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Gooseberry · Raspberry · Strawberry
🗓 Season: June · July · August · April · May
🔍 When is it ripe?
Gooseberry: Unripe: small, hard, very tart (good for cooking). Ripe: translucent, slightly soft, and sweet — variety colour is red, yellow, or green. Ripe gooseberries come off the stalk easily and have a sweet aroma.
Raspberry: Deep red (or gold/yellow for golden varieties) and slides off the receptacle — the hollow centre is the tell. Does not pull: a ripe raspberry separates at a touch. Extremely fragile; use within hours of picking.
Strawberry: Uniformly red with no white or green at the tip or shoulder. Strong strawberry fragrance even from a distance. Cap leaves (calyx) are fresh and green. Completely red flesh inside when cut. Wild strawberries are smaller but more intensely flavoured.
Raspberries and purple gooseberries are found growing wild all along the edge of the creek of Creekside Park. There are wild strawberry plants (but I found no berries) also along the creek. Cultivated strawberries have also been planted in the landscaped areas of the park. They are small and not very sweet but there is an abundance of them. This may also be a good area for mushroom hunting (under your own risk) because I saw many different species in the area, although I was not sure of the type. The wooded areas closest to the trails tend to get picked over by passers-by but if you are willing to venture off of the trail, nothing has been touched as this is an area frequented by vacationers. Check the local listings for festivals that may be held in the park during your visit as that will make it too crowded to make foraging worthwhile. Also, you must pass the gate troll to get into the Beaver Creek area so I would probably mention you are headed to a place other than the park so as not to give yourself away.
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