This is growing in Minnesota in the cities

I'd like to find some for my farm.

It's a mulberry tree. I literally have hundreds of them on my farm. I like the berries and mulberry wood is by far my favorite for grilling.

Keith

They stink you dont want them......jk

A more insipid berry I've never known. Birds like 'em though.

How About Turkeys?

So they lack flavor?

The flavor is great on some trees in some years and generally good on all the trees. Some people don't like mulberry trees because the trees are considered messy, because they drop huge amounts of staining fruit on the ground and because birds drop purple poop all over after eating the mulberries.

Almost all animals eat mulberries including all the mammals I can think of in Ohio, except some insectivorous bats. Catfish and carp eat mulberries and can be caught with mulberries. Most birds in Ohio eat mulberries, even birds that eat mostly seeds. Deer and rabbits have a strong preference for thin mulberry growth.

Mulberry trees are great for pollarding.

I highly recommend mulberry wood for grilling on. Most completion grillers, including my friend Thad, who has been frequently winning the World Barbecue Championship, use mulberry in their blends. I cook on mulberry a few times a week.

I've eaten many times more mulberries in my life than any other berry.

Keith

my mom makes awesome mullberry wine!

They taste great imo and I have not found them to be a problem as far as being invasive. I suppose they have the potential to become dominate in some places but they are outcompeted by most species here. When I find them in the "wild" they are usually on the edge of the woods where it meets a road or field

A few people around here like to put tarps under them , up off the ground and funnel the berries in a five gallon bucket. I don’t care for them. They are messy around the house if you have a tree close.

I like the wine and the woman of the house likes the jam. Blue birds and robins tear em up quick, before they're even ripe

Do they attract Turkeys?

Turkeys will gorge on mulberries and keep the ground under the trees scratched up while the berries are dropping. Turkeys have huge purple poops while the mulberries are ripe.

Keith

You absolutely want mulberries! But as said they readily sprout from seed and birds love them some mulberries. They also can stain so don't put them over a sidewalk or vehicle. Some are rather flavorless, the invasive non native white and paper mulberries. You want the native red mulberry or the non native black or persian mulberry. The native red also makes one of the better rot resistant woods for fence posts if you can found one that is straight enough.

On the staining issue, I well remember one Sunday morning and two little girls in their Sunday go to meeting dresses and white shoes finding ripe mulberries before church, lol. Mama wasn't pleased.

Groundhogs will climb mulberry trees for the fruit.

X2

Awesome, Thanks!!!

The Mennonite communities around here make some amazing pies and jams from them. Between Mulberry and Elderberry, I’d be hard pressed to pick a favorite jelly/jam/syrup.

IMO, mulberry is not nearly the problem when it comes to secondary staining as the common poke berry. Mulberry has a very short season compared to poke and there is a lot more poke than mulberry. Mulberry does not provide anywhere near the volume of food for birds especially as poke does. Poke not only provides a food source during the growing season but also for months after the frost kills the plant. Find a patch of poke in December or January and you will find dove there feeding regularly.

We had Mennonite around us in Wisconsin...but not around here in Minn.
Some Amish though