today's berry haul: from left to right: native and wild black/burgundy dewberries, red huckleberries, planted red strawberries, native wild blackcap raspberries, planted red raspberries, native and wild red thimbleberries (bottom center). lots of dewberries today! there were many more huckleberries, but i ran out of light.

first ripe red thimbleberry with green foliage and fern and unripe berries

first ripe dark purple blackcap raspberry with green foliage and unripe berries

first ripe thimbleberries and blackcap raspberries today.
wonderful wild berry Wednesday!
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first ripe (planted) red strawberry with green foliage. 6.16.2025

first ripe wild dark purple native dewberries (aka trailing blackberry) with unripe red dewberries and green foliage in background. 6.16.2025

first ripe wild native red huckleberries with green foliage 6.13.2025

6.16.2025 harvest includes many native red huckleberries, first native dewberries, few native salmonberries (they've been ripe for a while, but i leave them for the birds and bunnies), first strawberries, and our only ripe red cherry out of many (rest were "robbed" by robins)

with our first ripe strawberries, dewberries, & huckleberries, berry gathering season has officially begun here.
i ❤️ fresh-picked berries!
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