Harvesting & Jamming
Marlenea La Shomb, ND
September–October 2017 • Vol 3, No 94
The bears stayed in the higher elevations of our Montana mountains this year due to the abundance of wild berries. We, too, can take advantage of Mother Nature’s bounty — a bumper crop this year, free for the pickin’s! Wild elderberries, choke-cherries and the like are full of whole-food nutrients.
One rosehip has more Vitamin C in it than a whole bag of California oranges, which are picked green, then stored and gassed to make them turn orange—not to mention the processing and pasteurizing of orange juice…