Comments on: Berry Picking in the Norwegian Forests

By: Eleni Simeou

Eleni Simeou — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 10:51:25 +0000

In reply to Natalie. Hi Natalie - the amazing thing with Oslo is that you just need to go for a walk in the forest to pick berries. These are wild berries that grow all around. In august you will be too late for raspberries and wild strawberries but walk around the trails at Sognsvann or Holmenkollen (both of these areas are stops on the metro) and you will come across wild blueberries around that time of year. Bring good walking shoes and a bucket!

By: Natalie

Natalie — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 13:52:54 +0000

I’m excited to visit Oslo in August and would love to pick my own berries! Do you know any farms that allow visitors to pick their own fruit? 🙂

By: John Powell

John Powell — Sun, 13 Sep 2015 07:00:41 +0000

In reply to Jim. Please why are you talking so negative about berries in Norway? Not the problem of the norwegian nature that you have the tase of a dead horse! Strawberries, raspberries for example are not sour. But it seems that you think they are sour. And yes there are sour berries too in Norway, but that is better then ONLY sweet berries! A lot of people like sour berries.

By: Ellen Parlee

Ellen Parlee — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 13:42:59 +0000

Berry picking season is such a fun time of year! Once you have a freshly-picked berry, you’ll never want to taste them any other way.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 25 Aug 2015 07:18:50 +0000

If the is a place in Europe with amazing abundance of fruits all year long is Greece. I have lived in Scandinavia before many years and my only lack was on fruits. Here in Greece you can find in oranges , apples, avocado , blackberries, figs , grapes, gooshberries , cherries, srawberrytree, bananas, apricots, two kinds of treeberries , clementines, passionfruit, peaches and a numerous others than i don’t know the English name , and all of them sweeter than sugar something than it doesn’t happen for the berries of Norway that are very sour. Here in Greece a stroll nearby your house is enough to fill your belly with figs and grapes this month of August and later in September the whole neighborhood is full of sweet pomegranates , many times i dont even eat lunch but only wild or semi wild fruits, not to mention the amazing vegetables you can grow by your own all the year …….

By: Eleni

Eleni — Sat, 22 Aug 2015 14:05:27 +0000

In reply to andy ednasen-rosser. Absolutely!!!

By: andy ednasen-rosser

andy ednasen-rosser — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 10:48:02 +0000

its such a lovely country as my dad is norwegian and from narvik,and myself british i had such a wonderful time when out and about i saw an abundance of fruit in a lot of areas a few years ago,i can only imagine what an abundance there is now
hoe you enjoy the freeness of fruit…knowing you can get it for free……….