Several of my favorite wild foods are coming into season this month! Blackberries are nearly done which means Elderberries are nearly ready. The best time to hunt Elderberries is the second week in August. They will be ripening over the next few weeks so if you pick this week you can go back next week for more. Elderberries are really awful raw but wonderful made into jelly and syrup. They are also a popular folk remedy for colds and flues due to their antiviral properties.
“I have made a satisfactory dinner of a dish of purslane which I gathered and boiled. Yet, men have come to such a pass that they starve, not for want of necessities, but for want of luxuries.” -Henry David Thoreau
Saturday, August 9, 2014
August Foraging in Tennessee!
Several of my favorite wild foods are coming into season this month! Blackberries are nearly done which means Elderberries are nearly ready. The best time to hunt Elderberries is the second week in August. They will be ripening over the next few weeks so if you pick this week you can go back next week for more. Elderberries are really awful raw but wonderful made into jelly and syrup. They are also a popular folk remedy for colds and flues due to their antiviral properties.
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