Clara Whitmore 
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you. It was a Saturday morning in June when my neighbor knocked on the door with a smile that said everything. A mulberry branch the thickness of my forearm was draped across her fence, and below … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you. I’ll never forget standing in my backyard on a gray February afternoon, holding a young mulberry sapling and genuinely panicking. The nursery tag said it was “cold hardy,” but I lived in Zone 5, and … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you. It was late April, and my mulberry tree was absolutely exploding with new growth. I was out there with my pruning shears, doing what I do every spring — trimming back the wild branches, shaping … Read more
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This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you. It was late June, and my mulberry trees were absolutely screaming. I’m talking purple-stained hands, a colander overflowing every other day, and a freezer that was already packed with summer projects. I remember standing in … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you. Last summer, my neighbor Sarah stood in my backyard with a freshly picked black mulberry in her palm, looking at it like it might bite her. “So what do mulberries taste like?” she asked, hesitantly … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you. The first time I brought in a big bowl of mulberries from the backyard and set them on the counter, I noticed something moving. Tiny, barely visible, wriggling white specks in a few of the … Read more
This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you. It was a Tuesday morning in late September when I stood in my kitchen, staring at a small glass jar of pale green powder, wondering if I’d made a terrible mistake. Three months earlier, I’d … Read more
If you’re looking for a complete guide to mulberry trees, you’ve found it. I’ve spent over a decade growing 12 different mulberry cultivars in my backyard, and I still remember the moment I first tasted a sun-warmed black mulberry straight off the branch. That single berry changed everything. I ripped out a struggling apple tree … Read more
For months, my mulberry leaf tea was a complete gamble. Sometimes it tasted smooth and grassy. Other times it came out bitter and flat. I had no idea what I was doing wrong — until I realized my old kettle…
