Coffee's Ready, Come and Sit on the Porch

[Lazy Gardener]

Yes, we've circulated the pine needle information. Have you made pine needle tea? If so, please share: fresh or dried? How much needle/cup H2O. And, how nasty is the flavor? Any tricks to improve palatability???

 

[Britesea]

We made it with fir needles (the only pines we have are ponderosa, which are not recommended- they can cause abortion, apparently). The fir had a mild, fruity taste; not nasty at all. I understand pine has a light citrus flavor.

 

[Lazy Gardener]

I'll have to try some. We have fir, spruce and pine in abundance. So... I'd be wise to harvest a couple # of needles. I also have abundance of mint.

 

[baymule]

We have southern yellow pine, will that work?

Also the green sweet gum balls have shikimic acid in them.

Sweet Gum Tree (Liquidambar styraciflua)

Sweet Gum is becoming well loved in the herbal community because it is known as an amazing ingredient in cold and flu formulas. It contains shikimic acid in its infertile seeds; the same ingredient…

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Sweetgum: An ancient source of beneficial compounds with modern benefits - PMC

Sweetgum trees are large, deciduous trees found in Asia and North America. Sweetgum trees are important resources for medicinal and other beneficial compounds. Many of the medicinal properties of sweetgum are derived from the resinous sap that ...

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Sweet Gum Tincture - The Christian Homekeeper

Disclaimer: The instructions I offer here in this post (and in all my posts about herbs and home remedies) are what I use personally at home. Of course the standard disclaimer goes: I am not a doctor and don’t prescribe medicines or herbs, this is just what we have done here for generations...

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[baymule]

Girl, I slept until 7 AM!! Tired! I outlined my day and the next few weeks coming up on the SS Cafe thread….. I need a boat motor to strap on my behind, so I can go faster.

 

[baymule]

Taking a chocolate milk break before I go do evening chores. 9 chickens parted out and in the freezer. One weighed 8 pounds, 4 ounces! Gonna trade him for catfish.

 

[baymule]

Thats great! what bread was it?

I raise Cornish Cross chickens every year. I have several customers who pay well for them. What we are processing now will be for ours and DDs freezers 6 more in the cooler to do tomorrow and 8 more in the chicken tractor to slaughter on Monday, if the creek don’t rise. LOL

 

[Lazy Gardener]

Beautiful vocals.

 

[baymule]

Wow! What a beautiful garden and all those herbs! I want a herd garden, been here 7 years, ain’t done it yet. But at least the garden produces.

I get you on the sand! Ours is called sugar sand. White, fine, devoid of humus and nutrients, pure sand. I’ve been cheated! Where is my ocean? A lake? Ok, what about a pond? Puddle? Nothing? Maybe a bucket of water…… LOL

And the DUST! Can’t keep anything clean, always in a state of dusty or dustier.

 

[henless]

Love your garden! I used cinder/cement blocks for mine too. They were a pain to set up, but I don't have to worry about rot or termites destroying them.

I used treated wood for my first raised beds. They lasted less than a year.