What do blueberries and shortbread cookies have to do with each other, you might ask? One of the resources we use on our Georgia Grown products is blueberries. They are sourced very local from our own blueberry patch. The patch is more like a garden 80 bushes deep. The Blueberry Blessing is the shortbread cookies created as a result of these heavenly blue jewels that grow in our neck of the woods in May through July. For more on the original blueberry story scroll down on the blog page to Blueberry blessing, March 23.
Our story begins in April of this year when I first realized we were going to have an enormous crop. I recall telling a custom about the crop and how I did not know how we could possibly harvest it this year given the growth of the business. The sweet customer responded politely by pointing to the sign I always have placed on my booth which reads “All things are possible with God” Matthew 19:26. In that moment it was as if I had been gently busted by God. For you see, that sign has been on the front of my booth since the beginning of my business. A sweet lady gave it to me not knowing my need for it. It came as a small voice to say “take the leap, I have got you on this one”. For at that time, I was about to jump out the boat and into the water and start a business. And so it is, that God begins at the impossible. It’s late July and we have harvested 150 gallons with that many more on the ground or left unpicked. It is the most we have ever picked. God showed out with those beautiful shades of greens, pinks and blues. They looked like clusters of grapes with their branches wearily dragging the ground.
No, we were not able to pick the entire crop, but we picked much more than we ever dreamed we could. We were gratefully blessed with dozens of friends who came to pick at just the right time. God’s ways are not our ways but He begins at the impossible. Blueberry Blessings {shortbread cookies} will fade from our website at the end of August but will return next spring. Get yours while you can. Thank you for following our journey!
Blueberry Pie Recipe
Graham or Shortbread Crust
1 tub of Cool Whip
1 block of Cream Cheese
1 cup of Powdered Sugar
1 cup of fresh Blueberries
Fold blueberries into the mixture of cream cheese, powdered sugar and cool whip. Pour into crust and refrigerate. Enjoy!
