Pie!!! (It says so, right there on the homemade crust!) Annie and Adam flew all the way out to Portland from the Big Apple just to help us pick Big Blackberries. That was so nice of them, so we made sure to bake 2 pies while they were here.
Of course we didn't grow the blackberries (see below). But we did pick them from around the garden; buckets and buckets of them in the rain.
Nerdy footnote: its considered poor form to grow some strains of blackberries, as Rubus armeniacus is a naturalized weed. If you use your google, you'll see that there are even companies that rent out goats to eat the invasive brambles.
Second footnote: Oregon is the largest commercial producer of blackberries in the whole wide world, producing about 42,000,000 pounds per year!
Final footnote: Marionberries are actually a cultivar of blackberries, named for Marion County, OR. It was crossed from the Chehalem and Olallie strains. And the Olallie is half youngberry and half loganberry. The loganberry in turn is the illegitimate offspring of a red raspberry and a blackberry, after those two were introduced by James Logan, and started dating down in a California garden around 1880. (Seriously, you can look all this stuff up online!)
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