Juxtaposed with the images of wild caught salmon and foraged mushrooms on the higher-end restaurant menus, the visual ethnography presented in this paper focuses on abundance as a cultural and aesthetic metaphor of strength and security in the time of socially, economically, and climatically driven stress. Our research sites for this paper are a regional fungi festival, a post-burn boreal forest that produces highly sought-after species of mushrooms and plants, and a river beach known as “salmon dipnet area” – all located in culturally diverse regions of Alaska and used by members of Indigenous communities, multi-generational Alaskans of different ancestries, and immigrants from many parts of the world. Through the documentation of the procurement, processing, and sharing of the foods harvested through fishing and foraging, we come to an understanding of abundance as a vehicle for becoming Alaskan, with a sense of identity, enskillment, and gratitude shared across communities and cultures. “Dark Times” is a reference to both, the months of year in the high North that see very little or no daylight, and to the many kinds of challenges in the face of which abundance – by the means of knowledge, work, and experience of harvesting – is a code for thriving.