Recipe: Joint health fitness strawberry Forahing Kitchen Stories. Ways to Use Chokecherries ~ Foragig from Wild Berry Foraging Left: Pounded Berfy dried whole chokecherry patties, chokecherry wine, ripe chokecherries stemmed, and chokecherry jelly. Thimbleberries grow through western North America from California to Alaska. I forage other mucilaginous plants like wild violets and marshmallow plantsand I think the delicious sweetness more than makes up for any texture issues.