I love mulberry season

3 months ago by nocturne to c/foraging

The university in my town has many white mulberry trees, and they are ripening. Sadly they are super old and many of them their lowest branches are far out of my reach, but I am not beyond foraging of the ground. And neither is Furiosa...

She is actually eating grass there, but she had been foraging for berries.

LibertyLizard 5 points 3 months ago

Get a tarp and a rope. Lay the tarp beneath the tree. Throw a rope over a branch. Shake. Enjoy!

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Tempus_Fugit 5 points 3 months ago

Nice! I'd be jamming and canning that. I can't wait until the wild black raspberries ripen near me.

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foxymochakitten 4 points 3 months ago

I don't think I've ever had a mulberry before, actually. I learned recently that my local college has wild blackberries and raspberries around it though and I am desperate to go have a peek. Enjoy your harvest!!

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nocturne 5 points 3 months ago

Mulberries do not have that tartness that even sweet ripe raspberries have. Their seeds are far smaller. I think I only felt one even after 20 minutes of grazing yesterday. The stems stay in the berry when picked, but is so small that I eat it.

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SlippiHUD 3 points 3 months ago

Mulberries are the best. I used to eat so many I'd get sick.

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nocturne 5 points 3 months ago

One of these days I will take a tarp, and a long stick and harvests a bunch of them. I will tell myself I am going to can them, but I really will just eat them until I too make myself sick.

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livligkinkajou 3 points 3 months ago

Did she also forage some sticks for c/stickenthusiasts? !stick@sh.itjust.works

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nocturne 3 points 3 months ago

When she was a wee puppy she liked sticks, then she discovered balls. She will chase a stick if we are in the river, but otherwise, she wants a ball.

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HubertManne 2 points 3 months ago

Growing up a neighbor had a weeping mulberry tree. Its the most awesome thing. Was a little getaway forts for us kids and the berries were easy to get. We could swing on the branches. The lady let us not only infest her tree but use her big side yard to play as long as we stayed out of the garden. She also had a lassie type collie that could shake your hand (that was huge at that time). Later I was told the weeping mulberry is grown upside down to get the effect and then at some point planted in the ground.

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nocturne 1 point 3 months ago

Growing up my grandmother had a huckleberry tree that had low drooping branches. That made foraging really easy. Sadly we only got to visit once every couple years.

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ipa_brewmaster5000 2 points 3 months ago

So delicious

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