What food is produced in this biome? How is the food produced?
Despite its unforgiving climates, food is still found in the tundra. Many of the animals that live in such areas are herbivores and survive off leaves, insects, seeds, nuts and berries. Many of those animals however, are seen as food for carnivores that also live in the biome, such as: eagles, tundra foxes and polar bears. Humans living in tundra often develop a diet that is reliant on protein due to the lack of vegetation. They have adapted to eating mostly fish, bird eggs, and sometimes seaweed or berries. In the tundra lands, most native people hunt animals such as walruses and polar bears because food is very difficult to grow for a living. However according to 'Alaska Dispatch News', a Canadian man named Tim Meyers is known to have used the "..rich, fertile and treeless landscape" for growing potatoes, beets, carrots and turnips for over a decade and produced 50,000 pounds of food in 2012.
In some arctic places, the willow tree is a very popular source of food. The Yakut's (native people) use the tree leaves to make tea. They also use the inside layer of its bark to consume as food, although it is also used for basket weaving, fire fuel and clothing. Most of the food produced does not need a great deal of water as more often then not, small bodies of water are frozen over by morning the next day, especially in winter - thus, irrigation is very uncommon.
In some arctic places, the willow tree is a very popular source of food. The Yakut's (native people) use the tree leaves to make tea. They also use the inside layer of its bark to consume as food, although it is also used for basket weaving, fire fuel and clothing. Most of the food produced does not need a great deal of water as more often then not, small bodies of water are frozen over by morning the next day, especially in winter - thus, irrigation is very uncommon.
Farming
Farming is not usually commercial but instead just a practise for local communities. It is a very extensive procedure as the conditions have to be just right for any sort of (if any) crop to grow. Considering farming in the tundra lands is very difficult, any food production is usually distributed across very small and local areas. This means that there are not a lot of regulations regarding it, therefore, to use pesticides is a personal decision made by the farmer.