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Locut0s

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Wed Jul 24, 2013, 09:26 PM Jul 2013

What wild berries can you identify and pick in your area?... [View all]

I posted this in the Lounge but now that I know the gardening group is here I guess I'll cross post here

I've been picking and eating wild berries here since I was a kid. My father introduced me to some and friends to others. As far as I know there are no really poisonous indigenous berries here, though I'm sure there are some that have been introduced. The following berries are very common here and easy to identify and eat:

Salmonberries


Blackberries


Huckleberries


Wild Blueberries


Salal
I only learned about Salal a few years back when I saw a women picking them in Stanley Park while hiking through and asked what she was picking. I'd seen these berries many times before but didn't know they were edible. They are rather bland but the taste they do have is quite nice.


There are in fact many more edible berries that grow here as you can see:

http://northernbushcraft.com/guide.php?ctgy=edible_plants®ion=bc

But I've never learned to identify most of the others. I should try though. What fruits and berries grow wild in your neck of the woods that you have learned to identify and eat? Do you just pick them off one by one when you come across them or do you actively go out to collect them for salads and baking and the like. When blackberries come into seas, around late August or so, many people here go out with large buckets to collect tons of them. Great in pies and fruit salads!

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