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Les cueilleurs

( Season 1 )
The adventures of a group of eccentric foragers who travel to all four corners of Canada to harvest seaweed, mushrooms and wild plants. But behind this bohemian lifestyle rich in encounters, freedom and adventure lies a difficult and often competitive world.

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4
Le genévrier
Le genévrier
Juniper

Part distiller, part adventurer, Baptiste Gissinger collects all the botanicals used in the making of gin. With local plants from twenty-five different countries, each creation is totally unique. As the juniper-picker likes to say, he is literally bottling a "terroir".

Directed by: Bernard La Frenière (Canada, 2023)
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5
Le poivre des dunes
Dune pepper

In Rivière-Saint-Jean, Alex Beaudin and Alexis Parisée are preparing their snowmobile for an expedition into the forest. Here in the Côte-Nord, with the thermometer registering -17°C, the two childhood friends set off to collect dune pepper. This unique spice is used equally in cooking meat or preparing gin and beer.

Directed by: Bernard La Frenière (Canada, 2023)
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