Prairie Sportsman

(upbeat music) - [Nicole] We are standing next to some wild grapes, always a treat, usually towards the end of summer into early fall.

So I've clipped a few off.

As you can see, this vine is huge and it is behind me.

But also there's just a nice, beautiful, just vines everywhere of these wild grapes.

And once you know what you're looking at, you'll actually see them kind of everywhere, growing on other trees, growing on fence lines.

So we have the leaf and it's got three lobes to it.

And actually in Mediterranean dishes, people will utilize the grape leaf because it is edible as well.

You can stuff it with cheese, rice, peppers, whatever you wanna stuff it with.

And then of course, the beautiful wild grapes, they taste kind of tart.

But I love that grape for making wild grape jelly.

You can make a spicy wild grape barbecue sauce.

You can do all kinds of fun stuff with wild grapes.

Also, something to note, while these berries are actually edible as well, oftentimes you'll find these vines growing, could be on buckthorn, buckthorn berries are a deep, dark purple black in color, much like these beautiful wild grapes.

So just always make sure that the berries you're picking is coming off of the same vine and you're not mistaking 'em for other berries that could be growing along with them, alongside them.