Russian forest is rich for wild berries and herbs. Approximately 60 types of berries are stored up in our country. You can find bushes of raspberry, blackberry, guilder-rose, orange and red berries of mountain ash and dogrose on meadows, in the forests, on the bank of the rivers and streams. Coniferous forests are full of bilberry and cowberry. Marshes are covered with cranberry and cloudberry.

Wild berries can be gathered in a frosty forest and in spring marshes during the summer until the first snow. The summer season is started with wild strawberry and ended with cranberry. The best time to gather wild berries is dry weather and early morning or evening when dew dries up. The best container for berries are wicker boxes or birch boxes.

The healing effect of wild berries is widely known in pharmacy and medicine. They are used to make juice and jams which enrich the organism with vitamins, strengthen the immune system, possess antiseptic effect. Antioxidants prevent ageing of the organism. That's why fruit and berries are so popular nowadays. Wild berries are precious not only for their fruit but also for bark, roots, leafs and flowers.

Siberian wild berries are a stockroom of vitamins and nutritive elements. They can be eaten fresh or cooked.

Berries are used to make jams, marmalade, compote, pastila and other tasty things.