Swamp land, Big Lake: Great spruce tips. Currants have had small berries for about a week. Beautiful white flowers (like dogwood) appearing. Lots of flowers or buds for berry plants; highbush cranberry, rose, raspberry, elderberry.
May 2
Swamp land, Big Lake: Red currants flowering all over. Lots of fiddleheads and mushrooms available all over the Valley.
April 29
Swamp land, Big Lake: Early blueberry flowering. Fiddlehead ferns are ready. Birch greened up a week or so ago, and lots of currant plants are nicely leafing out.
Jun 29
Kenai Lake, Primrose: Gathered many of the super irresistible spruce tips and rose petals everywhere. Trailing raspberry flowering. Blueberries and red currants small and green.
May 16
Fairbanks: Official Chena Ridge greenup day.
June 28
Swamp land, Big Lake: Picked ripe red currants. Enough are red now to be worth it! Many are still green or just about ripe.
May 17
Fairbanks: Official Chena Ridge greenup day.
October 18
Swamp land, Big Lake: Picked quite a few lowbush cranberries in dry meadow areas. People are picking crabapples in Anchorage and other areas.
October 4
Swamp land, Big Lake: Probably the last time I’m going to pick a bunch of red currants this year. I still can’t resist the perfectly good racemes, but some clusters are getting brown or slimy so they’re all about done.
September 30
Little Susitna River, Houston: Picked lots of lowbush cranberries.
Alaska Berry Bog 