You might be aware that I did a lot of gaming, mainly Witcher 3 on my holiday, but I wasn't laying on my chair the whole holiday, no, not all.
I collected meself some berries!
This was the last batch I picked for now – full bucket! – stored into the freezer for later use.
There's a proverb in Finnish that "[insert an act] is as easy as collecting berries", but let me tell you, if you want to gather any substantial amount of them, you'll have to spend hours crouching on the ground. With bilberries my picking rate is about a 1 liter per hour (the bucket above is 5 liters, I think, and it took 5 hours to fill) and that is now when the bilberries are big. I wouldn't say I'm the fastest but I think I'm decently nifty with the picking by now.
A lot of people I see bend their back instead their legs while picking things up, but I don't think that's the ideal way – look at the children, they always squat when they pick something up from the ground. We silly adults just become "civilized" and stop crouching on the ground when we grow up, except slavs, they don't care. Don't be too civilized, be like slav.
You might feel it on your legs first, but that's just because you have most likely sat most of your life on chair without doing anything with your legs most of the day. It'll get easier, and your back will thank you, mine does at least – even though it still gets its own share of the work. Your legs will get a good workout too, trust me, and they'll gain mobility!
Some of the blueberries were jammed!
One day me and my dad went to a farm nearby to collect some strawberries. Good thing he got me with him because I picked way more than him!
These (and my dad's smaller batch) went into the freezer also, except for the few eaten right away as a reward.
The farm is in a peculiar location, just 2 kilometers away from the Helsinki-Vantaa airport, so frequently there are big planes making an approaching flight just over the strawberry fields to land to the airport.
That must be only few dozen meters from the ground.
I found some raspberries too in the woods which are also getting done by now. Mostly they are just a treat of an occasion because they aren't as common as bilberries.
