Juicy pickings at Blackberry Cottage offers plenty food for thought

WOODS inside and outside distinguish Blackberry Cottage.

Built 10 years ago, this brick-faced dormer home is set in a dense, private woodland off the Crosshaven/Carrigaline road in Co Cork, It’s a scheme of serviced sites called Brookwood.

And, as the house name suggests, its rear boundaries each summer are a jam factory in waiting: fruit-bearing brambles are on the encroaching move from farmland behind, literally food-to-go.