Favourite bush tea

[Rick]

Oh, cool beans. I'm with you. Thanks.

By the way, your links contain double http://s so they will go belly up if anyone clicks on 'em.

[Elkchsr]

Thanks Rick...

Fixed...

[wildWoman]

I like mixtures best, fireweed with rosehips and a couple spruce needles in there being a favourite.

[Rick]

Beebalm is another good one.

[Sarge47]

Never made tea out of anything growing around me before, usually it must of came off of the Lipton Tree!

[Rick]

Red Spruce is a real delight. It leaves a clean taste in the mouth unlike any herbal or commercial tea I've had.

[Tony uk]

When i make a brew sometimes i stick a crushed up multi-vit tablet in there to add to its vit content

[LadyTrapper]

Wild peppermint tea for me! I dry my peppermint over the summer and use the dried leaves in the winter. Once the tea is steeped, the rehydrated leaves at the bottom or your cup can be chewed almost like gum LOL...my kids love them.
Very good for upset belly too.

[moses]

Birch sap and rose.hips

[RangerXanatos]

Glad this thread came back up.

I've tried to make pine needle tea, but it always comes out tasting more like turpentine. I've tried to boil the needles in water and to boil the water, take it off of heat and then add the needles. I've tried to sweeten it up with honey, but I just end up throwing the pot out. Am I doing something wrong, or am I just too used to regular southern sweet tea?

[crashdive123]

I've only made it a couple of times. I took a good sized handful of needles, chopped them up, added them to a cup of boiling water, took the water off the heat and let it steep about 25 minutes. Tasted like pine.

[red lake]

How do you harvest Labrador Tea. Should you dry the leaves first? Are the dried and dead leaves good ot go in winter? I have heard if made wrong it can be harmful.

[snakeman]

blackberry tea is great . Crush up the leaves and put it in boiling water.I'd like to try sassafras tea but theres only one or two sassafras saplings( very small ones <3 ft.) that I know of in my section of the woods and I don't want to uproot them. I've had pine needle tea before but I don't know what kind of pine and I don't think i put enough needles in.

[moses]

Glad this thread came back up.

I've tried to make pine needle tea, but it always comes out tasting more like turpentine. I've tried to boil the needles in water and to boil the water, take it off of heat and then add the needles. I've tried to sweeten it up with honey, but I just end up throwing the pot out. Am I doing something wrong, or am I just too used to regular southern sweet tea?

I boil the water throw in some chopped up pine needles add honey and let it sit for 15 minutes.

I think your to used to southern tea LOL

[Heady beaster]

Boiling pine needles too long will degrade the vitamin c.

WARNING.

Avoid ponderosa pine, lodge pole pine and common yew, as they are harmful.
Source... Standing jaguar.com

[randyt]

Boiling also makes the tea "strong" better to get the water boiling then pull off the fire and steep the needles in the water.

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