I was looking through my blog posts and noticed I hadn’t posted about the mulberry trees we have growing here.
When I first bought this place, there was one tree that, in reality, looks to be four smaller trees that came up together and grew into one.
Or perhaps it was damaged many years ago and sent up more branches to compensate.
In any event, there are four main trunks growing up around an old fence post that are loaded with branches that give us more berries than we can put up. Even the birds can’t eat them all, though they spend many hours in the tree on any given day.
We now also have another that came up behind the house about three years ago, I assume birds helped it by dropping a berry there at some point it time, like they did with the black currants we have. There were none here 20 years ago, and now there are many, and they are spreading to make a fence row of sorts.
Mulberries are a super food, loaded with vitamins, and they taste delicious as well. We haven’t really taken full advantage of the fruit as of yet, but every year, we collect and eat a little more of it.
I’m seriously thinking about dehydrating much of it next season as we do not have the freezer space, nor do I have the time or energy to turn it into jams which would in turn also stress our abilty to store it all.
Dehydrating and even powdering some would make storage much easier.
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