Learn How to Identify and Harvest Elderberries!

This time of year, elderberries are just starting to get ripe so learn how to harvest and identify elderberries before the wildlife beats you to it! Elderberries are a wild edible commonly found across much of the United States. Elderberries have been used for centuries in folk medicine, boosting the immune system for cold and flu season. Learning to properly identify and harvest elderberries can come in handy if you want to make your own elderberry syrup, gummies, or other elderberry products (like elderberry tincture!).
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[@junebroussard6275]

SIR!!! I THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH, FOR CLEARING THIS UP FOR ME...AS TO WHICH WAS WHAT! YOU WERE VERY THOROUGH IN YOUR EXPLANATION AND I APPRECIATED THIS VIDEO VERY MUCH!!!

[@nuttygnomehomestead]

You are very welcome!

[@lessummers5738]

@@nuttygnomehomestead Thanks for the video I was wondering can you eat the berries right of the pod like just pick off tree and eat them? thanks

[@hollyladeaux2727]

They make the best jelly, and the dried berries are good in tea.

[@nuttygnomehomestead]

Most of ours are used for syrup, gummies, and wine. I add the syrup to my tea often!

[@TheRmoore61]

I'm in Alabama and thre is a tree in my back yard. I'm not sure if it is elder. Can you help me?

[@alisahornberg1080]

Are elderberries unusable if picked not completely ripe?

[@nuttygnomehomestead]

If they are slightly unripe, they are still ok. Light purple, purple, and black are what we look for. Please avoid green or reddish/purple elderberries that haven't turned purple/black yet.

[@daArt708]

Now im confused you mentioned poke berry ..do that grow on an elederberry bush

[@nuttygnomehomestead]

No, it grows in the same locations as elderberries. Often time in the same stand as the elderberry.

[@daArt708]

@@nuttygnomehomestead thanks a bunches ... I'll be keeping an lookout for them...since I now know the difference all I'm seeing is the poke berries