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22nd of July 2026

22nd of July 2026
Yesterday I wrote that I felt too tired to process the berries for freezing. And I also felt too tired to describe the details of the process. So, today after breakfast I started by washing boxes and lids. Then, in small portions I sieved the berries to remove pine needles, little twigs, raw lingonberries and other such unnecessary stuff. Cleaned berries go into a box, sealed with a lid - ready to be frozen! The whole process took me about 3 hours, and yielded 15 litres; 14.5 litres in boxes, and half a litre to be consumed fresh. So, if we focus on the frozen amount, we could say that after 10 hours of work I have 14.5 litres of frozen bilberries. I just checked online, and at a supermarket they sell 200g of frozen Finnish bilberry at the price of 2.13 € / 200g, so let's round that to 10 € / kg. My 14.5 litres would measure about 8.7 kg. According to this calculation, 10 hours of work yield me with food worth of 87 €. Or, each hour of work yields 8.70 € worth of food - this is about the lower end of pay range in Finland (or, might be a bit more than a normal farmer earns per hour, when working for themselves, after all the costs are covered).
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