With caribou gut compost and narwhal chicken feed, Northerners are finding creative ways to produce their own food. But with some real climate and market handicaps, how far can Northern agriculture actually take us?
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Made in the Yukon: Hay is a big cash crop in the Yukon; local producers can compete with southern farms because they don't have to pay major transport costs. Photo by Cathie Archbould
A timeline of the Schmidt-Kent Empire of Whitehorse
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"If we're not renovating a space, we're opening something," says Schmidt (on right). Photo by Daren Gallo
Bringing southern-style barbecue to Iqaluit at Big Racks
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Woodsmoke in a land without trees. Photo by Anubha Momin/Finding True North
The NWT Brewing Company takes hold in the city's Woodyard
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If you build it, they will come. Fletcher Stevens is serving up what Yellowknifers always wanted. Photo by Hannah Eden/Up Here
Enjoying a bit of the Caribbean, at Antoinette's in Whitehorse
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The menu features hits like polenta sticks with jerk dip. Photo by Daren Gallo
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Photo by DAVID ALEXANDER ELDER
On a multi-day canoe adventure, you want to keep your loads light. But make sure you have what matters.
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Photo courtesy Mike Peake/Canoe North Adventures
It's not all raging rapids and remote rivers up here
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Photo courtesy Gerold Sigl/NWT
The landscape changes drastically this month in the North--here are the best spots to witness it.
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Bring back a whale of a tale from the floe edge in Pond Inlet, Nunavut. Photo by Michelle Valberg