Ruth Nakamura · February 2, 2026
Stains happened to me before I understood what I was doing. I showed up at a family barbecue that summer with discolored hands, a shirt that would never come clean, and a tale that got better with each retelling. By now I’ve developed a whole approach to harvesting, processing, and storing mulberries without walking around … Read more
Ruth Nakamura · January 18, 2026
You’ll run into two competing pieces of advice the moment you start shopping for a mulberry tree: buy whatever variety looks best on the nursery tag, or pick strictly for cold-hardiness and ignore the rest. Both are wrong for a beginner, and I learned that the expensive way. My first tree was an ornamental white … Read more
Ruth Nakamura · December 20, 2025
Most people picking up their first mulberry assume that color tells the whole story—white means white, red means red, black means black. Done. Except that’s exactly backwards, and I learned this the hard way by standing in my kitchen with a colander full of berries that tasted like unripe disappointment. The real truth is far … Read more
