Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Elderberries

  • HARTSBURG, Mo. -- Missouri farmer Terry Durham is among those willing to bet the next hot food crop will be a berry now more commonly found in roadside ditches than supermarket shelves.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • Unripened elderberries grow in the sun Sunday at Jemerson Land Company LLC in Hartsburg. The berries will be ready for harvest around mid-July, according to Terry Durham.
  • (Columbia Missourian)
  • "Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb.
  • (The Oakland Press)
  • STYLE: Weiss-style ale; an American version of a German hefeweizen THE PITCH: This new summer seasonal is a wheat beer mildly flavored with elderberries.
  • (Dallas Morning News)
  • elderberries, quinces, even the medlar, an odd, old fruit, common in Shakespeare's day, now a rarity even in Britain. (The small, brown, apple-like fruit must be picked hard, then "bletted," or left to soften until it has almost rotted.
  • (KQED)
  • Lure course, agility course, flyball, nail clipping, vendors, an animal communicator, raffles, music by The Elderberries, homemade booyah, children's zone. Pets microchipped for $15.
  • (Green Bay Press-Gazette)
  • Be creative. In our garden, I just write off the elderberries — the birds always get them. The tomatoes grow in large pots, cherry tomatoes hang in baskets from shepherds hooks.
  • (Allentown Morning Call)
  • Elderberries and strawberries. • Eggplants, squash and zucchini, cabbages, artichokes and beets. Just as there are ornamental fruits and vegetables, so, too, are there edible flowers, garden beauties that provide culinary treats.
  • (Macon Telegraph)
  • Bring it to a rolling boil, then add four and one half cups of sugar. Boil for three minutes, or until it is jelly. I love using ingredients from nature, and elderberries and red sumac makes good jelly also.
  • (Fergus Falls Daily Journal)

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