Blackberry Doobie by Matthew Raiford

As a kid, we had wild blackberries growing along the edges of the ditch when Galilee Road beside our farm was a dirt road.

Excerpted with permission from Bress ‘n’ Nyam: Gullah Geechee Recipes from a Sixth-Generation Farmer by Matthew Raiford.

I call the woods around the farm Where the Wild Things Are, because great-​grandmother Florine’s mimosa trees and great-​grandfatherHorace’s blackberries and muscadines have all volunteered and gone a little crazy back in there, where …