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Mom always told us NOT to do that...

Pick berries out of the forest and eat them :)

Yes, this is exactly what we did. We researched huckleberries, and asked my great-grandma about them when we visited her just yesterday, and thought we were all set. We headed up to Kelley Canyon where she said she used to pick them. It was beautiful and a really thick forest. We looked down and up, and found these berries everywhere! They fit the description...
So, we picked away! It's kind of hard to find them, they mostly concentrate in the creek-moist dirt. We also had to climb trees and look under bushes (because they grow on both types.) We got a scratch or two! We ended up trying three different places, and filling about three jars.
Needless to say, I was so excited because I love huckleberry everything!

I think we picked for four hours, and we brought a dinner picnic up with us so we could fill our jars. We originally wanted to make a syrup, but seeing as how we eat so much PBJ, we made a jelly. They were super nasty raw when we bit into them... so in fear that they weren't ripe, we looked them up on the internet. We then found that we weren't sure if we had picked huckleberries at all, and that they were juneberries! Juneberries are edible as well, but you have to cook them due to the centers apparently acting like a cyanide. People eat them all the time though cooked. Huckleberries are so hard to find naturally, and they cannot be domesticated. We were beginning to think huckleberries were mythical and maybe just as elusive as the jackalope in these regions....

Psyching ourselves out on the way to the store to buy pectin, we started to doubt what we had picked. I mean really... your whole life you are told not to eat the dang berries in the forest! Not to mention, we saw a super tasty mushroom growing on a trunk! We decided we couldn't even name our jelly if we didn't know what it was. Poison Jelly perhaps? Ploys to give it to the neighbors first entered our minds.
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But, we smashed away and made jelly. As it turns out, it tasted like huckleberry (what we wanted to accomplish right?) and omgsh you guys should be begging us for our jelly. We're alive, and Juneberry or Huckleberry, it's damn good jelly!

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