I adore finding useful plants on our property. When we first bought it I had to have a choke cherry bush like my folks did when I was a kid and that my mom used to make jam and pancake syrup. I looked all over and found out that it is a plant you usually find growing wild in many areas and I couldn't find anyone who actually sold them.
Finally one day I was out walking with a friend who had grown up in the area and she reached out an picked some huckleberries off a wild bush. Arrrgh! Huckleberries are this area's version of the choke cherry! I had no idea they existed here... The moral of the story is somehow mixed up with us now having huckleberry jam and pancake syrup.
Whoo Hoo! Wild and wonderful yummy things!
