State foraging calendar

Alaska Foraging Calendar

Alaska is North America's most abundant wild food landscape by sheer volume, with berry patches that can be harvested by the bucket and subsistence foraging woven into the daily life of both Indigenous and non-Native communities across the state. Low-bush blueberries, lingonberries, cloudberries, salmonberries, and crowberries carpet vast tundra and boreal forest landscapes in summer and early fall. Coastal areas add an entirely different foraging layer, with beach greens, edible seaweeds, and spruce tips used from Ketchikan to the Aleutians. Foraging season is compressed into a window from roughly late June through September, and elevation and latitude shift the timing dramatically within the state.

1 bioregion across Alaska