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A GREAT Huckleberry Cookbook!

May 3, 2025 Mr. Huckleberry

Written by Stephanie and Alex Hester out of Montana, this 176-page colorful gem offers dozens of recipes – ALL with huckleberries as an ingredient – in a wide variety of delicious food categories. Check it out by clicking on the title: HUCKLEBERRY COOKBOOK! Amazon offers up this descriptive verbiage: Residents of huckleberry country and visitors […]

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Random Huckleberry Facts

June 28, 2021 sandy 1 Comment

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 […]

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Newly Updated Resource Page

May 25, 2020 sandy

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 […]

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More Fun Facts About Huckleberries

March 28, 2019 sandy

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 […]

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Native Americans and Huckleberries

August 22, 2017 sandy

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! […]

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Origin of “I’m Your Huckleberry”

January 13, 2017 sandy 1 Comment

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 […]

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Huckleberry Products for Your Event?

April 28, 2016 sandy

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 summerevent, 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, […]

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Everything You Want to Know about Huckleberries

April 22, 2016 sandy

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 […]

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What are Mummified Huckleberries?

February 25, 2016 sandy

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, […]

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Huckleberry Forecast from Montana

June 24, 2015 sandy

After the bumper crop of huckleberries last season, folk are wondering about this year’s huckleberry forecast. Here is one researcher’s perspective on the Glacier National Park huckleberries: WEST GLACIER – Tabitha Graves can’t say this will be a bad year for huckleberries, even Huckleberry forecast from Montana though four of the five sites she is […]

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