Berries, and peaches, and corn -- oh my!

We're picking wild blackberries at home today, along a ridge in the yard. We'd finish one patch, turn around, and -- I swear -- the almost-ripe berries in the patch we'd already picked had ripened in that short time. Yup, it's been that HOT lately. We've also been picking berries daily from our small blueberry patch (yup -- those bushes are producing even though we planted them this spring.) It's been so warm that we're finding berries turned to "raisins" on the bush the next day. Cannot keep up. Help! :-)

To supplement the fruit we grow at home, we've also been visiting local farmstands, because all sorts of wonderful fruit and veggies are now available. I wrote at my other blog about what my friends and I are finding now at Hudson Valley farmstands.