#1,5 Nice thing about the cooler climates. Strawberries (and many other berries) are great here. My parents used to load us into the car and head up to Marysville, about 20-25 miles North of Seattle, when strawberries ripened. In addition to getting them fresh, we'd come back with these really large tins of canned strawberries. Not dark and cooked, these were canned in sugar. Great on ice cream and....did someone say
WAFFLES?
BTW, where I live, blackberries grow by the metric assload. Given how quickly they grow, I suspect they fare well many other places. We also get plenty of wild red huckleberries. Makes a great cobbler.