4 Eye-Opening Ways a Pine Tree Can Save Your Life

cutting into a pine tree

With pine needles, pine nuts, bark, and pinecones from a pine tree, it's incredible you can make meals that are healthy. In fact, pine nuts are a great source of protein and good fats! Not only that but roasting pine nuts will prolong their life so you can keep some to eat while you're on the trail.

Use pine resin as chewing gum as well — who would have thought!

1) Emergency Food 

pine cone on a pine tree

Pine needles can be steeped to make tea or to give flavor to bland tasting water. The brew will be loaded with vitamin C. Steep the needles in hot water from five to 10 minutes, but keep in mind the Vitamin nutrients will decrease the longer the needles steep.

All pine nuts (actually, they are seeds) are edible, and they can be eaten raw or roasted but once removed from the husk they deteriorate quickly.

Inner pine bark is edible, and it can be eaten raw, boiled, fried or roasted over a flame.

Male pinecones found near the tips of the branches can be eaten boiled or baked.

Next, discover just how useful pine resin in. I had no idea I could use pine resin to assist me with these essential survival tasks, but now that I know, I will definitely be trying this shortly! 

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96 Comments

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  1. Garrett Herrmann said:

    You should know everything in your power to keep food water and shelter plentiful and great. What if collapse is due to a pandemic that effects animals as well as humans. And you no longer know how safe that animal would be to eat. What happens when you run low on ammo and your bow skills aren’t up to par. What happens when your hunt goes south. You are injured and need to scrap by on bark and leaves until you heal up enough to hunt.$#%&!@*happens when$#%&!@*hits the fan.

  2. Garrett Herrmann said:

    As pro life as I am. If$#%&!@*hits the fan, and your failing to keep required nutrients and this is your last resort, You shouldn’t weed it out. But if your far into pregnancy then you could also cause more harm. Tough call. Which is also why I believe women need to be even more prepared in knowledge of botany.

  3. andrew said:

    Also the sap can be used to seal small wounds

  4. Matthew David Hummel said:

    James McNeely. It’s a really good article, some stuff I didn’t know about these things. Hell, my backyard can keep me fed through college! Lol

  5. Luke Webb said:

    I had a pine tree perform open heart surgery on me once. SAVED MY LIFE!

  6. Kesley Moore said:

    Yrah..ask yule gibbons. Oh yeah..I forgot. He choked to death on a pine cone. RIP Yule.

  7. Michael White said:

    Well the picture of the “pine” cone is actually a Douglas Fir cone and those needles in the picture with the Fir cone are the needles of a Douglas Fir too… maybe they are calling any Conifer a pine but that is absolutely not the case.

  8. Finis Watson said:

    As an owner of many pine trees, beware that they produce the thickest yellow clouds of pollen I’ve ever seen.

  9. Michael Wayne Powell said:

    Evan Degrow Aaryn Folden Grayson Williams, this is some primitive$#%&!@*right here! Pine trees are awesome!!

  10. Lloyd Dwayne Winters said:

    If I have a knife a pot to cook all this$#%&!@*in I’m probably gonna have a compass and a map cause they are lighter and fallow the yellow brick road the hell out when shtf

  11. Mark Dillon said:

    It’s the red clouds that really really suck. Allergic no problem, like crawling through an attic filled with fiberglass insulation once yet caught in a cloud . Allergic your F’d. So far my two haven’t been bad compared to others I have seen, but swore first time they go red chain saw is coming out. Rest of pines we have don’t seem to be nasty pollinators for two years we have owned place. Knock on wood. I think I’d cry if they were other two as many pines has we have. I never realized what a menace pines could be until moving to higher elevation where that’s the prevalent trees.

  12. Don Sowers said:

    Jason, Wayne and i have had this very same conversation a few times, O.t.

  13. Mike Wilson said:

    And try the needle tea from the (pine tree looking) Hemlock tree. No worries about what to eat next…

  14. Dale said:

    Pine resin is good to close small wounds also

  15. Scott said:

    Photo for “food” not a pine. (Spruce, with some similar uses). Photo for “shelter” also not a pine (appears to be Douglas fir).

  16. Billy said:

    Chew the inside white bark for heartburn. It works!

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