After a night of shockingly windy weather we have been out gathering wind falls before something else eats them, the usual suspects are the chickens who after a couple of pecks wander away to look at something else!
We are starting to pick blackberries now that all the plums have been processed and as we trundle along the hedgerows we can see that yet more berries are ripening earlier than usual.
Elderberry is ripe in many places, which is a couple of weeks earlier than last year, and rosehips are already a very deep red. It is important to wait for a good frost before picking hips in order to get the most Vitamin C from them.
