More Foraging

On Labor Day, we drove up to Arctic Valley (about 1/2 hour from Anchorage) and tried out the subsistence lifestyle once again by picking blueberries. Luckily, we also have grocery stores to depend on for food, because we only came away with a cup of berries. Soren helped, though!



There were quite a few other people there, taking the berry-picking with different degrees of seriousness -- some were just dabbling, like us, and some were coming away with several gallons of berries. Crazy. On the other hand, I think most of the folks with vast quantities of berries were actually picking crowberries, which are technically edible but need to have the seeds removed first (or something like that). There's a much lower demand for crowberries, so it's easy to get a ton of them. Not that I'm discounting their hard work.



We're going to Kodiak next week -- Chris is planning on coming back with at least 80 pounds of fresh-caught halibut. Now that's subsistence.