Taiga / Tundra / Boreal Cordillera · Zones 0–3
Boreal North & Taiga
Spruce, permafrost and enormous cold lakes. A short, bright season and a very long winter.
Open black-spruce and tamarack forest, muskeg, tundra beyond the treeline, and huge clear lakes and rivers.
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Places in this region
Gardening
Raised beds, cold frames and greenhouses; potatoes, brassicas, greens and haskap under 20-hour days.
About gardening guides →Fishing
Lake trout, northern pike, Arctic grayling, whitefish and Arctic char; ice fishing half the year.
About fishing guides →Foraging
Blueberries, cloudberries, lingonberries, cranberries, fireweed, spruce tips, Labrador tea and burn-site morels.
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