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EDIBLE PART & PREPARATION:

Devour handfuls of the raw, ripe berry, or use them to top ice cream, or make syrup by simmering a cup of them with sugar and a little water.

WHEN TO HARVEST:

Typically early summer, depending on location and elevation. After picking, give remaining, unripe berries 7–10 days more to ripen, then return to pick the bushes again.

Two nice fruit clusters of black raspberries ripe for the picking. Rose Barlow once told me that she had picked 32 gallons of wild black raspberries in a single year. She explained that she had found eight nice patches. By the time she finished picking the eighth one, enough berries had ripened to return to patch number one and repeat the process.

SUSTAINABLE HARVESTING:

As long as you don’t destroy the bushes, picking the fruit should cause no harm.

PRESERVING THE HARVEST:

Freeze the berries on a cookie sheet, then pour them into a quart bag. Vacuum seal the bag and stick it back in the freezer.

Most young black raspberry canes have a bluish-white waxy bloom that can be rubbed off.