I am getting 1 gallon of black berries each morning and this morning, only a few hours after picking, the berries are turning fast......so now is the time for the big fresh juicy black berries....peaches have been ripe for 2 weeks, now the berries......yum.
I am making and actually have been making fruit extracts like herbal extracts, but that never was a popular idea with people....too bazzar for them I guess...but in theory, may be the greatest supplement on the planet for the normal civilzed human....anyway, that is what 90% of the black berries are going into use for and I basically pick first thing in the morning and have them in process the very same hour picked.....fresh as fresh can get, but will be better 12 years from now!!!
Have not gotten many berries around here this year. alot of the plants turned yellow, and wilted due to lack of rain. What berries there are, they are very small and not much flesh all seed. I use to pick them by the hand fulls when I walk my dog down the road. Everyone would look at me like I was crazy for eating the berries because they didn't come from the store...LOL.