Not prime season yet, but it's nearing ...
Bell Creek Trail: Savored a few early-season but ripe salmonberries, thimbleberries, and huckleberries.
Tanner Road: A few early-season but ripe native blackberries, raspberries, and thimbleberries, and rewarding lungfuls (repeatedly) of a solitary Lewis's mock-orange, Philadelphus lewisii
2014 Berry Thread
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Ate some tasty Salmonberries at the start of the Starway trail a couple of weeks back. Both orange and red berries. Yum
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Mmmm, long live the Salmonberry.
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Huckleberries and blueberries were just getting started in the Bull of the Woods this past weekend. There should be a bumper crop in a few weeks...mmmm. There were enough for a tasty and much-needed snack.
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Yes, lots of small green berries at Bull of the Woods. I believe they are purple when ripe, there. I started at BOW trailhead and went into Big Slide Lake over Saturday night. There will be plenty to pick along that route.
Matt where abouts were you?
Noticed on Friday that there are red berries ripe in the gorge (Mult-Wah) -- if there is legal picking there.
Kelly
Matt where abouts were you?
Noticed on Friday that there are red berries ripe in the gorge (Mult-Wah) -- if there is legal picking there.
Kelly
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I was on Juniper Ridge in the Dark Divide the other day, and while I didn't find any fruit, I did notice that almost every square foot of the landscape is covered in wild strawberry flowers. In a few weeks, the strawberries might be epic — assuming the birds and bears and goats don't beat you to them.
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That's what we saw on the upper reaches of Coldwater Ridge, last Saturday, too.adamschneider wrote:I was on Juniper Ridge in the Dark Divide the other day, and while I didn't find any fruit, I did notice that almost every square foot of the landscape is covered in wild strawberry flowers.
Karl
Back on the trail, again...
Back on the trail, again...
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I ate a couple blackberries today. In Portland.
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If you can't wait for the wild kind, or you didn't find any, the Fuji Farms fruit stand at the corner of 242nd (Hogan) and Cherry Park Road has blueberries, raspberries, blackberries and marionberries--all domestic, of course. No business interest here, just the source of my pigging out at this time of year.
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There's a farm stand on S.W. Multnomah in Multnomah.
Blueberries will be gone soon.
Blueberries will be gone soon.