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Evergreen Huckleberry Chutney Recipe

A Very Seattle Thanksgiving: Evergreen Huckleberry Chutney

Seattle Weekly

Choi, who works with Foraged & Found Edibles, yearly serves her family evergreen huckleberry chutney for Thanksgiving. “Evergreen huckleberries are tiny,

Evergreen Huckleberry Chutney

Ingredients

1 cup small diced shallots
¼ cup olive oil
1/8 tsp salt
¼ tsp ground cardamom
¼ tsp ground allspice
¼ tsp ground clove
¼ tsp ground black pepper
1 ½ cups small-diced apple
3 cups evergreen huckleberries, fresh or frozen
1 small orange, zest and juice
½ cup granulated sugar
½ cup brown sugar
1 cup water

Instructions

Sauté shallots in olive oil over medium-high heat until they begin to lightly brown. Turn heat to medium, add salt and spices, and cook for a few more minutes, until spices are fragrant. Add remaining ingredients; bring to a boil over medium-high heat, then turn down and keep at a simmer.

Cook until mixture thickens and flavors mingle, about 30 minutes. Taste and add sugar if too tart.

Let cool to room temperature to serve, or store in refrigerator for up to one week.

 

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Sparce Huckleberry Crop Effects Bears

Fish and Game officials warn residents about bear danger

Shoshone News Press

A recent survey by Fish and Game Regional Wildlife Manager Jim Hayden found that the huckleberry crop is spotty this year. In some areas huckleberries

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Forest Burn Hopes to Increase 2012 Huckleberry Yield

Huckleberry fields benefit from flames

The Columbian

SAWTOOTH HUCKLEBERRY FIELDS — On a blue-sky late September afternoon high in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, firefighters from the Forest Service and the Yakama Tribe waited, drip torches in hand, for the state to give the go-ahead so they could set the woods on fire.

When the green light came, they marched into a thinned mixed-conifer stand bordering the road, spaced themselves along the boundaries of a 20-acre plot, and began igniting huckleberry bushes and low-lying shrubs and grasses. …

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Berries are Finally Ripe in the Western Washington Mountains

Better late than never for berries

The Seattle Times
By Mark Yuasa

It’s huckleberry gathering time, and many are saying better late than never for these tasty berries that should be at their prime.

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Huckleberry Crop Ripening Late

Berry crop weeks late in ripening

Pique newsmagazine

By Michael Allen

In the Whistler area, Vaccinium berries – huckleberries and blueberries – are roughly five weeks behind, which means as we near mid-September there is no high elevation berry crop.

The highest elevation at which bears are now berry feeding (Sept. 9) is 4,200 ft, that’s usually where bears are berry feeding in late July and early August. …

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Super Year for Huckleberries in the Cascades

Bohemia’s beauty

The Register-Guard

It’s a super year for huckleberry picking. If you don’t yet have a secret spot to gather the blue fruit, consider a trip to Bohemia Mountain, in the old gold mining country southeast of Cottage Grove. …

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2011 Huckleberry Crop Rated ‘C-’ by Spokesman Review

Moderate huckleberry crop could help bear hunters

The Spokesman Review

HUNTING — A poor huckleberry year generally translates into good hunting for black bears that expose themselves more as they search lower and farther for food to fatten for winter.

Jim Hayden, Idaho Fish and Game regional wildlife manager in Coeur d’Alene, recently did an informal survey of hunters asking them to evealuate the huckleberry crop. The verdict was that this year’s crop generally gets a C- grade — not great, but not terrible…

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Hucklebery Picking Gone TOO Far!

Don’t let this happen to you:

UPDATED 3:05 PM: Missing huckleberry picker found

Lewiston Morning Tribune

The missing huckleberry picker from Clarkston was found safe and in good April Hafer, 65, went missing Sunday while picking huckleberries with her

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Watch for Bears in the Huckleberry Bushes!!

Who’s That Behind the Bush?

The berries are out. So are the bears.

By Kate Schwab, 8-22-11

As luck would have it, the huckleberries came in early this year. who live outside Seeley Lake, a locally famous huckleberry spot close to Lincoln.

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Black bear. Photo by Lynn Chamberlain, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources.
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Mount Hood’s Huckleberry Festival

Huckleberry Festival and Barlow Trail Days set for Aug. 26-28 on Mount Hood

  Vickie Kavanagh, The Oregonian

AX219_55C3_9.JPGCascade Geographic SocietyTony Francis, who crafts Native American flutes, will perform with the Wy’east Flute Circle during the Mount Hood Huckleberry Festival and Barlow Trail Days in Welches.

WELCHES — Get your share of huckleberries and history at the Mount Hood Huckleberry Festival and Barlow Trail Days at the Mt. Hood Village Resort.

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