Suzanne Crocker – First We Eat

You bet. Suzanne was treated to a crunchy and delicious local apple of John Lenart’s on the shortest day of the year, December 21st.

John Lenart's Klondike apple in January — John Lenart’s Klondike apple in January

John in Rock Creek has been perfecting apple varieties that can store well throughout the winter in his root cellar.

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 Cream cheese 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 Vegetables (can store fresh year round): Potatoes Carrots Cabbage Kohlrabi Onions Garlic Celeriac Root Rutabaga Turnip Beets 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 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 Stevia Thickener: Yellow dock Birch and Alder Catkins (if not allergic) Fats: Butter Moose lard Pig fat Misc: Kephir Sourdough

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Fresh Local Apples in December in Dawson?

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