Blackberry Picking Competition!
We are kicking off our third blackberry picking competition! This year the prize is a one-of-a-kind paper mache trophy shaped in the like of these invasive fruits made by a local island artist. This artwork can be proudly displayed until it will be passed on to the next champion year after year. Pictures soon to come!
What do you do with the blackberries???
We freeze-dry these blackberries and distribute them through our partner island non-profits such as The Oasis Program. Freeze dried fruit is our most popular item. It is easy, tasty, and ready to eat. Freeze-dried food preserves almost all the nutritional content of food and can be shelf stable for many many years!
How it works:
pick blackberries! there are so many! they are everywhere!!!
place blackberries in gallon sized ziplock labeled with your name and phone number
Drop off your blackberries at the market on Saturday OR coordinate with Terah to drop off with a board member terah@vigavashon.org
We will weigh the blackberries and announce the winner the week after labor day!
“Blackberries. Nothing, not mushrooms, not ferns, not moss, not melancholy, nothing grew more vigorously, more intractably in the Puget Sound rains than blackberries. Homeowners dug and chopped, and still they came. Park attendants with flame throwers held them off at the gates. In the wet months, blackberries spread so wildly, so rapidly that dogs and small children were sometimes engulfed and never heard from again. In the peak of the season, even adults dared not go berry picking without a military escort.” - Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker