I have not tried Labrador tea, thank you for showing this, now I need to go collect some leaves and give it a try! I like to forage Chaga for tea during my winter/early spring hikes and mushrooms in the spring/summer/fall. I have taken a couple of mushroom ID’ing courses and stick to the ones I know well and don’t have a deadly look alike. Lobster mushrooms, chanterelles and oysters are my typical finds. The others I shy away from just in case but love trying to identify them. Last year I collected spruce tips in the spring and made spruce tip syrup, so delicious! And I collected dandelion flowers and made a jelly, it tastes very much like honey. So yummy! Sumac is another great find and it’s all over. Sumac lemonade and drying sumac as a spice are both wonderful! I really enjoy your videos, thanks for sharing!
I’m in and around Ottawa but I reiterate sumac for tea or lemonade and here indigo milk cap and saffron milk cap are easy to identify and forge. Of course I don’t eat them raw❤ Also recently came upon bilberries which you can pick right off and nibble on and they are delicious and healthy in vitamin C and I’m sure many other nutrients❤ Then there are yummy Saskatoon berries!❤
Foraging is one skill I wish I was better at. Especially mushrooms 🍄. A few years ago there was a guy in this area who was supposed to have been a expert at it picked the wrong plant and died so after that I really got gun shy. I can identify most berries actually might harvest some blue berries today Labrador tea I can identify but I've never tried to make, wasn't sure the best procedure, until now lol. Definitely be giving this a try this fall. I know for spruce tea you don't boil your the tips because you would lose the vitamin content, or so I've been told. I just bring my water to a boil, then move from the direct heat and add the spruce tips and let it steep for a while. I feel learning this from a Innue woman is a great source. Great instructional video, Thanks. Hope you have an awesome week.
@@dawnywanders I think it taste like peppermint lol. Just boil water, remove and add spruce tips easy as that lol. The longer it sits the stronger the taste naturally. One day I had just added the spruce tips and had my pot by the fire and someone showed up at the camp site we chatted a good half hour , then I poured my first cup and was still nice and warm as the pot was still close enough to the fire to stay warm ... the pot wasn't big enough that day lol.
Visiting my sons tonight and they are both big Formula one fans and we were watching a race, and I thought about you and realized I hadn't seen a video in while so decided to check in , hope all is well and have a great weekend.
Thanks for checking in. I have been too busy to film, edit, and upload! I will be back soon, and i actually just bought another drone. Now I just need time to get out and film :)
This was awesome! Very informative. Looking forward to foraging for some now! Thank you!
@@cheyennejones1447 It’s medicine for the soul, and is so easy to find. Thank you for watching!
I have not tried Labrador tea, thank you for showing this, now I need to go collect some leaves and give it a try!
I like to forage Chaga for tea during my winter/early spring hikes and mushrooms in the spring/summer/fall. I have taken a couple of mushroom ID’ing courses and stick to the ones I know well and don’t have a deadly look alike. Lobster mushrooms, chanterelles and oysters are my typical finds. The others I shy away from just in case but love trying to identify them.
Last year I collected spruce tips in the spring and made spruce tip syrup, so delicious! And I collected dandelion flowers and made a jelly, it tastes very much like honey. So yummy!
Sumac is another great find and it’s all over. Sumac lemonade and drying sumac as a spice are both wonderful!
I really enjoy your videos, thanks for sharing!
These are all excellent suggestions for things to forage for. Except for (in my case) the sumac - it doesn’t grow here in Nova Scotia!
I’m in and around Ottawa but I reiterate sumac for tea or lemonade and here indigo milk cap and saffron milk cap are easy to identify and forge. Of course I don’t eat them raw❤ Also recently came upon bilberries which you can pick right off and nibble on and they are delicious and healthy in vitamin C and I’m sure many other nutrients❤ Then there are yummy Saskatoon berries!❤
@@NailedbyDe I don’t know if we have any of those plants here in Nova Scotia, but excellent suggestions for me to research and look for!
Foraging is one skill I wish I was better at. Especially mushrooms 🍄. A few years ago there was a guy in this area who was supposed to have been a expert at it picked the wrong plant and died so after that I really got gun shy. I can identify most berries actually might harvest some blue berries today Labrador tea I can identify but I've never tried to make, wasn't sure the best procedure, until now lol. Definitely be giving this a try this fall.
I know for spruce tea you don't boil your the tips because you would lose the vitamin content, or so I've been told. I just bring my water to a boil, then move from the direct heat and add the spruce tips and let it steep for a while. I feel learning this from a Innue woman is a great source.
Great instructional video, Thanks. Hope you have an awesome week.
I definitely have to try making spruce tip tea. It sounds easy and I love the smell of spruce. Why wouldn’t I love the taste of it?❤
@@dawnywanders I think it taste like peppermint lol. Just boil water, remove and add spruce tips easy as that lol. The longer it sits the stronger the taste naturally. One day I had just added the spruce tips and had my pot by the fire and someone showed up at the camp site we chatted a good half hour , then I poured my first cup and was still nice and warm as the pot was still close enough to the fire to stay warm ... the pot wasn't big enough that day lol.
Ok, so make a BIG pot. Got it! lol
Maybe should try out rose hip tea
@@Casey47496 what is your method for preparing it? I wonder if rose hip mixed with Labrador tea would be delicious or just weird?
You just scrape all of the fluff out of the seed and then use the shell and make tea
Visiting my sons tonight and they are both big Formula one fans and we were watching a race, and I thought about you and realized I hadn't seen a video in while so decided to check in , hope all is well and have a great weekend.
Thanks for checking in. I have been too busy to film, edit, and upload! I will be back soon, and i actually just bought another drone. Now I just need time to get out and film :)
@@dawnywanders As long as all is well that's the main thing