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  • From: mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Autumn Olive Harvest and 'Garnet'; wine
  • Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:46:13 -0500

If you told someone around here you were planting autumn olive they
would come after you with a shot gun.

~mIEKAL


On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Dr. Lucky Pittman
<lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu> wrote:
> Mark,
>
> The pathologist friend who gifted me with the autumn olive wine had access
> to several hundred feet of large mature AO bushes that had been planted as
> screens/windbreaks in his neighborhood.
>
> I’ve not picked many in my day, but stopped at the end of one of those rows
> a year or so back, and if memory serves correctly, it seemed like it was a
> fairly simple process of just stripping handfuls of the fruit off into a
> bucket. I’d bet I could get gallons of fruit in a very short time – might
> have some leaves included, and some bugs might come along for the ride, but
> I’ll bet I could get volume.
>
> The berries ‘keep’ for a long time in a Ziploc bag in the fridge.
>
>




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