Salmonberry
| Salmonberry | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Forage |
| Location | Foraging |
| Season | 15-18 Spring (bushes); All (the Farm Cave) |
| Sell Price | 5g |
| Energy | 25 |
| Health | 11 |
The Salmonberry is a small Spring berry picked from wild bushes during a short window in mid-Spring. It has the lowest sell value of any forage item in the game, but it comes in huge numbers and costs nothing to collect. That makes it the best free food of the first Spring, keeping energy up on long days of clearing the farm. Bear's Knowledge triples its price, and a Preserves Jar turns it into jelly worth many times the raw berry. Several villagers also like it as a cheap gift.
The in-game description reads: A spring-time berry with the flavor of the forest.
Location
For four days in the third week of Spring, the bushes around Pelican Town and the surrounding areas fill with Salmonberries. This short stretch is known as Salmonberry Season, and it is worth planning the week around.
To pick the berries, walk up to a bush and interact with it. Picked bushes can grow new berries overnight during the season, so checking them every day gives far more than a single trip.
The Foraging skill sets how many berries each bush gives. At level 4, a bush drops two berries. At level 8, it drops three. Food that raises Foraging high enough can push the yield to four. Each berry picked from a bush also gives a little Foraging experience, so a full season of picking helps the skill grow.
The Secret Woods hold a large cluster of bushes. The Forest Farm also has more berry bushes than any other farm map, which makes Salmonberry Season especially rich there.
With the Botanist profession, every berry from a bush is picked at the highest quality.
A Farm Cave given to the fruit bats can also produce Salmonberries in any season.
Prices
A raw Salmonberry sells for almost nothing. Bear's Knowledge helps a little. Secret Note #23 asks the farmer to bring Maple Syrup to the Secret Woods, where a bear teaches a lasting power. After that, every Salmonberry and Blackberry sells for three times its normal price.
Artisan goods are the real way to profit. A Preserves Jar turns a Salmonberry into Salmonberry Jelly, which is worth many times the raw berry. A Keg makes wine worth three times the berry, which is far less than the jelly. Salmonberry is one of the few fruits worth more as jelly than as wine. With Bear's Knowledge, the raw berry already sells for as much as its wine, so the Keg is never worth using here.
Sell prices by quality, with the bonus from each profession.
| Quality | Price | Bear's Knowledge (×3) |
|---|---|---|
| Normal | 5g | 15g |
 Silver
|
6g | 18g |
 Gold
|
7g | 21g |
 Iridium
|
10g | 30g |
Uses
The main use of a Salmonberry is as food. Each berry restores a fair amount of energy and a little health. Eating one costs almost nothing in lost income, which matters in the first year, when food and money are both short. A full chest from Salmonberry Season can carry a farmer through the rest of Spring.
With Remixed Bundles, the Children's Bundle on the Bulletin Board can ask for a stack of Salmonberries.
In tailoring, a Salmonberry in the Sewing Machine makes a shirt. A Salmonberry also serves the red dye pot in Emily and Haley's house.
Gifts
Demetrius, Jodi, Kent, Leah, Linus, Pam, Robin, Sandy and Shane like Salmonberries.
Abigail, Alex, Clint, the Dwarf, Emily, George, Gus, Haley, Jas, Krobus, Leo, Lewis, Marnie, Maru, Penny, Pierre, Sam, Sebastian, Vincent, Willy and the Wizard dislike them.
Caroline, Elliott, Evelyn and Harvey hate them.
A free berry that pleases Robin, Pam, Kent and Shane is useful in the first year, when good gifts are scarce. Avoid giving one to Harvey, who likes most other forage.
Never put a Salmonberry in the soup at the Luau. The Governor dislikes the result, and the farmer loses some friendship with the whole town.
All Foraging
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Season | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blackberry | 
|
Fall | - |
| Cave Carrot | 
|
All | 25g |
| Chanterelle | 
|
Fall | 160g |
| Coconut | 
|
All | 100g |
| Common Mushroom | 
|
Spring (Secret Woods); Summer (Forest Farm); Fall (Stardew Valley; Secret Woods; Forest Farm); All (Dangerous Mines; Ginger Island mushroom cave) | 40g |
| Coral | 
|
All | 80g |
| Crocus | 
|
Winter | - |
| Crystal Fruit | 
|
Winter | 150g |
| Daffodil | 
|
Spring | 30g |
| Dandelion | 
|
Spring | 40g |
| Fiddlehead Fern | 
|
Summer; All on Ginger Island Jungle, Skull Cavern and Dangerous Mines | - |
| Ginger | 
|
All | 60g |
| Grass | 
|
Spring; Summer; Fall | - |
| Hazelnut | 
|
Fall | 90g |
| Holly | 
|
Winter | 80g |
| Leek | 
|
Spring | 60g |
| Magma Cap | 
|
- | 400g |
| Morel | 
|
Spring | 150g |
| Nautilus Shell | 
|
All (Beach Farm; Dangerous Mines); Winter (The Beach) | 120g |
| Purple Mushroom | 
|
All | 250g |
| Rainbow Shell | 
|
All (Beach Farm; Dangerous Mines); Summer (The Beach) | 300g |
| Red Mushroom | 
|
Summer (Secret Woods); Fall (Secret Woods; Forest Farm); All (other) | 75g |
| Salmonberry | 
|
15-18 Spring (bushes); All (the Farm Cave) | - |
| Sap | 
|
- | 2g |
| Sea Urchin | 
|
All | 160g |
| Seaweed | 
|
All | 20g |
| Snow Yam | 
|
Winter | 100g |
| Spice Berry | 
|
Summer; All (The Farm Cave) | 80g |
| Spring Onion | 
|
Spring | - |
| Sweet Pea | 
|
Summer | - |
| Truffle | 
|
Spring; Summer; Fall | 625g |
| Weeds | 
|
Spring; Summer; Fall | - |
| Wild Horseradish | 
|
Spring | 50g |
| Wild Plum | 
|
Fall | 80g |
| Winter Root | 
|
Winter | 70g |