September 4, 2017November 27, 2019 by First We Eat

Yu-Kon Grow It: One Month In

Suzanne appeared on the latest Yu-Kon Grow It episode on CBC Yukon’s A New Day and reported on how things are going after her first month of eating only food local to Dawson City.

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Suzanne's ongoing list of available local ingredients:

Meat:
Moose (all parts)
Chicken (all parts)
Boar/pig (all parts)
Caribou (all parts)
Mutton
Grouse
Rabbit
 
Fish:
Chum salmon (incl salmon eggs)
Grayling
Burbot
 
Dairy:
Milk, cream
Yogurt
Butter
Ice cream

Eggs
 
Grains:
Small amount of barley
Small amount of rye
Lambsquarter/pigsweed

Fruit:
Low bush cranberries
High bush cranberries
Rosehips
Crowberries
Saskatoon berries
Haskap berries
Black currents
Blueberries (a few)
Apples (a few precious apples!)
Raspberries
Rhubarb
Strawberries
Bunchberry/Dogwood berry (for its pectin)
Golden Berry/Ground Cherry ( a few precious berries)
Sour Cherry (a few precious cherries)
	
Vegetables (can store fresh year round):
Potatoes
Carrots
Cabbage
Kohlrabi
Onions
Garlic
Celeriac Root
Rutabaga
Turnip
Beets
Hubbard squash
Spaghetti Squash
Salsify
 
Vegetables (can store frozen, dried or canned):
Tomatoes
Kale
Spinach
Swiss chard
Broccoli
Romanesco
Caulifower
Zucchini
Celery
Peas
Pumpkin
A few Sweet Peppers
A few Hot Peppers
Cucumbers as fermented pickles

Seasonal only vegetables:
Lettuce
Green onions
Cucumbers
Fresh Radish
Bok Choy
Mustard Greens
Sorrel
Corn (a few precious cobs)
	
Herbs:
Basil
Dill
Mint
Thyme
Oregano
Cilantro/coriander
Marjoram
Rosemary
Parsley
Sage
Sorrel
Lemon Balm
Catnip

Wild plants:
Fireweed
Bear Root
Juniper berries
Spruce tips
Labrador tea
Wild Sage
Colts foot
Stinging Nettle
Yarrow
Dandelion
Chickweed
Wild Rose Petals
Mushrooms
Chaga
Willow Catkins - the sweet ones!

Sweetener:
Birch syrup
Honey
Sugar beet syrup
Sugar beet sugar

Thickener:
Potato starch

Fats:
Butter
Moose lard
Pig fat

Miscellaneous:
Kephir
Sourdough starter made from juniper berries
Kombucha scoby
 

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