Strawberry season is passing by quite quickly in my area (has it passed? It may even be over already . . .), but luckily we managed to do some serious damage on the strawberry front. We’ve consumed and/or put up over ten pounds in the past two weeks - about 6 pints went into the freezer in a simple syrup, two more pints became strawberry freezer jam, and I also did one pint of this really easy fresh jam.

On Friday I’ll talk a bit more about how we enjoyed the rest of them for the From Dirt To Dinner Carnival. We’re featuring BERRIES this week, any berries that happen to be in season in your area. In general, berries seem to have such short seasons, maybe because everyone gobbles them up so quickly. But if you have happened upon any local berries lately, I hope you’ll stop by and share what you did with them.

Also, I wanted to point out that the main info page for From Dirt To Dinner, the page that the button links to and the page that I am linking to every time I write, “From Dirt To Dinner,” has a schedule down at the bottom that will tell you what is coming up. We’ve planned it out through the end of August so that people who want to participate can see ahead of time what they should be searching out in their markets - hopefully we’ve done a good job and have estimated appropriately when each ingredient will be in season for most areas.

See?

BERRIES - STRAWBERRIES/GOOSEBERRIES/RASPBERRIES/BLUEBERRIES - June 18th

BEETS - July 2nd

CABBAGE - July 16th

SUMMER SQUASH/ZUCCHINI - July 30th

TOMATOES - August 13th

CORN - August 27th