https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/02/27/the-true-cost-of-the-huckleberry-industry/ “We were taught to be quiet when we picked,” Jim, who is 60 and a member of the Ḱamíłpa Band of the Yakama Nation, said as she cleaned the berries that had been gathered the day before. Her family carries themselves reverently in the mountains where huckleberries grow. They have to pick in a good way, she explained, so the food won’t catch bad feelings and pass them along. #NativePlants #YakamaNation #Huckleberries #PNW

As a #PacificNorthwest / #PNW transplant, I often bemoan both the quantity and quality of citrus available. I truly miss it.

Last night we roasted fresh local #hazelnuts and added them into peanut butter cookies.

Today I picked up some apple pie from the baker made with remarkable local #apples that don't ship outside western Washington.

The #blueberries, marion berries, and #huckleberries this season have been extraordinary.

I'm sorry, I think I started on this about citrus...

I just bagged up almost three gallons of huckleberries. Last year was a bit of a bust for berries but this year's crop is amazing. Next up: a heat pack on my poor back. #Idaho #huckleberries

Hike at dusk with two cats. Its a great year for huckleberries. So happy for forest critters.
Great big huckleberry bear poops everywhere.
#Bears #huckleberries #BearScat

Need a #forest hug? I was out here this #weekend collecting #huckleberries and exploring the #redwoods. #Thankful for family community and #tree communities.

Looking like a prolific huckleberry year!
#huckleberries #CatsOfMastodon #HikingWithCats

Every berry picker knows that, no matter how prolific the patch, it will eventually run out of berries.

And then you move on to the next patch.

Not so easy to do with planets.

http://www.aspenproposal.org

@GPJohnston
Me too tho II won't turn down most berries, except blueberries (esp the big fat tasteless ones) *BLECH* & so called "blackberries" that are as big as my thumb. All water. Yuck

Love love love little wild #blackberries the size of my pinky. Love #huckleberries too, & homemade huckleberry wine was super good when I was 16. I need to find some more & see what I think. #Boysenberries & #marionberries too.

#Raspberry Rhubarb sounds good. I've only ever had #strawberry
#BerrySnob
@elfin

62423 - Birds & Berries! Hucklebreakfast…
#Monterey
#MorningWalk
#DSLR
#Huckleberries
#Birds

When I was a kid, we would leave the city and drive out to the lake where my grandparents lived. One of my favorite things was to look for huckleberries in the woods.

When I moved here, the backyard was overgrown with ivy. My sister helped me clear most of it and found a short skinny huckleberry bush. (Then she fell over on it, so it was a bit crooked.)

That tiny huckleberry is huge now (about six feet and very bushy), and it makes me so happy.

And I finished the big planting season! Today I emptied out the grow tent - I had #cucumbers and #squash sprouting in 4” pots, and I got them all tucked ever so carefully into the ground. Some of these varieties are supposed to be quite sensitive to having their taproot damaged, but I wanted faster gratification so I started them inside anyway. Now they’re all nestled in nice warm beds, with their baby root systems cradled in their potting soil. (And if they die or get eaten, I have plenty of time to re-sow.)
The cucumbers ended up in the beds with a blueberry and a tree collard. All the squash are in the bottommost beds at the end of the garden, with the winter squash at the very bottom.
I did plant some outdoor seeds! I had about 12’ of bed space unclaimed, so I filled in one partial bed with bush #GreenBeans and planted the other in some hybrid kale/Brussels sprouts varieties, yum!
I finally figured out where to put the #huckleberries I surprised myself with last week! (I seriously have only the vaguest memory of buying huckleberry bushes?) I planted them on a slope, between the corn terraces and the redneck chicken Green Zone, beside a 30’ noble fir - I think they’ll tolerate all that nonsense. And then the #quince that I do remember ordering arrived. It has a nice logical home, filling the hole where one of the roses died when we transplanted it. RIP rose, welcome dwarf quince!
Still to come, I’ve saved three big, hot beds for #melons. And I’ve got some pole green beans I’ll plant along the fence at the same time, to hopefully come in after the bush beans slow down.
Speaking of slowing down, I’ll be very glad to go back to just farm maintenance work tomorrow! I’ll have chicken and equine updates then. #gardening @gardening