackberry pies you ever tasted.

Sweet Berry Farms has loads of stink bugs, grasshoppers, beetles and an occasional wasp, but no chiggers or ticks. Take the shortest kids you have along to help pick, because the biggest blackberries hang very low. And try the Berry-Berry ice cream when you're done. The brain freeze is well worth it.
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[rabbit]

I used to pick wild goose berrys when i was a kid and my grandmother would make goose berry pies. Delicious. Also wild Blue Berrys when camping and mix with pancake batter. Fantastic
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