Summertime is saskatoon time
Its English name is derived from a Cree word, misâskwatômina. In the Dene Suline language, it is called k’injíe. Prairie people today know it as the saskatoon, a dark purple berry that ripens anytime from late June to mid-July. It grows abundantly across the prairies and in the boreal forest, and it has nourished people, […]