Beyond the tree line............

Joe
Posted Oct 15, 2007 5:05 AM
passing_through
Etobicoke, ON
Post #: 38
North of the tree line feeding yourself can be challenging but not impossible , the tundra has many hardy plants as well as a good verity of animals , rabbit is the most easily caught but you will need more then just rabbit ( you can stave eating rabbit alone ) .
Grouse and other small game birds strive , but unless armed ( this were a air gun like the 2240 or a small sling shot comes in handy ) or when the birds are in molt are hard to catch , plants are your best food source .
1) Labrador tea - a small evergreen shrub with 5 petaled leaves and white flowers makes a great tea.
2) Ferns- or fiddle heads eat only the fiddle heads and steaming them is best.
3) Arctic willows- the inner bark , leaves and peeled young roots are all edible ( leaves have 10 times the vitamin C of an Orange.
4) Cloudberrys- raspberry like with palm shape leaves and white flowers berries orange when ripe edible raw .
5) Salmonberry- looks like a small raspberry plant with juicy red to yellow berry's edible raw.
6) Bearberrys- mat forming with club shaped leaves and white flowers , red berry's are edible cooked.
7) Rock tripes- are lichens blister like grey or brownish attached to rocks some kinds look warty like Very Nutritious (soak well for several hours then boil).
8) Raindeer Moss- lichens often found in large clumps branches resembling anters Very Nutritious (soak well for several hours then boil).
9) Iceland moss- is a lichen are brownish mat forming , strap shaped branches soak well for several hours then boil well .
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