As we head into the end of huckleberry season (in most areas), stories are still appearing. Here are three of the best ones. Two articles include recipes!!
Deduct trail serves up movable feast
Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
Another reason is huckleberries. … So I eat my fill of huckleberries. …
Upon returning to the Prius, after several hours of communing with nature, my fingers a garish shade of purple from the huckleberries, I find what looks to be a nose smudge on my driver’s side window.
My first thought is a wild creature. Perhaps a bear or deer, tired of the huckleberry diet, was hoping I was carrying the makings of s’mores, has paid me a visit.
WOW!! A close encounter while huckleberry picking … or is it? Read the full story here!
The Hunt for Huckleberries
Chelsea Green Publishing
Huckleberries are wild through and through, and a certain type of person with a fierce independent streak and a love of self-sufficiency sees huckleberries as an emblem of a western way of life. Northwestern Montana is known for its huckleberries, as are Washington and Oregon. It’s the state fruit of Idaho. Species grow all the way up the Pacific Coast to Alaska….
The huckleberry hunt can get competitive, but there is a precedent for working things out. Huckleberries were at the heart of a treaty between the Yakima Nation and the US National Forest Service. ….
This article shares some tips on harvesting and storing huckleberry along with a recipe for Buckwheat Huckleberry Buckle. Read about it here!
The Grub Hunter: Heidi Haussermann scours the forests of Pebble Beach for huckleberries
Monterey County Herald
Not Val Kilmer’s Doc Holliday, who menacingly told Johnny Ringo in “Tombstone” that he would be his huckleberry. And not the target of Audrey Hepburn’s affection as she sang that famous line from “Moon River.” …
While pop culture is littered with fun, familiar references, I had no idea that those berries grew wild in the forests of Pebble Beach. It seems the Pacific Grove resident forages for food in her own vast backyard — a true huckleberry hound, if you will.
This all came to my attention one day when Haussermann sent me an email that began: “Do you want a 5-cup bag of huckleberries?”
Read the rest of the story …. which also includes the Haussermann’s Huckleberry Pie recipe!