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Blue elderberries are typically harvested between mid-June and mid-September. This section describes harvest season, how to harvest, elderberry toxicity, post-harvest handling and cost of labor.

This section describes techniques for freezing and drying elderberries since these are the two most common raw states for berries to be sold.

There is significant market potential for elderberry. Value-added elder products are manufactured at different scales across the supply chain. Elderberry growers typically sell elderberries to chefs, bartenders, specialty food entrepreneurs, herbalists and other food processors. Prices for elderberry offer…

Resources for planting elderberry hedgerows, elderberry propagation & production, valley elderberry longhorn beetle, value added product processing, marketing & sales and other resources of information and networking.

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This field demonstration focused on comparing blue elderberry and American elderberry for fruit production in Sacramento Valley hedgerows. Strategies to increase early growth & yield, mature plant yields and management impacts on mature elderberry yield are discussed.

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This page describes the benefits and historical significance of native plant hedgerows and why farmers should plant elderberries in hedgerows.

This page provides links to webpages that cover: harvesting and post-harvest handling of elderberries, elderberry & elderflower processing, and elderberry marketing and sales channels.