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.

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Fishing

Lake trout, northern pike, Arctic grayling, whitefish and Arctic char; ice fishing half the year.

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Foraging

Blueberries, cloudberries, lingonberries, cranberries, fireweed, spruce tips, Labrador tea and burn-site morels.

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