How are wild berries harvested in the Netherlands?

Blackberries ripen in the Netherlands. The plant is unpretentious and able to adapt everywhere, so there are a lot of blackberries. Bushes strewn with black berries come across often, the berries themselves just ask for your mouth! However, people from the post-Soviet republics doubt whether it is legal to collect them?

There is nothing illegal in this - wild berries belong to everyone. Important for immigrants from post-Soviet countries in this sentence is the word "everyone". It is for everyone, and not for you personally or for the one who first found a bush covered with a ripening berry. Moreover: the word "everyone" means not only people - birds and animals also like to eat ripe berries. In particular, Dutch foxes love blackberries. Accordingly, when picking berries in nature, you must leave some of them to the rest.

Picking bushes is completely prohibited. The collection of wild plants, fruits and berries on a scale approaching the industrial one is considered poaching and is punishable by law. You can collect a small plastic container with a capacity of 250 ml, but baskets, buckets, large plastic bags are excluded. For immigrants, this is unusual, but these are the rules in the host country. The Dutch are generally very kind to nature: when picking berries, you need to make sure not to break the branches and not spoil the bush.

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