Last week, I brought the students of the second Guide School to the same place to help them discover what nature can offer us. Chance and no chance, the potato flowers were not there anymore but in there place they left fully developed yellow flowers called Balsamroot in the meadow. After a few pictures of this great scenery we continued our way to Spruce Lake and surprise, in all the meadows around the Lake we found again all those small white potato flowers. Forced to stop to not pass up beside this nice experience we began to dig the ground again and went back to the camp with the same amount of potatoes as 2 weeks before. These wild potatoes have been harvested by Natives a long time before us to have a reserve during winter or for celebrations. They would eaten them fresh or boiled.
On the way back to camp, everybody was just thinking about the best way to cook our gathering. And what goes better with wild potatoes than wild onions found in the small meadows next to the trails where we picked them up almost everyday during our lunch breaks. Arriving at camp, dinner became the more important thing to do because the students were really excited to try those wild potatoes and wild onions. So, at dinner time, we've got the chance to test it, baking them on the camp fire and savouring these amazing gifts from the wilderness.