Picking blackcurrants

July is always blackcurrant season.

We were recently introduced by our friend Dawn at Preserves at No 14 to the lovely folk at Grange Farm Soft Fruits near Wolvey.

What a fabulous soft fruit farm. Beautiful fruit, plentiful and delicious. Karen who runs the fruit farm, makes sure that the fruit trees and bushes are kept free of weeds, brambles and stingers. The strawberries are at waist height so they are accessible to everyone.

We’ve been three times this week and we’ve picked blackcurrants, redcurrants and raspberries. They are all delicious. Some of the blackcurrants didn’t make it into our liqueurs. They were sidelined to a batch of blackcurrant jam for us at home - my absolute favourite.

Grange Farm has been a fantastic discovery and we’ll definitely be back.