Tell us an interesting random fact you stumbled across (Part 1)

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The Foraging And Preserving Thread

My mom’s real big on foraging and preserving, and the combination thereof. She has places for foraging apples, pears, peaches, plums, blackberries, raspberries (both red and black), elderberries, serviceberries, and cherries, and makes jams from all of them, as well as from tomatoes, peppers, and rhubarb that she grows in her garden. I’d like to make especial mention of the serviceberries, because they grow lots of places around here, and they’re delicious, but nobody ever seems to have heard…

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