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March 22, 2017June 23, 2023

Successful Overwintering and Breeding at 68 Degrees North in Inuvik, NWT!

Les Kutny, from Inuvik, overwinters and breeds his own chickens and rabbits. He also sells eggs year round from the gate as well as from the Inuvik Community Greenhouse in the summer. Continue reading

January 19, 2017January 19, 2017

100% Yukon vinegar: will it work?

Team member Michele Genest shares her attempt to make

100% Yukon vinegar:

Lowbush cranberries, rhubarb, Uncle Berwyn’s Pure Yukon Birch Syrup, water. Will it work? Will Suzanne’s family like it? Stay tuned, northern cooks and eaters!

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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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