It's Mulberry Time: How To Make Mulberry Tea
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Lynn walks out to the mulberry tree Travis planted about ten years ago, picks leaves and ripe berries, and makes two different teas from the same tree — a red-purple one from the berries and a green-tea-like one from the leaves. She shows what ripe looks like versus not, and how to keep leaves for the rest of the year.
What Lynn shows you
- Two teas from one tree: the berries boil down into a red tea she says looks like cranberry juice, and the leaves make something closer to green tea — "it's not quite as strong as green tea."
- For the berry version she puts about half a cup of mulberries in a small pot and brings it to a boil, and she calls it done when the berries have gone pale and the water has taken on their color.
- Leaves can go straight into the pot fresh off the tree after washing; to keep them for the year they have to be dried — air dried or in a dehydrator — and stored in a mason jar.
- Sweeten with honey, sugar, or a sweetener packet, or drink it plain. She mentions the tree having iron and calcium and tells viewers to do their own research on mulberry trees rather than taking her word for the benefits.
- She touches on drying leaves and canning berries for storage — for any preserving, follow her video and tested preservation guidance directly rather than these notes.
These notes summarise the video — watch it for the full method.
