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Blackberries in September\/Photo credit: Debbie Malaidack<\/p><\/div>\n

Last week, my young daughter came home from a visit to my parents’\u00a0cottage near Walton, Nova Scotia<\/a>, with a mason jar full of fresh blackberry jelly. She and Granny had found wild blackberries along the path to the Walton Lighthouse, and those that they didn’t eat fresh, they jellied right away. Tonight\u00a0we ate the sweet, too-runny jelly as a dessert, on small pieces of buttered brioche. Through mouthfuls, my daughter proudly described the process of berry-picking and jam-making.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, when I dropped by for a visit to my friend’s house, I noticed two punnets of blackberries sitting on her kitchen counter. I grabbed two without asking and popped them in my mouth. They were perfectly ripe, glossy, black and juicy. My friend described how her family and two others had visited Graves Island <\/a>on the South shore to pick the berries. She had been visiting Graves Island for years, but hadn’t realised until now that the island is covered in blackberry patches! One of the families who joined the excursion was from Syria. What a pleasant, language-barrier-free activity to share with new neighbours. It made me wonder whether there are blackberries in the Middle East. (Does anyone know?)<\/p>\n

In England and Ireland, where my family is from, the blackberries are different. \u00a0In some places, like the Cotswolds<\/a>, brambles grow wild for miles and miles, lining country roads and paths. The berries \u00a0themselves are much larger, each fat pod bursting with black juice, as described in the poem\u00a0Blackberry Picking<\/em>, by Irish poet Seamus Heaney<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Blackberry picking\/Photo credit: Debbie Malaidack<\/p><\/div>\n

In Blackberry Picking<\/em>, Heaney describes his memories of blackberry picking in Ireland as a child. When I read it, I think of the miles of brambles we left behind in England, the strange hot, rainy few weeks of our Halifax August, my daughter’s happy purple hands as she devoured the toast and runny jelly tonight, and the delicate impermanency of the blackberries that were sitting on my friend’s kitchen counter on the South Shore of Nova Scotia. She asked what I thought she should do with them. “Eat them right away”, I said. Jam takes to long for young mothers to make (leave it to the grandmothers!), and there’s nothing like the taste of a bowl of fresh berries, sprinkled with white sugar or a little cream, to say farewell to summer.<\/p>\n

Blackberry Picking<\/h3>\n

By Seamus Heaney<\/em><\/p>\n

Late August, given heavy rain and sun
\nFor a full week, the blackberries would ripen.
\nAt first, just one, a glossy purple clot
\nAmong others, red, green, hard as a knot.
\nYou ate that first one and its flesh was sweet
\nLike thickened wine: summer’s blood was in it
\nLeaving stains upon the tongue and lust for
\nPicking. Then red ones inked up and that hunger
\nSent us out with milk cans, pea tins, jam-pots
\nWhere briars scratched and wet grass bleached our boots.
\nRound hayfields, cornfields and potato-drills
\nWe trekked and picked until the cans were full,
\nUntil the tinkling bottom had been covered
\nWith green ones, and on top big dark blobs burned
\nLike a plate of eyes. Our hands were peppered
\nWith thorn pricks, our palms sticky as Bluebeard’s.<\/p>\n

We hoarded the fresh berries in the byre.
\nBut when the bath was filled we found a fur,
\nA rat-grey fungus, glutting on our cache.
\nThe juice was stinking too. Once off the bush
\nThe fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour.
\nI always felt like crying. It wasn’t fair
\nThat all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot.
\nEach year I hoped they’d keep, knew they would not.<\/p>\n

Source: Death of a Naturalist (1966)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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