(bright music) - We are standing by a wild rose plant and we are gonna harvest rose hips.

They're super rich in Vitamin C. Interestingly, this rose hip contains 20% more Vitamin C than a whole orange.

Rose hips are also great for people that are dealing with diabetes also arthritis.

There's anti-inflammatory properties in these as well.

Rose hips are best harvested this time of year early to mid-fall and preferably after a first frost but it's not necessary, but they do become sweeter if you wait until they go through the first frost.

And so to harvest rose hips, it is super easy, you just pluck them off.

And so what I'm gonna do is collect a bunch of these beautiful rose hips into a basket and they can range in color from like a yellowish to an orange to a beautiful red like this, almost to like a burgundy.

And they're gonna be, when you harvest a little bit soft to the touch, a little bit spongy.

And then you can bring those home and you can do a couple different things with them.

You can dry them and you can then utilize that for tea.

You can also steep them right away for tea.

But if you're not into tea, I make a rose hip syrup.

And that is the most versatile way, I think, personally to enjoy the rose hip.

One thing to remember if when you're gonna dry your rose hips, you're gonna cut them in half and you are going to remove the seeds and the little fine hairs, and those little fine hairs can be irritating to the skin or if ingested would irritate your throat.

So just make sure you kind of dig those out, and then yeah, you, there's a variety of ways that you can then dry the rose hips or like I said you can create a concoction and boil those rose hips.

You can make the syrup, you can make jelly.

So there's a variety of uses and they do smell quite wonderful when you're cooking with them.