You may love huckleberries, but if you pick them yourself, you REALLY have to love picking huckleberries. Following is an informative 9 minute video on identifying, finding and picking huckleberries. The folks who filmed this video are well versed in wild berries, especially huckleberries. If you watch closely, he identifies wild thimble-berries, currants and other […]
Who knew huckleberries grow in Siberia? A reader, Alexander Kopeykin, contacted us with this photo of wild huckleberries from the Eastern Sayan Mountains in Siberia, Russia. According to Alexander, this past year was the best crop he has seen in 10 years!! Alexander shares information about the huckleberries he finds in Siberia: We have two […]
Huckleberries are an important source of food for bears, so if you are out picking, make sure to watch! Here is a recent story published in the Spokesman Review Outdoors Blog by Rich Landers … Berry picker suffers bites after surprising grizzly A park employee, while off duty picking huckleberries in the Swiftcurrent valley, surprised […]
I have heard wild huckleberries called lot of things, but ‘crack cocaine of the Rockies’ was a new one on me. Seabury Blair Jr. wrote a very interesting perspective on huckleberry pickers for the Kitsap Sun. Here are some excerpts form his article: Berry picking like a drug at Mount Rainier B.B. Hardbody, my infinitely […]
Everyone has their own huckleberry picking tips or techniques we use when picking berries, but I think we can all agree on the following: There are many tips and tricks to the art of huckleberry picking, but only one rule: never, ever reveal the location of your personal huckleberry heaven. The ‘tip’ above appeared an […]
With the dismal huckleberry crop last year, many pickers are finding the 2016 crop to be much more promising. Reports of huckleberry sightings (and picking) are coming in from all over the Montana, Idaho and Wyoming Rocky Mountain Region. Here is a handful of these reports from the folks out picking this summer: 2016 huckleberry […]
An update on the huckleberry crop from the Flathead Beacon Huckleberries Bounce Back … Last year’s crop was dismal, affected by record heat and drought conditions that lasted all summer and decimated crop yields. It was a hot summer further marred by major wildfire activity, which also impacts the next season’s huckleberries. In Flathead National […]
With the huckleberry in full swing in the northern Rocky region, folks are reporting a great huckleberry season in Montana! In contrast to the 2015, where the meager crop was very poor due to the lack of snow pack and/or spring rains. The few berries were on the bushes dried up on the branches during […]
If you did not already see the article, Malcolm, from the International Wild Huckleberry Association, was interviewed by Cara Giaimo for a recent article on the Atlas Obsura website: Will We Ever Tame The Wild Huckleberry? …The Pacific Northwest takes huckleberries very, very seriously. Starting in July, droves of huckleberry hounds fall on state parks […]
If you are unsure about the difference between huckleberries and blueberries …. well, you probably have never eaten a huckleberry. But, to help you out, here is a quote from WCAI: The Cape, the Coast and the Island website describing the differences: Huckleberries Growing Across the Cape Are Tasty and Often Overlooked “Huckleberries tend […]
