Sugar, honey, honey...

Inspired by Rare Lesser Spotted's post. He mentioned berry picking :)

Berries? Fruit? Aaargh! We live on a nondescript council estate, where they actually found a bit of hill they found they couldn't build on, known locally for some reason lost in time as 'Maggies Field'.

After a bit of a battle, we (I) were able to get it managed by the seemingly unlikely combo of the WildLife Trust and the Freegans movement. Why the freegans? Foraging. Using what you have around you to keep costs down. They're intertwined.

Besides. They look alike :) Combat trousers with LOTS of pockets, Camouflage maybe? Anyways, they've between them planted hundreds of windflowers on something the local council tried - and failed to turn into a skate-park. More, we encouraged people to grow fruit trees.

However, the local teens (10-15) year olds have found an ancient Rowan Berry tree, in a secret place that they use as a 'den'. (Do you remember doing that?)

Word has got around I do jam. As RLS has said, berries are out early, and I have 3 Kg of Rowan berries, 5Kg of blackberries, and 10kg of plums to turn into jam and wine. Darn, that's a heck of a lot of sugar......