It has been a very strange summer and my elderberries ripened a whole month earlier than expected. Just as well I was keeping a bit of an eye on them because the birds love them and always eat them before they start to look ripe (for us) so it would be easy to miss that your crop was just slowly disappearing. Thankfully I was able to net a good proportion of what was left. Usually I dehydrate my elderberries so that I can make things with them later on when I’m not busy with the summer … [Read more...]