How to Process Hackberry Fruit [An IMPORTANT Wild Staple Food]
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- In this video Matthew describes how to process edible hackberry fruit. Scientifically this species of hackberry is known as Celtis reticulata, netleaf hackberry, but other species of hackberry trees are used the same way.
Many people consider hackberry trees a "trash tree" due to its short life span, relatively low quality wood, and high water needs. However, what is underreported is that hackberry fruit provides a high quality staple food that requires relatively little processing and is abundant throughout large portions of the United States.
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Dang.. I just learned that the tree I have in back is a hackberry and I’ve been sweeping them off my porch! Best go pick up some of those free gifts!!
Recently bought two saplings of these trees at a native plant nursery. Been wanting them for the shade to further grow out the yard. We have had the desert hackberry bushes on the property for decades, and I remember picking and eating the berries when I was a kid as I played outside. Excellent plants all around and great both for shade, food, and attracting wildlife.
One of my favorite trees! The other is Anacua. I don’t understand why Hackberries get such a bad rap. So many people just don’t know its historical importance. Such an awesome food and medicine source, AND my rabbits will choose it over any other feed and snack!
Love my hackberries!
I have four gigantic Hackberry trees in my back yard. I always thought the berries were useless and not edible. I probably have some berries hanging right now. Some of the limbs on these trees are bigger then some large trees I have seen.
I too have a couple mature Hackberry trees here way before we bought the property and I never knew you could eat the hackberry! Now that I know I will put it to good use
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Thank you sir !
lots of good info. Thanks!
Wooohoo! Now I get to figure out how to get these berries down and be rich in free food! I got some fresh so I am going to make this!
Great video. 7:35 Wonder if I can find them in Colorado?
Do you want to harvest them in summer then when they are more sweet and palatable?
They grow in scattered locations in Colorado. Fall is the time to harvest them, but yes they will be a lot better in October/November. Thanks for commenting!
They are a commonly sold nursery tree. They are growing in many peoples front yards and along streets all around Denver. I worked at a wholesale. Nursery and I have sold many of them to landscape companies. You could probably also find them on commercial properties. Once you identify the leaves, and now that you know the fruit, it should be easy.
World is crazier now!!
Could you make a jam out of them if you remove the seeds?
I love hackberry
I invented Hydrotilling . It should be able to help you to be able to process food and create food.
I'm going to try it.
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Please come take all the &#^%#$*@ hackberries that have invaded my back garden. You're more than welcome to them. If I have to eat the berries, there are plenty on the tree in the yard behind me--the one that over the years has dropped two HUGE branches on my shed and fence. They are brittle storm bait, tbh.
He sees dead people.
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If he eats the wrong thing he will.
I live in central Louisiana. We have one very large hackberry tree in the front yard and plenty others from its seeds that the birds have started. I never knew it was edible and nutritious! Really amazing and I thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Thanks for watching!
Yep you're one of the very few people that's talking about the hackberry tree I've got about six of them outside here right now fully fruited and their fruit the fruit on these will two of them it's almost like a lighter pink color the rest of them are like a dark dark blackberry color and they get pretty large and they're tasty boy and they fruit a lot and got two elderberry trees down here so that would be cool if you could come up with I know I've heard of some uses for the elderberry flowers those clusters of flowers you can do some things with them if you have any ideas that would be great to hear about that and more hackberry uses thank you very much
This is awesome. We've got a hackberry volunteer that I made my husband mow around and now it's huge, only a year later! Can't wait to try the berries.
It’s good to hear that your hackberry tree is huge after a year. I’m thinking of planting one.
According to BlackForager here on TH-cam, the fruit is great, but she’s picking it while the leaves are still green.
FWIW
We alway had hackberry trees around the yard when I was growing up. I never knew they were edible. All this time I could have been eating them.
My place is cover up in hackberry trees I’m looking forward to the coming harvest season
Aphids are very attracted to hackberry trees. You'll get a lot of black honey dew under those trees. Had to cut mine down because it was covering my vehicles and roof. Never knew about the fruit.
We always called the Hackberry tree by another name also. It's called the toothache tree also. Native Americans used the bark for toothaches. It has a numbing effect on the gums much like cloves.
That's the prickly Ash or tooth ache tree
They are not the same tree
Can you do the same with a sugar berry tree?
Yep, sugar berry is a type of hackberry. Thanks for watching!
Hi, thanks for the hackberry milk video. I live in northern Idaho, where can I find hackberry trees in the PNW Pacific North West? Thanks
For fresh berries, do you dehydrate them before grinding?
Outstanding
Hackberry bread?
Do you do in house training ie wood walk for herbs or demos of tinctures etc. I would be happy to pay for theses demos
Thanks
You need a cape of a super hero, sir!
My Hackberry’s has black seeds.
is he grinding green immature berries or just the mature berries?
Just the mature berries.
I am glad you have no bun on your head.
How prejudiced you are.
What has having a hairstyle have to do with anything?
Do you treat people differently if they have a certain hairstyle or some other outward characteristic?
Says a LOT about you.
@@leoniebelcher1680 Pointing out an emasculating fad is prejudiced? As long as we are changing meanings of words here, Grow up, ding dong.
I have some questions about some of my tinctures ive made. I live in calhoun la and would love to meet you and pick your brain on some plants im trying out.
That's funny, I live in West Monroe and film all of my videos in Calhoun.
Got two of these growing now was looking up thing on this berry and ran into your channel.
Just had a word of knowledge. I have about three or four hack berries for five I think if something but anyway I planted them about 6 or 7 years ago at least at least now the trees are big and now is when the starting to have little bit flowers... I kept looking up in the computer and I couldn't find how old the trees have to be to bear fruit but just be patient and they will but the tree has to get big so unfortunately don't expect any fruit when it's a small tree at least that's my experience and I have quite a few of them. But you made a good choice because not only can people eat them but the birds absolutely love them from what I understand. After they have fruit for the first year then the next year and the next year you get more and more
I'm looking to buy an old fashioned hand grinder to process the hackberries from our many hackberry trees. Would I get a meat, wheat, or nut grinder? Or some other kind of grinder?
Btw...that cinnamon hackberry milk looks delicious!
I think a meat grinder is best
@@LegacyWildernessAcademy i think you called it earlier in your video ... a mortar and pestel
I just tried a hackberry for the first time today and it tasted like a banana to me 😭
Ope maybe I ate it way too early lol. It was red so I thought it was ripe haha
Mine also didn’t taste very sweet. Probably because I ate it too early lmao
Really invasive! Omg, they are everywhere here in Central Texas!
Can't be invasive if they are native trees. Maybe aggressive?
How about put it in a wet mill like u prosess chocolate?
Did u finde a good way to harvest?
I also have desert hackberry trees and anacua trees