#serviceberries

[melgillman]

A page from my new foraging zine, Fruit For Free!

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[garden-and-friends]

harvest time for tart cherries and serviceberries/juneberries/saskatoons 🍒

[dawdger]

Pies - Saskatoon Pie Recipe Serviceberries are used in this flavorful Saskatoon pie, which also uses a pre-made pie crust. It has a lovely apple flavor that is fruity but not overly sweet.

[lafattoriadeglianimali]

Saskatoon Cranberry Loaf Saskatoon berries, also known as serviceberries, combine with cranberries in a delightful loaf cake for tea time or dessert.

[mysteriouslyjellyfish]

Have you dried juneberries?

Foragers of tumblr!

I love juneberries an incredible amount and although I think they are at their most (overwhelmingly) delightful when they are fresh, I would also like to preserve them to enjoy in the winter.

Last year I canned some and that was fine but it definitely changes the flavor. This year I’m freezing some, which I think will be nice, but I also wanted to try drying them. On different racks in my dehydrator I dried 1) berries that had been “checked” aka just split open in boiling water, 2) berries I had “checked” by just barely mashing them with a glass jar and 3) whole berries.

but no method was super successful because when they dry they become like 70% seed and 30% berry flesh. and that’s just a lot of seed. they’re not super enjoyable to eat. but I know people dry juneberries and have done so for a long time so -- ? thoughts? do I just find a tree with larger berries and/or smaller seeds? do I just deal with the seeds?

[61below]

Next day follow-up 😍

The juneberries were so thick today it felt like picking at a vineyard. And then I couldn’t have asked for a nicer evening: crisp and cool and just windy-enough to keep the biting bugs away. And even though the deer damn near mowed my entire pollinator garden flat this spring, enough plants have come back enough that the bees and butterflies have been thick

[godzilla-reads]

—From “The Serviceberry” by Robin Wall Kimmerer

[vandaliatraveler]

NC-WV is finally enjoying a dry, sunny spring weekend after weeks of near nonstop, flooding rain. That was all the incentive I needed to take my first long hike of the spring at Coopers Rock State Forest. The wildflower progression on top of Chestnut Ridge is running about 2 weeks behind that at lower elevations, but there were plenty of early spring beauties on display this afternoon. From top: Allegheny serviceberry (Amelanchier laevis); long-spurred violet (Viola rostrata); halberd-leaved yellow violet (Viola hastata); downy rattlesnake plantain (Goodyera pubescens); trailing arbutus (Epigaea repens), which is not herbaceous but a mat-forming, evergreen shrub in the health family; broadleaf toothwort (Cardamine diphylla), also known as two-leaf toothwort; and round-lobed hepatica (Hepatica americana), which prefers drier woods than sharp-lobed hepatica (Hepatica acutiloba), which I typically find growing on the rocky, calcareous slopes along the Monongahela River.

[indigrassy]

Downy serviceberry

[jadafitch]

Blue Jay on Shadbush

[brooklynbridgebirds]

Cedar Waxwing in serviceberry tree Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 1

[melgillman]

Not doing a very good job this year convincing strangers to try serviceberries

[garden-and-friends]

soon... 👀

[dreamlessspring]

Amelanchier × spicata, the low juneberry

[lichen-soup-scribe]

July 4 is Blueberry Ice Cream Day to me

It's a family tradition, and one I'm happy to keep alive in place of patriotism. This ice cream contains no egg yolks and has an amazingly silky texture. The almond extract complements the blueberries, but feel free to reduce it (especially if you have especially good blueberries) or leave it out entirely if you're not a fan.

Grandma’s Blueberry Ice Cream

Ingredients

2 cups fresh blueberries

1.5 cups sugar

2 + 2/3 cup heavy cream

1 + 1/3 cup whole milk (NOT 2% or skim)

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 teaspoon almond extract

Pinch salt

Mash berries thoroughly with sugar; let stand at room temp for 1 hour. Combine with remaining ingredients; chill to 40 degrees or cooler. Churn in ice cream machine and transfer promptly into a pre-chilled container and then into the freezer. Makes about 2 quarts.

[garblegarden]

i miss serviceberries