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The deer will love you.
Heck, just let the dandelions take over your yard and you can eat good for you greens all summer long.
And with BBQ Sauce, I will love them as well.
Better get started. Fruit trees can take a long time to get going and the deer are **** on them when the trees are young. I've got 7 year old Apple trees that are just starting to produce. I have had good luck with Frost Peaches and Cherry trees. Otherwise, it seems to be hit and miss from year to year. Weather, location, and knowledge all play a huge part in getting successful fruit trees.
huckleberries are a rather finicky plant, plus they need to be up high. Red huckleberries are pretty much everywhere out in the coast range. There is a weird blue type that I have found, but unless they are in full sun (very rare) their berries taste terrible. But yeah, I have though about doing the same thing behind my house on the metro land. Its already over run with blackberry patches, just need a bunch of miners lettuce (if it will grow here) and some other low key food stuffs. I really need to just go take one of those wild foods classes. But really you'd be amazed at how many plants there are on the sides of roads and in vacant land that you can eat. Heck, just let the dandelions take over your yard and you can eat good for you greens all summer long.
Try potatos...I threw in some reds in my back yard and they grew like wildfire. It would take deer a little bit more effort to dig out potatos than all that top growing stuff.
I grew up in the mountains of N. Idaho...nothing beats the big purple huckleberries growing up there. Except maybe the bears that are eating those berries!