Wildcrafted Medicine: The Incredible Healing Properties of MULBERRIES
Our magnificent mulberries are ripening!!!!!
Our mulberry trees are dropping their fruits, and we are thrilled to welcome mulberry season! These little berries are nutritional powerhouses, and they fall right off the tree when they are perfectly ripe. All we have to do is pick them up off the ground, and pop them in our mouths to reap the rewards of this true superfood.
The trees don't even need any maintenance, and they grow wild all over the place! They get relatively tall and provide ample shade; we positioned our teeny tiny home village under the mulberry trees to get maximum enjoyment from these awesome native plants. During the harvest, we lay tarps under the trees and collect the berries that fall each day.
This is incredibly fine wildcrafting and ultimate sustainability! The plants thrive completely independent of us, they gift us their bounty, and we utilize the delicious berries to activate super health - it's totally easy and enjoyable!
Nature is super sweet, and we want to remind you that you too can find these amazing plants and enjoy the incredible healing powers contained within its free fruits~*~
Mulberries have a delicately sweet flavor. They are excellent fresh or dried in smoothies, salads, jams, desserts, and sauces. They are super beneficial to many systems in the human body, so we give thanks for the abundance of mulberry season!
We hope you're inspired to find and feast upon these awesome wild berries!
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Across the street from me is a huge Mama Mulberry, and we now have one of her babies coming along nicely. The neighbors never collect their fruit. I can't wait to harvest mine! The tree made catkins this spring, but had to be pruned really late, so we are hoping for next year. :) thanks for the info about the benefits of mulberries!
You're welcome, @creationofcare! Free food is almost always exciting, and the mulberry is one of those amazing plants that grows all over and shares its abundance profusely. Tack on the incredible facts about what an amazing super food it is, and it's always surprising to hear about folks who don't take advantage of these marvelous gifts from nature - they must be unaware of the gold mine they sit on. Maybe your neighbor would share the fruits of their tree with you?? We find they freeze quite beautifully.
I think they would. I have to come out of my shell, I am super shy around neighbors. Working in my front yard more is breaking the ice though. :)
I used to live near a weeping mulberry. I would eat as many as i could before the bugs got to them?
Straight up gifts from mother nature - what a serious blessing to have access to mulberries!!!
Mulberries are such a great fruit. I'm always surprised how many people think they are poison or they just don't like having the mulberries drop in their yard. It's easy to get permission to pick all you want. I like a mulberry pie, but some folks don't care for the stem that goes all the way through them. I like to eat the young, tender leaves, too. And if you ever find one hanging over a riverbank, that's the place to go fishing. Enjoy all your mulberries! :D
Agreed, mulberries ARE a great fruit! Great tip to ask people with mulberry trees if you can collect their fruit, @haphazard-hstead. It's fantastic that in reaping the mulberry harvest from a neighbor who doesn't care for them, you are also doing them a favor by cleaning up their yard - that's our kind of trade!
Mulberry pie is excellent, and we do a variety of jams, jellies, and sauces with mulberries and other fruits with fresh herbs. We freeze the portion of the mulberry harvest that we don't consume in a day to use in smoothies or to collect until we have a substantial volume for a batch of jam or whatever.
Enjoyed eating my fill of them as a kid!!! Just don't make the mistake of parking your car under one of them 😉
Or put a tarp over the car and collect what falls! :)
Even if you don't park directly under one, the birds will still drop purple all over it. At least they do that here ;)
Lots of these where I live. Usually they don't taste great, but one season they were excellent. Must have to be perfect timing to get them at their best!
Mulberries are a relatively mild berry that we find usually taste more sweet than anything else. The ones that are turning from red to purple are often a little sour; some of us prefer those ones. We're finding a bit of variance between our seasons as well, with our trees producing about every other year.
Good To know. Usually I get the more sour taste, but one time they were super sweet. It was unbelievably good.
I love this fruit, we also have in Morocco and in large quantities
That's awesome! Do you have any wonderful Moroccan recipes that feature mulberries, @chihab?
not to my knowledge
Mulberry. I never find it. Maybe Did'nt grow in Aceh..
Thanks to share, @gardenofeden
Nice post!
These trees are native to Asia. We're told that they grow in Indonesia and that the leaves are used for a dish called lalab and another called sayor. Do you know these foods, @ainiaziz?
Ooo.. i think you means is "Lalap" and "Sayur". hehehe
I never see this tree in my region, Aceh. Maybe grow at else region in Indonesia.