#Dewberry season is in full swing here in central #Texas, so we went to check out a small patch I had spotted a few weeks ago. Turns out to have been a bigger gold mine than I originally thought, yielding almost 5 pounds of berries, with probably that much more still left to ripen! This was just a small unkempt area next to the road in an urban area of commercial/office spaces that I happened to walk past on my way to a medical appointment. It pays to keep your eyes open!

#foraging #payattention #grownostr #eatwild

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Great find!

What do you typically do with that many berries? Jam?

Jam or syrup. Sometimes if we don't have time to preserve them properly, we'll just freeze them for future use. The best way is to freeze them individually on a baking sheet, then package them up, so they're not frozen together into a big block.

These plants are popping up all over my yard! I'm trying to dig them up and transplant them to a designated patch since they are thorny

Yeah, they're covered in those tiny little needle-like thorns, so it's best to relocate them somewhere out of the way. That's not too difficult, though, since they're tough as nails. As long as you get a little bit of the root and keep them watered, they transplant very easily.