Salal berries meet nearly every one of my kitchen garden criteria. Salal ( Gaultheria shallon ) produces delicious fruit, is easy to grow, tolerates a wide range of soils and growing conditions ...

If people thought of forests as pantries, then the undervalued salal berry might get more love. You've seen the shiny-leafed shrubs before—they're ubiquitous from British Columbia to Southern ...

But here, next to a playground, she stops to point out a small deep bluish-purple berry. “This is salal,” says Ms. Snyder, as if she is formally introducing the plant. “Isn’t she beautiful?” ...

Historically, salal berries were important to Native Americans across the Pacific Northwest. They dried the vitamin-rich fruit, high in antioxidants, and mixed it with preserved meat, such as smoked ...

Know what these are? I didn't either, at least until last week. They are salal berries, gaultheria shallon. And I would have walked right past them had I not heard them calling my name.

The native salal berry is an attractive, taller groundcover. It produces edible berries and provides glossy evergreen foliage. Salal can be kept low or allowed to develop into a medium sized shrub.

UVic biologist Peter Constabel's research found that berries of the salal plant beat blueberries hands-down for two key compounds associated with health benefits. How to have a berry good ...

The salal might not be as well known as blueberries or raspberries, but this easily foraged berry can provide the perfect, mellow flavour to your desserts, says photographer and spear fisher ...

But all become sweet once cooked. • Salal berry: These berries often grow along trails in the woods. They’re not as juicy as huckleberries and can be identified by their star-shaped scar.

Long before Douglas, Gaulthier and the floral industry, American Indians made good use of salal’s somewhat dry but tasty blue-black berries (birds, deer, elk and bear eat them, too). They’re ...

Foraging on native berry bushes while hiking is an unforgettable experience, but you can grow berries native to North America ...