On Monday, we went out to the wonderful, calm, restorative Sauvie Island Farms with the lady Berkley for the last of the season's strawberries.
Ashley blogged a couple days back about her trip out there...and I think they brought something like 20 pounds of strawberries home because the fields were so bountiful just a few weeks ago!
We had to peek under leaves and crouch and search for our berries, but the last of the harvest were so sweet and just perfect (if a little shrimpy). They were like little jewels.
But we persevered, and eventually Josiah, Lu and I had each collected a respectable harvest.
Not too shabby!
We took home enough to have some for freezing (future smoothies), jam-making, and just gobbling up.
We also took home a few enormous heads of spinach.
I'm including my feet (also enormous) for scale:
Such a good, chilly, Portland afternoon...and then we had delicious spinach and strawberries, and a day later, jam!
I like tart, not-too-sweet jam, and it ended up just right on that front. That's one of my favorite things about making things for yourself - you can tailor whatever it is to your exact persnickety tastes.
Happy Friday!
