The Fab Five feasted on plants gathered in season from the wild — skunk cabbage, saskatoon berries and dandelions — plus fish, moose and deer.

After an interminable, jolting drive, windrows of saskatoon bushes and blueberries announced the beginning of the farm, then a potato field, then the first glimpse of a long log house surrounded by white trailers.

And now some Canadians who have long cultivated the tiny super-food are crying foul over a quiet U.S.-led push to re-brand it: from saskatoon to juneberry.

I learned about plants, and made tea from birch, mint and spruce; I collected saskatoons, rose hips and cattails for food.

Besides, there are plenty of saskatoons, I don’t doubt, not far back from the river.