BRYANT — If current seasonal weather trends continue, visitors to the Bryant Blueberry Festival can expect that event to be moved up to earlier dates each year.

“The last few years, it seems like we’ve opened a little earlier each year,” farm owner Jamie Flint said. “We were picking and freezing berries three weeks before this year’s festival. The festival is meant to be when we have the most berries out on our bushes, but our early crop came in three weeks ahead of schedule, and our late crop hasn’t come in yet.”

Flint attributes this shifting harvest to this year’s “crazy” weather patterns, which saw the farm suffer a few consecutive months without rain, only to be hit with misting precipitation on the morning of the festival on July 25, which usually boasts sunny skies.

“It’s our first time, in seven years of doing this, that we’ve had rain on the day of the festival,” Flint said. “Everybody’s still having a good time, though, especially the kids, and that’s really who this is for as much as anyone.”

In spite of the inclement weather and slightly smaller selection on the bushes, Flint estimated this year’s turnout would be down only 20 percent from its usual thousand or more attendees. In addition to the regular attractions, including barrel train and pony rides, this year saw the debut of the giant jumping pillow, a huge inflated canvas area that kids could bounce on.

Although Arlington’s Pearl Britton brought her kids to the festival for years, they’re all grown up now, so she persuaded her boyfriend, Chuck Reinke, to visit the farm for the first time.

“The harvest isn’t as big as usual, but the ones that are ripe are really great,” said Britton, who enjoys making blueberry smoothies and blueberry muffins.

“Blueberry muffins are my favorite,” Reinke said.

“Well, now I have to make them,” Britton laughed.

Seattle’s Mary Ellen Tally still brings her grandkids out for the festival, even though some of them, like 10-year-old Cayden Brunskill, live as far away as Silverdale.

“I like making blueberry cobbler and pie,” Tally said. “I also like freezing blueberries on a cookie tin, so I can add it to breakfast all year long. That’s how I get my anti-oxidants.”

The Bryant Blueberry Farm & Nursery is at 5628 Grandview Rd. in Arlington. For details, visit www.bryantblueberries.com.