How to Harvest and Preserve Elderberries

Today we are harvesting and preserving Elderberries that I grow right here on the homestead. Elderberries are great for syrups and pies, and are a known immune system booster.
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[@LittleRapGuy]

Happy harvesting Garden Jen...,

[@carolynmoody9460]

Blessings ❤️

[@juliepizzolato1911]

Another wonderful share...Hubster and I have an elderberry bush that was well established when we bought our property over 37 years ago
Love them. Loving all you share from North Idaho zone 6a 💚🌻🌿

[@reneenelsen7416]

Thank you for sharing your content. Even though I am looking for ways to harvest the seeds ( which I think is the berry? But not positive?) Harvest seeds to grow more plants and the whole cycle of that, if you have a video of up close pictures for growing the seeds? That would be great. Or let me move into your food forest? It looks so delicious :) I'm really old so when I harvest things I reach to cut off the plants like grapes, I take 2 stackable 10 gallon buckets and a one gallon ice cream bucket with a handle, I drape the ice cream bucket over my arm so I can still use both hands to cut a cluster off and reap til the one gallon bucket is full, then transfer those to a 10 gallon bucket kept up right with a lid over it lightly, and I use the other 10 gallon bucket to sit on for a little old lady break and repeat til the 10 gallon and the one gallon buckets are full, cuz that's my weight limit now, and wish I would of thought of it B4 I was 40 cuz it sure saves from getting such sore muscles and now I'm passed 60 but still moving, just pacing myself a little more gingerly. Ya know like a snail ;)

[@GardenJensJourney]

You can grow plants from the berries, since that's how birds spread them, but they are best propagated by cuttings, or by digging up young shoots in the spring.
Once they are established, they multiply rapidly on their own. No need to plant a lot more plants. My bushes are 6 years old now and have spread quite a bit.
I sell cuttings in the very early spring, if you can't find local plants.

[@reneenelsen7416]

@@GardenJensJourney Thank you. I might take you up on that. I haven't searched the internet yet for them, I've only asked around the country side, haven't found any one who kept theirs going. 55 years ago I had 5 trees of them, which was plenty. But I moved away 10 years and when I came back those trees had disappeared. Now I wish I had some again.and I'm in Wisconsin so I don't know if the bush type would survive the winters?

[@GardenJensJourney]

I never heard of elderberry "trees." The standard American Elderberry is a bush, much like a lilac in the way it grows. I'm in Michigan, and like I said, once they are established, they tend to spread quite a bit.

[@lessummers5738]

@@GardenJensJourney Can I ask why you cant just eat them off the tree?will it kill you or make you sick?thank you

[@GardenJensJourney]

It will make you sick. If you search Google, or you're favorite search engine, you can read up on the exact issues it causes. 😊

[@debraholder7140]

Where can you buy elderberries plants

[@GardenJensJourney]

I bought mine years ago from Burgess. If you know someone who has them, you can get saplings in the spring. I do sell cuttings in the spring, myself.