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Waiting for the berries, mushrooms and other goodies that the forests of Scandinavia and North America soon will bring to us... My favorites are trattkantarell and hjortron in Sweden, chanterelles and cranberries here in New Jersey.
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Have you found any more of those delicious chantarelles yet? I don't think there are to many to be found here now, but on the other hand I haven't checked my secret places...
I read that there is a project of growing crowberries commercially in Finland, you'd think cranberries would be more commercially viable. What do you do with crowberries? Besides getting stains on your trousers?
We got some this morning!!!! Not many, but enough for a good omelett or sandwich or pastasauce. More are on the way after three nights with huge lightning and thunderstorm rains.
Crowberries? I don't know, I think some people used to make jams out of them and maybe wine. I think they are really high in anti-oxidants, maybe they are to be used as herbal supplements? Cranberries are a lot tastier! And good for you too.
In Vermont we saw rhubarb wine, what do you think about that? We didn't buy it, which I regret now.
Rhubarb wine makes sense, I think, unless it's acids mess it up. You need a rhubarb plant! I don't think the deers and groundhogs will touch it, but with your "nature on steroids" one can never be sure.
We have two rubarb plants but they are unhappy. Something is eating them, something small, and several of the leaves rotted away despite the lack of rain we had in June. I don't know what I am doing wrong!
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