🌲Aloha Stee'mit Family!!!!
🌲If it is spring time in your area, look for the tender, new shoots on your spruce trees for food.
When we look at our spruce tree, we see a buffet!!! 😉
🌲"Full of vitamin C, spruce tip tea is an essential tonic for spring after a long winter of vitamin-deficient foods in a sustainable, local diet. Indigenous people traditionally used conifer tips to alleviate lung congestion and to soothe sore throats."
Source: https://myselfreliance.com/spruce-tips-versatile-super-healthy-traditional-wild-edible/
🌲🌲I love to just chew on them! They have a hint of sourness and bitterness and the characteristic resinous spruce flavor.
🌲🌲In the photo below, I'm charging them in the sun. 🌞 On the left is living spring water. On the right is an apple cider vinegar infusion.
🌲🌲I use the vinegar for a hair rinse and the water to spritz on my face and body and drink as I work/play in the sun.
🌲🌲Here's a video on how to eat spruce trees.
🌲An an article on how to identify them here: https://www.extension.iastate.edu/news/2005/nov/061401.htm
Enjoy!!!! Lemme know if you find some!!!
Aloha,
Pachee and Family
P.S. We always offer something to our plant family when we receive their gifts. Today we gave this Spruce lady a nice ring of compost. 😊 And a lot of compliments too!!!
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