Category: Out on the Land

One thing I loved about Vancouver was all the berries. From March till September you’d get a gradual progression of different kinds of delicious delicious berries coming into season, ready to be devoured. My summers in Vancouver got so much better once a local showed me all the different edible kinds (thimble berries and huckleberries, raspberries and blue berries, salmon berries, black berries and more)! It turns out the pacific northwest is a feast for people who know when and what kind.

Recently one of my neighbors took me out picking bog berries and lingonberries. Both are a type of cranberry. Lingonberries grow on small bushes right near the ground and bog berries look almost identical to them but grow directly up out of the moss.

They’re hard to spot at first, but if you find a good patch and bring your eyes to ground level, pretty soon you can see heaps of them.

About an hour of very casual picking while making chit-chat scored me about this many.

As for the flavour… They range from little delicious explosions of tartness, to little juicy explosions of doesn’t taste like much.