Do you have a Beautyberry bush on your property and have been wondering what to do with it? You can make the most delicious fall beautyberry jelly, just follow this recipe!

The Beautyberry bush grows all throughout our yard. The plant has beautiful purple berries once a year, so I graciously allowed them to stay in my pitiful garden area since they are also hard to ki…

Autumn is beautyberry harvest season. This water bath canning recipe is for the American Beautyberry (callicarpa americana).

Southern beautyberries are often used as landscaping, but the tiny magenta fruits make delicious beautyberry jelly.

This post is sponsored by the makers of Ball® home canning products.* Somehow canning season has arrived! This spring flew past quickly, and somehow the start of preserving our homegrown and local foods snuck up on me. I cannot wait to see what this year brings in terms of our home preserved foods

Blackberry jelly, or bramble jelly as it is also known, is a beautifully sweet, dark jelly that can be made with sweet summer berries. Make the jelly in the summer and enjoy all year round!

This elderberry jelly recipe is really the best! Making elderberry jelly is easy and the results are fantastic! It's tart, sweet, & distinct!

Mixed Berry Jelly

The Serviceberry trees are loaded this year! And they are larger a juicier than many years. We have been over at the new homestead working on the house and there is a beautiful Serviceberry shrub near the well. The children were excited to pick the berries and try to make a Serviceberry jelly recipe!

More canning! Tonight I finally got to canning my beautyberry jelly. I was able to buy about 2 quarts of beautyberry from The Green Marketplace at Adamson Road picked fresh. Literally, like the farmer sent me an email (we're so 21st century) and said "Come pick up your beautyberries. They were just picked!" A couple people have asked me about canning so I thought I'd do an in depth post on how to do it. It seems overwhelming at first, but really it's not. There's just a lot of wrangling to…