Yukon dining on the wild side
What do you wear to an outfitters ball? The two terms seem to be in contradiction to each other.
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Berries
Beautiful bushes with nary a berry
“So, is this a boy bush or a girl bush?”I turned from arranging potted trees, at our weekly Farmer’s Market setup in Dawson, to see a fellow holding up a young haskap berry bush. He was scrutinizing it intently, though what he...
Read MoreHaska-What Now?
Raspberries, blueberries, crowberries and cranberries: being on Yukon time means planning your weekends around where to pick once the – dare I say it? – latter part of summer rolls around and hints at fall.There is one...
Read MoreYukon Wildflowers that Bloom in April
Last year we had an early spring and I found the first prairie crocus blooming on April 1st.Most years the crocus blooms near the end of April. If you want to become a crocus hunter, don’t wait for all the snow to melt. If the...
Read MoreColor Me Blue
It struck me a couple days ago that I have gotten out of the habit of baking, and was missing having nibbly bites about for those mid-meal moments that require just a little something.I briefly mentally bemoaned my lack of...
Read MoreAll Tarted Up
I extracted a small tub of raspberries from the freezer yesterday, comforted to see it near overflowing with the season’s harvest. Though saskatoons and blueberries came in in droves this year, the raspberries that made it...
Read MoreBerry Picking
For me, the summer of 2016 has been the best berry year ever. My berry season starts with wild strawberries and they were bigger than ever this year. Wild raspberries are almost always abundant. Our famous Yukon cranberries are...
Read MoreRaspberry Jam
I recently discovered a great trick for keeping strawberries fresher for longer: wash them in aone part vinegar to 10-parts water solution, then leave them out to dry before storing them in the fridge. There’s no vinegar...
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