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["alden@waldenwinds.com" <alden@waldenwinds.com>]

Steven was reporting astringency problems on hikes tasting autumn olives.

Tasting at full ripe is critical to fruit quality in autumn olives.

One day, I hit my exploration area on a highway in central Massachusetts.

That day I tasted 126.  At the end of the day, I thought I had found a couple that were pretty good.

The next day, I went to taste them.  They were pretty terrible.

I had actually lost my sense of taste to the point where bad started to taste good.

Charlie Paradise