Em's Gems
One of a kind creations by Emily Best
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These detailed berries set on a pin, earings or switchplate, are so perfect you would think you could eat em.
Emily Best is an aboriginal youth and honours student in Grade 10 at Mealy Mountain Collegiate in Happy Valley Goose Bay. She is the recipient of the Fry Family Foundation Horizons Scholarship. Emily's heritage is Inuit Metis.
Emily is an entrepreneur, creating and selling jewelry, and she has a small craft business called Em's Gems, wholesaling to stores in Goose Bay and St. John's, with plans to expand sales across Canada. In 2006 she participated in the Aboriginal Youth Art Exhibition at the Fairmont Hotel in St. John's. She has certificates from the College of the North Atlantic in Hide and Beadwork and Caribou Tufting. She is an active community volunteer and has helped with community events including The Big Land Fair, Labrador Winter Games and Winterlights Festival. She was honoured as Youth of the Year at the 2007 Happy Valley Goose Bay Community Awards for her contribution to the community.
Emily Best is an aboriginal youth and honours student in Grade 10 at Mealy Mountain Collegiate in Happy Valley Goose Bay. She is the recipient of the Fry Family Foundation Horizons Scholarship. Emily's heritage is Inuit Metis.
Emily is an entrepreneur, creating and selling jewelry, and she has a small craft business called Em's Gems, wholesaling to stores in Goose Bay and St. John's, with plans to expand sales across Canada. In 2006 she participated in the Aboriginal Youth Art Exhibition at the Fairmont Hotel in St. John's. She has certificates from the College of the North Atlantic in Hide and Beadwork and Caribou Tufting. She is an active community volunteer and has helped with community events including The Big Land Fair, Labrador Winter Games and Winterlights Festival. She was honoured as Youth of the Year at the 2007 Happy Valley Goose Bay Community Awards for her contribution to the community.
Redberries on bark
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Redberries or Partridgeberries are also internationally known as the lingonberry. The flower has a pinkish hue and then blooms white in early July. The dark red berrry ripens in early falls frost. Redberries are very tart but are high in vitamin c and antioxidants, like their cousin the cranberry. They are used in jams, juices and baking.
Wild blueberries have been harvested for centuries by aboriginals and settlers. These low-growing shrubs are the earliest regrowth after forest burns. The berries ripen in mid-August and although very small, they are far sweeter than cultivated berries. They are a excellent source of vitamin C and antioxidants.
"Bakeapple", stems from the french, "baie qu'appelle' meaning, "what is this berry called?". This fruit is internationally known as cloudberry'. Growing in moist northern tundra or peat bog, each plant has a single white flower. The fruit, similar in appearance to a large raspberry, turns from red to soft golden orange at maturity, mid August. These berries are hight in vitamin C.