Hi, my name is Harvey. I’m a wild huckleberry. This is my story. I was raised, with my siblings, in the beautiful, forested mountains of rural Idaho, much like where you probably live. Sure, we were not the largest huckleberries on the hill — maybe not even the sweetest — but we lived in harmony […]
Huckleberry season here in Idaho/Montana is just about over, but from what I have been hearing on the web, it is in full swing in Oregon and northern California. Check out the post by Melissa Trainer who is …. Going Wild for Huckleberries in the Pacific Northwest If you are interested in gathering wild huckleberries […]
I love the information and ingenuity of this gal. Not only does she share some huckleberry preserving methods, she talks about two huckleberry rakes she made. After all was said and done, she ended up buying one of our rakes (NOTE: She mentioned that she bought her rake from Amazon. Because we were shorted rakes […]
I love these cute little Huckleberry Stories — folks sharing their adventures. Huckleberries: The Hunt By Chaya | August 15, 2012 Huckleberry Love or For the Love of Huckleberries I wanted to go huckleberry picking. Last year, I was determined to go. I spent time reading blogs and the Forestry Service pages about what to look […]
Despite warnings and articles on the web and in print, some folks STILL don’t understand how to pick huckleberries. The following article is an example: Fools, Huckleberry Bushes Don’t Mix Posted by DFO Aug. 17, 2012 8:44 a.m. I pulled into Dairy Queen on Appleway in Coeur d’Alene recently with a buddy for something cool … […]
Love these ol’ Huckleberry Memories … Berries: Luscious delicacies, free for the picking BY BOB ANN BRELAND Between Friends As children, one of our favorite things to do this time of year was to roam the woods around our house searching for huckleberries. We started before they started to get ripe, because to us, green […]
Huckleberry hunting Coeur d’Alene Press “That is a great smell,” I slowly and deliberately whisper to my wife while deeply engulfing my first whiff of huckleberry as we hike to our secret huckleberry garden. I’m not sure why I whisper. As most huckleberry pickers know, the safe and sane method of huckleberry picking is to […]
Yesterday I had a sweet encounter with a tiny blue pebble with lovely flavor. Little huckleberries are wild blueberries that can be found on rocky hilltops. They like to grow in the well-drained soil of this terrain, and also thrive growing under pine trees, as I assume they like acidic soil like their more cultivated […]
Sandpoint Idaho 1976 Do you recall your very FIRST huckleberry picking excursion? (Or was this year’s bumper crop be your first time?) I can (unfortunately!) still recall the mis-adventures of my first wild purple berry safari! Bear with me (excuse the pun) for a brief huckleberry story… the way it REALLY was, without all the […]
For me to host a wild huckleberry blog is rather interesting. I have never really been a big huckleberry fan!! No really ….. Being raised in California and living in Wisconsin while I was raising my family, I never heard nor tasted a huckleberry. Berries in my life consisted of raspberries, strawberries, elderberries, blackberries and […]
