The Mali region is rich in forests, lakes and rivers, and local residents skillfully use nature's gifts to earn both food and income. Just get up early and don't be lazy.
In the spring, you can make jam with young pine cones. Summer - strawberries, blueberries, raspberry jam, autumn - pods, mushrooms, rose hips. In every season of the year, the forest loves it, mainly by treating it with care and loving it.
In the beautiful elate river, there live very industrious people who try to provide vitamins and a variety of pickles and jams for anyone passing along the A-295 highway near the villages of Krasnogorski and Kozhrasol, which are located in the Mari El Republic of Zvenigovsky District.
Of course, everything comes at a cost, and any work must pay a price. The price of Mari El would not say that they bite a lot, everything is like anywhere else, the price is different. If 0.5 liters of strawberries sell for 400-450 rubles, then 0.5 liters of sea buckthorn jam sells for 250 rubles.
Raspberries, blueberries are also very expensive berries, raspberries are few, picking blueberries is still a pleasure, mosquito bites make the ointment not preserved.
Soaked bilberries and sweetened ground bilberries are very useful berries and, like cranberries, they don't grow everywhere.
A separate song - shiitake mushrooms, saffron milk shiitake mushrooms, milk shiitake mushrooms, oil shiitake mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, each time bringing a different shiitake mushroom for sale. The salt here is also conscientious, because people are back and the goods are purchased by the inhabitants of neighboring cities.
A separate category is herbal teas, made from herbal preparations, where you can buy everything individually, even chaga. A bag of chaga weighing 300-400 grams costs 250 rubles.
Medicinal herbs can also be bought here, such as swamp clover, a bunch of only 100 rubles.
Wood products occupy an important place in the lives of Malians because they are used not only for decorative purposes, but also for domestic use. For example, a 900 rouble linden barrel for storing honey, a 300 rouble juniper spoon, a basket and a fume shoe.
For lovers of meat delicacies, bacon and meat are sold, smoked, cured, rolled and pieced.
The price is different, for example, a piece weighing 280 grams of 210 rubles can be bought, 260 grams of 182 rubles. It all depends on each cooking method, some take longer and some less.