Berries
Telkwa and area flourishes with a wide variety of berries. If you’ve never tasted a huckleberry here’s your chance! Sweet, deep purple, shiny berries burst with juice and flavour and are plentiful in old logged areas throughout the valley. Huckleberries make the best pies, syrups, jellies, and jams. The hardest part of picking huckleberries is getting them into the pail, as it is so tempting to eat them. Some other berries that are commonly found include, high bush cranberries, blueberries, saskatoons, wild strawberries, raspberries, salmon berries, crowberries, and bog cranberries. For more information on berries found in our area stop at the local book stores, and the friendly staff will be glad to assist you. Be sure to ask locals where the best picking spots are located.

Huckleberries have a high sugar content, grow on shrubs 1-3 feet high in old cleared logged or burned areas.

Huckleberry

High Brush Cranberries are bright red, tangy tasting, berries with a large pit in the center often used for jams and jellies. They be found along many roadsides, rivers, lakes and clear cuts.

High Bush Cranberry

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Mushrooms
Mushrooms galore. If you are the harvesting type and enjoy adding gourmet mushrooms to your meals, check out the woods of the Telkwa area. Each spring, aspen stands flourish with morels. Later in the summer, the giant puffballs, inky caps, shaggy manes, chanterelles, boletus and of course the popular pine mushrooms pop out. There is a large commercial pine mushroom picking industry with most of these mushrooms being shipped overseas to the orient. As with any mushroom picking, one must be able to properly identify the mushroom and know how to navigate in the woods. For more information on mushrooms in our area check with local book stores.

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Box 220 Telkwa B.C., V0J 2X0
1704 Riverside St.
Phone: (250) 846-5212
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