Juniper Foraging

“What a beauty!” Molly Cummings says with a sparkle in her eye.

She could just as easily be referring to the expansive, cloud-mottled West Texas sky or the undulating purple Davis mountains surrounding us. But she’s gazing directly up at a juniper tree – one she’s named Eve because it was the very first one to give her berries – and she is about to scale the roof of the house right below it to forage some more.

It’s a late October morning in the Davis Mountains of West Texas, and Molly Cummings is atop a scaffold, foraging alligator juniper berries from a wild tree. With her feed bag over her shoulder, she gently grasps the branches, relieving them of their fragrant dusky...

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Juniper is crucial to gin - but would you know what it tastes like? Check out the article here.  

How a UT Professor Found the Perfect Juniper Berries for Gin in West Texas Check out the full article here.

Check it out here on msn and here at theginkin.com.

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