So I don’t mean to keep posting about gardening – I’ve actually been contemplating some real Lean / Lean Six Sigma-applied-to-life type posts – but hey. Eliminating waste is part of Lean, and much of my gardening is about not-wasting.

Enter: today’s random bounty. While mowing, my husband spotted this weed growing under some other weeds. Only this weed looked, well, like something that might be cultivatable. (No, that is probably not a real word!)

This turns out to be a source of these:

Japanese wineberries!  Random, weird, wonderful.  This goes along with the wild blackberries, elderberry, and highly unanticipated mulberry tree which have all turned up in our yard this year!

Can I actually make wine of them?  No way to know!  They’ve all been eaten already!