What a great read! Too bad that we (well, those people who never get out of the city!) have gotten so far away from living in harmony with the land, letting a beautiful symbiosis occur between humans and the plants that have grown to support us.
The taiga and boreal forests that ring the northern climes of the Earth have always fascinated me... those wild and dense and sparsely populated areas hold so much mysterious potential.
We have a cabin in eastern Arizona, and our main trees are piñon pines (among a few others), so am going to check into those books to see if there is any relevance to the trees we have. Or if the books have a sister/companion edition for our area. (I’m a bit of a book hoarder, esp anything traditional native medicinal or herbal or foraging, etc., so that’s going to be part of my “to hunt for” book list!)
And I’m going to see if I can adapt that spruce beer recipe... wondering if it would work for piñon pine beer :D .
And, as an aside, I’ve got my piñon pine cones chopped up and marinating in their sugar bath, and I expect sometime early in the new year, pine syrup will be ready! It already smells super yummy!
What a great read! Too bad that we (well, those people who never get out of the city!) have gotten so far away from living in harmony with the land, letting a beautiful symbiosis occur between humans and the plants that have grown to support us.
The taiga and boreal forests that ring the northern climes of the Earth have always fascinated me... those wild and dense and sparsely populated areas hold so much mysterious potential.
We have a cabin in eastern Arizona, and our main trees are piñon pines (among a few others), so am going to check into those books to see if there is any relevance to the trees we have. Or if the books have a sister/companion edition for our area. (I’m a bit of a book hoarder, esp anything traditional native medicinal or herbal or foraging, etc., so that’s going to be part of my “to hunt for” book list!)
And I’m going to see if I can adapt that spruce beer recipe... wondering if it would work for piñon pine beer :D .
And, as an aside, I’ve got my piñon pine cones chopped up and marinating in their sugar bath, and I expect sometime early in the new year, pine syrup will be ready! It already smells super yummy!