Tuesday, July 15, 2008

[stop press] record berry season in iceland


Important news just in from Iceland Review:

It seems as if blueberries and crowberries will ripen unusually early in Iceland this year due to a warm May. The berry season normally begins in late August, but berry pickers have already spotted black and blue berries in some places this year.

“One week ago people were already eating crowberries and said they were good,” physician and berry-picking enthusiast Sveinn RĂșnar Hauksson told Morgunbladid, adding that blueberries have also begin to ripen, especially in north Iceland.

The berry season ends in September as soon as the temperature drops below freezing point at night. “Now it looks as if we will have a long berry-picking season which begins about two weeks earlier than in the average summer,” Hauksson said.


Click here to watch an audio slideshow about berry-picking. Don't pass it by!

5 comments:

  1. And baby penguins are freezing because of rainstorms in Antarctica:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1034590/The-baby-Antarctic-penguins-frozen-death-freak-rain-storms.html

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  2. One of my favourite things to do when I was wee was to go down the berries.

    It was great fun...probably ate more than I picked though.

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  3. No comment about global warming?
    Are you acquiring the Italian obsession with food now?

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