Wtehimall
It is time to give thanks for the first berry of the season-Wtehimall (w-tay-heem’-all), the Lenape word for strawberries. A half-cup of Fragaria Vesca and/or Fragaria Virginiana, two types of true wild strawberries, have more fragrance and aroma than a whole quart of today’s much larger cultivated local strawberries! There is NO comparison to the non-local strawberries. I have a small basket of these strawberries drying in the sun (the ones that do not find there way to my stomach) for use in future Lenape programming. My next Lenape program is listed on my Moonwater Woman page of this blog.
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