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 I’d just read three different websites that each claimed something different about mulberry growing zones. One said my variety would … Read more
I got obsessed with mulberries after eating a handful off my neighbor’s old tree on a walk and realizing I’d never tasted anything like it. Six months later I had a sapling in the ground and no real plan. Everything I’ve learned since then came from doing, failing, adjusting, and doing it again. The hardest … Read more
When you’re processing large harvests on a homestead schedule, efficiency matters as much as technique. I’ve batch-processed over forty pounds of mulberries in a single weekend using a system that keeps the kitchen from descending into chaos — and produces multiple products simultaneously rather than making one thing at a time. But here’s what I … Read more
