#juneberries

[melgillman]

A page from my new foraging zine, Fruit For Free!

If you like this, you’d probably like the whole comic! It’s available here as a free or pay-what-you-want PDF. Check it out! https://ko-fi.com/s/bd38ecf5e4

Fruit For Free - A Foraging Zine - Mel Gillman's Ko-fi Shop

FRUIT FOR FREE is a 17 page, full color instructional comic about relatively easy-to-find-and-identify fruit you can forage in the Eastern U

[overwhelmedfernfrond]

[thatthirdtriplet]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

This is a locked fic: Juneberries

Relationships:

Tim Drake & Damian Wayne Tim Drake & Dick Grayson & Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne & Damian Wayne Tim Drake/Kon-El | Conner Kent Barbara Gordon/Dick Grayson

Characters:

Tim Drake Damian Wayne Bruce Wayne Dick Grayson Jason Todd Stephanie Brown Cassandra Cain Barbara Gordon Alfred Pennyworth Kon-El | Conner Kent Leslie Thompkins Clark Kent Lucius Fox Cassie Sandsmark Diana (Wonder Woman) Cissie King-Jones Greta Hayes Anita Fite

Additional Tags:

Torture psychological Torture kidnapping canon-Typical Violence grief/Mourning psychological Trauma bat Family bat Brothers Bruce Wayne is a Good Dad the Author Regrets Nothing childhood Trauma brotherly Bonding drugs non-Consensual Drug Use mind Games brainwashing emotional Manipulation non-Explicit SexForce-Feeding Self-Harm eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified eating Disorders explicit Sexual Content like one little sex scene at the end recovery

Summary:

The greater source of tension in the Manor, however, turned out to be Damian and Tim. Their relationship had begun improving lately, but suddenly it took a turn and they were constantly at each other's throats again. Tim usually didn't react so much to Damian's taunts, but the kid had a serious bug up his ass lately and he was getting better at getting under Tim’s skin. Some days it felt like they were just fighting out of boredom, but it was starting to fray on everyone's nerves.

When Tim is taken, Damian has to come to terms with his own insecurities, and how he really feels towards his older 'brother'. When he does, it might be too late.

[boxesofpretty]

[melgillman]

Not doing a very good job this year convincing strangers to try serviceberries

[garden-and-friends]

harvest time for tart cherries and serviceberries/juneberries/saskatoons 🍒

[mysteriouslyjellyfish]

Have you dried juneberries?

Foragers of tumblr!

I love juneberries an incredible amount and although I think they are at their most (overwhelmingly) delightful when they are fresh, I would also like to preserve them to enjoy in the winter.

Last year I canned some and that was fine but it definitely changes the flavor. This year I’m freezing some, which I think will be nice, but I also wanted to try drying them. On different racks in my dehydrator I dried 1) berries that had been “checked” aka just split open in boiling water, 2) berries I had “checked” by just barely mashing them with a glass jar and 3) whole berries.

but no method was super successful because when they dry they become like 70% seed and 30% berry flesh. and that’s just a lot of seed. they’re not super enjoyable to eat. but I know people dry juneberries and have done so for a long time so -- ? thoughts? do I just find a tree with larger berries and/or smaller seeds? do I just deal with the seeds?

[mysteriouslyjellyfish]

IT’S ALL HAPPENING!!!

the caterpillars are caterpillaring and the berries are berrying!

(painted lady caterpillar on a pussytoes plant, not-yet-ripe mulberries, what I’m pretty sure is some cultivar of juneberries, similarly unripe but soon to be delicious)

I love coming home tired and covered in dirt. I still love it.

all of this, plus I harvested food that people are going to eat, and saw a swallowtail butterfly checking out a garden where I was planting golden alexander babies. I’m so fucking lucky sometimes I don’t know where it comes from.