What have you harvested lately?

Lorien

Lorien

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Find any useful stuff out there?
What is it?
What do you use it for?
Let's see the knife you used :)

Field or garden, all are welcome in this thread!


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This is a big fir, and I took some of its resin, (the phase somewhere between sap and amber). I'll be using it for concocting a sheath leather preservative, and maybe making some little fire starting kits that I can include with some of the knives and/or sheaths I make. Harvested with the help of my trusty CPK Basic5.
 
I got the resin over flames on the weekend;
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one more heat, and it'll get squeezed out through cloth- there is tons of needles, moss and soil in these nuggets. There probably won't be too much resin after all is said and done, but not much is better than none, and the effort is enjoyable.
 
Lorien said:
I got the resin over flames on the weekend;
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one more heat, and it'll get squeezed out through cloth- there is tons of needles, moss and soil in these nuggets. There probably won't be too much resin after all is said and done, but not much is better than none, and the effort is enjoyable.
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Neat ...Looking forward to seeing what you get back......
 
@Lorien , do you got a recipe on the syrup - I'm seeing several options at first search. which are you using? I've got a spruce in the yard that is perfect for picking and would like to try it.
I don't have any pictures, but I've only harvested some asparagus this year. Morels would have been on the list, be we had a very dry season with lots of temperature fluctuations. combined with not getting out as much as I wanted and there you go.
 
l1ranger said:
@Lorien , do you got a recipe on the syrup - I'm seeing several options at first search. which are you using? I've got a spruce in the yard that is perfect for picking and would like to try it.
I don't have any pictures, but I've only harvested some asparagus this year. Morels would have been on the list, be we had a very dry season with lots of temperature fluctuations. combined with not getting out as much as I wanted and there you go.
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I combine the dry tips with about an equal amount of brown sugar and seal it up in a clean mason jar. Don't add water! Stash the jar on a sunny window sill or what have you, until the moisture in the tips works its way into the sugar and creates syrup. I strain the mixture through cheese cloth into smaller jars which get stored in the fridge or the pantry. Super easy to make.
 
Lorien said:
I combine the dry tips with about an equal amount of brown sugar and seal it up in a clean mason jar. Don't add water! Stash the jar on a sunny window sill or what have you, until the moisture in the tips works its way into the sugar and creates syrup. I strain the mixture through cheese cloth into smaller jars which get stored in the fridge or the pantry. Super easy to make.
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gathered up some last evening and filled a quart jar as a first run
 
I stashed my spruce tips in the freezer, and finally got around to making things happen. There are three little sitka spruces up in the trails here that I harvest from. Only a bit per tree, and just tips growing over the trail or beside the trail
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