Tim Corcoran and Ben Greenfield identify ponderosa pine by its three-needle bundles and explain how to eat it. The inner bark is edible in survival situations. Pine needle tea made from green needles steeped in hot water preserves vitamin C.
Here's another great one. This is our ponderosa pine tree, super common here in Spokane.
And I was just telling the boys the way we can identify this if you. I don't know if you can get.
A close shot here, but for all the pine trees, the pines are identified by how many needles comprise a single bundle. So you can see here, three needles come together in one bundle as it touches the base of that twig. And that's our surefire ID field ID point that this is a ponderosa pine just like that one.
Pines aren't a normal edible food, but there is, there are edible qualities to this in a survival situation.
The inner bark, which is the cambium layer, the layer between the bark and.
The wood, can be used as an.
As an edible food.
And so what we would do is we would. I'm not going to do it on this one because it's little and it.
Would kill it probably, but we would peel off the bark, the outer bark.
And then there's going to be an.
Inner fibrous layer and we would peel that off and you can chew on that. And it's got tons of vitamins and minerals and of course, the classic pine SAP.
So it's going to have that real sticky, sappy taste to it and be a little unpleasant, but as a survival food, makes an excellent one.
Now, that said, pine needles do make an excellent tea, and pine needle tea is a favorite. Super simple to make. All you do is harvest the green.
Needles off of a live pine tree.
I found a pine needle.
Take a few here and a few there. Not to take too much from any one spot. And what we would do is just chop those up finely and place them.
In nearly boiling water, but not boiling water.
You put them in boiling water, it.
Extracts all the SAP and you actually are beginning to make turpentine, which is.
Not what you want to do. But if you boil your water first, wait till those bubbles go away, then.
Put the chopped up needles in the water, it's going to make a really rich, healthy tea that's going to have tons of vitamin C in it and be a really great, nice, wild edible tea. And it's growing right in your backyard. The pine tree, super common and a lot of goodness for us here.
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