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Foraging wild grapes

 
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I foraged my first ever wild grapes today. It was so exciting to look up and realize there's little bunches of grapes above me! I am not 100% positive of the variety but I believe it's frost grape. Maybe someone can verify that. I also attempted to forage Greenbrier berries but upon retrieval they weren't ripe. What types of grapes did you forage and how were they?
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i recently foraged some wild grapes from up here in the north east.
i did not take very much as i find i dont like them as much as the wild california grapes i used to forage. both have distinctly tangy wild/ feral fruit taste to them, but i find the california ones to be a much better and sweeter flavor. compared to your grocery store grape, they arent really what anyone would call "sweet" but the vitus californica has the best taste, and a subtler sweetness, than any other wild grape i have tried.

and even with all that, theres ways to process them and make stuff with them that can greatly improve the flavor. so i couldve taken oddles and oddles of them...i saw quite a few wild grapes all over upstate new york, but did take home a small bag, mostly i was thinking of the seeds. i'm not in the right mindset to be doing a bunch of processing and preserving or making anything out of them right now.
 
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a pictures worth a thousand words, so this is maybe a million words....or close to it ....

this is the wild grape of northern california, i used to harvest huge harvests from these-- Vitus Californica --
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