In the last couple of years I have slowly been trying to make our diets more healthy. And yes it's pretty much me making changes and dragging my husband along with me! In a village in the Alaskan boonies with extremely limited access to what normal America sees as a requirement to having a healthy […]
This year I didn't get to do my usual slew of floral jellies but I am going to get to do my berry jellies and jams. I thought I would share the cloudberry recipe. Cloudberries are the arctic most beloved of berry! They are also called salmonberries (though they are a different berry) or Akpiks […]
This year I decided to try and to begin to improve my soil from the get go. Our soil here is very nitrogen and nutrient poor. It also lacks organic material. Most of the wild arctic plants grow in the thin topsoil layer that consist mainly of dead plant material and rabbit and ptarmigan poo […]
Yes it is that time of the year! The ptarmigan have blanketed our area heralding the coming of spring. Much more reliable than any ground hog. They usually show up right before the willow start to bud.