Buy Locally Grown Berries, Learn to Make Jam, Preserves

The is offering a way to have your fruit and eat it, too.

Not only have they arranged to sell freshly picked berries through Joliet Junior College, it's offering a class this week that will teach you how to turn them into jams, jellies, preserves and marmalades.

However, you need not to take the class to buy the fruit. A 5-pound box of blueberries is being sold for $17.50; one pint red raspberries costs $4.50 and one pint of blackberries is $4.50.

If you want to use those fruits right away, check out the class being offered from 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday. It's in the Board Room and is open to participants 10 and older. The cost is $10 for park district members, $15 for non-members.

To sign up for the class, call 815-741-7275.

For more information on the berries, contact Eldon Briggs at 269-208-4018 or eldonrbriggs@sbcglobal.net.