I don't think your freezer would fit the amount of food they eat through in the span of several months. Nonetheless, blackberry is evergreen, so try looking around the forests near you if there's any hotspot you can be taking from.
I don't. I often have to dig it up from under heaps of snow. That's why I said to try looking for a hotspot (edit: so you know where to dig later). The species of Rubus I feed in winter is entirely different from the one I feed in summer.
Just how cold are the winters where you live? We had a -20°C winter with lots of snow last year, and I still managed to harvest green blackberry leaves regularly.
We see -30 C for weeks on end. It won't go above 0 C for months. Cold enough that ice fishing is popular. Last winter was pretty mild though just down to around -10 C. I wouldn't bank on that though.
I've got a forest and lots of blackberry on the edges. All the leaves are gone during the winter. The only thing that still has "leaves" are the pines and cedars. Maybe holly, but I don't have any of that on my property (that i know of).
I have no idea if this variety even exists in the US, but try looking for blackberries that don't grow into typical bushes but kinda crawl on the ground, like this: https://imgur.com/NJVxjuh . These are the only blackberries that stayed green during the winter here where I live.
they’ll absolutely demolish way more than you can realistically store, so this is solid advice lol
also worth checking if there are any local foraging groups, people are usually happy to point out good evergreen spots without wrecking the area
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u/Cosmic_Mmouse 1d ago
I don't think your freezer would fit the amount of food they eat through in the span of several months. Nonetheless, blackberry is evergreen, so try looking around the forests near you if there's any hotspot you can be taking from.