Growing up, my mom always made the cooperative extension’s “highbush cranberry ketchup” although I think it’s a little closer in style to a barbecue sauce than ketchup. It’s a staple in our kitchen ...

September sunlight glints on the lily pads dotting the surface of Pats Lake. I stand along the lake shore with my daughters, grandchildren and my border collie, Kéet. We are out scouting for highbush ...

I recently returned from a very low-tech week in the Cariboo with our youngest daughter, riding horses through quaking aspen, lodgepole pine and black cottonwood forest, and using a wood stove for ...

The highbush cranberry shrub isn’t a true cranberry, although the berries are similar in both taste and appearance. The Latin name is Viburnum opulus var. americanum, which is important to know if you ...

Outsiders are often surprised to learn that beyond fishing and hunting, many Alaskans grow, forage, can, dehydrate, ferment and freeze many different foods to stock their pantries before the snow ...

Here's the scenario: You're taking a hike though the bush in late summer. You catch a whiff of something that smells distinctly of dirty socks. *First annual payment billed as $205.00 + GST for one ...

Q I have heard of a plant called highbush cranberry. Does this plant really produce cranberries that you could eat? A Highbush cranberry is a common name that's used for the viburnum species Viburnum ...

Out among the bare tree branches of late November, any reddish berries will become obvious. Add a snow cover of early winter, and these fruited wooded plants are even easier to see. And they are still ...

LAKE MINCHUMINA, Alaska — When my twin sister Julie and I were 8 or 10 years old, every early August we haunted open birch forests and brushy slopes, eyeing sweet-smelling highbush cranberries as they ...