It never ceases to amaze just how many uses one can glean from a simple tree. In reality, though, primitive cultures relied heavily on their knowledge of trees and their uses in order to survive from one day to the next.
A pine tree, for instance, is one of the most useful trees out there. It's soft and flexible wood makes it ideal for building, its sap makes for an excellent natural adhesive and sealant, its pine nuts are a rich source of protein and fat, and its needles can be steeped like tea to create a hot drink with a ton of Vitamin C. These are the uses many people know about, but there is one more that very few are privy to.
- Survive With No Food By Eating A Pine Tree
- Medicinal Pine Needle Tea
- Pine Needle Mulch For Growing Food
- Survival Food With Pine Nuts
- Catch Fish With Pine Needle Lures
- Pine Tree Toothbruth
- Collect Pine Resin For Insect Repellent, Torches & Adhesives
Check out the next page to find out exactly how a pine tree could keep you alive when times are tough.
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I didn’t know this
I just went in the backyard and tried it. Tastes kinda bitter at first but softens up and tastes kinda sweet. My 6 year old son liked it.
The pine needles can be made into a drink. Higher in vitamin c than oranges. I have read….?
http://www.practicalprimitive.com/skillofthemonth/pineneedletea.html
Let me know if you start running from both ends.
Will do. Lol
Love the knife in that video
Scott Chiodo
Condor knife company awesome blade
Dan Wagner
My great grandmother would make me drink pine needle tea as a child when I was sick, along with sassafras root and rabbit tobacco. I never really felt bad long and have always had a remarkable immune system.
Here is a site with some of the reasons for use
http://moh.ncdcr.gov/exhibits/healthandhealing/topic/2/
Jessica Ogden
This chart has a comment that pine can be considered toxic.
Good point, I wish it explained that a little more since it is contrary to what others believe
Jonathan
Billy Webb
If we are stuck eating pine bark next week we took a wrong turn.
Many parts are edible.
Karl Schweinfurth explains the tree?
Loren R Hodge
Alessandra Byrd
Alishia Kemp
Aegean Breeze Ron Brumback
Katie Kynast Jimmy Coughlin
Taught mine to peel pitch drips off and use that..a lot of time it’s dry isn’t that gooet sticky and makes for a great addition to starting a fire, keep it going in moisture, the above, ” rule gibbons ” ha ever eat a pine tree, many parts are ..” Lichen Moss if you use a bit of common sense does only grow on the north side of a tree..just needs to be the right Moss, and the tree needs to not be obscured with shade. That and Andy’s comment and about 5 million other things that have either been lost to history, passed down and forgotten as stupid, or cherished but shared with the ones you share those things with..boy scouts and girl scouts aren’t all natural disaster, making comb carriers, and cookies..at least it shouldn’t be lol if it’s gotten like school..no pledge, no flag, no God, no fucking reason to give a$#%&!@*. It used to be about keeping oral, written history alive as well…my first snipe hunt…no the world has a way of trying to dumb our asses up…don’t let your meatloaf… Love it Andy aka Potter lol
Brian Rader
Taste horrible
Nice
Ewell Gibbons told us that back in the ’70’s.
Did you chew on it and spit it out or ate it?
Clint Wildes
Pine needles put on a small fire . The smoke will kill foot fungas an foot odor.
I ate it
Dont cook over a pine fire unless in a sealed container/pot. Food will be ruined.
Brandon Alan Owens
Nonsense.
Sho can
I live in the pines
Gibbons died of dutch elms disease
Gibbons died of dutch elms disease
Dammit Dave. You’re spoiling everything.
Brooke Solano
Darian Agan
Jeebus.. I’m good then.. I have a bazillion of them in my yard…
The native Americans did this in times of famine or on a long hunt. The first Europeans were puzzled by the rings around the pines.
Andy Roberts
Isn’t paint thinner a derivative from pine?
From the tar/resin turpentine can be made. My family used to boil the needles.
Pine needle tea is a great source for vitamin C.