Let's make an Elderberry tincture!!

[@grammyoffherrocker170]

Love how human you are - makes this old lady feel young again because your energy and enthusiasm is contagious

[@Woodsyintroverts]

I love her! 🙋‍♀️💐

[@530Sharis]

Me too! I enjoy her so much!

[@chrisalbineau518]

I love your soul ! ❤ You reach me so fast ! I don't feel so scared to try all that you teach. I so done with the Big P and pray that I can help my family the way the Lord planned it. He put everything on the world for us to use. Thanks so much.

[@handle2468]

Absolutely 🌺

[@annellacannella5674]

LOL! “Here, let me use my skirt” then dries off the jar with her skirt. Now that’s real! Love it!

[@susanhoward2906]

Learned canning at 74 lol,now herbalism at 76 thank you

[@sheisofthewoods]

Never too late to learn!

[@JohannaVeerenhuis]

I’m a farmer’s daughter from The Netherlands and my mother and grandmother taught me all they knew about plants, stars etc. As a kid I wasn’t too interested, but the last few years, I’ve dedicated much of my time to my kitchengarden, foraging, making tinctures, oils and soaps, and it’s a big part of my existence, helping many others too. I really like you and the way you teach!

[@AlanaElaine26]

I always love when April tells us we are smart enough to do this! Thank you April for your words of encouragement. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us to help keep us healthy. :)

[@gabriellehanks6850]

Same!!🤗

[@ChaosWitch72826]

So glad I found you. During these times just listening to you is so calming. Makes me feel like we got this.... thank you.

[@alaskanadventuresjtwenterp1014]

Homopathic Foods Ardiovaric Eatting Heals Mind Body and Spirit /|\ namaste’ for the body becomes what we eat;)

[@ginakirkland3404]

She's awesome!

[@RahRah-n3e]

Your explanation of how elderberry affects our immune systems was excellent! Thank you!

[@thedogshouterer]

I never cease to feel so grateful for your knowledge. Your approachability to herbalism is unique and special.

[@saucywench9122]

From one nerd to another, nerd away. I love it. Thanks for the video with elderberry.

[@catherinemoore3590]

I had given up on elderberries for the year, although I've still seen some! I'm never too old to learn and I learn something new every day! Thank you!

[@judymarielamb2408]

Love your spirit dear sister April ♥️🙏🏼 Creator's blessings ♥️🙏🏼

[@cindyholcomb2159]

Thank you for this! Can you show how to make a elderberries syrup?

[@jamiekerbleski]

Once again, April you are such a blessing. You share so openly and freely and remind us all we are so capable!! Thank you!!

[@kris8584]

I have been making my own medicines for over 20 years, and yet I love your channel. You provide a lot of useful insights and I love how you tell your viewers that they can do this. I have met too many people who are unsure about. You are offering a great service here.

[@mvpdavidson45]

Kris, I was wondering do you think it’s OK if I use organic dried elderberries, And would I use the same amount of hundred percent vodka.. I can’t seem to find fresh elderberries in my area. I am new to all this and absolutely love it and just learning. Would appreciate any advice you can give me. Thank you so much

[@sheisofthewoods]

Best to use the dried elderberries for tea as you will miss out on a lot of their healing properties making a tincture with dried. I would start looking along creek beds and kind of open but somewhat moist fields you'll likely find elderberries growing and then be able to harvest some come fall ☺️

[@mvpdavidson45]

@@sheisofthewoods Thank you so much for your response!

[@nora-_-]

@@sheisofthewoods what about red elderberry?

[@Septemberwitch24]

@@sheisofthewoods Hi! 🙋🏼‍♀️ Are poke (salad) berries really poisonous? Also, how can I get your book?

[@HoosierHmstrdr94]

My husband and I love how real you are. Thank you for all you do! ❤️💐❤️💐

[@greentorm5467]

I love your videos, good old fashioned know-how and you're so down to earth.

[@nancybrister7588]

Thank You so Much for Sharing All of Your Knowledge about Elderberries and how to make a Tinuture with them‼️👍👍🤗😁❤️It Truly has Helped Me go forward with making an Elderberry Tinuture 🤗😁

[@richardlilley6274]

Thank you April I'm just about to harvest some elderberries and pop them in freezer... Much appreciated Love you

[@robinwillis7203]

I know this is an old video but I truly enjoyed it so much.

[@damselflies8639]

last year, just when covid starting getting bad, elderberry magically appeared right outside the front door. She offered the precise measure of berries necessary to make a couple pints of elderberry syrup. This year she is gigantic. tiny florets are budding all over. very exciting. thanks for vid. I will tincture some this year.

[@jennifergaringer630]

I learned a lot from this video. The biggest nugget is when NOT to take it. I've been using elderberries for years, it's nice to learn new things. Thank you

[@stefaniegomes2902]

Thank you so so much for this. I just received 3 gallons of frozen elderberries. Super excited to make this

[@eeeckstrom]

I love how you refer to the herbs and plants as “her” instead of it. ❤

[@Bigblue769]

Been binge watching your old vids after finding you a week or so ago. I appreciate your level of knowledge the way you teach and how "real" you are. Thank you for making these videos. You have opened up a whole new world for me to explore. Ty 💖✌💖

[@isagoldfield7393]

Yes!! Thank April☀️🌿💕

[@angeltorres5394]

I absolutely adore you. I look forward to your videos all the time! You are such an inspiring teacher. Thank you for sharing this!!! ❤️

[@tinataylor2698]

Thank you for being real in a very phony world 💜

[@jennifergrangergray785]

I’ve got frozen berries in the freezer can’t wait to make my tincture today! Thank you so much for all your wisdom and sharing it with us! So excited when I checked my email and saw where my order had been shipped! Thanks for all you do!

[@user-ce5ez4up4x]

This is exactly the video I have been looking for. Answered all of my questions. Thank you!

[@tinarock759]

Love your natural informative teachings thank you beautiful April .. Tina Ireland 🇮🇪

[@knottymom88]

I HEARD THE BEGINNING OF A GIGGLE WHEN U SAID NUTMILK BAG!!!! AHAHAHAHAAHHA! U are so my tribe ;) be well and keep gifting the world with your knowledge!! Much thanks! ❤️

[@SilvaRainstorm]

I know I’ve said it before but I love your vids they are sooo full of information and I love the way you call the berries “she”and you’re explanations are really helpful for a newbie like me

[@ricketycricket9760]

Youre very knowledgeable. Thanks for sharing your knowledge for free. God bless you fellow Oregon resident.

[@kittyherbs]

You are sooooo amazing!!! I am so thankful my journey led me to you!! I’ve been growing herbs for 20+ years and have always loved and respected nature, just like you! I love your videos! Last year I decided to level up my herbalism and I started making syrups and tinctures. So glad I found you!

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Gosh i sooo wish we were friends lolol, you are so informative in a normal way haha

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This was so informative! Love your energy. Subscribed ❤

[@marykelley782]

I am so stoked. Just planted Elderberry! Thank you so much 👍❤

[@Verycute1986]

You are a very wise woman, and I am grateful for all of the knowledge that you share. 💖💖💖

[@FoodForestPermaculture]

Than you for sharing .

[@jeancollelo8338]

Thank you! You’ve answered all my fears about elderberry!

[@Xaforn]

Yes we love her year round! Loved this video as always! ❤️❤️ great info and explanation, thank you! And your skirt is lovely too!

[@StringfieldRidgeFarm]

Rewatching this, you explain these things better than anyone else on KZbin! Thank you so much. Mostly Because of you I have extended my home apothecary to double.

[@caydancebloom]

I always have to wait until you tell me I’m smart enough to do this…. Thanks for making me smile every day. Love ya girl!

[@the_internal_yes]

Just finished reading the Elderberry chapters of your book

[@chrisalbineau518]

I totally agree ! Very calming and insightful.

[@VickyLynn3]

Love your enthusiasm and wonderful content. April, you are a gem. Thank you 🌸V

[@lindafisher6171]

Thank you so much for the video. I so wish our elderberries here in Pennsylvania would come in later. Ours are all but done here.

[@Woodsyintroverts]

I’m new to your channel and I absolutely love you and your channel. You are so good at explaining and your personality is spot on. I’ve watched a few videos now. I really learn and I am entertained at the same time. Thank you and it’s really great to meet you. 🙋‍♀️💐🌳🙌🏻

[@SecrePeach]

There’s so much negativity out there regarding the berries that I’ve previously steered away from using them. Finally info and explanations to back it up that makes sense thank you 🙏🏻 Having grown my own elders from tiny plants I’ve had my first harvest of flowers and berries this year! I was nervous about using berries so was going to leave all of them for the birds but you have given me the confidence to use some of them and more importantly the advice on when to harvest, thank you so much 😊

[@lockeyanderson5169]

Found your channel and I’m so in love with your wonderful information. I made a goldenrod Tincture for the winter. I also made your sourdough starter. Oh it was delicious. Keep up the wonderful videos and god bless

[@MisstressMourtisha]

Thank you so much 🍄🐛🌱

[@vonigis]

Thank you, deeply. Totally beautiful work you're doing.. 🙏🙏🙏✨ Fruits' purpose in my opinion is more in spreading the seeds with the help of birds and/or other animals.. Thanks for sharing your thoughts from your communication with plants. Enjoy💜

[@robinsoda3181]

I absolutely love your videos. Your enthusiasm is contagious, you always make me smile. Thank you April❤

[@helnyson4694]

What an positive vibration you are! Thanks for this most informative video! We washed ours & do it by drying then boiling with 2 part honey & 7 part water. Have grown & worked with elderberries for 2.5 decades & haven't had any need of doc visit since, clearing chronic bronchitis & diabetes, med free right through. Strongly feel (know!) these & mulberries are better healing than any pHARMaceuticals. We shall try this method next time, but still shall wash & remove debris first of course 😊✌🏾🌸

[@melkrist]

I'm in far WNC. My elderberry have 2 seasons of harvest. Once in July/August and then again in September/October. This year has given us an amazing harvest so far. Love them !

[@joycewedel9084]

Ty! I'm gonna try this with Mulberrys cuz I have that tree in my yard.

[@mj58jean]

Thank you. I don’t comment much but I must thank you for this information. 👍

[@copious_amounts-unknown8897]

I really love ❤️ & appreciate all of your videos. You are such a giving soul & care deeply for all of us! I want you as my neighbor & best friend 😁. Thank you for all of your posts & time teaching us!

[@melindaralston6962]

I just want to spend the day with you so bad 🥹 I've been watching you for years. Not only have you helped me figure out how to assist my family's health, but you really have helped my self worth. Thank you for explaining the little things. Thank you for your positivity. Thank you for not sounding like you're higher because you know some things. I have so much love for you!

[@debrandw246]

You absolutely amaze me. Your knowledge is so calming. I look for you every day. I am jonesing on every video I can find you have done. Would also want to try Mullen. I have fibromyalgia. I have a whole new prospective on herbal tinctures since I found your videos. I didn't know you could use Elderberries this late in the year. Thank you. X

[@gmakoch3260]

Hi April, I just watched this video again. I really like to refresh my lessons from you. I harvested elderberry last fall but wasn't sure how ripe they were so I scared myself out of using them. So I'll try it again this fall. Hope all is well w/you & your family!

[@jazzwilliams5202]

Too much of anything will kill us thank you SOOOO MUCH FOR THIS KNOWLEDGE

[@andyd.1793]

Great video, well-presented, subscribed👍🍀

[@jessicawalentschka6404]

I almost never have freezer space so I discovered raking the little clusters over a peice of half inch hardware screen plucks them off the stems pretty well too! 🥰

[@earljtsmoot9421]

I live in Southeast Louisiana and it's now Mid August. Our Elderberry Crop is almost gone for the year. We were able to harvest and freeze 20 cups to get us through the Winter.

[@GramsHouse1962]

I know this was a year ago but it's August again...2023 and I live in Southeast Louisiana as well. My elderberries popped out early too and started drying up (100 degree temps here) so I picked a few branches that had purple berries and froze them. I still see a few with green berries so I am patiently waiting. The birds have planted elderberry seeds in the roots of my crepe myrtle tree so I have a few branches growing nicely right along with the crepe myrtles and a couple more popped up in my flower garden. First time I will be making syrup. I hope I didn't pick them too soon but worried they will dry up. How are yours this year?

[@xtubeit8265]

I LOVE YOUR CAN DO APPROACH TO SELF HERBALISM! I feel the exact same way...that there is no need to pay someone hundreds or thousands of dollars to learn this. Not as long as I can read and research and do the work hands on! THANK YOU!

[@amritagardiner8064]

So awesome and wholesome, such a blessing to have found you especially when it's harder now to find people that align with our intuitive truths... Thank you so much and we love so much Absolutely Smart Enough! We use it everyday it's empowering! Thanks - Pan and Amrita

[@EB-yl1pu]

Your videos are awesome

[@jackiemecheri4418]

I just love how you teach...best days work finding you...I am advancing my herbal knowledge so much more. Thank you and blessings to you from Malaga Spain x

[@marshamercer]

I just realized I have 2 large elderberry bushes on the back of my yard. I will be making tinctures and jelly with Elderberry really soon! I am so happy Spring is here.!

[@witchhazel8583]

Thank you April for answering My question 🤗 In Sweden we use vodka 40%alcohol, IF we cant find that att THE moment we use a Swedish brand with 37% alkohol. And when we make propolis tincture( from inside THE bee hives) we use 95%alkohol. Not so easy to get hold of. I Will direkt watch your tincture video. You are absolutely One of My favourite herbalists!! Bless you for all the Good stuff you teach us🌱🌲🌸🌻

[@celitastrouse7232]

❤ awesomeness definitely going to make this. Mmmmm I thought the back ground mountains look almost like I look at going up to the towns dam and further on up the road. 😮😊

[@mikeruccio1054]

here in kentucky they are long gone by sept 1st....I gathered 35 lbs this year,leaving much more than that for the birds,I harvested for a three week period.Tincture is with brandy and white whiskey.I used only fresh for the tincture.Frozen berries i was saving for syrup but after listening to you I did it backwards.Oh well there is always next year.Thank you for your very informative and correct video.

[@stemcelluniversity]

Thank you for this video. I have been looking for this type of content. I thank you for being real. And loved the Brain Bomb that’s what I needed. Keep it up 👍. Love being real ❤.

[@augeniasestokaite4674]

Big big thanks for info! This is first year I will have elderberries and I will do as I showed..!!!😊

[@leannmendoza3854]

I just found your channel and I love your videos! Thanks for sharing your knowledge, my mom was a self taught herbalist and I loved learning from her. Sadly we lost her way too soon and I've forgotten so much about the natural solutions she had for every aspect of life. I've watched several of your videos and you've reminded me of some of those things she taught me so long ago. Thank you for teaching and just being your fun self!😊👍

[@susan6942]

Learning every time I watch your videos thank you

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I adore you being a human 🎉💞🥰

[@AshleyLebedev]

Nature balances out chemistry in each thing it makes. We need to trust nature’s foods x

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I'm so glad I found your channel and have shared it in my tincture chat!!!!

[@taragraham9294]

You're an absolutely incredible teacher and personality. Thank you for your encouragement.

[@amymarie3218]

You are my absolute favorite. Thank you for sharing your wisdom

[@westrose586]

Thanks for the geek talk. Much appreciated! You rock!

[@nkoons5772]

You are the bomb freakin diggity!! I absolutely ADORE your passion, it is infectious. I harvested my first herb, goldenrod, about a month ago. I have since harvested several, have several tinctures going, and a nice start to a herbal remedy cabinet and a lot of it is thanks to the information you’ve so eloquitely provided. Thank you so much and never stop shining!!

[@sunshine1379]

Thank you for helping me understand my Immune system better and another great tincture. 😁

[@lorb312]

I just love you. Thank you for sharing your knowledge 🙏

[@johnlorton-n2u]

Thank you for this! I have 2 elderberry plants that just 'showed up' in my patio garden a few months ago & they are producing berries. I have store-bought elderberry syrup that i take but just ran out of. I now know that i can make a tincture from these berries. I csn't wait to get started. Much Love to you from Lucerne California. John ;)

[@deanablythe9394]

Thanks for sharing.

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LOVE YOU ❤

[@jacquelyndevitte4992]

I just love you lady.... yesterday I saw a couple of ladies in the side of the road pick something purple from trees. I thought they were plums so I turned around to see. They actually were harvesting elderberries so I joined them. He he. They are new to the elderberries and I am too. She rolls me about a special process to use she had seen to care for the cyanide as she said it was poison. I told her to go to your site here, as I recently found you for the cutting of lilac. You have given me confidence!! How easy is this. Freezing the elderberries! Who knew! I thank you for your teaching and am sharing it with my new lady friends. You are awesome and I thank you for being you. Jacquelyn 🦋

[@jacquelyndevitte4992]

Autocorrect has changed so many of my words in my text but I’m sure you get the jest of what I wrote. Such as curing not cutting.

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I’m in Idaho, I’d love it if you had a mentor program to come work with you!! You’re videos have helped me so much!

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You are absolutely precious. I love your videos and I've learned so much.

[@tallyhill9463]

I am so happy that I found you. I made tinctures and oils before I was forced to give up my home in the foothills of the Appalachians. I didn’t really know how I just experimented. You have shown me that I wasn’t too far off in my processes and inspired me to get back to it in new less rural home in Connecticut. Thank you!

[@TheMichi2377]

Thanks April. I seem to come back to this video every year. You're rocking it lady!! Thank you so much. Michelle in Virginia. ❤️

[@moniqueking5]

I am always up for a good braindump and I am grateful for you just being a human . Thank you and please keep the videos coming .❤️

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So glad I happened upon your video today. You are an absolute breath of fresh air. Thank you.

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You are such a blessing. Thank you for sharing your gift of knowledge with us. I’m hungry for this information. ❤️🐞❤️

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I learn and love watching you!

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Sorry I missed this .. Just catching up now...thank you for sharing april....

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Thankyou you are a beautiful human have shared ❤❤❤

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Enjoyed... Thank You For Sharing.