An Insanely Good Deal on PYO Organic Blueberries

We discovered Inkwell Farm in Epping NH a couple years ago in Epping, NH.  They have roughly 300 organic berry bushes in the back yard of their 1700’s era farmhouse.   Pull into the driveway and self serve supplies await you in the screen house:  empty milk gallons with bags, a scale, money and change box.

And the price?   $1.95 per pound!  For a price comparison, I bought local (non organic) blueberries at the grocery store on Sunday for $3.99 for 11 oz (roughly $5.80 per lb).  So, 13 lbs of blueberries in our bags (and an untold amount in our belly’s) we headed out after putting $26 in the money box.  Heaven!

On the way back to the highway we stopped at Goody Cole's in Brentwood for some amazing BBQ!  We got a combo plate “to go” with brisket, pork, kielbasa, potato salad and cornbread.  Our open windows wafted the smell all the way home.  If you like BBQ give them a try but for now it’s back to blueberries.

Many of the berries I froze the day we picked them (wash and air dry, freeze in a single layer on a cookie sheet and then store in a zip top freezer bag with air removed) but just as many were eaten by the handful and made into wonderful concoctions. 

Here is what 13 lbs of blueberries look like and what I made with them:

• Blueberry Crumble Bars
• Pork loin with blueberry salsa, blueberry bread pudding and blueberry mojitos
• Blueberry Cinnamon Rolls

Hopefully they'll still be picking in two weeks so we can get some more for jam.  We'll meet you there on Saturday morning and then swing through Goody Cole's for lunch on the way home.