Food Acquisition

Last Saturday Andrew and I decided to go back to the farmers market to get some fresh vegetables.  We love the open air markets with all the freshly grown food, baked goods, and few crafts (food is the priority in this place!). Farmers markets that last into October are a huge perk of living in Indiana.  Not only is the food local and recently picked, but it it is a great price!  We got a handful of green and yellow zucchini, 3 HUGE cucumbers, and corn on the cob.  We saw lots of delicious looking berries, but they were $5-6 dollars for a small container (less great of a price).

So we decided after returning home from the farmers market to go to one of the local orchards and pick blueberries! We had tried out one orchard the previous weekend for our date night and loved having the berries to eat all week, and we figured we would try another place this time.  It is great fun getting anywhere here because we drive in the most beautiful places – lots of trees/forest areas mixed with fields of corn and soy beans.  I just need to start bringing our camera everywhere and stop relying on our itouch camera, which really can’t do the scenes justice.

These next two pictures were taking while driving at top speed (on dirt roads) and I just wanted to capture this plane that kept flying back and forth across the road. I mostly failed, but so valiant were my attempts that I’m including them anyway. The plane was soooooo cool! In the second picture it is a small dot on the far left.

When we are picking and eating blueberries I keep having the line from the Sound of Music going through my head when Marta (the second youngest) says, “We were…berry picking!”

Both times when we have gone to pick blueberries we haven’t been completely alone, but there is space between all of the berry pickers so it feels isolated.  We enjoy being outside and chatting about life. We picked 2 lbs (well actually 1.9 but they charged us for 2) and payed $1.80/lb – talk about a steal of a deal!!  Baby Jackson is almost 3lbs now, and it was kind of weird and exciting for us to realize that this ‘heavy’ bag of berries weighs less than our little girl.

Two weeks ago when we had picked 1 1/2 lbs of blueberries, we had great plans to make a blueberry cobbler.  Unfortunately, we enjoyed eating the fresh blueberries so much that we crossed that plan off of the agenda.  This time though we decided that we could sacrifice a few of our blueberries for this delicious experiment. Blueberry season has pretty much ended, but peaches are just around the corner and we can’t wait to go back to the orchard to pick those!