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On to today's featured permaculture tidbit!

Mulberries! Yum!

I never knew you could eat these things til I got a trail mix at the store with them. Supposedly they're a really powerful antioxidant and can improve blood circulation. One of those little-known superfoods that fits nicely into the paradigm of food as medicine and medicine as food.

We've got a mulberry tree I think, but the fruiting must have happened before we moved here this year. The thing pops up little shoots all over it's trunk and puts leaves out. The chooks love em, so it'll be a good treat for them come spring. A really cool grower!

It's cool the card says that birds will go for Mulberries before other fruits: ours is planted very near our plum tree! What's that? A guild? Yeck yeah! It's a two tree food forest!

I can't wait to taste the fruit this spring. I think I remember miss @mariannewest saying she had a mulberry in her chook run. It provides shade and food for her chooks, and I bet they love the sustainable leaf drop every fall too. Ours dropped all it's leaves at once after the first frost. In one or two days it was bare.

I think I'll get my little guild a bit if clover planted all around for some of that nitrogen that fruit trees love. That and some comfrey should do the trick.

Who else has mulberries? I suspect quite a few, I think it's a popular tree. Do you use it? Is the idea of using it as a bait tree giving you ideas? Or maybe to attract birds that you'd enjoy watching. Cool fun ways to increase some biodiversity on your property for sure!

Be blessed.
Be fruitful.
Stay relevant.

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