This year I've had a bumper crop of autumn olives.   We have several wild trees and the one across the way is huge and covered w...

I'm shameless.  I saved the best for last. As you know, I've been doing a lot of new jams this year using the abundant elaeagnus...

I've been experimenting with Elaeagnus [autumn olive] and other fruit in jam this year.   Since elaeagnus are a bit similar in flavor an...

As I mentioned in my last post, it's elaeagnus season. [The common name is autumn olive, but there is nothing remotely olive-y about t...

Our Elaeagnus [pronounced Elly Agnus] berries are ripening all over the place.   The ones at the top of the hill ripen faster than the ones...

My favorite autumn olive tree [Elaeagnus umbellata] was laid low by the recent winter troubles.    All that heavy snow just after the new ...

Every jam-maker has a few batches of jam that just never quite set up the way they're supposed to.   Runny jam is a reality that we al...

The autumn olive berries are starting to turn red.   It'll be a bumper crop year and the birds are already stripping some of the trees...

Our Elaeagnus [autumn olive] trees held on to their fruit for a while this year.  Or maybe we just have more trees now, but at any rate, ...

Elaeagnus umbellata shrub - 10 feet tall Not long after we moved onto our place, after the cows had been gone a while, and after we ...