Collecting wild cherries During second part of August is a perfect time to collect wild cherries. They can be a little dry and astringent when they are not completely ripe and therefore they are great for jam. But what I discovered several years ago was even better: wild cherry cough syrup! If you have a …
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Wild cherry cough syrup
Birch gifts – sap, tea and other uses throughout the year.
The birch trees grow in temperate forests of the North. It is an official national tree of both Finland and Sweden and an informal national symbol of Russia. It is also the most common tree growing in Norway. There are many different kinds of birch: white or paper, river, silver, weeping, yellow, Himalayan, cherry …
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