Birch Creek Ranch, Talkeetna: Picked (domesticated) currants which are perfect. Red and black.
August 11
Bear Mountain, Peters Creek: Picked lots of blueberries and crowberries. Lots of green blueberries still. Crowberries perfect.
August 10
Lucile Creek, Big Lake: Lots of lowbush cranberries half ripe. Picked a few nagoonberries. Lots of bunchberries.
August 17
Swamp land, Goldstream, Fairbanks: Absolutely perfect and tons of blueberries in the black spruce.
August 16
Murphy Dome, Goldstream: Blueberries galore, some too far gone. Picked blue along with very good crowberries. Lowbush cranberries all over, not ripe yet. Blueberries and raspberries still good on Ester Dome.
August 9
Quartz Lake, Delta Junction: Picked black currants, red currants, raspberries, coltsfoot, highbush cranberry. Other berries ripe.
August 7
Ester Dome: Ester: Lots of good raspberries right now. Picked tons. Blueberries have been great everywhere; Murphy Dome, Angel Rocks, etc. but it’s too hot out. Highbush cranberry is red and juicy but still tart.
August 30
Ester Dome, Ester: Picked lots of highbush.
August 27
Ester Dome, Ester: Highbush cranberry plants’ leaves have all gone red. The berries are very ripe. There are also ripe rosehips everywhere.
August 22
Marsh land, Big Lake: Picked ripe blueberries. Not impressive crop. Picked some overripe cloudberries. Highbush cranberries are almost ripe.