Six jars of cornelian cherry jam from our foraging yesterday. It needed quite a bit of sweetening but it tastes quite nice.It is tart like cranberry sauce.I think it would be very tasty with something savory. One jar was old and of an odd size so the lid wouldn't fit. I'll try that one out tonight on some mushroom loaf.

Biking and Foraging

Biked my newly self-repaired bike over to Friendly Grove park today. R played with some friends for a while.As we were leaving she noticed red fruits in the small trees in the park. I thought I remembered one of the unschooling families we hang out with mention that they were edible cornelian cherries. So we foraged quite a number of them (most of the low-hanging fruit) and biked home. I checked google to be reasonably sure of what we have and am now cooking them up on the stove. I see jam and crumble in our future. And future trips (with a step ladder in tow). I find there is a special thrill in foraging.Recognizing beautiful valuable things in plain site no one else seems to see.