Ingrie and Emily from The T-Zone talk community, sustainability and living and working in the Yukon with the inspiring Joella Hogan of The Yukon Soaps Company.

Katie Young built her business, Klondike Kettle Corn, from the ground up, starting with small batches sold in community markets. Now, her popcorn comes in more than 50 flavours and is a favourite local snack, found in grocery stores and gift shops across the Yukon.

Hand wrapped in brightly hued contemporary artworks and infused with vibrant scents, each bar of Anto Yukon soap intends to uplift and transport you. Hand poured and cured in Whitehorse, founder Kym Rempel has grown a home-based hobby into a thriving bath and body business complete with a studio and retail space.

Knowing that a single seed can flourish into a magnificent garden, maker Joella Hogan creates soaps and wellness products using local plants from the boreal forest to support her Mayo community. As the brains behind The Yukon Soaps Company, Hogan draws on her professional background as a heritage worker while remaining dedicated to honouring the land, knowledge, and culture of her Northern Tetchone First Nation ancestors.

Inspired by the remarkable benefits of boreal birch, Aurum Skincare taps into a deep love of the Yukon and the traditional territory of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation. Co-founded by Elise McCormick and Joanna Sherrard in 2017, the award-winning skincare brand seeks to soothe and protect the most fragile inflammatory skin conditions using raw birch water and birch bio-ferment. Having worked in collaboration with a pharmaceutical biochemist to develop a clinically proven formula that reduces skin redness, the Dawson City-based pair sustainably harvest the key ingredient and locally manufacture their hero product called Calming Birch Serum. Here, we chat with McCormick, the company’s CEO, to learn more about how Aurum Skincare came to be, how the brand will be expanding, and her experience as a Yukon maker.

What started as a hobby paired with a creative mind for mechanical gadgets has grown into a successful business for Michael Russo, founder of Firebean Coffee Roasters in Whitehorse. This small-batch coffee company produces hand-roasted beans using a process powered by…bicycle.

Made with Indigenous-sourced wild fur, Vanessa Ægirsdóttir’s beautiful small batch jewellery will transform your outfit, but the textile and jewellery designer is focused on making a much larger positive impact.