Blue-Berry

This weekend we joined LOTS of other embassy families and headed out to pick blueberries. This is such a special opportunity and we didn’t dare miss it.

Several years ago, the US Embassy helped an American doctor to start an American blueberry farm here in Poland. Polish blueberries are very small and tasty, however American blueberries, fresh off the tree, are AMAZING and have become very popular in Poland. As a special thank you to the Embassy for its assistance, we are the only group given the privilege of heading out to the farm to pick blueberries.

Who says no to that?!?

So we packed our bottled water, bug spray, and baskets and headed south out of Warsaw. It is much like heading south in the US. Building get sparser and the patches of trees become denser. We even had to drive in the other lane, more than once, to pass tractors driving 10 MPH down the road. As we got closer, the landscape opened up to farmland. We saw several old Polish men out working their land, which is probably what they have done every Saturday since they were boys.

When we finally arrived, there were rows and rows of blueberry bushes FULL of berries.

After several hours picking we had picked 2.9 kilos (6.4 pounds) and they charged us 35 sloty ($11.02). AMAZING

Now we are freezing them on a baking sheet to keep them from mushing when they defrost and putting them in snack-size bags so the girls can grab blueberry snack bags all year long.

I think this is going to be a great Polish tradition for us!