Black Cherry | Edible Wild Plant Foraging | Harvesting Cherries
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- Black cherry is a wild North American species of cherry which produces, well, black cherries. These trees are common in much of eastern North America but many people don't know or don't get the opportunity to harvest black cherry fruit for themselves. Part of that may be where the species is most often found and the height at which the cherries are usually found, given that black cherry is a full-sized tree. But there are some things you can do when foraging for edible wild plants that may help you get a bit of a haul of these nutritious cherries.
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Dear Chris and Steph,
This was a most interesting video. I confess that I knew next to nothing about native black cherries. I knew about the wood, but virtually nothing about the fruit. You covered the nature of this tree very well. I believe that the number of black cherries varies from year to year. The sense I have is that this is a good year for fruit on the black cherry trees.
Thank you again for these very informative videos on foraging for wild fruit.
Sincerely,
Larry Lewis
London, Ontario.
Really interesting, I bet they'd be great in pies, jams and more. 👍
I'm from Arkansas, a state in the US. We have several on our property and they're fruiting and ripe now. I was considering trying to get enough to make jelly, but wanted to learn more before I unintentionally poisoned myself or my family. Now, I feel confident in proceeding (yay, no upset tummies!) Your video was very helpful and informative. Thank you! I'll be checking out some more of your channel.
I love how knowledgeable you two are🍁 Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much. Chris is the wise one 😆. I knew nothing about most of this stuff till we met, but it has become my passion now as well, and it is so much easier when you have a personal guide to teach you 😀
It has been an interesting season, the beeches in my area are having a big nut year. Only happens once in a while.
I have several that I saved 30 years ago from a virgin bush on my hill that was bulldozed for gravel. I have two 20feet tall but the birds are spreading them and have noticed more coming back in the area. Hackberry usually grows in the same area. Easily out competed by Manitoba maple which I kill.
Great info. You have quite a few of them.
it's been great actually getting to harvest some this year!
Beautiful trees and supportive to the ecosystem by hosting so many insects and birds. Wondering, however, if you graze your animals under and around these trees and if so, have you had any trouble with any of your livestock becoming ill from eating the leaves or fruit? A few extension schools warn of black cheery tree leaf and fruit toxicity for ruminants. Thanks for sharing all of your experience and knowledge thru videos. So helpful! I have a small starter flock of icelandic sheep in New England and I am learning as I go. Was getting ready to remove a large black cherry from my animal pasture, but I am really torn about it...
You have an abundance of such a big variety of fruits!
Just noticed I have one of these trees in my yard...it's wayyy tall and I'm scared to try one lol
Lots of good information here, we don't have black cherry trees in b.c,at least in my area,lots of choke cherry tho thanks
These are very similar to the choke Cherries but not as tart....still mostly seed and really only useful for juice, syrup, or jelly. But still very useful on the homestead.
Apparently the leaves are poisonous
Yes, when wilted, I believe it has to do with tannins that accumulate in the wilted leaves.
What do you do with the black cherries?
Every tree is big if itsnot pruned 😂😂😂 so you wasted allot of berries by not pruning
These trees were 30 to 50 feet tall when we moved here. And this is the first year they have produced in big numbers.