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the low-bush cranberries, which are in the heath family). Make a sauce out of the high-bush cranberries and try it on pancakes.

Mossberries are great when thirsty, or mix them with other berries for pies—or make juice. And discover which berries you like best in your oatmeal.

Pick juniper berries and use as a spice for smoking, or for cooking wild game. Brew the berries as a tea for urinary-tract problems. Eat a few dried ones before a meal, to prevent flatulence. We’ve seen robins eat juniper berries, when nothing else was poking through the snow, yet pick only the darkblue ones, as those are the ripe ones.

If you happen to find melonberries in the summer, enjoy three or four (but not more); otherwise, you might have to find yourself a hidden spot or an outhouse pretty quickly.

Should you buy a dehydrator? It makes a lot of sense but does require a lot of energy, so we dehydrate our food when we are back in civilization, when loving dried fruit without anything else added.

I love pineapple, kiwi, mango and apples. And dehydrated carrots, peas, leeks, celery and other root vegetables make any soup so much better.

Once we’re back out on the trapline, in August or Septem- ber, we have to make sure our cakes, sausages, steak, ground meat, cheese and bread stay frozen. Either we have enough solar energy or we’ll have to run the generator for a few hours on every second or third day. We do use coolers, too, so that the freezer is not chock full (we switch ice packs back and forth from freezer to cooler).

And once we run out of a certain food (say we bought a couple of family-size Lays chips and they’re finished by January), well, that’s it. That’s why we enjoy them while we have them. Can’t do a quick run downtown—forget Timmies, Subway, or pizza delivery. The first time back in Whitehorse, though, I will head over to Tim Hortons and buy myself a plain butter croissant!

Get crackin’ in the kitchen, and stay safe!

Sonja Seeber, Yukon Trapper n

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