Pine Needle Tea

AGE: Approved for All Ages with Adult Supervision.
SEASON: Fall/Winter
TIME: 15-20 Minutes

Overview

Description: With adult supervision, children may boil water in a pot, add fresh pine needles, and boil for 2-3 minutes. Note: Pine needles should be harvested from areas not right along busy roadsides. Also, you may want to use an old pot as some sap may get boiled down onto the bottom of the pot. Interestingly, this is how you make pine pitch. The Pine Needles contain high amounts of Vitamin C, one fact is that Indigenous peoples here on Turtle Island were some of the foremost pharmacologists of their time (Our plant knowledge was so vast that much of the Pharmaceutical Industry still bases much of their patents on our TEK) (See Jack Weatherford’s Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World). A Cultural Knowledge Keeper (CKK) can create a video regarding this information.

Implementation

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