I am the lucky owner of a 20m blackberry hedge. Last years yield was about 15kg and thus year looks to be the same.

But here’s the thing, 15kg is far too much to make jam of, so last year I experimented with wine. I got this kit https://brew2bottle.co.uk/products/better-brew-hedgerow-wine-kit-23l and just followed the instructions. And it was a great success, everyone who’s tasted it have even been to nice to say it was bad or have actually complimented the wine. But I still have half the wine left and now it’s time for 2023s harvest.

I’m still considering wine, jam and some juice but… What would you do with a lot of blackberries?

  • meyotch@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Some jam, some syrup and all the other various preserves. Also you could try making fruit leather.

    You have a good setup for producing something to sell at a farmers market. Check your local rules on selling ‘cottage foods’. Certain jurisdictions around the world allow certain types of food to be made and sold without running afoul of regulations.

    • BigDanishGuyOP
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      1 year ago

      I’d really like to take it to a farmers market, but we don’t seem to have those in my area. It’s rural, so if you have something you want to sell you just throw up a sign by the road about it. I don’t want strangers in my yard, besides Danish regulations are even more anal than the German ones, almost as bad as the Swedish and Norwegian regs.

      We’ve made fruit leather other years from plums, maybe I should try it with the berries for my kids lunches and such.

      • meyotch@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        1 year ago

        The main advantage of leather is it takes a huge quantity of fruit to make a batch.

        Dang, the more you describe your setup, the more I envy the situation. Too many blackberries is an amazing problem to have!

        I get it with not wanting to run a farm stand. One of my farm jobs as a kid was to watch the driveway and run out to sell people our greenhouse tomatoes and cucumbers, so I know what a hassle that can be. Some people are just oblivious to personal boundaries.

        We would get to the point with our harvests that we would have piles of green tomatoes and meter-long woody cucumbers. Turns out they make excellent sporting equipment for a game of vegetarian baseball.