About Us

We're two sisters, Amberlin (Amber) and Julia (Goo - yes, that's really her pet name), who live in Alberta, Canada, and have a passion for wild, natural and traditional. 

Being raised on a mixed farm in Northern Alberta, and having many opportunities to spend time out in the woods learning survival skills, Amberlin and Julia grew up free to explore and experiment things that interested them. Amber has always loved traditional food prep and wild foraging, and Julia is skilled in hunting, and traditional brain tanning. 

Amber first heard about chewing spruce gum around the age of 8 from an older fellow from Missouri. She was with her Dad and siblings camping out at their mouse-infested trapper's cabin deep in the woods of Northern British Columbia when her curiosity got the best of her. She remembered what Mr. Argile from Missouri had said about chewing spruce gum when he was a boy, however, when she saw the sticky goo on the tree she thought, "How in the world can you chew THAT as GUM?" Despite her logical reasoning, she climbed up the noble spruce, removed some of the pitch and put it in her mouth. Bit of a sticky business: of course the fresh sap got all over her hands, in in hair, and of course completely stuck in her teeth! "That does NOT turn into chewing gum!" She told Mom when she got home and they got the pitch out of her hair using peanut butter.

Despite her first attempt of chewing spruce gum being unsuccessful, she could never shake off what Mr. Argile told her, and about 10 years later she decided to try again. This time she did some research and found out that spruce gum used to be very popular in the early to mid 1800's before other chicle and paraffin gum came to the market. Amber found successful chew in a raw piece off the tree and was hooked! 

After trying different ways to prepare it, she came up with a way to filter and make the perfect chewing gum using pure spruce pitch.  She got super excited and began sharing it with family and friends, and not long after she was shipping her Spruce Gum to other wild hearted, nature loving folks all across the world. 

Julia, being a few years younger, also became fascinated with this wild chewing gum and was there cheering Amber on the whole way. She saw the quality, incredible potential and demand of the product, and fast forward to 2024, due to some dramatic life changes, Amber and Julia decided to partner together and begin a chewing revolution: NO more chewing plastics & ingesting toxic sweeteners! 

So jump on board and help our world and your health by chewing SPRUCE GUM. 

Additional products are to come, including the prized Herbal Black Tea of Ancient Russia and the amazing Chaga mushroom - so be sure to subscribe to stay posted!

Thanks for sticking around ;-)

~Amber and Goo