Monday, 9 November 2015

Project Five- Greenlandic Food

      Greenlandic      food

 The main food Greenlandic Inuit’s eat is mostly walrus, ringed seal, beluga whale, polar bear, caribou, bearded seal, muskoxen, birds (including their eggs), berries and plants that grow in warm weather.
To get the food Inuit’s eat they need to do things like:
Go fishing for fish,
Go hunting for meat such as polar bear, caribou and muskoxen.
Go searching for plants to eat in the warm weather.
And go to the markets to buy food and other things like furs and hunting equipment.

                             PRICES FOR FOOD
The prices in Greenland are much higher than what we pay mostly because the food has to come from so far away so I made a list of some prices of random food products.
1 KG of chicken breasts (skinless and boneless)… ($45.00 to $60.00)
One dozen eggs…  ($30.00 to $36.00)
1 KG of potatoes…  ($25.00 to $30.00)
Lettuce 1 head   ($30.00 to $35.00)
Local cheese (60.00 to 80.00)
Loaf of fresh white bread (500 grams) ($20.00 to $25.00)



WHAT GREENLANDIC INUITS GROW FOR FOOD. 


Blueberries and crowberries, harvested in the autumn, often garnish cakes and other desserts. Berry compotes accompany meat dishes. Seaweed is stored as a reserve food for winter. During the summer, roseroot, fireweed leaves, and Greenland lousewort are gathered. Green vegetables are scarce but the global climate has changed slightly and extended the growing season, so Greenlandic farmers are experimenting with new crops, such as broccoli.______________________________________________


Crowberries: the reason the name is called (crowberries) is because Crows eat he plant along with curlews, doves, pheasants and gulls, like to eat the berries of this plant.


Fireweed: a plant that springs up on burned land. The pink-flowered plant also grows in meadows and forests.


Roseroot: Rhodiola rosea is a plant in the Crassulaceae family that grows in cold regions of the world. Though little known as a medicinal plant, rose root has been used in traditional European medicine for over three thousand years, mainly as a tonic. _____________________________________________
                                                 CROWBERRIES


                                                 ROSEROOT

FIREWEED





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