Frugal Fun in the Fruitlands: Week of 7/23/07
Posted by Lise on 23 Jul 2007 at 03:05 pm | Tagged as: frugality
* Lanni Orchards on Rte 13 in Lunenburg is offering pick-your-own raspberries and blueberries through the month of August. Raspberries are $2.50/lb and blueberries are $1.75/lb. My mom is coming to visit this weekend, and I fully intend to drag her there.
* The Yankee Brass Band will be playing “a selection of quicksteps, gallops, polkas, waltzes, overtures and medleys once popular in the mid-1800s” at Lunenburg High School on Thursday, July 26th at 7pm. Admission is free, but donations are accepted. See the Sentinel & Enterprise article here.
* Lunenburg Public Library is offering a free showing of the Russian film The Island (Ostrov) this Friday, July 27th at 8pm. IMDb describes it thus: “Somewhere in Northern Russia in a small Russian Orthodox monastery lives an unusual man whose bizarre conduct confuses his fellow monks, while others who visit the island believe that the man has the power to heal, exorcise demons and foretell the future,” and one reviewer describes it as “a movie that has the power to save souls.” Russian with English subtitles.
This does not, strictly speaking, have to do with local events, but I had to draw your attention to this Sentinel & Enterprise article: Finding the Perfect Yard Sale… Online. Apparently a Leominster resident had many of the same ideas I did about using the Internet to aid your yard sale search, and started up a yard sale database. Admittedly, there are lot of such databases out there these days, but I will add Yard-Sale-Search.com to my list, if only because it has a local focus. Go Mark!
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fruit picking is a great inexpensive way to fill a morning, or a day, depending on what you get and what you do with it. A few months back, Amanda and I went out to our local farm and got strawberries at $2/lb. Not only did we fill a morning with 15lbs. of strawberries, but also filled a good chunk of time making strawberry preserves; inexpensive, fun, and productive!
@Chad: How hard is it to make preserves? Does it require the whole equipment + hassle of canning? I have to admit that $2.50/lb is an unbeatable price for raspberries, and if I knew what to do with pounds of raspberries, I might be tempted to purchase more, since I do love them so much.
When you think about it, the real expense of fruits like raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, etc, is the travel cost. They can’t be picked when they’re unripe and then shipped, like bananas; they only come off the briars/bushes when they’re completely ripe. Therefore they’re fragile and don’t travel well, which is why you end up paying so much for a pint of them in store.