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Post by manfred on Nov 14, 2008 6:22:37 GMT 1
Wow! i've done some google search and have only found one dealer who will sell the elderberry concentrate (Kansas) for the price of $24.00 U S $ for a 12 oz bottle. I am used to making up to 30 bottles (litres) of my homemade concentrate for one or two trips into the british columbia hills, for me a one hour drive/hike, and about three hours of processing!! Lets see,......that ought to be worth about $1500 U.S. dollars. Now,.....i'm thinkin',.......1/2 a dozen bushes in my back yard and I could be into an industry!! Dreaming? yeah, sort of,.. I'd have to get that one past my wife. I wish I had one of those fine gardens I've read about on this forum. I'd have it made in the shade (of elderberry bushes, that is!) Where else can a guy get this elusive elixer for a better price? Make it yourself, I say! Boy, when the bears got there first, they really got my chances this year. Manfred
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Post by 4pygmies on Nov 14, 2008 8:29:39 GMT 1
Elders are very easy to propagate, Manfred.....they pop up everywhere in my garden. If you want so much elderberry, can't you just take a lot of cuttings and plant them somewhere either in your garden or around your neighbourhood? It's called guerilla gardening over here........they plant, shrubs, flowers, fruit trees and vegetables all over the place  www.guerrillagardening.org/ |
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Post by debbiem on Nov 14, 2008 10:23:34 GMT 1
Wow! i've done some google search and have only found one dealer who will sell the elderberry concentrate (Kansas) for the price of $24.00 U S $ for a 12 oz bottle. I am used to making up to 30 bottles (litres) of my homemade concentrate for one or two trips into the british columbia hills, for me a one hour drive/hike, and about three hours of processing!! Lets see,......that ought to be worth about $1500 U.S. dollars. Now,.....i'm thinkin',.......1/2 a dozen bushes in my back yard and I could be into an industry!! Dreaming? yeah, sort of,.. I'd have to get that one past my wife. I wish I had one of those fine gardens I've read about on this forum. I'd have it made in the shade (of elderberry bushes, that is!) Where else can a guy get this elusive elixer for a better price? Make it yourself, I say! Boy, when the bears got there first, they really got my chances this year. Manfred Those bears'll make a fortune! ;D |
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Post by madonplants on Nov 14, 2008 10:39:54 GMT 1
I wanted one of these some time ago, due to a collection of plants in an old book, but after asking around, found it was banned in the UK, due to it's carcinogenic properties!! Do you know anything about this, Manfred?
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Post by manfred on Nov 18, 2008 0:59:32 GMT 1
Elders are very easy to propagate, Manfred.....they pop up everywhere in my garden. If you want so much elderberry, can't you just take a lot of cuttings and plant them somewhere either in your garden or around your neighbourhood? It's called guerilla gardening over here........they plant, shrubs, flowers, fruit trees and vegetables all over the place www.guerrillagardening.org/ |
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Post by manfred on Nov 18, 2008 1:15:35 GMT 1
4 pygmies; Mrs beige: You know, I hadn't thought about that! Why, ... just go on down a country road and plant one here, one there,...one over there,... and so on. Since some elderberry types are mostly like weed bushes, no one will be the wiser. Hmmmmmm. They'll fit right in with the existing saskatoon (canadian blueberry-like fruit bush). Then, people will just see me harvesting some obscure 'wild berry', and smile and honk, and be on their way.
About the carcenogenic UK ban, well, there is some truth to it. You can't consume any branch/twig/bark/root/leaf. The only good part is the cooked berries, and as far as I know, they are very good. Otherwise how would a whole industry sell nation-wide and worldwide in central United states? If anyone else knows something that would interest me a lot.
I just took a hike up into my elderberry country with my third youngest boy and we encountered one to one and a half feet of snow. Quite wintery up at 7000 feet above sea level! My bushes were naked! Manfred
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