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 of them.
She could very easily do mulberries (she has a tree right over her driveway), but the problem is that mulberries have basically no flavor, aside from a generic sweetness. Are they really only just starting around you? Here, the season has been over for a couple of weeks (finally-- say what you will about mulberries, but you DON’T want a tree right over your driveway).