Alberta Wildcraft Favourites — Best-Selling Wildcrafted Products

Alberta Wildcraft Favourites

From Our Forest & Workshop

A rotating selection of Alberta Wildcraft favourites — from traditional Canadian spruce resin gum to handmade soaps and practical forest-inspired goods. Made in small batches in Alberta with carefully selected ingredients and years of wildcrafting experience.

Our Approach

Traditional Forest-Based Goods, Made Without Shortcuts

At Alberta Wildcraft, we create traditional forest-based products using time, care, and premium raw ingredients — never shortcuts.

Harvested & Made by Us

We personally harvest the wild forest ingredients used in our wildcrafted products and bring them back to our Alberta workshop, where our products are prepared and made in small batches.

Small-Batch by Nature

Wild ingredients do not come from an assembly line. Our batches follow the seasons, the harvest and the natural variation of the materials we work with. That means small batches and real differences from one harvest to the next.

Made in Alberta, Canada

Alberta Wildcraft is a Canadian family-run wildcraft business. Our products are prepared and made in Alberta using carefully selected ingredients, including forest materials personally harvested by us.

Harvested by us. Made by us. From Alberta's forests to our workshop.

Tradition + Research

An Old Forest Tradition, Still Being Studied Today

Spruce resin has a long history of use throughout northern forests. Today, researchers continue to study conifer resins, their natural chemistry, and what happens in the mouth when we chew.

Research Connected to the Trees We Harvest

White Spruce + Lodgepole Pine Pitch Have Been Studied Directly

Alberta Wildcraft gum contains resin from white spruce (Picea glauca) and lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta). In published ethnopharmacological research examining traditional Carrier (Dakelh) herbal preparations, researchers reported definite antimicrobial activity in pitch preparations made from these same two tree species.

Important: the study examined traditional pitch preparations under laboratory conditions. It did not test Alberta Wildcraft chewing gum and should not be interpreted as evidence that our gum treats or prevents disease.

Documented Northern Tradition

Spruce Gum Was Chewed Long Before Modern Gum

Gwich'in ethnobotanical records describe hardened spruce pitch being gathered from the tree and chewed as gum. Their records identify both black spruce (Picea mariana) and white spruce (Picea glauca) and document spruce gum as a traditional food, including being given to children as a treat while families were out on the land.

The Biology of Chewing

Why Saliva Matters

The physical act of chewing stimulates saliva flow. Saliva helps clear food and debris, dilute and neutralize acids, and carries calcium and phosphate ions involved in the natural remineralization of tooth enamel. This effect comes from chewing itself rather than from a medical claim about spruce resin.

Black Spruce Chemistry

Scientists Have Identified Active Resin Acids

Canadian research on black spruce (Picea mariana) has examined naturally occurring resin acids including abietic, dehydroabietic, palustric and isopimaric acids. Several isolated compounds demonstrated antibacterial activity in laboratory testing against Staphylococcus aureus.

What's In Our Gum

Our resin gum is made from personally wild-harvested white spruce (Picea glauca), black spruce (Picea mariana) and lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta). No conventional synthetic gum base.

Explore the Sources

Carrier Herbal Medicine — Journal of Ethnopharmacology → Gwich'in Spruce Ethnobotany → American Dental Association — Chewing & Saliva → Black Spruce Resin Acid Research →

Research referenced above examines traditional plant preparations, individual tree species, resin compounds or the physiological effects of chewing. These studies have not tested Alberta Wildcraft Spruce Gum. Information is provided for historical and educational context and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent disease.