Foraging in the City, Vancouver BC
Today I took my youngling down to Stanley Park for some of my favourite recreational activity, berry picking! Mostly we found Salmon Berries also some early Huckleberries.
Salmon Berries come in two main colours Orange to Yellow and Red to Purple. 
Red Salmon Berries
Yellow Salmon Berries
Some of our haul
This is close to the end of the Salmon Berry season but luckily it is the beginning of Huckleberry season here are some pictures.
It was a Beautiful Day so glad I got out to enjoy it!
Cool, I've never seen those berries before, great to have a little window into someone else's foraging day! In Ireland I think the closest thing we have is balckberries and raspberries, oh, and bilberries, nyum nyum.
Your an ethnobotanist? That's cool, have you ever read Wade Davis "Ethnobotany of a Haitian Zombie"? one of my favourite books.
It's on my to-read list! I read his "One River", very cool book, lots of amazing stories and insights.
Yes thats a really good book, all his books are. He should also be considered a historian, and best of all he's a BC boy!
Very nice photos!!!
Thank you!
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That looks like a good haul of Salmon berries and huckleberries! It's nice when public parks allow foraging, even if it's just for fruits, nuts, and mushrooms. Those Salmon berries have some beautiful colors sitting there in your collecting cup. Have a berry happy summer foraging season!
Thank You I will.
You're welcome.
It’s nice to see a new forager here on Steemit! Berry nice berries! It's interesting that huckleberries are different in different regions. In some areas, the huckleberries are blue fruits. But yours must be the Vaccinium parvifolium of the Pacific Northwest. So good!
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We have Blue ones here too I just found some last year in stanley park. also when I was camping up north around Terrace we picked what we called blueberries I've been told they were Blue Huckleberries, do you know if there's a difference? I'll update the post with the scientific name. Oh yeah and its the pacific southwest or to be inclusive I will accept pacific centrewest( and the last letter of the alphabet rhymes with Ned).
Just a little canuckery to lighten your day, Happy Indepence Day!
I've wondered about that too. The mystery of the blue huckleberries... Do they exist? Or are they just blueberries disguised with a different name??
Huckleberries are so good, I want a Huckleberry tree / bush? Some day.
Find a rotting log and get planting!