Wild Harvest of Kentucky - Elderberries ripening 12 Aug 2018
2018-08-12 - County Road near Breeding, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com
Time was, roadside gleaners would have seen the heavy, glistening elderberries of mid August as an exciting, free edible for jams, jellies and winemaking. Time was when gatherers drove the roadsides when the huge elderberry blossoms made spotting the plants easiest, marking locations in anticipation of the mid-August to mid-September harvest. Today, thanks to wholesale spraying of rights-of-ways, gathering the berries is an inadvisable option here in paradise poisoned. - EW Comments | Permalink
2018-08-12 - County Road near Breeding, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com
Time was, roadside gleaners would have seen the heavy, glistening elderberries of mid August as an exciting, free edible for jams, jellies and winemaking. Time was when gatherers drove the roadsides when the huge elderberry blossoms made spotting the plants easiest, marking locations in anticipation of the mid-August to mid-September harvest. Today, thanks to wholesale spraying of rights-of-ways, gathering the berries is an inadvisable option here in paradise poisoned. - EW Comments | Permalink