The older needles are packed with more nutrients but have a bitter taste. The younger pine needles make a more pleasant tasting tea. Wash the pine needles with running water to remove any dirt or insects.
You can chop the needles depending on their size. The pine needles are then placed in a pot of water and left to simmer on a cooker. Avoid boiling the needles as this breaks down Vitamin C.
Once the leaves start to settle at the bottom of the pot, the tea is ready. A strainer can be used to remove the pine needles, and the tea poured in a cup, ready to drink. Pine needles, cones, and tea image by Yay. Which Pines Are Poisonous?
Add the needles to boiling water and let sit for a couple of minutes. When the water becomes similar in color to green tea, you can drink it, having previously filtered the needles. Pine needle tea will not only warm you but also enrich your body with minerals and vitamins. Also, it is a delicious drink. Climb into your sleeping bag or cover up with Tact Bivvy and sip on this aromatic and healthy pine needle tea. You can get the most plentiful harvest of pine nuts in September and October.
At the same time, nuts are tastier and more nutritious. Some nuts are available all year round, but the tastiest ones, pinyon pine seeds, are rare. A large harvest of pinyon seeds usually occurs every 2 years, and sometimes even 7 years. Also, pinyon pine is only found in the western regions of the United States.
But if you are lucky and you have met such a pine, be sure to enjoy its delicious seeds. Nuts can be eaten raw or roasted. Just collect the fallen round cones and remove the nuts from them. It is the tastiest product that pine can provide and has beneficial nutrients. Pine pollen is a good alternative to flour. It can be used to make, for example, dough for buns or bread. Pine pollen also makes for a stew thickener.
Unfortunately, this protein and other nutrient-rich food are only available in the spring. In the spring, male cones flower bloom, the pine pollen of which is used in food. Collecting pine pollen will take time, as you need to shake the pollen from many cones into a container to collect the required amount of pine pollen. Unlike many people, we will know that pine bark is edible and can feed us in a survival situation. To eat pine bark, you must prepare it properly.
It is important that not all bark parts are edible. You should eat only inner pine bark. To use the bark, you need to cut small strips from the bark. This will allow the tree to heal its wounds after you damage its bark. Always cut one strip at a time from many trees. As we said, the outer bark is not edible, so you need to get the inner part from the bark strips. Take a knife and some sturdy object such as a stick or better stone.
If they are not shelled they can be stored much longer. To remove the pine nut shells place your pine nuts into a plastic food storage bag or between two close knit clothes. If in an airtight bag remove as much air as possible. Lay the bag flat a table, place a rolling pin or bat or something comparable on the bag and press down hard. Roll the rolling pin forwards and backwards on the pine nuts until all the outer shells have cracked.
Now you will have to manually separate the shells from the inner seed. Discard the shell pieces and consume the shelled pine nuts immediately or soon if used in some recipe. Find mature pine cones that have not yet disbursed all of their pine seeds. Store and wait for them to open or open manually with a hammer. Shake the pine cones vigorously in a sack and then separate the pine seeds from the cone.
Take these seeds and again work them over to break up the wing part of the seed which isn't edible. It was only poor people who did. It would be better to eat Aspen bark, that tastes better and digests easier. I am just loving these posts!!! Very cool and very inspiring. If people only knew the freedom they could look forward to by knowing how much is edible all around us….
This article is very interesting! Can you be more specific about which species of pine? There are so many different species in the Pinus genus, it would be cool to know more specifics. Thanks for this informative article!
To the best of my knowledge, all of the above should apply to all conifers except yew trees. Common misconception — Poison hemlock is a plant that looks like wild carrots. Hemlock trees, on the other hand, are tasty. Never knew so much was edible on conifers! IVE only had pine needle tea but it sure will keep sickness at bay and is quite tasty! Thanks for the info. Enjoyed the post.
I think it should be said that just cutting off 5 or 6 needles and twisting them together and chewing on them is a strong taste and it leaves your mouth feeling clean. Some people may prefer to use only one or 2 needles. I also imagine that you are absorbing the nutrients the same as a pine needle tea. As a youngster, I would chew on pine needles to kill bad breath. Thank you for the article.
I imagine one would use the bark of a tree that is destined to be cut down…? Have you done it yourself? Hi Nancy, Really good point and I just added a note on ethical bark harvesting to this article.
I have a number of bark harvesting articles birch bark flour, pine bark bread, slippery elm bark, willow bark, etc and in all of those I have a discussion about how to harvest bark ethically. I have harvested pine bark as well as the others, but only from trees we were cutting down for other reasons. Yes, absolutely only use the bark from a tree destined to be cut down, or only use the bark from small limbs you cut off.
I added a section about that above. Thanks for the reminder! Pine needle tea is an acquired taste, but a little local honey can give a double boost of nutrition. Dear Ashley, I lived my childhood in the villages and then have been living in a giant city for years. Now I decided to leave the city and go back to the nature.
This decision made me curious about how to feed myself in the nature without spending money. I liked it very much. I thank you. I think that feeding ourselves from the nature is not just a feeding, but it is to stand out against the system.
I really have difficulty in understanding why most of people are living this poor city life. We eat the young tufts in spring when they are an inch or less long: pleasantly sour and soft, also makes a nice addition to spring salads.
Hello Ashley, You may not wish to post this, however, I thought you would find it interesting to know the old timers prob generations back used turpentine spirits Made from the gum as medicine. Turpentine and sugar. Learned it from a Dr. Jennifer Daniels. If interested I can tell you more. Stopped my psoriasis problems and made incredible changes to my energy.
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