Blackberry jam

A friend was nice enough to invite us over for a morning of blackberry picking.  We picked.. and picked... and picked.

And made 7 lovely jars of blackberry jam :)

Dandelion Jelly

We picked oodles of dandelion flowers and made this beautiful jelly. We loosely followed this recipe. The natural color is lovely and it tastes very similar to honey. Lots of work, but sooo good! The oldest two girls have already picked me another quart of blossoms to make another batch!

Dandelion Coffee

DD14 has been using her foraging book she got for her birthday and tried her hand at making Dandelion coffee. It came our really well, and tastes quite nice. It does have a bit of lingering bitter aftertaste though. Maybe we can work around that somehow.