Eat Evergreen Tree Tips Packs More Vitamin C Than Oranges
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Did you know that you can eat the fresh growth of some evergreen trees such as fir, spruce and hemlock? This has long been a survival food of North American Indians. The fresh, light green tips of these evergreen trees can be eaten raw, right off the tree in spring. The lighter the color, the milder in flavor and softer to chew. As they age and get darker, the flavor gets a bit more bitter. But the needles of these trees remain edible all year long. You can steep the needles in hot water and drink the tea to get the high vitamin C content and nutrients. The needles of these trees are good for boosting the immune system and for fighting colds and flu. The three evergreens, fir, spruce and hemlock are among many other evergreen trees that you can eat. You can use the needles in place of rosemary when cooking. Eat them raw and plain or spice up a salad with them. You can eat them fresh or dried. In order to get the most nutrients do not boil the needles, but rather steep them in hot water as you would tea. Be careful when eating any wild edible plants and make sure you can properly identify them. Beware the toxic Yew tree which has different colored needles which grow flat instead of all around the stem. The Yew has red berries instead of pine cones as well. The American Indians ate the entire tree. Any part they could digest was used by the Indians. The inner bark is edible raw or cooked like noodles. We are surrounded by food and often overlook such treasures of nature. Up North in the US we do not have oranges but instead we have the evergreen tree for a healthy, valuable source of Vitamin C. Follow my daily progress on the path to self sufficiency on my off grid solar homestead. https://www.youtube.com/user/techman2015/playlists?view=50&shelf_id=10&sort=dd Please donate to help keep The Off Grid Project ™ going: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=3TQSWXLLRZ6HW Join The Off Grid Project ™ and The Do It Yourself World ™ forum and share your ideas, tips and projects. http://www.thedoityourselfworld.com/forum The Off Grid Project ™ is presented by The Do It Yourself World ™. http://www.TheDoItYourselfworld.com
Comments
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Do you realize hemlock is poisonous?
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how can you tell that from the yew tree .that someone told me you can not eat .as the yew will kill you
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Amazing! I wonder if certain varieties of mushrooms can be inoculated on the tree or from the pines of the tree? Would be great to get those nutrients and vitamins from a friendly fungi as well!
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Please stop effing around and finish your projects! Namely the fence which we paid for!
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I read a study a while ago that the Canadian government did during the Second World War. It said the best vitamin C content actually comes from 3 year old leaves of evergreens, not fresh spring ones. Peace.
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Or you can drink Gin, tastes the same
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Pack with some thing , lol
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"Eat Evergreen Tree Tips Packs More Vitamin C Than Oranges"
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Thank you for the useful information
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Very Refreshing!!! I haven't had it in years,but very good.
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Yes very good as a tea with a shot of honey and stir them with a cinnamon stick nice relaxing drink when you are camping
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Troy, I made you video intros for both of your channels. You can email me at robinkimballbrand@gmail.com and I will send them to you.
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Troy Please for the love of god please explain to people that NOT all pines or evergreens are edible. That you can get poisoned and can die! Please Please Please make that video!
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Since my Mom doesn't YT she wanted me to tell you she loved the wintergreen video and this one. She's inspired. ..and will be planting some wintergreen by the drive way door so she can chew a leaf while driving. Apparently, you are not the only one who has breath emergencies. ;)
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the ones up here look bad i wood not eat them lol if had all vitmans in it
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Be careful not to eat hemlock!
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Goes great with locusts and honey!
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why haven't you been making many homestead work videos lately?
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I did not know about them but I do know of one in LA ( Lower Alabama ) that can be used as chewing gum.
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Thanks for the tip, Troy... any way that you know of to harvest & preserve the contained goodies for the off season?
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