Urban Blackberry Pickers Score Big In Seattle This is the time of year when Seattleites go foraging for their food. You see them in parks and along roadsides picking blackberries off the bushes that run rampant throughout the city. The state considers the bushes a "Class C noxious weed."

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Urban Blackberry Pickers Score Big In Seattle

August 20, 200912:03 AM ET

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Dark purple Seattle blackberries in white bowl (Wide)

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This is the time of year when Seattleites go foraging for their food. You see them in parks and along roadsides picking blackberries off the bushes that run rampant throughout the city. The state considers the bushes a "Class C noxious weed."

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