Raw salal berries are sweet, meaty, chewy and a bit bland. After cooking, the berries remind me of a mix of apple, fig and blueberry. Use them to make jam, jelly or leather, ...

Salal berries (Gaultheria shallon) also ripen around the time of the salmonberries. Salal is a relative of the wintergreen plant, although it smells and tastes nothing like wintergreen.

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 ...

Price: $11.99 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 ...

The salal is a Pacific Northwest coastal species, while Shannon McDonald is Métis/Anishinaabe with deep roots in the Red River Valley of Manitoba, so she “wouldn’t know a salal berry if I ...

Including a variety of edible plants in the landscape provides food for the gardener and the wild creatures that come to visit.

The salal berries contain high levels of tannins, a compound in many fruits and whole foods linked to better health. "They're about five times higher than blueberry, ...

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. Not ...

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 ...

Finally, summer has made an entrance. Bring on the walks, hikes and camping treks. And, while you're out and about, bring on the wild berries. But before plucking a berry and popping it -- or an ...