Ripening Strawberry!
I think one of the most important lessons I’ve learned in the past six years as a wild food forager, organic gardener, and localvore are the lessons of abundance and scarcity, and the interplay between the two. Crops fail, others boom, patches of mushrooms are discovered and never found again. You never know what a year will be like on your homestead, or what the season will be like for foraging. You’ll never know when you go somewhere new what you will find–if anything. You have something really great happen one year–like a huge patch of wild berries turned into jam–and then the next two years, the berry patch isn’t producing because the weather early in the season was too cold or there was a late frost. Or the sap runs abundantly one year, or in the next, its gone. When you do find something exciting…
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