Huckleberries Safe?

[bpatters]

Like huckleberries. There's nothing else quite like them. They're definitely not a blueberry.

[Bookfan]

The only thing I know about huckleberries is "Huckleberry Hound".

[rjespicer]

Not Huckleberry Finn?

[lisam]

The red huckleberry is my favorite. It's deciduous. And delicious.
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[Bookfan]

"Huckleberry Finn"

Oh yeah! Forgot about that one.

I've never seen huckleberries being sold in farmers markets around here - do they have a short season? I love black raspberries, but I've only found them at one farm & they're only there for one week each summer. As a kid in Kansas City, my mom had a black raspberry bush & ate them right off the bush.

[bpatters]

Huckleberries are hard to pick. They don't grow in clumps, and they're small berries. It takes a lot of effort to pick enough for a pie. You'd have to charge so much for them that you could only sell them to people who already liked them.