Notes from the Forest...

Inside the Chew What Is Gum Base? What’s Actually in the Gum You Chew? I’ve chewed gum pretty much my entire life. I love gum. It keeps my mouth busy,...

A Piece of Chewing Gum History Soldiers, Spruce Gum & War A homeschool lesson about dinosaur fossils sent me down an unexpected rabbit hole into spruce gum, soldiers, Wrigley and...

A Simple guide to harvesting and filtering spruce resin using traditional methods. Learn sustainable collection practices, the double-melt filtration process, and how to create clarified pitch for gum, salves, waterproofing,...

Alberta Wildcraft Research Library Spruce Gum: Traditional Use, Research & the Science of Chewing No hype. Just the research. A source-based look at documented traditional spruce gum use, published research...

Why Alberta Wildcraft? We're not the biggest. That's part of the point. Alberta Wildcraft is a Canadian family business built around wild harvesting, hands-on making, education and a ridiculous amount...

There is a question I have been thinking about a lot lately: At what point does a wildcrafted product stop being truly artisanal and become a commodity? Wild ingredients have...

Alberta Wildcraft We Talk About Fair-Trade Coffee. Maybe It’s Time We Talk About Fair-Trade Wildcrafting. Wild ingredients may grow freely in nature. The labour, knowledge and responsibility required to harvest...

What does “wildcrafted” really mean? Go behind the scenes of Alberta Wildcraft’s spruce gum — from personally harvesting resin in the Canadian forest to processing it by hand, and why...

Spruce Resin • Price • Craft Is Spruce Sap Really Worth $500 Per Pound? A look at the difference between raw forest resin, clarified craft resin and finished spruce gum...

Natural Jawline Gum • Canadian Tree Resin Natural Jawline Gum: Why Spruce Resin Is a Harder, Longer-Lasting Alternative Jawline gum is everywhere right now. But if the entire point is...

Spruce resin soap is one of the oldest traditional forest soaps used in northern cultures. Long before commercial detergents filled store shelves, people made soap using simple ingredients gathered from...

Natural spruce gum is very different from commercial chewing gum. Because it is pure tree resin, it behaves differently at first and takes a little practice to understand.  These are...