Living off Wild Food! (Black Cherries and Autumn Olives)

[@HomegrownHandgathered]

As usual music is by Jordan and our friend Ethan. We're getting together to record some more music today so keep an ear out in future videos!

[@Coldtropics]

You should try goumi berries there superior autumn olive in fruit quality and fruit in the spring.

[@marywilliamson9633]

I saw your short on autumn olive yesterday and realized that we have a TON of it in our property and started harvesting for jelly today!

[@Vegancutie]

In Iran this is called lavashak and it is soooo delicious!!

[@jennifer6833]

Black cherries 🍒 are my favorite!

[@big.g.fromohio3546]

I grew up in western Pennsylvania in the 60’s and 70’s on a small farm, about 80 miles north of Pittsburgh. We always called them choke cherries. My aunt would make jelly and my uncle would make brandy from them. As we played as kids there was always at least one that claimed they were poisonous. 😂 Those were the days.

[@GrowCookPreserveWithKellyDawn]

There are chokecherries as well, Prunus virginiana, so they might have been different.

[@robrich8294]

Any cherry seeds have trace amounts of cyanide in them. Black cherry are way better tasting than chokecherries make your mouth pucker up. I have Native American friends that make special syrup from the chokecherry and hawthorn berries. Chokecherry trees rarely exceed 25’ tall whereas wild black cherry trees can grow enormous up to 75’.

[@Heponte]

I passed by so many of these trees while hunting for Pawpaw near Philly, just to realize once I got home that these were edible too! I ended up coming home with no fruit at all, but I’m not giving up yet 😁

[@atv7916]

I like this video format

[@virginiacorralez2313]

You are the best!!!! Congrats for so much effort!!!

[@eeddoosshh]

Oh, such a delight! Merely just watching you harvest the fruit is so therapeutic.. I can't possibly imagine, how it might feel to actually do it ^^ great job, guys!

[@TheNewYear75]

my mouth was literally salivating watching you peel and roll that fruit leather omg

[@GrowCookPreserveWithKellyDawn]

I have lots of black cherry trees around me but they are so tall, so I planted a couple and plan to top them and try to keep them on the shorter side. I love them!

[@TheNewYear75]

this channel is such a wealth of knowledge! So enjoyed the slower pace of seeing y'all process your cherries :-)

[@HomegrownHandgathered]

Glad to hear you’re liking the slower videos, we like making them too!

[@linabear55]

My husband and I just discovered your channel and have been so inspired! We love watching your sense of adventure and connection with nature. So much so, we signed up for a river walk in our river valley to start identifying more wild eats that’s coming up in just a few days! Keep it up!

[@Becka034]

Just found you from Pro Home Cooks! We are in PA- smack in the middle of the state :) Have Family from Washington Pa :) Looking forward to your videos!

[@chrishoffert8683]

Mind blown. I was always taught wild black cherries were toxic to humans (and dogs). I’ve left them alone on our homestead…the ground is covered with them here right now. Very interesting!

[@HomegrownHandgathered]

No way, they’re great for us! Also one of the most important Fall foods in the woods for everything from bears to birds to chipmunks 🙂

[@victoriathomas9748]

Love lil moo, I'm checking 2 c if these berries grow in VA ❤😊😊❤ Appreciate the knowledge & time you two take to make & share this with us. TY both 💓

[@HomegrownHandgathered]

Yup, both of these grow in VA!

[@oranlichtman2021]

Ugh I’m so jealous of you guys! Where I live I can only get a small jarful of chokecherries. But if you have any left over add a few of them and their broken seeds to a cranberry sauce recipe (in a small bag of course). It adds really nice fruity, almond-ey, and astringent notes

[@chiaradamore-klaiman8692]

Those look delicious! Little tip, try citing the fruit leather with scissors rather than a knife. 😊

[@BORTIZV7]

I live in NJ and luckily I notice this trees in my house and am pretty sure they are those berries. And this morning I realized there is a bunch here by job!!! Am going to try the roll ups and see if am good at it. 😂

[@DeathRitual15]

Can you make a video on how you process and use your flour corn to make tortillas? Love to see the recipe.

[@HomegrownHandgathered]

Sure! We also have detailed info on storing, processing and cooking with corn in our gardening course (shameless plug 😂)

[@cindyroy8872]

I live in Quebec, Canada, and I love your videos! I'm sad that there is no wild fruit trees near my home, but I don't event know if I would have the time to harvest and preserve all of these foods...

[@rachelwickart275]

In my area, we have an abundance of chokecherries this year, and I've made 5 quarts of juice (so far). The autumnberry bushes about 3 miles away had mostly unripe berries last week, but I will be checking them this week. All this work reminds me of processing elderberries for syrup and juice last year, and a good thing I did....not a berry this year due to the extreme heat and drought. Was that waxed paper or parchment paper you used to pour your sauce on for making leather?

[@HomegrownHandgathered]

Nice, chokecherries are great too! And it was wax paper for the fruit leather

[@rachelwickart275]

@@HomegrownHandgathered Thank you! I was hoping to try making fruit leather again this year, and would prefer to use my dehydrator rather than the oven.

[@caziontherise]

Overflow the water and push that leeves out the bowl

[@qualqui]

Seeing some shorts of yours was how I was familiarized with you two beautiful people, and seeing this video recommended by the KZbin algorhymthm, I'm now officially subbed to ya,😊now on the topic, most interesting one of this video, Wild Black cherries, seeing the moment in your video where you're washing the cherries, they seem about the same size as what we call here in Mexico, 'capulinas' smaller versions of bing cherries but with a big pit(compared to its size), I wonder if it's the same cherry? Since this tiny state (about the size of Connecticut) has many microclimates, I'm thinking the country peasants bring them from south, near Amealco or maybe from San Joaquin (famous for apples) just before entering the tropical zone at Jalpan, in the Sierra Gorda, an arm of the Sierra Madre Oriental. I've only bought them at the local tianguis(open-air market)but never had the opportunity to pick 'em, that's good because I would probably pig outon the yummy cherries.🤣😂 Thank you for sharing, 👍and greetings👋from Querétaro.🤠🍒🍒

[@HomegrownHandgathered]

I don’t think this species grows in Mexico, but it’s cousin called chokecherries (Prunus virginiana) which are very similar, but on smaller plants do

[@completedharma]

I'm curious about producing black cherry jam, is that process even possible without the cherry pits?

[@HomegrownHandgathered]

Yea you can just do the same process of squeezing it through a juice bag and then cook it into jam or jelly

[@darrowprairie]

How long has your fruit leather lasted in a jar? I'm wondering if I vacuumed seal them in a jar if they will last a whole year or two?

[@thetorf1]

How long will the fruit leather last?

[@HomegrownHandgathered]

A month at room temp, but we put some in the freezer for long term storage. If you wanted it to store longer at room temp you could just dry it until it’s crispy though

[@buckfiden3572]

Have you guys considered sorghum?

[@HomegrownHandgathered]

For sugar?

[@buckfiden3572]

Just in general it has alot to offer for a homestead

[@bintlooda]

For how long they will stay edible after the dehydration process ¿