Wild Food Foraging- Pine Needle Tea

In this episode I will show you how to: identify, harvest, and prepare White Pine Needle Tea.

[hecate]

"Taste" be damned. A couple of hundred years ago, white pine tea was a way to prevent scurvy in the winter. When vitamin C was scare because fresh greens were scarce, this could keep you healthy until spring.

[brianpendez]

Pine needle tea is nice for its vitamin c content and its abundance. It's super resilient as you can see, it's thriving in snowfall. To have so much vitamin c available year round and so abundantly, pine needles are truly a blessing.

[bushyman]

The taste isn't bad, in all honesty it tastes like watery christmas. In saying that, I made some at home with a little it of honey and a couple berries steeped and its really tasty

[molson]

Great video! I frequently drink White Pine Tea. I never boil the needles. Let the water boil then take it off and pour over the needles. Let it steep until the needles turn a dull gray green and sink down in the water. When that happens the tea is ready. You might need to heat the tea back up a little and add up to a teaspoon of raw honey. White Pine Tea will chase away muscle tension caused by the cold!

[scottmcintosh]

Pine tree tea is what the natives served to the early settlers to stop scurvy lack of vitamin C .
Love your video's thanks

[katakoriitai]

i remembered an old guy, my neighbor, who lived his life over a hundred years in a good health condition. he made his own tea mixing with a handful pine needle, persimmon leaf and bamboo grass and took 3 times every day. he departed for the heaven because of an traffic accident.

[pennylanebanks]

It’s it interesting that pines stay green all year? A good indicator that the maker knew we would need it.

[VivaMarie]

I love this!! I'm a kid, but I want to find a way to eat outside without bringing stuff like oil, salt or flour outside. Of course this isn't eating, but this is amazing! Just what I imagined when I was thinking of how to make pine needle tea in the wilderness. Someday I'm going to live in the wilderness and this is going to come in handy. Adding this to my notebook! Thanks!

Sincerely
Viva

[kurtrohlfing]

Back when i was is scouts, they always said that the new leaves tasted better then the normal ones. More Christmas, less turpentine.

[tryingtoknow]

If people don't believe the technocracy exists and that our every mood, thought and discussion is listened to and predicted, I want to say this:
Ten minutes ago I was discussing this very pine tea with my roommate.
I described the needles and i guess it was less than a minute conversion in our home.
Nothing on the Internet. Just a conversation.
This video was recommended to me even though I've never searched for this type of video in several years.

[megx]

I could watch these videos all day with no voice, just the spund of the fire and boiling water and pouring water. So so relaxing. Reminds me of cadets.

[hughescard]

I personally have found that steeping pine needles with a bag of orange pekoe tea has a really nice flavor. The subtle pine flavor and the subtle flavor with orange pekoe tea come together to create something very good being that, neither are too overpowering, in my opinion.

[Dinitroflurbenzol]

chemist here

the green stuff in the needles are chlorophyl, which are not solvable in water, but non-polar solvents e.g. hexane

greetings from germany

[MRSLAV]

You have to brake / cut pine needles more for the juice to seep out more.

[deannafarmer]

Well I think I need a week long crash course if all things edible here in northern Michigan. I would love to have someone like you come spend some time showing my family and I all the things we could eat!

[StephenWoodsisokay]

You have to dig all the way down to the soil when making fires in pine beds! The partially-decomposed pine medium can smolder and spread fire underground. Just clearing the needles isn't enough.

[bushcraftchip]

I love pine needle. Tea. Good on a cold morning to start your day....

[offgridbc]

I have made pine needle tea out of jackpine here in BC and found it actually had a lemony taste. It was rather good, but never realized the health benefits. I think I will start drinking it more often now.

[katherinetheawesom]

Hey I love the amount of time and research you put into these videos. They're really pretty great.

[AmIBeingDetained]

I have a beautiful blue spruce in my backyard. The tea its needles make is delicious! Tastes exactly like the smell!