Pine trees are one of the most useful plants you could ever hope to come across if you ever find yourself in a survival situation or just on a routine camping trip. Their small branches make for excellent kindling to get your fire going and the resin can be used for glue or even chewed as gum.
Some species have an inner layer of bark that can be cut out and eaten in emergencies. Of course, the wood can also be used for crafting projects; it’s lightweight and soft, yet flexible and resilient.
For an emergency shelter, you’ll love the soft needles for your bedding and to layer as a roof. But one thing you may overlook is the obvious bounty within the pine cones themselves: pine nuts.
Pine nuts are an incredible survival food rich in fat and protein. Learn how to harvest these seeds on the video on the next page.
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Done this many times.
Pine nuts are delicious!
Brook Ashleyy
Ual Gibbons died from eatting pine cones lol
Ever eat a pine tree
Many parts are edible
That’s part of an OLD grapenuts commercial
The pine resin is also an excellent fire starter…If you can’t get to the fatwood.
Jessica Cox
Yes. I learned this back in grade school.
Pine trees have alot of benefits as far as survival. Pine nuts to eat, pine resin is a good glue and fire starter. Rich lighter is very useful as a starter. The resin can also be used as kind of a sort of glue trap to keep ants at bay. The needles can also be used for bedding and debris huts and also make a good fuel for a signal fire because the needles create a thick gray smoke. Green ones are the best but even dry ones put off a rich smoke. The smoke also keeps mosquitoes away. Also young saplings grow tall and straight and make great poles for shelter.
I’d rather starve
Sorry , but that’s not what the picture looks like !
Pine needles boiled in water make a good cough syrup also
Ewell Gibbons anyone?
Good stuff. …roast them in a oven for about 20 min and salt them awesome stuff
DROP IT THATS DOG POOP!
Just have to find some pinion pine trees usually in the southwest
Paul is right..harvesting Pine Nuts is a ritual in my family..
He did a good job explaining the uses of the pine tree. He did leave out that the inner bark is edible too. By taking some of the outer bark off you can get to the white inner bark which can be eaten raw or boiled to soften it. Just remember not to remove to much bark and never take it off completely around the trunk or branch because it will kill it.
Ewell…? Not Yul…
Love pine nuts – yum!
Pine nuts are common in Portugal.
Did work out well for Gibbens. lol ( Ever Eat a Pine tree, many parts are eatable
My brother and I used to graze on pine nuts when we were young.
Duh….we have been using them since time began..
Euell Gibbons done beat you to that one.
They are sold in stores in Russia
You’re hungry and you are under a Hickory tree. You can die trying
As you can see.
“The resin can be chewed as gum.” PRO TIP: make sure it isn’t hemlock. Lol
If you’re going to chew the sap, make sure you pick the old dried out stuff or you will be sorry. Chew and spit out the impurities. It works as a substitute for brushing your teeth. I’ve done it many times.
Yes they are. We had a bumper crop last Fall and they survived the Winter so I got to eat a bunch this Spring too.
Great info
There was ZERO video but lots n lots of click bait!!!
You are at least as old as I am! 😀
and they taste wood YACK
Great but I’m allergic to pine
They sell for $20 per pound, go find a pine tree
Good to know !!!
Good antiseptic for cuts!
Looks like you use more energy getting them than they will provide when you eat them.
Didnt help Ule Gibbons any
What a great nutty idea
Anthony Ikabod Buck here you go eat up
You will starve to death before you can get enough of those seeds to keep from starving to death!
Pine ping Dave Allan
Thx thx…
Strange i thought pine was destroying the soil here etc
Jadon Schreck
Cool thanks
Last resort Kali Walker