Cuthbert Thistlethwaite wrote:
>>> $48.00 / lb. this morning at farmers' market in Chicago.
>
>> Yikes! I think we'll take a day trip. Some of the same area can be
>> surveyed for huckleberries later on.
>> Janet
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> The people with the mushrooms were from south-east Wisconsin.
>
> This farmers' market usually offers a bewildering array of jams and
> preserves, though i don't recall seeing huckleberry.

I could be wrong on this, but I think that huckleberries are mainly a wild
plant of the Pacific/Intermountain West. I think there may have been some
success lately in propagating for farming. . .maybe. They are similar in
appearance to a blueberry, although smaller. Taste is sorta like
blueberries, but not really. Used the same way. You have to watch out for
bears as you pick. The bears stand or sit and gather in great armfuls and
are often difficult to see. The bears have dibs on them unless you want to
argue about it.
Janet