Sage Advice on Cooking Game Birds
It’s upon us. That glorious time of year where woodland hikes in the crisp autumn air, perhaps with our canine companions, yield a bounty of...
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Yellow Birch Hobby Farm cultivates the good life
by John Stember
GRAND MARAIS—Over the quack of ducks and cluck of chickens, Erin Blegen is preparing for another spring at the small hobby farm she started with...
Canoeing and Camping Cuisine
by Chuck Viren
Canoe trips in the Northern Wilds are both strenuous and immensely rewarding. The bugs, the aches, and the sore muscles are a fair price to...
Wild Greens: Give Weeds a Chance
The garden ritual of every growing season always seems to begin, and continue, with pulling the weeds/wild greens. We turn over patches of dandelion and...
Christmas in the Wilderness
Story and photos by Dave Freeman As dawn’s first light penetrated the walls of our tent I unzipped my sleeping bag enough to reach out...
Ruffed Grouse: Dinner on the Wing
by Shawn Perich
Around our house, we don’t eat a lot of chicken during September and October. Instead we have fresh ruffed grouse for dinner as often as...
10 Tips for Sustainably Foraging Food
Foraging for wild foods can be a useful tool to engage with the landscape, but with all its hype in today’s mainstream media—from Facebook groups...
Blueberries: North Shore’s Tasty Treat
“It was a trip of experiences, not one of conquests,” writes Gary Fiedler. Fiedler was on an ambitious seven-month solo canoe journey through the Boundary...