You-pick blueberries
 

The kid in heaven. There are several blueberry farms just North of Olympia, WA. Nothing quite like doing the bear-hunter/gatherer thing of pigging out on blueberries in season. Cleansing if you take my meaning. The first photo is from a self-touted organic farm - $2.50 a lb. The second is from a larger farm, not really large, they use some rhododendron fertilizer in the spring but do not use pesticides - $1.50 a lb. Berries should last for a week or two more. Consult your travel agent.

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Yum!

I'm telling you, an instant before you pop them into your mouth, those berries were plugged into the solar grid, being fed in preparation for their journey into my tummy.

Yall sure have a late season, Our topped out June this year. We had a very poor crop because of a hard freeze after the blooms started.

Ours are all wild, tiny and sour here...which are delicious! Local orchards have juicy blueberries like you pictured and they're fantastic. I do like sour semi dry berries (think craisins). There's nothing quite like chomping into fresh fruit warm from the sun off the vine though.

My yard abundantly grows strawberries raspberries and blackberries out of seemingly nowhere...but the assorted nocturnal feeders enjoy most of them. Along with our tomatoes.

Some great wine up in WA too!

Abundant wild blackberries along the return ditch and down along the creek this year. All the skunks and raccoons have been pooping solid blue for about two months. They aren't sweet but that's easy to fix.
Here in the desert, those old thick brambles are a favorite buzzworm hangout. They'll rattle at you but are in there so deep if you're picking in the heat of the day they can't strike.

Can't strike why, please?

Yeah, the season gets further back the further north you go. Not sure what it's like in Canada. Very little of that action in California, U-pick anyway. A few years ago I drove north with a friend from Santa Barbara up to San Luis Obispo and saw a sign on the east side of the highway for U-pick, I forget if they had a date on it, obviously there weren't any berries then. Would love to have a reason to be going by at the right time.

It's wild how different bushes will have different flavors right next to each other. Not surprising I guess but fun. Sometimes the big ones are a bit too juicy, a bit light on flavor. I like the medium sized sort, sometimes they'll have an unusual flavor that's hard to describe but very fetching.

The berries in the second pic above were thick and numerous in large part because the lower half of the bush/bushes had been taken over by blackberries. At that farm there's a sort of hedge separating two fields, the hedge is composed of blueberry bushes taken over by blackberry bushes. Most people avoid plants with blackberries interwoven, I quickly saw that I could pick large amounts of primo blueberries in the upper reaches w/o running afoul of any thorns, or very many anyway.

My son and I vacationed in Nova Scotia in August in the early 1980s. During our breakfast, the restaurant's bakers (local women who lived nearby) brought in the best looking blueberry pies I have ever seen. I asked for pieces of the pie, but the owner refused to cut them as they were still hot and runny and not ready. We returned later in the day for some of the best pie I have ever eaten.

I like to make fresh berry pies. Blueberry mostly. I use brown sugar instead of white for a bit more flavor. Yummmmmm!