Amber Autumnberry (Autumn Olive). There are multiple varieties of amber Autumnberry. One has larger fruit than all other Autumnberry that I’ve come across, red or amber. It’s also sweeter, if not quite as flavorful as the red varieties. Another variety of amber Autumnberry is more prolific than the large fruit variety but with smaller and… Continue reading Amber Autumnberry

Canadice grapes, ripe for a couple weeks now, zone 6b northern West Virginia. A few seeds, tart skin, very sweet thick pulp. This vine grows on a bush, gets direct sun until about 3:30 p.m. These grapes are untreated. Black rot took a percentage. Some of the casualties can be seen as black, shriveled, raisin-like… Continue reading Canadice Grapes

White currants when full ripe are sweet with little or no tart flavor. The sweetest of all the currants. Great hang time with currant fruit. These fully ripe sweet currants are some of the same fruits photoed exactly a month prior – here – when they were also very edible though somewhat tart. Currant fruit… Continue reading White Currants

Wild chokecherry, small with sweet-tart flavor.

A flavorful wild gooseberry, sweet-tart and chewy when it darkens from this greenish cast and ripens:

Beach plum, black elderberry, Asian pear, red raspberry, gooseberry, jostaberry, white currant, chokecherry, red currant, cherry plum.

Nijisseiki Asian pear (aka 20th Century pear) tastes much like a small mild apple when picked before its typical full ripe sweeter flavor. A great fruit, reliable, precocious, earlier than apples typically. Asian pears are also called apple pears. When fully ripe they can have an almost piercing sweetness, though sometimes a very simple almost… Continue reading Nijisseiki Asian Pear

The ribes genus contains some excellent edible fruits, including red, white, and pink currants, black currants, gooseberries, and jostaberry (gooseberry crossed with black currant). In PA this year, Jeanne gooseberry ripened up perfectly. Jeanne skin is much thinner than Black Velvet goosebery when fully ripe, and essentially zero tart. When not fully ripe, some acid… Continue reading Ribes

The Minaj Smyriou black currant when fully ripe tastes like a blueberry mixed with a dark beer. Or a generic berry mixed with a dark beer. It’s a beer berry, or berry beer. Very unique, and very compelling for that. When underripe, it tastes like a sour beer berry, when overripe it tastes like a… Continue reading Black Currants

Black elderberry is a very cold hardy, very late blooming, very reliable fruit.