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Note: Wineberries will darken even more to a deep red color, similar in color to an overripe strawberry. I picked the fruits in this video at this particular stage of red for two reasons: 1) I really like the flavor at this stage... sweet and slightly tangy... and 2) some of our local patches get hit hard by foragers and animals. If I wait any longer, I won't have access to any wineberries. The patch in this video was getting hit pretty hard, so I had to make do with what I found. The fruits still detached easily from their receptacles (signifying ripeness but not overripeness) and were delicious. Happy wineberry harvesting!
I have found a whole acre of them in the woods behind my house. Been eating them almost every day for a week. Today I did manage to bring some home in a little container and decided to freeze them. Thanks for your info, Adam.
I just recalled some years ago finding what I assume is a genetic based color variation. The color was the same as that of a Honeydew melon. Taste remained the same.
Hello Adam...I grew up in Western Pa....Peters Township area...where abouts are u around? Love the show but was really hoping u could do or at least consider doing a video or a few..lol...on the area I moved to when I went to college back in 95! I choose a completely different climate and flora! Arizona! Anyways just wondering if u were going to cover different areas and climates? Thank u so much Adam!!
They made me late getting home after school walking home. They grew along the roadsides wild in the ditches . They were so delicate and most delicious berry I have memory of.
If you wait until they're nearly maroon, they are very sweet. They dominate the top of the ravine at the back of my property among the black raspberries, at the edge of the deep shade of mature poplars. They don't seem to tolerate the full sun in which blackberries thrive. They grow at the perfect height for grandchildren to find. They're great treats when hiking, too.
I’ve started looking at my overgrown lawn completely different since watching this man. I even started plucking the wood nettle out from around the stinging nettle to give it less competition!
They are So good ! Live in CT. So pretty - clean bright red without that "hazy" look of a raspberry - like little jewels. Thank you for this video. Most people around here don't know they're edible. Didn't known you were in W PA. My Dad was from W PA, family is still. Small world - amazing where one little berry can lead. Take care 😊
I enjoy wineberries every July, ton of them grow in my hedgerows and other parts of my land. I have several different types of berries that grow here, all of them are wild.
i am from the netherlands, we actually have these berries in our garden. they are really delicous and the bush (?) doesn't need much maintenance. when they are really ripe and dark red they are very sweet. i love them very much.
I have some as well, I need to cover them or the birds eat them all, but the birds must have brought them as well. I cut a lot out because they spread like mad😁
@@kleineroteHex oh interesting, the birds here don't eat them at all, perhaps because of the torns. maybe 1 or 2 brave birds pick 1 or 2, but usually it's totally fine. interesting, haha. yeah we have to cut them each year, to maybe 60 cm in height, next year they are fully grown again. but that's all that we need to do! they are delicious aren't they?
We have been pruning and maintaining wineberries on our "pollinator pathway"property here in NY's Hudson Valley. So far we have picked nearly 5lbs. Chilling, Freezing then vacuum sealing them to enjoy for months. Love your videos! ☮️💜🤙
@@juanmoreira8272 No, we just prune back all of the old growth brown stems, and also clip the ends off any branches that are trying to attach to the ground in the fall/winter. That keeps the plants more compact and keeps them from spreading. 👍
We have those all over the mountain right now... All over. I love them and bears do too. I got to see a bear the other day. In Kentucky! It was not a mean bear. It ran away.
I live in Northern New Jersey, and we have these all over the place. There’s especially a lot along the railroad tracks near me, which makes sense with what you said about where they grow. I enjoy this invasive species too lol
All over the hills of S. Ohio. Edges and over slopes of wooded hollers. Delicious! Like sweet tarts. I didn't know they weren't red raspberries. I have all the trees you named!
We use to have these wonderful plants growing where I lived as a child. It has been a long time since I have seen them though. I think they have been eradicated by farmers breaking the land in for farming purposes. The memory of their tasty fruit filling our bowls up to the brim brings me much joy. I live in New Zealand. And I do enjoy listening snd watching your videos of the countryside on the Eastern board of the USA.
Great timing! I have been wineberry picking for a week now. I thought they were raspberries. Either way, they are delicious. So far I have made jam, and ice cream and will make wine, but I may change that to mead. Many thanks!!!
Never heard of wine berries. We have black berries where I live in Northern California and they are very invasive but produce amazing berries in abundance. I live in Sonoma county where a famous botanist named Luther Burbank was based. He actually bred a thornless blackberry which you can see growing at his farm
Wine berries are indeed an agressive berry. I went from picking wild black berries on my property to having only wine berries only after a few years. The same applies for the roads around me. You can hardly find black berries but fill up on wine berries.
Thanks for the video! Coincidentally, I encountered wineberries for the first time this year. They are delish! I wonder if the pristine nature of the berry is due to how the plant covers and protects the berries by exposing them to the open air only once they have become close to ripe. No chance for critters to get in and nibble them beforehand. I agree in that they tend to stay firm and I hardly ever come across one that is too squishy. To me, they taste very sweet like a jolly rancher. -Ash
We just moved to eastern Virginia late last year and this year in early July, guess what we found waking through the woods out here? Yep, Wineberrys. Never had them before and my wife and I and out pup just loved them. The description where they can be found in video is 100% spot on. Great video.
@@mrs.cracker4622 earlier. Worth the drive next year to find out. We found them on the left side of the start of the blue trail, then they're everywhere at Caledon State Park south of Fredericksburg.
As Usual, You Taught Me Something New And Exciting, Adam. If It Wasn't Over A Hundred Degrees Outside With The Humidity Over 70, I'd Be Out There Exploring To Find Me Some Of This Wonderful Fruit. Thanks For Sharing Your Wealth Of Knowledge. Much Love From The Sticks Of Kentucky. 🤔🍓🍒🔄🌑
I posted a video analyzing wineberries a few days ago. They are my favorite berries of summer. I must admit this video is much better quality than my own lol. You are a great teacher. Thank you for sharing your vast knowledge of plants and mushrooms with us.
Honestly, I could see a ton of rip offs coming from RU-vid but, the truth is, there are devoted followers to certain channels. Without everyone sharing their opinions on the subject matter, as humans, we'd limit eachother. But freely sharing our knowledge, we grow much more. We build the basics of knowledge, and then we become better acquainted with that knowledge, through others that without the basic understanding, we would have never gotten as far with whatever subject matter we're discussing. Kinda like playing an instrument. At first, many were limited until those that took the time to put the effort into music notes, into an alphabeticized theory. Music theory. And now those that have learned their instrument with music theory, can make lessons, based off music theory, much easier for other people to learn. Thereby, expanding our knowledge and understanding of music. And the same basic building blocks for understanding our surrounding Forrest holds true also. Without those that spent their lives in research, we would barely be scratching the surface now. So to that I say, even though I didn't see your video personally, I appreciate you sharing yours on your channel and not giving this foraging channel crap over resharing his information because we all need it. And if we can further it, it benefits us all. 😉
Home made mead is always a good time. We are heading out this weekend to the cook foresrt region in search of them and any mushrooms we can discover. Cheers
I’ve been looking at a patch of these along a road I frequent on my way home. Always wondered what they were and I assumed they were a species of red raspberry. Now I know! Thanks!!
@@justafig lol, unfortunately they are on a sheer hill that meets the road. On the other side there is a guardrail so I can’t just pull over. It’s a very bad spot. But I’m going to park far away and walk down to them because now that I know what they are and I’ve never had them I have to go!
They are delicious!...me and my daughter have been picking them all this week and we thought they were raspberries! I'm from North East Pa and find them all over the place but I definitely notice the same trends
@@h.Freeman same here, I've probably found them and thought they were raspberries. I'll have to pay more attention to the plants next time I'm in the woods!
I moved some of these plants from the woods onto my property .it's nice because they ripen after my regular raspberries finish so it extends my harvest period.
Always enjoy your informative talks about our surroundings of natural resources, beauty, and foraging. We are never too old to learn something new. Thank You for sharing your knowledge with us.
In Poland we call them wild raspberries. Personally I make wild raspberry syrup out of them. It is so tasty and also very healthy. Thanks for great video. It is very interesting to learn about wildlife in US. Greetings from Poland.👍🏻 🇵🇱
The recipe is not a family secret 😉 however it takes time and little effort . You need 2 lb of w. raspberries and an half of pound of white sugar. 1) Wash w. raspberries and place them in accordingly big pot. Add sugar stir with fruit together with a wooden spoon. ( for making any syrup always use a wooden spoon) 2) Leave it for about 30 minuts so the mixture releases the juice. 3) Place the pot on the stove and warm the mixture up on low hit for another 30 minuts, occasionally stir with the wooden spoon, and then bring it to a boil for aditional 5 minut. 4) Take the pot of the hit and strain the contents through a fine sieve so you obtain just the w. raspberry juice. Taste the juice for sweetness. You can add more sugar acording to you taste. 5) Bring the juice to a boil once again for couple minutes and syrup is ready. 6) Pour the syrup into a clean, dry glass jars , seale them well and cann for 10 minuts. I hope the recipe is understandable. Sorry for mistakes, English is not my native language. I am still learning...try my best 😉
@@strzalkowska52 thank you Margaret, and your English is fine and perfectly understandable! Thanks again, I'm excited to try it out! Have a wonderful day ☺️
Just stumbled across some ripe ones today! I was thinking they were a native north american version of raspberry... Thanks for the background! They are absolutely delicious! I usually eat them all in the field too! :) cheers! I will follow your Instagram, didn't realize you were on there also.
Recently I went and collected a bottle of wineberries and made jam from them! Currently lives in my fridge, just waiting for me to make buttermilk biscuits with clotted cream
Thank you for this video! We have family all over PA, including western PA. Always enjoy your videos, they are informative and interesting, and and I like that you always show the plant or mushroom you are teaching us about. I grew up in south central PA, wine berries grew wild on my parents property. My brother's and I were tasked with picking bowls of them along the edge of our woods. We would get gently scolded by our mom if we came in the house with half full bowls :) but the berries were so good they were hard to resist, God's candy free for the picking. I've never heard them called wine berries and never knew the history of them, just thought they were raspberries native to our country. They are sticky, the briars are prickly, they grow in thick brambles, but they are so good. I saw the berries in your video and could just about taste them :) Wouldn't be summer in PA without these raspberries, so many good memories! They are great in homemade vanilla ice cream, even better if the ice cream is hand cranked churned, tastes better if you work for it! My brother will be visiting soon, hoping he can bring me a few plants, and hoping they can make it through a Minnesota winter.
I love watching your channel your very knowledgeable and fun to watch of course I don't live in the north east. But in the north west Idaho to be exact. I have learned a lot watching you my wife and I think you are an awesome young man keep up the good work 😎🇺🇲
Wow, these sure look delicious! They don‘t grow here in Germany. Instead,we‘ve got massive amounts of bramble hedges along the meadows and in the forests, and they‘re full of fruit that’s ripening early this summer due to the excessive heat. - Thanks for another beautiful video, Adam!
I was excited to see this video today because a couple of years ago my local supermarket had a few tiny straggly japanese wineberry seedlings for sale...i bought one and planted it and now in my UK home it has grown massive with many flower clusters on. I was puzzled by the strange "buds" which and couldn't understand why they were there AFTER the flowers had appeared but now I understand this is simply calyx (rather than sepals) and the fruits will soon appear. Can't wait and hope the birds and field mice dont get to them before I do!
I picked over 3 quarts of wine berries this weekend. I freeze them and use them in smoothies, as well as bake with them by using them in place of blueberries. Yum!
Been eating wine berries since a kid in the late 1950's. Like their easier access, ie. prickles more hairy and easier to pick than other briar berries. Was trying to figure out why it is considered for removal. Understand it interferes with reforestation and creates dense mono cultures. Do think eat the "weeds" is one way to help with controlling over aggressive species to help protect native species.
Love these berries. I eat those by the fist full. Like 5 6 fist full a day when ripe. All this time didn't know they were wine berries. Great information. Thanks.
Love you, brother! ❤ I've been picking raspberries and now black raspberries with a good friend out in nature! I'll be on the lookout for these (which I've seen but it's been a while)! Hugs and tons of love, Adam! ~ Christine
I've yet to encounter these here in Québec but I was nonetheless able to purchase some seeds for them in my quest to taste every possible bramble. I do see quite a bit of Rubus odoratus which are extremely similar to wineberries though. They're sort of a lesser and flatter-shaped raspberry imo but I'm still happy to find some when hiking on a trail..!
These grow directly behind my apartment building, all over the tree line before the woods. Thought they were poisonous due to the red spiky look but now I’ll have to try some!
The way you say home . Definitely from PA! My mother's family is from Paoli. My grammie Rimel would forage mushrooms while great grammie Messner always had blueberries. We had horses and sheep to keep us busy.
Last week went out multiple nights with my 5 year old son. Picked 6 quarts each night, but 3+ quarts made it to the fridge. I'm 46, and remember so many black raspberries along the train tracks in central Pennsylvania, but whatever the RR sprays now, the old patches are all gone
Also found a huge amount of Spotted Lantern Fly that were almost adults so over the wine berries. Right next to I81. No egg to kill, and so many almost adults we couldn't kill them all
Last year they were by me in a reservation in full fruit. They are best in full sun right on the trailside. Others I encounter in too much shade barely bloom and if they do the fruit is small and very slow to develop. This year they need another week to ripen although I eat a few of the orangey ones. They freeze well if you freeze completely separate from each other on a tray then put them in a container.
I was just hiking a chunk of the Appalachian Trail (in July) that included northern Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and southern Pennsylvania. They were all over the place alongside the trail in these sections! I’ve done most of the North Carolina and Virginia sections and don’t ever recall seeing them until I got into Northern Virginia and upward. To me they taste like a cross between a raspberry and a watermelon, or perhaps between a raspberry and a green apple, when you get a slightly under ripe one. I probably ate 100 of them. On one of my last days of hiking, I got wise and put a little Ziploc bag in the hip pouch of my backpack, when I came across a bunch of ripe ones, I collected them and instead of putting them straight into my mouth, I filled up the bag. The next morning I stirred them into my oatmeal, best trail breakfast I’ve had in a while, it was like wine berry cobbler, could have used some vanilla ice cream though. :-)
Thanks for the video Adam. I have this growing next to my shed and thought it was red raspberry. First year it fruited waited too long for them to grow bigger and more red and i lost the whole patch to the birds and squirrels. Good to know they do ripen before the black berries and to pick in July. Thanks again by helping me identify what is actually growing in my yard.
I find that the berries seem to be sweeter when they are in places with lots of sun, and when the wineberries have become a deeper red. Root competition for soil may be a factor as well, but I'm no botanist. You make mead from them? That would be an interesting instructional video.
That's interesting. I noticed the same thing with mulberries. Even from the same tree, the berries that grew in the sun were sweeter. And it did vary from tree to tree, too. Like you, I believed that the flavor must be in part due to the soil. I also discovered that if there were Japanese beetles or stink bugs on the fruit, or even nearby fruit, the flavor was ruined.
@@anyascelticcreations , I've noticed the same with mulberries, as well. Japanese beetles and stinkbugs, huh? Ruined in that they lost their flavor, or tasted rotten?
@@augusthavince8909 Yep. I learned to avoid berries from branches with those critters on them at all. And to taste a berry from each branch before putting any in my bucket, even if I didn't see anything on them. The mulberries don't actually loose their taste or smell rotten when I find Japanese beetles or stink bugs on them or nearby. They taste like the odor that the Japanese beetles emit if they are scared. As if the little guys are leaving a little bit of their ick on whatever berries they crawl on. Though, how they manage to make an entire branch of berries taste like that I don't know. Unless they walk around tasting them all until they find the perfect one.
I thought they were wild razzberries! I have about 30 brambles covering a 20 x 20-foot area in my wooded backyard. I sectioned them off in rows with posts and twine for easier picking. I was told to cut them down to 9 inches after the harvest. What do you think, "cut or leave alone". Eldersburg MD
I don't know this plant in particular, but I follow another channel called Cog Hill Farm. There Jason is in the process of starting a fruit orchard. He was also advised by a mentor to prune and trellis his plants. He does have blackberries on his orchard, which he plans to do this with. My guess would be that blackberry and wineberry plants would probably respond close to the same. I would say look up Cog Hill Farm here on youtube and find their fruit orchard playlist to hear exactly what he was advised to do. He demonstrates on some of his trees and tells what he was told to do with his blackberries. Plus, it's just a lovely channel to watch. 😊
There's a huge patch at the end of my street in Northern NJ,by the entrance to a park.I was pruning but discovered they die completely off for winter and come back beautiful in spring.I do rake the entire area in beginning of winter,because the slimy slobs in my area throw all their garbage there. I let the rest of the leaves that fall settle as mulch,and rake again very early spring before they start coming back.people in my city are pretty dumb,would be scared to eat them thinking they are poison, but I do have birds and other animals as competition. I go once a week as the ripen and get a huge bowl full.
Near the end of peak ripeness here in southwest VA. There are still plenty left to ripen up, though. I've picked about 10 pounds over the last few days. I'm trying a few different jelly and jam recipes with them this year.
Even Japanese Knotweed, an invasive plant all over the northeast (and perhaps elsewhere?) has incredible medicinal uses for both preventing and treating Lyme. Anyone who kneejerks over invasive plants, needs to learn how to investigate their properties.
