Link to the Show / Show Notes[HOST INTRO] It’s berry season. Area farmers’ markets are chocked full of blackberries, blueberries and raspberries. But there’s one berry at the Capital City Public Market in Boise that many of us know only through nursery rhythms. In this installment of the Market & Garden Report, correspondent Guy Hand tries the sung-about-but-seldom-eaten mulberry.
(Mulberry Music) (Hand) It’s not that mulberries aren’t tasty. They are. And they’re not rare or hard to grow. Mulberry trees sprout where ever their seeds fall. And the resulting 30 to 60 foot high plants are prolific. What mulberries aren’t are easy to get to market.
(Bart Rayne) The picking is really fragile. They shatter really easy, they fall off of the tree.
(Hand) That’s Bart Rayne. He and his wife Elayne of Next Generation Organics in Homedale are here at the Capital City Public Market selling delicately picked and packaged mulberries.
(Bart) You gotta be really careful picking them. And so they don’t transport, they don’t really travel really well, so we pick ‘em right into these little containers, we can get a lid right on ‘em and then bring ‘em to the market, put them on display and that’s as few steps as we can get in there.
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