Spruce Supermarket: 4 Tasty Treats You Can Make with Spruce Tree Tips

When you go for a walk in the woods, do you glance around and consider which trees around you may have edible parts? Sure, you might identify maple trees as the source of the wonderful syrup that’s great on waffles and such, and there may also be nut-bearing trees in your area, but the average person wouldn’t look at an evergreen tree and think it looked delicious. Well, guess what? Those soft, delicate green tips that appear on spruce branches every spring aren’t just “edible”, they’re quite tasty, and can be used in several different ways! Read the rest of Spruce Supermarket: 4 Tasty Treats You Can Make with Spruce Tree Tips Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: capers , conifer , coniferous , DIY jelly , evergreen , evergreens , jelly , pickles , preserves , shortbread , spruce , spruce recipes , spruce soda , spruce tip jelly , spruce tips , wildcrafting        

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INTERVIEW: Julie Torres Moskovitz Discusses Passive Houses & Her New Book ‘The Greenest Home’

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