Berries do make good jams, jellies despite the problems bushes bring - The Mountain Eagle

Berries do make good jams, jellies despite the problems bushes bring - The Mountain Eagle

Although autumn olive has become an invasive nuisance across Letcher County, its abundant red berries have long been used to make jams and jellies. L.M. “Mike” Caudill, who submitted the accompanying photograph, remembers gathering the berries for his late mother in-law, who made preserves for him. The berries “make excellent jams and jelly” when “picked after the first frost,” Caudill said. “We would go up on the strip mine jobs where they were…