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2015-08-30

Campbell, Sandy

Bunchberries are an edible berry found throughout the boreal forest and into the Canadian North

2015-08-15

Campbell, Sandy

2015-08-30

Campbell, Sandy

Cranberries are a traditional food among Indigenous people in Northern Canada. There are two species of cranberry. This one has an opaque skin and a mealy or pulpy fruit. The other one has a juicy berry with a translucent skin and is also known as lingonberry.

2015-07-09

Campbell, Sandy

This ground juniper was beside the board walk that leads up the side of The Rock, to the Pilots' Monument. Many parts of the plant are used in traditional medicine. The berries are eaten as food.

2014-09-28

Campbell, Sandy

A shrub that produces small scarlet stone fruit. The seed is large and flat. The taste is tart and the berries have a strong smell.

2015-08-30

Campbell, Sandy

Wild raspberries are a part of Indigenous peoples' diets in the Northwest Territories. They have also been used in traditional Indigenous healing.

2015-07-09

Campbell, Sandy

The south wall of the Yellowknife Inn faces a parking lot at 50th Street and 50th Avenue. The Urban Art in Yellowknife exhibit includes cut-out paintings of birds and wild plants that produce edible berries. This painting is of the raspberry and shows the foliage and the green and ripe berries....

2015-07-10

Campbell, Sandy

Saskatoon berries grow across Northern Canada and are used both as a food source and as a traditional medicine. The berries start out green and are a deep purple when they are ripe.

2015-07-09

Campbell, Sandy

2015-07-10

Campbell, Sandy

This gooseberry bush was growing close to the shore of Frame Lake. Gooseberries have traditionally been used as a food and contain vitamin C.