Once you locate a pine tree, it's fairly easy to gather the green needles. All you need is a small bundle to make yourself a mug (or whatever you brought to put your tea in) of tasty pine needle tea. If it's a cold night where you're bugging out or if you're feeling under the weather, this is an excellent tea to make. Learn how:
Step-by-step Instructions for Making Pine Needle Tea:
Collect a small bundle of green needles, the younger the better. (A small handful will be plenty.)
Gathering Pitch Pine Needles Gather a small handful
Remove any of the brown, papery sheaths that may remain at the base of the needles. (They just pull right off.)
Remove the papery sheath
Chop the needles into small bits, about ¼ to ½ inch long.
Different types of Pine needles Chopping up the needles Chop needles into small piecesFor a Refreshing Tea:
Heat about a cup of water to just before boiling.
Bring water almost to a boil
Pour the hot water over about a tablespoon of the chopped needles.
Tablespoon of chopped needles Pour hot water over needles
Allow to steep (preferably covered) for 5-10 minutes, until the majority of needles have settled to the bottom of the cup. Enjoy your delicious tea!
It's pretty incredible how useful a pine tree can be! Not only can you utilize it to make a shelter, but you can use its needles to make some delicious tea. If you plan on bugging out or camping in an area that has pine trees, learn more how you can utilize a pine tree! You'd be amazed at all of the natural elements surrounding you and just how much food you can make and more with nature's help!
To learn how to make medicinal tea with pine needles and how else pine needle tea can help you, visit Practical Primitive.
Featured Image via Practical Primitive
Do not use ponderosa pine..
TEE? Ugh. I didn’t even read the article when I saw that.
Why not ponderosa. I lived my whole life on the east slope of the Rocky’s and we did needles with rosehips all the time
So if I am bugging out I don’t have to remember how to spell???
How can you be trusted when you can’t even spell tea?
Well that should taste like Hell, the best TEA I know of for wilderness survival is sand spur tea the Seminole Indians used it for mosquitoes, a cup a day for 3 days and it works against mosquitoes, ants, ticks and sand fleas.its also said that it promotes stomach protection against food born illnesses and keeps kidneys healthy
*Tea
Actually a cure for scurvy as well
Provides vit c
Tee? Lol!
Taste like weak regular tea to me. I enjoyed it.
Aren’t there certain pine trees that are poisonous?
Stay away from yew and Pondarosa pine
Pines described as white pines have
needles bundled in groups of five,
Yellow pines have needles bundled in groups of 2 (Lodgepole Pines) or 3 (Gray, Ponderosa
yes and hemlock is toxic
Edward Hamilton
Jennifer Elfers
Taste like turpentine. Yuck!
Or just drink water…
MaShawn Weaver
Delicious. Florida trail hiker here.
Everyone keeps talking how good pine trees are for shtf what happens when your allergic and need something other than pine
Sara Smith
You can also just have a little nibble on the soft tips. Nice.
Sean Defore haha
Sounds awful.
Drank pine needle tea every trip in the Boy Scouts!
Love to gather my medicine!
Love it very good moral booster
Pine needles are poisonous. It makes goats and cows abort fetuses. No joke… I have had a few cows get into pine needles and abort fetuses… why would I drink pine needle tea??
http://ucanr.edu/sites/UCCE_LR/files/151746.pdf
http://www.beefmagazine.com/mag/beef_needle_nightmare
Read and then tell me pine needles are ok to drink in tea.
Make sure it’s pine needles your using as well and not other needle trees.
Learned on how to make this back in my scotting days.