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Favorite wild berry?
Uploaded on January 26, 2009I will do a series of favorite wild plants but I wanted to start with berries since they taste the best and are usually the most easily recognized.
My NUMBER 1 favorite, definitely the huckleberry. I didn't grow up eating these guys but they are the best wild berry in existence. We didn't get to pick any last year but I am really hoping to instead of paying $35 a gallon and I believe in some areas they are a lot more expensive.
#2 Wild strawberry - up here they are very small but taste better than any store bought variety.
#3 Blackberries - on the west side of Washington especially around Seattle and down to Oregon these things grow everywhere and in huge patches. You drive along and stop in numerous place and within 10 minutes you can load a gallon size ziploc with no problem.
So please share what your top 3 favorites are to include the berry's name, your location, and anything else you would like to add.
Take care and God bless,
Jamie
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I would agree with blackberries that was the first wild berries I ever had. Gooseberries are good too but I've only had them in pies so I'm not sure how they would be plain. Sand hill plums are also good not really a berry but I can't think of a third one.
i would have to say blackberrys, rasberrys, and then wild strawberrys. but with the strawberrys and raspberrys never eat any off the ground there is a plant that usually grows under them and looks exactly the same but is poisenous so if you drop any just leave them there
Hey Matt, where are you at and what plant are you talking about? Can you describe it? Number of leaves, color, shiny or not, hairy or not, size, anything you could add would be great. You really have me intrigued on this now as I don't know of any poisonous look-a-likes here in the NW. Here the strawberries only grow on the ground and I eat the berries and the leaves.
Wild strawberries. There probably aren't enough around to save me in a survival situation, but they are my favorite.
blackberries and huckleberries have always been my favorites
I have never seen a huckleberry in Wisconsin, but my top 3 are Black Raspberry, Mulberry, and Blackberry. All three can be found wild if you know where to look. Further north than me you can find wild blueberries and cranberries.
gooseberries, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm good
Lower elevations = Blackberries. Higher elevations = Huckleberries.
Jamie,
I live in SW Washington. What about you?
Hi Carney, right near Spokane. I go up north near the Cusick area for my woods trips.
I have some friends in Spokane and friends from Spokane but I've only been throughthe area once. Where is the Cusick area?
Ilove huckleberries but I also love raspberries because they are easy to find.
Christian, where are you at that the raspberries are so abundant? We have them here and I really like wild ones but they are not too abundant. Blackberries on the western side of Washington grow all over the place.
On my property I have Huckleberry, Blackberry, Salmonberry,Thimbleberry and Raspberry. My favorites are 1. Blackberry, 2.Huckleberry, 3.Salmonberry. I usually have far more Blackberries then I can eat so I freeze a lot/ I also freeze a lot of Huckleberries. I don't get many of the Salmonberries because the birds get them first.
Jamin, where are you at, I will be there when the berries come in!!! But seriously let me know where you are at and if you have ever heard of fire rocks in Washington state?
I live on the Skykomish river. Fire rocks???? No don't know of it.
Fire rocks occured after Mount St. Helens blew. Due to all the ask that covered the entire area, the ash has seaped into the ground and become imbedded in the local rocks. One of the primary components of ash is sulfur. If you pick the right rocks, the ones with the shiny appearance (substance) on them, you can take a match to them and they will light on fire. Hence you have what we call fire rocks!!!
Sounds pretty believable right? The shiny substance on the rocks is the fire paste or fire gel you put on the rocks before the kids or your buddies showed up. The whole story sounds believable and you can even challenge them to find some. They might bring you the exact same rock...just keep telling them to keep looking and they will find one :)
1. cloudberry
2. blackberry
3. wild raspberry
Blackberries, wild strawberries, and goosberries are good. The goosberries are pretty sour but I try and mix them up with some strawberries and it is a great combination.
Throughout Ohio you can find an abundance of delicious blackberry and rasberry. My favorite, however, has to be the muleberry
1 wild strawberries rock
2 blackberries
3 raspberries
4 honeysuckles
My favorites are black rasberries. I just bought a new house in a different town and I went on a jog in the local park and found tons of bushes. I think I consumed more calories than I burnt of that day while exercising.
Wild stawbarries when I can find them, Black Berries are abundant, rasberries when I can find them. I know these are not berries but I like wild cherries and muscadine.
I love wild blackberries, rasberries, blueberries, and grapes. As a kid i remember eating teaberries in the deer woods with my dad, but don't find them much anymore. I have a mulberry tree in my yard that yields great berries.
Definetly blackberries I see them I pick them.
Definetly blackberries I see them I pick them.
Without question Blackberries!
blackberries and huckleberrys, takes a day to pic a mess of huckleberrrys but I know in my neck of the woods if I get into a bunch there are bound to be bear nearby!
Blackberries,blueberries, and persimmons(I know its not a berry but I still love em)
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I would agree with blackberries that was the first wild berries I ever had. Gooseberries are good too but I've only had them in pies so I'm not sure how they would be plain. Sand hill plums are also good not really a berry but I can't think of a third one.
i would have to say blackberrys, rasberrys, and then wild strawberrys. but with the strawberrys and raspberrys never eat any off the ground there is a plant that usually grows under them and looks exactly the same but is poisenous so if you drop any just leave them there
Hey Matt, where are you at and what plant are you talking about? Can you describe it? Number of leaves, color, shiny or not, hairy or not, size, anything you could add would be great. You really have me intrigued on this now as I don't know of any poisonous look-a-likes here in the NW. Here the strawberries only grow on the ground and I eat the berries and the leaves.
Wild strawberries. There probably aren't enough around to save me in a survival situation, but they are my favorite.
blackberries and huckleberries have always been my favorites
gooseberries, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm good
Lower elevations = Blackberries. Higher elevations = Huckleberries.
Jamie,
I live in SW Washington. What about you?
Hi Carney, right near Spokane. I go up north near the Cusick area for my woods trips.
I have some friends in Spokane and friends from Spokane but I've only been throughthe area once. Where is the Cusick area?
Ilove huckleberries but I also love raspberries because they are easy to find.
Christian, where are you at that the raspberries are so abundant? We have them here and I really like wild ones but they are not too abundant. Blackberries on the western side of Washington grow all over the place.
On my property I have Huckleberry, Blackberry, Salmonberry,Thimbleberry and Raspberry. My favorites are 1. Blackberry, 2.Huckleberry, 3.Salmonberry. I usually have far more Blackberries then I can eat so I freeze a lot/ I also freeze a lot of Huckleberries. I don't get many of the Salmonberries because the birds get them first.
Jamin, where are you at, I will be there when the berries come in!!! But seriously let me know where you are at and if you have ever heard of fire rocks in Washington state?
I live on the Skykomish river. Fire rocks???? No don't know of it.
Fire rocks occured after Mount St. Helens blew. Due to all the ask that covered the entire area, the ash has seaped into the ground and become imbedded in the local rocks. One of the primary components of ash is sulfur. If you pick the right rocks, the ones with the shiny appearance (substance) on them, you can take a match to them and they will light on fire. Hence you have what we call fire rocks!!!
Sounds pretty believable right? The shiny substance on the rocks is the fire paste or fire gel you put on the rocks before the kids or your buddies showed up. The whole story sounds believable and you can even challenge them to find some. They might bring you the exact same rock...just keep telling them to keep looking and they will find one :)
I have never seen a huckleberry in Wisconsin, but my top 3 are Black Raspberry, Mulberry, and Blackberry. All three can be found wild if you know where to look. Further north than me you can find wild blueberries and cranberries.
1. cloudberry
2. blackberry
3. wild raspberry
Blackberries, wild strawberries, and goosberries are good. The goosberries are pretty sour but I try and mix them up with some strawberries and it is a great combination.
Throughout Ohio you can find an abundance of delicious blackberry and rasberry. My favorite, however, has to be the muleberry
1 wild strawberries rock
2 blackberries
3 raspberries
4 honeysuckles
My favorites are black rasberries. I just bought a new house in a different town and I went on a jog in the local park and found tons of bushes. I think I consumed more calories than I burnt of that day while exercising.
Wild stawbarries when I can find them, Black Berries are abundant, rasberries when I can find them. I know these are not berries but I like wild cherries and muscadine.
I love wild blackberries, rasberries, blueberries, and grapes. As a kid i remember eating teaberries in the deer woods with my dad, but don't find them much anymore. I have a mulberry tree in my yard that yields great berries.
Definetly blackberries I see them I pick them.
Definetly blackberries I see them I pick them.
Without question Blackberries!
blackberries and huckleberrys, takes a day to pic a mess of huckleberrrys but I know in my neck of the woods if I get into a bunch there are bound to be bear nearby!
Blackberries,blueberries, and persimmons(I know its not a berry but I still love em)
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