This morning I was perusing my Twitter feed and came across this tweet by Leda Meredith, a food preservation expert and forager here in NYC—she mentioned juneberries:
If you went on a foraging tour with me last month in #NYC, you know where the juneberries are. Go. Now. They are… http://t.co/khDFDNs0C9
— Leda Meredith (@ledameredith) June 9, 2015
I followed the link to her blog post, where she talked more about juneberries. She mentioned that they were also called serviceberries, which triggered a memory of hearing about serviceberry trees not far from my apartment, and since it was still early enough in the morning, I headed out to find them.
When I arrived in the area I thought would be home to the serviceberry trees, I didn’t see them at first, and was a little bummed out… until I looked further down the hill and saw a tree full of berries—and there were a lot of them. [bctt tweet=”Juneberry jackpot!”]
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