Raspberry Jamming 2012

From the City...
Well it's that time of year again, our annual raspberry jamming weekend.  This year we harvested and jammed all in the same day.  Our third year and we seemed to have a nice flow about us, that and Laura came long to help...you remember Laura right??? the other half of the HKS...

We picked 25 quarts from Sweet Scent Farms in Lindsay and made about 20 various sized jars. We also froze about 12 cups of berries for jamming in the winter, which is just straight up genius! Kudos to Meg W. for that one.

Here's some pics:

Ripe and ready for the pickin'.

There's a whole team of us out there; 5 adults, 3 kids and 3 toddlers! 

We can now breath a collective sigh of relief because the raspberry jam shelf is stocked again.

 ....and in other exciting news, we found this deluxe scrabble board on the street!  It smells a bit like your grandma's rec room, it has a swiveling base and little grooves to keep your letters in place, which is handy when your son enjoys whipping bits of play doh at it.

...ah yes, Theo loves playdoh. 

-amelia

Jam, Jam, Jam and more Jam.

From the City...

Here are some pics from our annual raspberry picking and jamming day.  We picked 20 quarts of raspberries in about 2 hrs from Sweet Scent Farm and then spent EIGHT hours jamming the hell out out of them.  That equals over 30 jars of jam and one cute family pic courtesy of my lovely sister in law.    

It's a pretty good life.   

If anyone needs me, I'll be eating raspberry toast for the next six months.  

ab

Picture This: Raspberry Jam

From the City (temporarily in a small town)...

Road tripping to the berry patch

Three hours of picking equals...

...20 quarts of raspberries.

Our Simple Ingredients:

raspberries

sugar

wash berries

Mash berries

Cook 'em down

Filling our sterilized jars

Top 'em

Hot water process for 15 minutes

Done.