They use local hand-picked berries such as blueberry and bakeapple, to produce wine.

The best dessert by far was the simplest: strawberry shortcake, made with fresh, local berries and real whipped cream.

The local berries are picked ripe and shipped to market within hours, and they are flavorful with the concentrated sugar of early summer.

And strawberry confections, from pies to shortcakes to ice cream, abound once the local berries have shown.

Still others are residents of Cherokee descent, who think nothing of boiling local berries for aches and pains.

Some flavors, like strawberry made from local berries, are seasonal and only available for a few weeks.

A lovely free breakfast of eggs perfectly cooked over easy and seasonal local berries arrived within 20 minutes.

What she got was the squeezings from local berries; it tasted good, though.

Then the ripe, juicy local berries arrive.

Some inns allow guests to bring in local berries for eating on cereal or in a special dessert; it is certainly worth asking.