Kincaid Park, Anchorage: Picked lots of ripe raspberries.
August 20
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.)
August 13
Meadow Lakes: Very good domesticated raspberries right now.
August 2
Tustumena Lake, Kasilof: Picked lots of crowberries. Lowbush cranberry half ripe.
August 26
Hatcher Pass, Fishhook: Picked tons of really good Crowberries in Archangel Valley.
August 14
Birch Creek Ranch, Talkeetna: Picked (domesticated) currants which are perfect. Red and black.