Polar Bear Blog - Cloudberries - August 6, 2006
Heading out east to check our cloudberry patch. Our new york hikers are very excited about helping us gather our 'winter stores' and I am very excited about a new batch of berry smoothies this weekend!
Cloudberries are also called baked apple berries and, naturally, they taste a fair bit like baked apples. They grow two or three inches high and produce one fruit that kind of looks like a big, orange raspberry when it is ripe. We will probably grab some wild strawberries, tundra bilberries, crowberries and dewberries while we are out.
A warm spring burnt the snow cover off the tundra and the vegetation got a huge headstart, so all the berries are ready about a month early. Of course, so are the geese, and, as usual, it is a race to get to the berries before they have travelled through our local flocks of Canada and snow geese, leaving big purple splatters across the tundra.
posted by Kels @ 8:32 AM
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2 Comments:
I've read your posts and have become almost addicted to your blog. Life in the North sounds tranquil. But don't you miss your friends from down south?
get a haircut and a shave you filthy bushman/hippie wannabe
from bob and tori
ps. very cool site we will be getting a book.
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