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 been perfectly happy sipping mulberry leaf tea and occasionally taking an extract capsule. But then I got curious—the kind of … Read more
Everything in my kitchen starts with the question: what’s the most shelf-stable, most nutritious form I can preserve this in? With mulberries, that question led me deep into fermentation — wines, vinegars, and lacto-fermented preserves that outlast any jam by months and develop flavor profiles I never expected from backyard fruit. But somewhere between my … Read more
A mulberry tree on a homestead is a community asset — for you, for the birds, for the pollinators, and occasionally for every squirrel in a quarter-mile radius. Learning to manage that sharing relationship without losing your entire harvest to wildlife is one of the first real lessons the tree teaches you. But once you … Read more
