In Alaska many of us spend all spring and summer harvesting foods so we can enjoy good food and nutrition all winter. We enjoy salmon, halibut, deer, moose, shrimp, and crab. The usual. Food is a ...

Across Southeast Alaska, a regional ingredient is moving out of the kitchens of seasonal foragers and onto restaurants' menus, in the form of everything from cocktails and pasta to ice cream and ...

I don’t have much experience with other kinds of conifers, but I’m going to go ahead and assume that, like most of what’s available to us here in Southeast Alaska, the spruce tips from our local Sitka ...

According to Beverley Gray of "The Boreal Herbal: Wild Food and Medicine Plants of the North," spruce tips can be eaten raw, made into a tea, or added to salads, stews and soups. The key is to harvest ...

Each spring in Southeast Alaska, the Sitka spruce tip harvest happens suddenly and only lasts about a week. With the flavor's growing popularity and short harvest season, Alaska businesses have come ...

Lisa Brandstetter and her family annually make jelly with freshly picked spruce tips. Alaska in the spring is a blossoming green wonderland to harvest and forage for wild edible plants. Lisa ...