Crow Creek Road, Girdwood: Picked blueberries during Blueberry Festival.
August 18
Ester Dome, Ester: Picked highbush cranberry in spots the berries weren’t wrecked. Not very many berries per cluster. Blueberries perfect. Crowberries perfect, very big and sweet this year. Red bearberry perfect. Lowbush cranberries red and fat but crispy, not ripe. Still lots of weird mushrooms everywhere.
August 16
Mat-Su: Blueberries are being picked all over the Valley and Anchorage. Rosehips and watermelon berry, and highbush cranberry are all ripe.
August 14
Northern Fruits U-Pick, Palmer: Picked (domesticated) black currants and apples. Early for apples.
August 1
Ester Dome, Ester: Has been very rainy with floods. Very weird fungi everywhere. Highbush cranberry are soggy, mushy, and pale or brown (wrecked.)
July 19
Swamp land, Big Lake: Picked lots of very nice watermelon berries and red currants. Also domesticated raspberries are doing awesome.
July 13
Fairbanks: 88°F highest temperature of the year.
July 3
Ester Dome, Ester: Picked red currants, ready and nice. Some blueberries ready but mostly too green, look good. Some red bearberries ready. Crowberries look ripe but aren’t. Raspberry, lowbush/highbush cranberry all have green berries. Nagoonberry still flowering.
June 27
Crow Creek Road, Girdwood: Picked cloudberries, salmonberries and blueberries. (Not sure if early blueberries or alaska blueberries.)
June 23
Swamp land, Big Lake: Nice red currants, a few ripe and most half ripe. Noticed fireweed is blooming around.
Alaska Berry Bog 