{"id":2314,"date":"2015-09-14T13:49:28","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T20:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reedreslife\/?p=2314"},"modified":"2015-09-14T13:49:28","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T20:49:28","slug":"blackberry-fields-forever-part-one-how-we-came-into-possession-of-thirty-pounds-of-blackberries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reedreslife\/2015\/09\/14\/blackberry-fields-forever-part-one-how-we-came-into-possession-of-thirty-pounds-of-blackberries\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackberry Fields Forever Part One: How we came into possession of thirty pounds of Blackberries."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a lovely, windy Saturday morning right at the end of orientation week, a crew\u00a0of adventurous and freshly oriented students from Old Dorm Block embarked on a quest that turned out to be quite, well, fruitful.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reedreslife\/files\/2015\/09\/unnamed-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2315\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reedreslife\/files\/2015\/09\/unnamed-3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"unnamed-3\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reedreslife\/files\/2015\/09\/unnamed-3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/reedreslife\/files\/2015\/09\/unnamed-3.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Their quest took them far from their beautiful old brick home at the heart\u00a0of Reed&#8217;s campus all the way to Sauvie Island, an idyllic expanse of every type of U-Pick farm imaginable: apples, flowers, pumpkins, christmas trees, and, of course, berries. \u00a0Now, the date of this quest happened to be right smack in the middle of Blackberry Season. \u00a0And oh, what a season it was. \u00a0After arriving safely at Sauvie Island Farms thanks to\u00a0the expertise of a capable\u00a0van driver&#8211;(thanks Aaron!)&#8211;our band of heroes\u00a0was\u00a0bowled over\u00a0by the\u00a0bounty of bushes bursting with ripe blackberries awaiting them. \u00a0The sheer number of blackberries present at every turn may have overwhelmed some less-seasoned adventurers, \u00a0but not our brave ODB residents. \u00a0In less than an hour of furious picking (and maybe little bit of snacking), these berry bosses had three overflowing boxes of\u00a0the antioxidant-packed and delicious little fruits.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Three boxes! \u00a0When taken in comparison to the thousands of blackberries left still ripening on the bushes at Sauvie Island Farms, three boxes may not have seemed like much. \u00a0But when our heroes lugged these three boxes (thirty pounds!) of blackberries home to discover that they filled an entire freezer compartment and then some, they wondered:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&#8220;Have we picked off more than we can chew?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Stay tuned for part two to see\u00a0the ingenious way our brave protagonists made use of thirty pounds of frozen blackberries!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a lovely, windy Saturday morning right at the end of orientation week, a crew\u00a0of adventurous and freshly oriented students from Old Dorm Block embarked on a quest that turned out to be quite, well, fruitful. 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