Berries are waiting and ready to be picked for autumn

The gift of late summer — an abundance of hedgerow food — is just ripe and waiting to be plundered.

You have to look and taste for yourself to see what’s ready, blackberries are ripe for the picking in sunny spots, pick some now and come back in a week or two for the ones that aren’t ready yet.

You can make jam or cobbler, or try out my homemade fermented fizzy blackberry soda pop.