No Groceries North of 60

🍋 Lemon Camp: September 17 and 24Grow a healthy, productive lemon tree in a pot. In these two live online sessions, Steven Biggs covers watering, feeding, pruning, repotting, pests, flowers and fruit—and how to get a lemon tree through the winter.Recordings are included, so you can watch afterwards if you can’t attend live.Learn more and register for Lemon Camp- - - Eating Locally in YukonSuzanne Crocker joins us from Dawson City, Yukon to tell us about the year she spent knowing where all the food on her plate came from.There was no salt, no sugar, and no caffeine. There were three hungry (and sceptical) teenagers, and a reluctant husband. There was no grocery-store food in the house for for the entire year.Food DiscoveriesCrocker talks about some of the techniques she learned during the year:Making birch syrup to use as a sweetenerForaging weeds and spruce tipsJuicing potatoes to make a thickenerUsing rhubarb juice as a vinegar substituteGardening North of 60With only a couple of months of frost-free days, the gardening season is short and intense. The intense light causes some cool-weather vegetables such as spinach to bolt.Crocker talks about crops that do and don’t grow in Dawson — and about gardening with moose!From Medicine to FilmCrocker was a rural family doctor before becoming a filmmaker. She captured the year of her family eating locally in her new film, First We Eat.This isn’t the first time she’s turned the lens on her family. Her first feature documentary, All The Time In The World, shared her family’s experience leaving home to live in the remote Yukon wilderness for 9 months.