Tag: havest

September 26th – There’s still a bountiful crop of elderberries for the taking out in the hedgerows, thickets and copses of the area. I spent a couple of hours on Sunday afternoon getting very red fingers collecting for a family winemaker.

Elderberries make a gorgeously dark, potent wine that in the the hands of a skilled winemaker can be way better than any shop-bought red wine.

One of the benefits of autumn!

August 26th – Cycling down through Stoneywell, near Farewell, I stopped to look at an unharvested field of wheat. The grain was ripe, and the ears starting to blacken. I wondered if the crop had been abandoned, then heard the noise of a combine harvester in the next field. I guess it all grinds to flour the same…