Alaska Berries

Learn Alaska's wild food preservation traditions — smoking salmon, pressure canning fish, fermenting berries, and drying wild greens for the winter.

Every summer, Anchorage residents disappear into the hills with empty containers and return with purple-stained fingers. Berry picking near Anchorage, Alaska is one of the most deeply rooted local traditions in the state — the Chugach foothills produce an extraordinary abundance of wild fruit from late June through early September. For visitors, joining the harvest […]