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Currently Playing: Using The Whole Salmon | Feeding Our Family Through Alaska's Winter

Our first fish camp of the season is behind us, and now it's time to put up more than 30 salmon for the months ahead. Living a subsistence lifestyle means making the most of every fish we harvest. Heads and spines become nourishing stock, fillets are dried, smoked, and canned, bellies are turned into sweet and salty jerky, and even the tails are saved and dried for dog food. We spent the day building our winter food stores and preserving salmon in several traditional ways. We also share one of our favorite—and increasingly uncommon—methods of putting fish away for the long Alaska winter: dry fish. Simple, shelf-stable, and deeply rooted in Alaska's history, dry fish remains one of the most practical ways we know to preserve a harvest. Only sun, smoke and wind required. Til next week, -Dennis, Amy & Lena End Music By: @HawkenHorse, who wrote us "Holdfast". Frontier music and history. Become a Channel Member for homestead happenings: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdYB30EoOdp-syCtLF_mTgw/join Get in Touch with Us: Westerlind Family P.O Box 906, Slana, AK 99586 We are also on Instagram & FaceBook @holdfastalaska Support the Homestead if you wish | https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=6B2249KCY6STE If you wish to be notified via email for future book releases, merch, or events shoot us a message at: holdfastfarmstead@gmail.com