Ester Dome, Ester: Picked some ripe highbush cranberry, and good raspberries and rosehips.
August 8
Swamp land, Big Lake: Picked lots of great (domesticated) raspberries and also elderberry. A whole bunch of white spruce in the Mat-Su are spruce-beetle-killed or infested.
July 27
Ester Dome, Ester: Picked red currants. Not that many, but nice. Rosehips starting to ripen.
July 16
Ester Dome, Ester: Red currants are red but tart still. Some raspberries are ready but sickly this year. Highbush cranberry berries are beginning to redden. Green rosehips.
June 24
Ester Dome, Ester: Raspberry and roses flowering. Lots of bluebells flowering. Highbush cranberry and red currant have small green berries.
May 20
Ester Dome, Ester: Red currants are flowering.
May 11
Fairbanks: Official Chena Ridge greenup day.
August 13
Swamp land, Big Lake: Really good watermelon berries.
August 10
Crow Creek Road, Girdwood: Picked some blueberries, some ready, lots not ready yet. Picked great salmonberries. Lots ripe, some almost ripe.
August 3
Swamp land, Big Lake: Picked really good (domesticated) raspberries. Picked lots of red currants.