Friday Friday everybody happy?? I certainly am.  Today I took the kids to my favorite organic blueberry farm.  Pleasant Hill Farm  This farm is a little slice of heaven in a busy life.  It is run by a wonderful older couple who are Mennonites.  They live a very simple life without many of the luxuries of modern society and it always makes me think about what really makes us happy and fulfilled.  Being outside, surrounded by the beauty of nature and my kids, having hours ahead of us to wander, pick, sit and talk, and eat amazing fruit right from the land, I feel as content as possible.  Like there is no place I would rather be.  And all of that without material possessions.

Pleasant Hill Farm has acres upon acres of beautiful fat sweet organic blueberries as well as apple orchards, peach trees and raspberry gardens-all untouched by harmful pesticides and herbicides and surrounded by huge Michigan forests.

I love taking my children to places where they can connect with the earth and our food sources.  They also understand where and how food is grown seasonally and the benefit of organic produce.  They pop plump little blueberry after blueberry into their mouths while breathing fresh air and interacting with creation.  What an amazing experience!

 

The weather was nice –not too hot, slightly overcast with the sun peeking out now and then.  We picked for about an hour, took a break under a little shade tree and then picked for another half hour or so.  We will return in the fall to gather apples and peaches.  Some years they will let the kids pick in their own personal vegetable garden when they have too much produce.  The kids get to harvest green beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, raspberries and peppers.  Today we left with 12 pounds of organic blue blueberries.  I’d love to make a pie but I almost feel bad altering these little gems in any way.  Eating them by the handful is definitely the best!