Blueberry Pickin'

I can't believe this is my first blog post about blueberry picking. We have gone as a family for the past couple of years, and in fact, it was something that Mark and I did before kids. I don't know if we would have started this on our own, but our good friend, Kendra, her grandparents had a pick your own blueberry farm called DeZavala Vineyards. It is between Dallas, Houston, and Austin. Once a year, she would have a blueberry picking weekend where she invited her friends to pick blueberries. If you went, you not only got blueberries, but you got to stay for a yummy lunch, and had some relaxing porch time. It was awesome. We usually ended up with 2 gallon freezer bags of blueberries, sometimes blackberries and raspberries, and these would last for about a year. After moving to SC, we wanted to go, but wasn't sure where. Well, one night we were watching Good Eats with Alton Brown and he was picking blueberries at Happy Berry Farm in Six Mile, SC. That has been our berry farm of choice ever since.



James was really excited. He remembered picking (and eating) last year. Andy was just happy to be walking this year.



Weather was good. We got there a little after 9:30. A lot of times it is really crowded. Like tour bus parking only crowded, but look how pretty it is!



Oh, and there is a bear:



After getting baskets and our picking assigments, we were off:



James did great! Although, he only had four berries for the longest time.



Andy did really well. He stayed a picked at one spot for like 5 minutes. James was a little destressed that Andy got a lot of green ones, but what can you do.



Turns out, Andy was a bucket dumper. The boys had to start over a few times.



It didn't take long before Andy lost interest and found a stick:



Andy and I headed back to the house, but I took this picture of Mark still picking.



Another bear picture. At least I am in this one!



A picture of our haul. We ended up with a little over 3 pounds. That is good with our 2 kids!