If you love wild foods, especially wild huckleberries, you will love Northwest Wild Foods. According to their website: “Located between the temperate Puget Sound and the rugged Cascade Mountains of the Pacific Northwest, Northwest Wild Foods is a small, family-owned company in Burlington, Washington, that is dedicated to bringing you the rare and natural wild […]
With huckleberry season in full swing, there is still controversy around huckleberry picking rakes. To help folks decide if rakes are a good option or not, the following is a short history of huckleberry picking rakes and how we began selling them. Early Discovery and Use of Huckleberry Picking Rakes One of the earliest mentions […]
Despite the hot temperatures in the Pacific Northwest, we are hearing that the huckleberries are beginning to ripen. Depending on where you live and pick, you might want to start searching around your area or your favorite patches to see how they are doing. In the meantime, enjoy some random fun huckleberry facts (Some taken […]
Over the years, we have received numerous requests for huckleberry cookbooks and other resources on finding and growing huckleberries. We have collected some of the best (but not exhaustive) resources on wild huckleberries and added them to our website. Our Resource page features three of our favorite cookbooks: THE HUCKLEBERRY COOKBOOK, 2nd Edition THE HUCKLEBERRY […]
Huckleberries are a favorite fruit for many — especially if you live in or around the Rocky Mountain region. But did you know about these fun facts: Huckleberries are also found throughout eastern North America and the Andes and other mountainous regions of South America. The fruit is versatile in various foods or beverages, including […]
Native Americans enjoy a long history of picking and maintaining many huckleberry stands throughout the northwest region. The use and preservation of huckleberries is recorded as far back at 1615 when explorer Samuel de Champlain observed Native Americans collecting and drying huckleberries for winter use. Even the first huckleberry rakes were developed by Native Americans! […]
Have you ever pondered where the saying, “I’m your huckleberry” came from and what it actually means? Maybe you remember the line that was made famous by Val Kilmer in the movie: “Tombstone”. But where did he get the phrase? Victoria Wilcox: The Art of Story website shares some information on the topic: I’m Your […]
During the spring and summer, Tastes of Idaho, our sister site, does a booming business in special orders for the event industry. Inquiries come from people holding a summer event, getting married, organizing an workshop or meeting, sending customer gifts…. even planning family reunions… They want to get some huckleberry products, favors, gifts for welcome packets, […]
As you know, we have tons of information about huckleberries on this site — especially about the huckleberries grown in the Rocky Mountain and Pacific Northwest region. But we may not have EVERYTHING you want to know about huckleberries! But, believe it or not, there is some interesting information about huckleberry on Wikipedia Following is […]
A reader recently posted the following question on our website concerning mummified huckleberries: … We have many red huckleberry and evergreen huckleberry bushes in our woods (in Washington). I have noticed mummies in the e.h. plants–a local blueberry farmer expressed surprise that mummification had migrated to the wild. Do you know if that is common, […]
