SANDPOINT, Idaho — They call it purple gold, and people will lug heavy buckets and compete with bears to get some. Huckleberries only grow in the wild, and picking them has long fueled an underground ...
Probably the last thing a home grower wants to hear from the Northwest Berry and Grape Information Network experts is this vaguely optimistic fact: "If all goes well, your huckleberries should start ...
Several varieties of huckleberries grow in the Northwest. WSU researchers are working to domesticate Vaccinium membranaceum, also known as mountain huckleberry. Washington State University researchers ...
The huckleberry bush, the most revered shrub in the Inland Northwest, is getting less respect as berry pickers succumb to greed. Practices are getting so bad, the Forest Service has issued a media ...
Despite scattered showers over the past month, Northwest Montana’s huckleberry crop is feeling the effects of a notably dry, hot year that kicked off with a dismal snowpack followed by a ...
MOSCOW, Idaho — Huckleberry seedlings always sell out whenever the University of Idaho’s Pitkin Forest Nursery has them for sale. “Demand for huckleberry seedlings is skyrocketing,” nursery director ...
A huckleberry controversy is trending on Facebook Monday after someone spotted a picker using a huckleberry rake, and called them out for damaging the plants. Huckleberry rakes look like buckets with ...
As we head into fall, we start to hear all about pumpkin spice in everything from candles to cupcakes to milkshakes. But let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves, because in Idaho it’s still ...