08/08/2025 - Will my 'boyfriend' like my elderberry jam?
he said he doesn't like elderberry jam. so today i went to seek out elderberry (Sambucus nigra) trees in the Flevopark. i found about 10 of them, i even wrote a little roadmap so that i would be able to find them back later. for some trees i was a little bit early. so i cycled back to my mom's place to make the jam, and there i found the motherlode... an entire row of fully grown trees right next to the road. they were on a sort of hillside, so i had to do a little bit of effort, but it was so worth it. i ended up with half a kilo of ripe berries and 4 pots of jam in the end. now that i know where the elderberry goldmine is i'm going to go back in two weeks to see if the remaining clusters have ripened.