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Pine Needles and Hermit Survival tips!

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Ask the squirrels

 

 

the squirrels in my backyard live in the walnut trees. i do throw them some other varieties of nuts

when i feel generous. i have actually had them tap on my bedroom window to encourage me to check and see if i have some extra nuts in the house.

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dont tell everyone that laugh.gif the cat is still in the bag about how pine cone motifs are found in so many ancient art and why they were , and dont mention a dmt connection either! :wub:

 

It's my density destiny... I'm a Gen8West (to a bagua buff :):wub: ), my purpose in life is to set, upset, and shift the limit... so I can't start any major sh..t from scratch and in earnest (that's for the third trigram to undertake), but it's demanded of me that I hint at its whereabouts here and there. :P

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It's my density destiny... I'm a Gen8West (to a bagua buff smile.gifwub.gif ), my purpose in life is to set, upset, and shift the limit... so I can't start any major sh..t from scratch and in earnest (that's for the third trigram to undertake), but it's demanded of me that I hint at its whereabouts here and there. tongue.gif

 

 

and you do it very well wub.gifsmile.gif

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Hehe, thanks Taomeow, you always come through with the goods!

The most memorable forest meal I remember having {aside from once being forced to eat dog whilst on a survival camp} was Trout tickling then eating eating it raw for lunch like Smeagol in lord of the rings.

 

I got hunting and basic fishing down, including hunting with spears or bows, but I am wishing to know about foods that don't take time, so one can just meditate...

 

When I read about the hermit living on crushed pine needles, I thought, wow, seriously simple... The kidney thing is concerning though...

 

Tip from the forests of Norway:

I eat the spring shoots of pine trees raw. They taste bitter sweet and are abit sticky, but feels very fresh and they also have tonic qualities.

 

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"massive amounts of magic ingredients"

"i overdosed and was fine" what the ???laugh.gif " high as can be! "(naturally of course)

"high as can be , cant state that enuff"

"moving right along"

"its nuts!" nope its pollen , pine nuts is also recommended

"we need, we need"

"it tastes like the forest" wub.gif

"you can see i have been eating this"

"tinctures are more powerful" i always say this!!tongue.gif

"however, i am not a doctor" meaningful disclosure

"i really like this stuff, it is like whew"

"kinda looks like gold"

"unlocks peak physical and mental health" i would add spiritual

"he likes it"

 

BUT, why buy it if you can easily find and harvest it yourself?? (and tincture it too)

"this is a lovely pine tree"

"there is the gold, it is in there"

"cool"

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The Foxfire Books are old, but very good for survivalist stuff.

 

I think I'd eat lots of things before pine needles. I think most aggregate berries are safe, wild grapes, apples or cherries. All parts of clover and dandelion are edible. Cattail shoots and roots, tiger lily flowers ( I put day lily petals on pizza last summer, I am weird, the pizza was good and very pretty) or bulbs, violets, roses. Morels are way tasty, but mushrooms in general scary to try. I think White Oak acorns bland and mealy and are the ones Indians ground to make a flour, all acorns are edible, but some of the others are very bitter tasting. Walnuts, hickory nuts and butternuts are some work to get the edible part, but good.

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The Foxfire Books are old, but very good for survivalist stuff.

 

I think I'd eat lots of things before pine needles. I think most aggregate berries are safe, wild grapes, apples or cherries. All parts of clover and dandelion are edible. Cattail shoots and roots, tiger lily flowers ( I put day lily petals on pizza last summer, I am weird, the pizza was good and very pretty) or bulbs, violets, roses. Morels are way tasty, but mushrooms in general scary to try. I think White Oak acorns bland and mealy and are the ones Indians ground to make a flour, all acorns are edible, but some of the others are very bitter tasting. Walnuts, hickory nuts and butternuts are some work to get the edible part, but good.

 

i will never forget when in the arkansas woods i discovered muscadine. wow i hung out with those the better part of that day. i can only find morels maybe a couple of days out of the year. but yeah they are tasty. so many herbs also available but many think of them as scary too. and now i have my own gogi patches out. dine on the wild side.

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mmm...fermenting things from the woods could be it's own topic- muscadine and elderberry wines. Hard cider is an old time staple, was allowed even during Prohibition, the farmers needed a way to preserve their apple crop.

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mmm...fermenting things from the woods could be it's own topic- muscadine and elderberry wines. Hard cider is an old time staple, was allowed even during Prohibition, the farmers needed a way to preserve their apple crop.

 

 

here in my neck of the woods of appalachia we generally ignore such things as prohibitions. hard cider

is good for ya.

http://www.motherearthnews.com/Real-Food/2007-10-01/How-to-Make-Hard-Cider.aspx

 

always been a goal of mine (not yet fulfilled) to make muscadine wine. i have made elderberry.

its good for ya too. but there is something about that elderberry i cant quite put my finger on......

 

http://www.wineryadventures.com/Health%20Benefits%20of%20Elderberry%20Wine.htm

 

wine on the wild side laugh.gif

its good to be wild

 

i have heard it is finer in caroliner? fo sho nothing quite so fine as dandelion wine

newsbreak, its good for ya

http://www.calmmindpainfreebody.com/gardening/dandelions/dandelions.html

folks use common sense , do not gather your dandelions from areas that have used pesticides or weed killers.

ponders pine wine unsure.giflaugh.gif

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Hmnn, uh, if I pull the needles off any old conifer/evergreen and boil it up for tea, am I safe? Or is a species by species thing, some are edible, even good tasting, others are poisonous?

 

Going further, I pick out a random evergreen, I take it I should use newer, greener needles?

 

Thanks

 

Michael

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I did find out that hemlock the poisonous plant is a small poisonous plant that is completely different from hemlock the evergreen tree. Still doesn't seem like a good idea to eat parts of a tree called hemlock though.

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