Great video brother! I love that you are doing some wild foraging and plant ID, that is awesome! Something I've also been meaning to do on my channel. I've actually never seen anyone make tea from this but have seen it used as a salad topper. Quite tasty actually! I'll have to try adding it to some spruce tip tea next time I'm out!
Thanks! yeah its quite a tasty tea, but they lose some taste when dried. sounds very good with mixed with spruce tips. sometimes i put spruce tip syrup in the tea and it goes well together.
@@kringsja922 I think I might have to make some this winter! I made a batch of spruce tip mead last year that has been cold aging in my fridge since I started my RUclips channel. I'll be cracking that open on my one year anniversary and toasting to everyone that has tuned in over this past year! 😎
@@blacksprucesurvival That sounds good, I've always wanted to makes something like that. I used fresh spruce tips and layered them in a glass with brown sugar and let it sit for 2 months before i strained the syrup, i know you can use honey instead off sugar. you can probably use older spruce tips as well if you mash them up or make a tea first. But yeah you should definitely try, its amazing to drizzle on ice cream or popcorn, or even marinating/glazing pork.
@@blacksprucesurvival fireweed is such a great plant. you can make cordage, eat the shoots, make wine from the flowers, use the fluff as tinder and their beautiful, what more can you ask from a plant
Great video brother! I love that you are doing some wild foraging and plant ID, that is awesome! Something I've also been meaning to do on my channel. I've actually never seen anyone make tea from this but have seen it used as a salad topper. Quite tasty actually! I'll have to try adding it to some spruce tip tea next time I'm out!
Thanks! yeah its quite a tasty tea, but they lose some taste when dried. sounds very good with mixed with spruce tips. sometimes i put spruce tip syrup in the tea and it goes well together.
@@kringsja922 Ooh, spruce syrup in place of honey would be a nice touch! I love my bee vomit too much tho!
@@blacksprucesurvival even better, spruce tip honey!
@@kringsja922 I think I might have to make some this winter! I made a batch of spruce tip mead last year that has been cold aging in my fridge since I started my RUclips channel. I'll be cracking that open on my one year anniversary and toasting to everyone that has tuned in over this past year! 😎
@@blacksprucesurvival That sounds good, I've always wanted to makes something like that.
I used fresh spruce tips and layered them in a glass with brown sugar and let it sit for 2 months before i strained the syrup, i know you can use honey instead off sugar.
you can probably use older spruce tips as well if you mash them up or make a tea first. But yeah you should definitely try, its amazing to drizzle on ice cream or popcorn, or even marinating/glazing pork.
I thought those were called lemon heads?! Have I been calling them by the wrong name or is that a regional thing?
I have only heard pineappleweed or wild chamomile, but I'm in Norway so i wouldn't know the regional names. it has some lemony flavor though.
@@kringsja922 Definitely a citrus flavor for sure!
I've also heard them called lemon heads up here. Great on a salad along with some fireweed blossoms!
@@blacksprucesurvival fireweed is such a great plant. you can make cordage, eat the shoots, make wine from the flowers, use the fluff as tinder and their beautiful, what more can you ask from a plant