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The Wine Forest Blog — fir tips

Douglas Fir or Spruce Tips – A Mighty Tree Enters The Kitchen

Constance Green fir tips harvesting wild foods wild recipe

When you spend lots of time wandering about in the woods, the odd things you find yourself doing there sort of sneak up on you.  Many many springs ago I had taken a chef for a hike about the woods. I’d sort of forgotten them when a voice yelled “what the hell are you chewing”.  I turned and realized I had fir tip bits stuck around my lips.  Uh oh, trust me, no one was doing that then.  Plucking and tasting the delicate apple green little tips from one tree and then another, had always been a private pleasure. Each...

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