You are a life saver! You have no idea how any wasted hours we spend trying to get elderberries off by hand! HOURS! All the years processing elderberries and I didn't think of that. Thank you for making and sharing this video.

This is what I am knee deep in today. My method is pretty much the same. I don't mind purple fingers (most of it washes off) so I just roll/shake them off into a bucket. A couple of good rinses and then they go into the oven/dehydrator. Cool, then store in a glass jar for my syrups. T'is the season right NOW! Happy harvest!!

I find this video hilarious considering that I just started harvesting elderberries this year and this is the exact method I came up with on my own...

Thank you from Scotland! Enjoyed your video, my first time harvesting elderberries :)

Just picked (California) elderberries for the first time. Your videos are a lifesaver

Thank you for this tutorial. It will help me next year speed up the process.🥰

Glad I saw this video. I don't have freezer space for the other method and I like that I can leave the unripe ones behind

This is SO MUCH EASIER! Where have you been for the last 40 years of my life??😂

I loved this video. Super educational and honestly really satisfying to watch! XD I have my first batch of Elderberries and so I'll have to try this method for pre-processing them.

We harvest them, break Don the tops into single stems, wash em . Then we I them into the dehydrator 155 degrees for 9 hours. Take an out , one rack at a time and keep the bottom plastic flat catcher under it. Then roll the dehydrated berths on the mesh rack. Still don't know how to get all the lil dems out yet? But this works. Thanks for the information.

Thanks, bro. I'll have my first Elderberry plants in the yard this season and I'll try your method.

I like the idea of the soft sided cooler instead of the bucket… A lot less bruising

Yes, that works, however unripe berries do shake off along with ripe ones.

The only thing I would do differently is use a five gal bucket with water and the strainer to scoop the berries out hopefully the bugs have landed on the bottom and away from my berries. Maybe that would be less work for me and more debris and bug removal. Going to pick mine today!

My aunt would put them immediately into a steam juicer and partially fill gallon jugs then freeze them for later or make wine.

Love your method! And love the cicalas chirping in the background. They reminded me of my wonderful years in Viginia. Now I live in the central italian appenines but no cicalas and NO HUMMERS.😢

I’ve been freezing them first but I’m going to give this a try. It looks like this year has been a good year for elderberries.

Elderberry in the UK have smaller bushels so I simple hand comb them off the stems.

Well done!!

This video was so helpful. Thank you

Fabulous, great work buddy...🙋‍♀️

Interesting method, thanks! Will try it this year.

I got it. Thanks.

Hi there🙋‍♀️ Was wondering if you can do a video of making syrup. Thanks..🙋‍♀️

Awesome video.

Good video. Seems like elderberries are all the rage right now. Wish I had known this before we cut down the 20-ft tree encroaching on the deck at our new place. Oops.

Freezing also ruptures cell walls making juice extraction more efficient. I steam juice my berries.

Learned something new

Great videos...keep up the good work!!!Excited to see the next ones!! Oh and where did you get this bag from? :P Greetings from Greece!!

I've been hand-picking my berries off: a messy situation! Waiting for this year's harvest to ripen and I'll be attempting berry removal this way. Praying it works, but then this year's berries are terribly slow to ripen. Are there enough prayers to pass around these days. TY

Awesome! Thank you 🙏🏼

Somehow I missed this video! What did you end up doing with the elderberry?

Love it thanks

Do you process then further to get rid of the toxicity?

Busting berries?

When I was cleaning my berries I seen a white worms do I throw them all away

I always wanted to grow these and lingonberries

Where in Alabama are you. Are the a lot of wild Elderberries there or do you have hybrids? I am thinking of a move to the Florence area.

Can anyone tell me what was the warning message that came up on the screen when he was going back over the process at the end? I tried to seek and pause but couldn’t read it. Thanks

What do they taste like raw? Mine don’t have much taste at all.

Thank you I'm hoping this works. So far I have been working on cleaning these elderberries for about 2 hours and they're still little pieces of twig in them I tried seeing if the twig would float that didn't work I've been using tweezers to get the unripe berries out. I started by freezing them cuz I saw that being recommended. I'm about ready to cut down the tree I'm so disgusted with how much I've lost in this process and I'm not even near the end. But since your video I'm going to try to dry them and see if the debris is easier to take out. I'm being very cautious because I heard from a herbalist and nurse practitioner that if you don't get all the little pieces of twig and leaves out, It acts like a abortive product so very dangerous for pregnant women and nursing.

Where did you get your leaf identification bag???

Wait but how would you turn them into wine/jam?

I just picked elderberries here in Molino Fl,next to Alabama. but they have different leaves and the stems are red.

Do you have to take little stems off

Where may I purchase the tote?

My berries won't come off like that,lol

Yeah, it takes about 6-8 hrs to process a gallon of fruit in a ziplock. It's ridiculous! Thanks!

Crazy background noise, dogs & those noisy bugs!