Forage Wild Blackberries

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Simple preserves: How to make blackberry Jam and Jelly!

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Head out to an area where wild blackberries are abundant. Identify ripe berries, which will be dark purple to black in color. Gently pick the berries, being careful to avoid thorns and leaving red or unripe berries to mature. The video uses a 5-gallon bucket for initial collection and smaller quart containers for holding picked berries. Note that blackberries grow on current year's canes, which will not fruit again; new growth will produce berries next year, so avoid damaging it. Also, pick berries after a dry spell to ensure maximum sweetness, as rain can dilute their flavor.

Goal: Begin by foraging for wild blackberries in their natural habitat, ensuring to pick only ripe, dark purple or black berries. Use appropriate containers for collection and pay attention to plant growth habits.

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5-gallon bucket
Quart containers
Wild Blackberries

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hey there folks this is josh stoney ridge farmer welcome back to another beautiful day here on the stoney ridge farm the sun's coming up it's hot outside and it's blackberry season so look at this bush it is absolutely loaded down with delicious blackberries and i'm gonna have to eat that one mmm oh god that's so good so sweet so what we're gonna be doing today is we're gonna do a little bit of martha stewart living here we're going to go ahead and we're going to pick some wild blackberries and we're going to make blackberry jelly and blackberry jam one or the other i'm not positive so come along today as we show you guys how to live a little more holistic a little more country and if making jelly isn't your thing i still think you should watch this because there's nothing better than a gift from a family member like jelly think about christmas time or thanksgiving or holidays or anything like that you can bring a jar of your own jelly and jam and man it just puts a smile on people's face guys so come along we're going to teach you how to pick wild berries and make some jam jamon mon [Music] oh all right guys i hope you enjoyed that little intro man the dogs are loving the pond this time of year it is absolutely hot it's one of those days where it's 88 degrees and feels like 97 i'm starting to sweat i'm sweating out my morning coffee here but we're going to go ahead and start loading down on blackberries and this is a five gallon bucket big shout out to my sister for making this for me that's very awesome thank you tracy and we're going to use quartz so these quart containers came from the chinese food place back in the day when i had coveted so what we're going to do here we're going to do all natural we're going to do no pectin we're going to do blackberries and sugar those are the only two ingredients this is going to be a fun short video and we've got a lot of picking to do if you guys can't see this these berry bushes are absolutely loaded i anticipate we're going to have enough blackberry jam and jelly to give out to all my family members this year so if you're watching you're probably going to get one for christmas let's get busy okay guys let me give you a little blackberry picking 101. take your finger back here and hold the plant as you pick them off because those ripe extra ripe berries and these are small berries but we've got some great old big fatty ones those extra ripe berries will tend to fall off if you don't hold it still and this will…

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