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Originally Posted by Sly
Where are the berries?
One thing I like about markets in the country is all of the bizarre berries you come across. My grandma used to make various berry tarts and pies from their farm woodland, berries that most people have never heard of. Great stuff.
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dunno but there are all kinds of berries grown there - currants, strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, raspberries - they aren't the huge size of the California grown ones, but are much sweeter and tastier. whatever breeding/genetic manipulation is going on in big fruit farming it's producing huge beautiful looking fruit but the taste is lacking. strawberries now come as big as plums, never saw them until maybe the last 25 years.
the season is very short, cherries come and go in a few weeks.
Niagara is now a big wine making area, there were vineyards when i was a kid but nothing like there is now - it's a pretty well respected wine area internationally.