I grew up in the desert Southwest, where I never saw berries. Maybe there are some in the mountains. I don’t know. I moved up to the great Lakes area and there are a ton growing wild. I lived in this one house that bordered a forest in the back and they were just so many raspberries. We just walk out and snack on them. My friend said they were highbush and little bush, blueberries, but I’ve never learned to identify those.Also, walking around the south shore of Lake Superior, there are amazing berries called thimbleberries. A thimbleberry is like a raspberry, in that it’s made out of a bunch of little dots too, but each blib is smaller. It’s so cool that you can just walk around in the woods and find a complimentary snack.
I’m nomadic but mainly stay in the rockies. There are strawberries in higher altitudes like >9k ft, but always tiny and grazed by the deer and other wild life. But I’ve been to the PNW when there are ripe blueberries, reneir(?) white cherries, blackberries, raspberries, every one of those types, then others like huckleberry I think, different style fruiting with round red berries. There’s just food everywhere and it blows my mind. If I lived in a place like that I could forage a years worth of berry jam just on a daily stroll through the woods.
Just fyi, it’s Rainier, like the mountain. And the neat thing about spelling Mount Rainier, (and also the cherries) is that it’s spelled exactly like “more rainy, having more rain” which is a pretty good description except for winter when it should be Mount Snowier.
Lol, yeah I could’ve just looked it up but that shows me. I’m not from there. I love those cherries, I ate like 10lbs because they won’t let you into Canada with them. The border guards were like yeah I get it at first but then it probably got to a concerning level.
I grew up in the desert Southwest, where I never saw berries. Maybe there are some in the mountains. I don’t know. I moved up to the great Lakes area and there are a ton growing wild. I lived in this one house that bordered a forest in the back and they were just so many raspberries. We just walk out and snack on them. My friend said they were highbush and little bush, blueberries, but I’ve never learned to identify those.Also, walking around the south shore of Lake Superior, there are amazing berries called thimbleberries. A thimbleberry is like a raspberry, in that it’s made out of a bunch of little dots too, but each blib is smaller. It’s so cool that you can just walk around in the woods and find a complimentary snack.
I’m nomadic but mainly stay in the rockies. There are strawberries in higher altitudes like >9k ft, but always tiny and grazed by the deer and other wild life. But I’ve been to the PNW when there are ripe blueberries, reneir(?) white cherries, blackberries, raspberries, every one of those types, then others like huckleberry I think, different style fruiting with round red berries. There’s just food everywhere and it blows my mind. If I lived in a place like that I could forage a years worth of berry jam just on a daily stroll through the woods.
Just fyi, it’s Rainier, like the mountain. And the neat thing about spelling Mount Rainier, (and also the cherries) is that it’s spelled exactly like “more rainy, having more rain” which is a pretty good description except for winter when it should be Mount Snowier.
Lol, yeah I could’ve just looked it up but that shows me. I’m not from there. I love those cherries, I ate like 10lbs because they won’t let you into Canada with them. The border guards were like yeah I get it at first but then it probably got to a concerning level.
Which desert do you mean? the Atacama desert?
Hmm, no. I mean the southwestern US. Sorry I wasn’t clear on that.