I am lucky where I live. We have so many wild type of berries that proliferate. This is evergreen huckleberry they are ripening now but the great thing about this berry is they stay on the vine until at least December and they get better after a frost. I love to make a sauce with these that goes great on salmon. I’ve made ice cream with them. I’ve flavored mead also. This is one of the many reasons why I don’t mess with many of the permaculture shrub recommendations. Most of them are simply just massively inferior to the wild berry species that grow readily under nearly every pine around here.
#permaculture #gardening #forage
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 I find myself becoming more curious about what’s surrounding me and what neat and useful things I can do with it! 

 huckleberries are the bomb 

 where do you live? im from Montana, but now live in SW OR and was thinking about growing these...wondering if it is worth a try
 

 Western Washington 

 They are a pain to try to grow. Basically you need high organic, but poor soil conditions. Think recently cleared forest. They are abundant along the coastal forest all the way down to California I believe.