Foraging for Edible Wild Plants: A Field Guide to Wild Berries

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October/November 1999
By John Vivian  
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Our advice is that you abide by the rule. Originally, a "stand" of pine meant a forest containing enough trees to be logged off profitably. These litigious days, if your neighbor's lone front-yard white pine falls ill from whatever malady, your gooseberries are liable to be held responsible. And they may be. Plant developers use wild berry stocks in crossbreeding to incorporate their native vigor and hardiness, color or taste into new varieties. Unknown to anyone, the latest hot new variety of currant or gooseberry may well harbor a native parent plants susceptibility to white pine blister rust.

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Wild berries are abundant in our wild lands and largely ignored by today's suburbanized population. In times of genuine scarcity, rather than a supermarket luxury, berries would become a staple food for those of us who know where the wild ones grow, and when and how to harvest them.

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  • Leila 8/23/2009 8:02:01 PM

    Berries are real superfood, especially wild berries, which are not treated or sprayed like cultivated ones. They are anti-aging both inside and out, and great for your general well being.
    Natural berry powders are the best because they have the nutritious seeds ground in them, and contain the same amount of vitamins as fresh ones do. Scandinavian arctic berry powders are from an extremely clean nature, and a safe choice for the whole family.

  • John Saltveit 8/19/2009 1:20:16 AM

    Stop spreading the myth of only 3 native North American fruits. Strawberries, crabapples, hawthorns, paw paw, salal, plums, cherries, and others show that they are just too numerous to mention.
    John S
    PDX OR

  • ZoeCole 11/16/2007 12:11:31 PM

    This was very helpful information from a project I had to do in
    School good infromation easy to take notes on.

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