Everyday Wellness | Learning about Cedar: Harvesting and Identifying

In this series: Grandmother Kim Wheatley teaches us about harvesting cedar for tea and how to identify the best trees to use. Stay tuned for the next Everyday Wellness videos, Grandmother Kim will talk about the benefits of drinking Cedar Tea and how to prepare cedar for freezing so it can be used at a later time. #ActivatingWellness #EverydayWellness

[@lisanham]

Miigwetch! So happy to have found your channel.

[@caveman4christ822]

much love sister

[@yogaliza6495]

Thank you so much for sharing this great wisdom, when you harvest cedar, do you only cut the leaves? Or a part of the branch; when you boil cedar, do you boil the leaves only or the wood/ branch with it? and Last but not least, you offer sacred tobacco, correct? Thank you

[@pepperwell4297]

Northern B.C in the city. Is it okay to use Emerald Green Arborvite from my yard?

[@maimaigermaine2909]

Its hard for me to understand what did you offer, what is seymo?

[@mrmj2397]

I wondered that too. It's Semah, a traditional word for tobacco. With the commercialization of tobacco leaves, she uses this word for sacred tobacco to acknowledge the difference.
I don't know if all first nations use this word though?

[@tedwhiting6192]

I really appreciate the respect that the native Americans have for nature and how they care for nature. I have a strong connection to the trees and wildlife of all kinds. I don’t think that many people of my nationality share the same beliefs and respect nature and the plants and animals in it as I do. I have a belief system very much the same as you. It breaks my heart to see what people do to forests around the world. Looking at it as a commodity. I think it is going to be considered a great part of the downfall of man. We are here to care for the land not use it to extinction. Not to exploit it as a resource to make money. Man is going about caring for our planet entirely the wrong way. And they refuse to see otherwise. It’s very sad.

[@micheleemcdaniel389]

I have the great good fortune to have 15 or so White Cedar trees growing in my backyard. They are magnificent trees. Unfortunately the neighbour next door has no appreciation for them. There is a 6 foot wooden fence separating our properties. The trees were growing onto his side so he reached several feet into my yard and sawed 5-6 limbs off of every tree at the trunk! What an Idiot! I can just imagine how traumatized the trees were. They did not produce cones this year like they usually do, no doubt from having been so badly traumatized. He must have cut off at least 40 limbs in total and just piled them into his van and threw them out somewhere. I want to just move away now and not have to live near anyone who could do such a thing. It will break my heart to have to leave these trees though because they are indeed very special and very strong medicine. I've heard White Cedars can put curses on humans that mistreat them. I hope they put a beauty on my idiot neighbour and I mean it!