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The Partridge Berry is a low-growing relative of the cranberry.
It is known as Puoluka (poo-oh-look-ah... I think) in Finnish, and Lingon in... Sweedish or Norweigian... I can't remember which.
My Mom just went to Newfoundland for ten days (mostly for a conference, but she also visited a friend).
She brought home a jam for each of us.
I chose the Partridge Berry jam (although I could have gone with Blueberry or Bakeapple -- I now want to know what Bakeapples are. They're a type of berry... I'll have to look them up on Google. ;-)
Edit: Have looked them up. They're Cloud Berries. Basically, picture two leaves, growing low to the ground -- they look like Currant Bush leaves, or Purple-Flowering-Raspberry leaves... or really wacky grape leaves, maybe -- with a single yellow raspberry growing over top of them. That's a Cloud Berry (or a Bake-Apple). They are related to raspberries, but don't (according to Torrain (I think) and her knowledge of Lakka) taste like them. I'd like to grow them, too. :-)
Tonight I made a dinner (turkey, baked potato, buns (from a store) and beans-and-carrots -- just 'cause. ;-) and we had the Partridge Berry jam in lieu of cranberry sauce.
This is what it tastes like:
Cranberry sauce coupled with the smooth-slick taste of the inside of a dried apricot.
It's yummy. :-)
So.
I now want (more than before) to have Partridge Berries in my back yard. (I'd have two+ (medium-height?) blueberry bushes growing just along the Eastern hedge, and then have the Partridge Berries growing in-front/underneath them. Both of these like acidic soil (which they'd have, growing right next to a cedar headge) and they can handle lousy soil, so they'd be fine in the mediocre soil that I've got in that particular spot of the garden.
Whee! :-D
It's not that I need-need-need to be totally self-sufficient (or want to be, for that matter... I'd be a littl leary of doing my own killing, pathetic as that is, and my attempts at growing dry-beans have not been successful so far...), but I'd like to be able to supply a good amount of fruits and veggies on my own. Plus it will give me, my family (my kids!) a link to the land we live on. And that's important. :-)
And now to paraphrase Starhawk (From Earth Path wherein she really seems to be Getting It):
"Grow food. If you eat the food that comes from the land, the land will become part of you".
Which is totally true.
Also: If you compost your hair-brush hair, your finger-nail clippings, your menstrual blood, etc. you become part of the land. You feed the land, and the land feeds you.
I think that's important. :-)
It is known as Puoluka (poo-oh-look-ah... I think) in Finnish, and Lingon in... Sweedish or Norweigian... I can't remember which.
My Mom just went to Newfoundland for ten days (mostly for a conference, but she also visited a friend).
She brought home a jam for each of us.
I chose the Partridge Berry jam (although I could have gone with Blueberry or Bakeapple -- I now want to know what Bakeapples are. They're a type of berry... I'll have to look them up on Google. ;-)
Edit: Have looked them up. They're Cloud Berries. Basically, picture two leaves, growing low to the ground -- they look like Currant Bush leaves, or Purple-Flowering-Raspberry leaves... or really wacky grape leaves, maybe -- with a single yellow raspberry growing over top of them. That's a Cloud Berry (or a Bake-Apple). They are related to raspberries, but don't (according to Torrain (I think) and her knowledge of Lakka) taste like them. I'd like to grow them, too. :-)
Tonight I made a dinner (turkey, baked potato, buns (from a store) and beans-and-carrots -- just 'cause. ;-) and we had the Partridge Berry jam in lieu of cranberry sauce.
This is what it tastes like:
Cranberry sauce coupled with the smooth-slick taste of the inside of a dried apricot.
It's yummy. :-)
So.
I now want (more than before) to have Partridge Berries in my back yard. (I'd have two+ (medium-height?) blueberry bushes growing just along the Eastern hedge, and then have the Partridge Berries growing in-front/underneath them. Both of these like acidic soil (which they'd have, growing right next to a cedar headge) and they can handle lousy soil, so they'd be fine in the mediocre soil that I've got in that particular spot of the garden.
Whee! :-D
It's not that I need-need-need to be totally self-sufficient (or want to be, for that matter... I'd be a littl leary of doing my own killing, pathetic as that is, and my attempts at growing dry-beans have not been successful so far...), but I'd like to be able to supply a good amount of fruits and veggies on my own. Plus it will give me, my family (my kids!) a link to the land we live on. And that's important. :-)
And now to paraphrase Starhawk (From Earth Path wherein she really seems to be Getting It):
"Grow food. If you eat the food that comes from the land, the land will become part of you".
Which is totally true.
Also: If you compost your hair-brush hair, your finger-nail clippings, your menstrual blood, etc. you become part of the land. You feed the land, and the land feeds you.
I think that's important. :-)
