Anya and I picked more rose hips today — we’ve got a LOT of the little things. About half a pound.
We boiled them (plus an apple) in enough water to cover by 1″, added a little lemon juice, then drained the juice. Added a whole bunch of sugar to make jelly (14 oz for every pint of juice), and let it cool and congeal overnight.
Anya and I walked down to the farm by way of the river to get the trail camera card — coming up the western side of the river, I noticed there were bountiful rose hips. We stopped for a bit and picked the juiciest looking ones — not quite a cup, so I guess we’ll have to go out again next weekend.
There are black walnut trees all over the farm — we should have loads of walnuts this year since we managed to get a cartload of walnuts from the back woods last time.
Anya and I harvested a bunch of spruce tips today — we can make spruce tip syrup and spruce tip ice cream — and gathered a big handful of willow branches to make a root stimulating liquid (also, the kombucha is still doing well!)
We were out foraging in the woods and happened across a bunch of black walnuts … and then found what I assume is a squirrel’s cache of the things.
We’ve been harvesting some turkey tail mushrooms — I’ve marinaded some in a jerky sauce and that made an interesting, chewy mushroom jerky.
I have a bunch of recipes from https://foragerchef.com that I wanted to make this year … but we seem to have missed the harvest this year. Reminder for next year — snip a bunch of the citrus-y spruce tips and make spruce tip syrup and spruce tip ice cream.