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Of old it has been a good way to enrich the food with vitamins to pick the berries which are so richly supplied in the forests and meadows. Like those berries which are grown in the gardens you can use them fresh or keep them frozen or you can make jam, "saft" or marmelade.

There are many kinds of wild berries, some of them you can find all over our country, some are regional.

You can get more information about some of the berries and fruits.Click the images! Those links are under construction, some are ready, some are coming later.
Here are some of the wild berries you can find in Sweden. Some of those are hardly used in the household nowadays but their value lies in that they supply the nonmigratory birds with food during late autumn and winter.
Bramble Blackberry Rubus fruticosus (L)	Wood raspberry Rubus idaeus (L)	Dewberry Rubus caesius (L)
Cloudberry Rubus chamemorus (L)	Arctic raspberry Rubus arcticus (L)	Stone Bramble Rubus saxatilis (L)
Whortleberry Bilberry Vaccinium myrtillus (L)	Bog bilberry Vaccinium uliginosum (L)	Crowberry Empetrum nigrum (L)
Cowberry Red whortleberry Vaccinium vitis idaea (L)	Cranberry Vaccinium oxycoccus (L)	Wild strawberry Fragaria vesca (L)
Birdcherry berry Prunus padus (L)	Rowan berry Sorbus aucuparia (L)	blackthorn, sloe Prunus spinosa (L)
Alpine currant Ribes alpinum (L)	Downy currant Ribes spicatum (L)	Juniper berry Juniperus communis (L)

In the gardens the most commonly grown berries are strawberries (Fragaria ananassa L), garden raspberries (Rubus idaeus L), black currants (Ribes nigrum L), red currants (Ribes rubrum L) and gooseberries (Ribes uva-crispa L).
The fruit trees you often see in the gardens around the villas are apple, pear, plum and cherry trees.
Rhubarb isn't a fruit but I have a recipe page

You can get more information about some of the berries and fruits. Click the images!
Those links are under construction, some are ready, some are coming later.

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