Hi from Czech Rep. I looooove sumac!!! Only now I found out how the tree looks like and can't believe we have this tree in the garden all my life and I didnt know about the spice! I just loved the colours and blossoms of the tree and even the Czech name škumpa for the tree. Now I find it strange we have never harvested it for sumac spice or for a lemonade at all, but now I will. Thank you for your lesson! Kind regards

I have one in my garden in Scotland, our family have had it for over 50 years, every few years we grown on a new one from the shoots that come up through the grass around it, it's very hardy, survives scottish weather with no problems

Growing up in Michigan we have this growing abundantly in the wilderness. In boy scouts when I was a kid our handbooks had different vegetation that was useable. I learned to use it to make tea/sumaclade (lemonade). So I've always been fond of this plant, it's near and dear but I've never used it as a spice. I have a new adventure ahead of me!

This is the video I’ve been searching for! I’m in northern Minnesota and recently learned all the benefits of this beautiful tree in our yard. Thank you!

Stag horn grows everywhere on my 2 acres in Kawartha Lakes Ontario. It’s almost invasive but we love the tree and feel honoured to have it. I’m about to go get me some for spice.

Sumac is from Middle East. In Iran we eat every day in kebab and soup and we make sumac soup for digesting infections

I had always been buying Sumac from Middle Eastern Food Stores to sprinkle on Salads. And I also had been admiring the gorgeous Fall red color of these Staghorn Sumac trees for years; my jaw just dropped seeing this video to find that this wild plant is the source of our favorite Sumac powder. Will not buy Sumac from stores any longer. Thank you so much.

Sitting here processing fresh picked sumac berries... watching You Tube just like you said. 😅 We have it growing all around us and I tincture some in 100 proof vodka, put some into our own honey... and dry it and such for cooking or winter beverages ~ thank you.

Just a clarifying comment: it sounds like you are saying Halic acid, but the sour flavor is from Malic acid. (Halic or halogen acids are toxic to mammals) I enjoyed watching you process your berries and felt you got a lot of product for the effort! Some don't go through the effort of removing seed, but I think the process you use would yield a more refined end product and spice.

Yes very good I'm just Gathering Staghorn sumac for the very first time and I've made the lemonade. I'm keeping the red berries seeds dried in the oven low heat method. Wonderful channel to begin a new year for 2024 thank you happy Gathering and foraging for wild edibles. Watching from Canada🇨🇦🇺🇸🕊💓Nova Scotia

Growing up in the middle east we always use it as a spice to decorate different dishes or sprinkle it on top of our kebabs and rice which makes it so delicious

I was introduced to sumac many years ago as a seasoning at a middle eastern restaurant and can't wait to harvest the sumac I recently discovered in my mother in law's backyard!! Thank you for your video.

Hi to you, we use sumac a lot in the middle east area to prepare our food specially the mix called Zaatar ( a mix of Thyme, sumac, salt, roasted sesame, nuts, spices) . My advice to you : Use a very powerful coffee grinder to mill the sumac's grains...greetings

My landlady dug up and brought home a sumac a few years ago and now we have babies popping up everywhere. We live in Arizona. I can't wait to harvest the beautiful blooms and create some dishes with it and lemonade. Thanks for sharing how you harvest this awesome tree.

We have them in New York in the Bronx I was able to get 6 flowers of sumac I'm in the process of drying I'm very excited love the flavor

I was so excited to find it here in the Pacific Northwest! Thank you for the tutorial.

Great video. This just adds to the beauty of these trees.

Thanks so much for the excellent step-by-step demonstration of processing staghorn sumac for spice! Just what I was looking for--best KZfaq demo on this that I could find! I'm subscribing. Love the foraged and indigenous food content.

I have this tree growing in my garden. Never harvest it as didn't know I could. Now I will try. Thank you 🇬🇧 I'm in the UK

Can u still eat them if they are not ripe? Love that your son is in the background and doesn't care and just does his thing lol wholesome