What is it?

We grow one type of blackberry and Logan berries. The blackberry variety we grow is called the Doyle Thornless blackberry. It is completely thornless and puts out an abundance of blackberries on the canes (branches) from the year prior. We expect the 2027 season harvest to be small, but grow as the vines get more established.

Logan berries are a cross between a blackberry and a raspberry. We are new to growing this variety of berry, but we have tasted a few of the berries and find them a little more tangy than the blackberry…leaning a little toward the raspberry flavor. Their ripe color is a dark purple, not the full black of blackberries. They also are completely thornless and bear fruit on the prior years growth. We expect the 2027 season harvest to be small, but grow as the vines get more established.

When picking blackberries, or Logan berries, you only want to pick the ones that are fully black or dark purple and plump. Both berries start green, then turn raspberry colored as they ripen, finally ending up fully black or dark purple when they’re ready to pick. Unripe berries will be hard and sour. Both types of berries when fully ripe will slip easily from the vines. These are the ones to look for!

Blackberries are loaded with Vitamin C, antioxidants, and fiber! They are truly a super food!

How do I clean and store it?

If it was hot outside while you were picking, keep the plastic bag with your berries open to vent some of the heat on the way home - don’t tie the bag closed. When you get home, gently dump them into a bowl and submerge them in cool tap water for about 5 minutes. Then give them a gentle swish with your hands, drain, and spread them on a towel to dry on the counter. Once they’re fully dry, store them in a container with the lid slightly askew in the fridge.

If you’d like to freeze your berries, do all of the preceding steps and get them cold in the fridge first. When they’re nice and cold, spread them out on a cookie sheet and put them in the freezer. Once frozen, you can pour them into a zip top bag and take out just a few or a bunch at a time!

How do I cook it?

You can just eat’m right out of hand! If you want to get more creative than that:

• Sprinkle them on Greek yogurt with slivered almonds for breakfast

• Freeze and drop them into sparkling wine

• Betty Crocker’s Blackberry Cobbler

“Oh no, we picked 8 pounds of blackberries”:

Freezing them with the method above works great to keep you in blackberries all winter long.

• Blackberry Freezer Jam

• If you want to bust out the water bath canner:

  • Old Fashioned Blackberry Jam

  • Blackberry Pie Filling - Follow the directions exactly as they tell you to for the cherry pie filling! This turned out excellent for us last year.

  • This is the Cook’s Country pie dough I make to use with the canned filling.