Now Forage

🗓 Season: July · August

The area itself is a big Scots Pine forest, with a lush undergrowth of mainly Blueberries (Vaccinum) and Bog Bilberries (or "Odon" and "Pukbär" as they are locally called), but even lingonberries grow here, although not in such great amounts. A good berry-year can yield a harvest of fantastic proportions here. I picked several smaller plastic bags filled with blueberries and there was way too much for just me and my sister to pick! It seems like a bird of prey has a home here as well; every year I hear them. To get here is a little bit tricky. The relativly small pine forest is sorrounded by either old spruce forest or spruce plantations, and soggy and wet ground. There are a few, old paths to follow. The very easiest would be to take the road on the map (it is like a circle, with a small patch of forest/trees in the middle): follow to straight part of the road to the end. As of january 2020, there are no houses at the end there yet, only an open field. Go straight forward, and follow the forest edge nort till you find a small opening with a path, and some stones sorrounded. Then you follow the path to the left, north, and walk and walk till you are abpve (north of) the circular street on the map. On your right, into the forest, there is the hidden pine forest, and there is a path into it that cuts straight through it. Of course, there are other ways, but as of now (early 2020) this is the easiest way in. Note: 2019 was a really bad year for blueberries in this forest because of the extreme drought of 2018. I hope whomever finds this forest, this hidden pearl, can enjoy its bounty in its full potential. The year before, 18, was a better year but I only visited once. 2017 gave a bountiful harvest of alot of blueberries.