Spruce tip, blueberry, white chocolate, cardamom scones. #scones #sprucetips #baking #foraging #summertreats #keriandspice

Spruce tips gathered with the preschoolers today turned into peppered garlic/chive/spruce butter and spruce sugar! #sprucetips #foraging #compoundbutter #foraging

Halibut pizza on a pan on top of a stove.

Hand reaches toward a basket of spruce tips. Spruce tips in basket are surrounded by spruce trees budding with tips.

Halibut pizza!🌲 Yes, you can chop a few spruce tips 🌲 to add to the white sauce. Or sprinkle spruce tips on top of the pizza. 🌲 You can even mix some chopped spruce tips into the pizza dough.

#Sprucetips #AlaskaSky #Alaskan #Alaska

Today, I made spruce tip/salmonberry iced tea, spruce tip hummus, spruce tip naan bread, spruce tip pesto, & spruce tip/salmonberry oat bars. 🌲 Made this spruce tip themed food for the writers I’ll be meeting with tomorrow for lunch. 🌲

#sprucetips #AlaskaSky #Alaska

They're out now! Let's make some tea or salad or syrup with #sprucetips ... Remember to not over-pick; these are after all the new growths of the tree! :)

Pancake batter close up. Wet air bubbly batter is filled with bright red huckleberries and in center is a spruce tip. Chopped spruce tips are folded into batter.

🌲 Spruce tips can be chopped & folded into pancake batter! Here, I’m making red huckleberry & spruce tip pancakes.

🌲 Tip—chop stem & all (I was raised eating the inner stem). Or you can just chop the fine needles to add to batter & eat the stem while you’re cooking.

#AlaskaSky #sprucetips

Blue plate with glass bowl of oatmeal surrounded by spruce tips. Spruce tips are chopped in the oatmeal. Background is a blurred beach.

🌲 One of the easiest ways to use spruce tips—Add chopped fresh or frozen spruce tips to oatmeal. Yes, in your oatmeal! 🌲 About two spruce tips per bowl but it depends on if you like a lot of spruce flavor or a little.

#AlaskaSky #Alaska #Alaskan #sprucetips

Edible forks and spoons set in a glass on a small blue plate surrounded by spruce tips & tiny spruce tree branch. Also a clear glass bowl of berries shows a spoonful of red berries. Background is blurred southeast Alaskan beach.

🌲 That time I made edible spruce tip 🌲 forks & spoons for my elder Dad & me & then we ate lunch with them & then ate our forks.
(I formed these by hand!)

#AlaskaSky #Alaska #sprucetips

Carrot zucchini spruce tip bead with cream cheese frosting lays on a wood plate on a rock surrounded by spruce branches. Spruce tips are decorating the bread.

You can chop a few spruce tips & add them to quick breads! This is carrot 🥕 zucchini 🌲 spruce tip bread.

#Sprucetips #AlaskaSky #Alaska #Alaskan #SoutheastAlaska #Wrangell

Since moving back to Juneau, each year I’ve tried to challenge myself a bit more by living off our land and learning (or re-learning) the seasonal cycle of gathering, fishing, etc. This year one of the goals was to harvest #sprucetips and make some spruce tip extract/tincture. #alaska #tlingit

Hand dips into basket of spruce tips and holds a handful of fresh green tips. In background is spruce tree budding with tips.

Round chunk of Spruce tip farmer’s cheese sits on small plate. Chopped spruce tips on top.

Spruce tip scones sit on wood cutting board surrounded by fresh spruce tips and a few buttercups. In background is calm ocean and islands.

What do I make with spruce tips? Spruce tip cheese! 🌲 Spruce tip thimbleberry scones! 🌲

#Sprucetips #Alaskanforager #AlaskaSky #Alaska

Flicking a husk off a spruce tip. 🌲 You don’t want to get too many husks in your basket. Also you can shake the branch & they fall off if they’re ready.

#Sprucetips #eatyourtrees #AlaskaBlueSky #AlaskaSky

Closeup of lilac flowers

Spruce tips in a clear container

It’s lilac and spruce tip season!

#herbalism #foraging #lilacs #sprucetips

Edible Spruce: Cones and Spring Tips—Foraging Immature Norway Spruce male cones, ON (photo by Nina Munteanu) Intending to forage the new spring tips of the local spruce here in Ontario, I visited a grove of Norway Spruce (Picea abies) in a nea…

The spruce tips are out! So bright, soft and edible! #ediblewild #wildedibles #foraging for #sprucetips #NaturePhotography themeaningofwater.com/2021/05/20/e...

Handful of spruce tips held over a basket of spruce tips. In background is a spruce tree budding with spruce tips.

My favorite time of the year!!!!! 🌲 Yay!

#AlaskaSky #sprucetips
#Alaskan

The blue spruce in my neighbor's yard is almost ready to harvest! Anyone have any cool recipes for #sprucetips?

#foraging #bluespruce #pine

#foraging for #sprucetips and cones... t'is the season... #spring #wildedibles #ediblewild

Time to think of #foraging for #sprucetips and make tea or salad or syrup... #ediblewild #wildedibles #wildcrafting themeaningofwater.com/2021/05/20/e...

Elderly Dad sits on rock next to brown & white border collie picking spruce tips from low Sitka spruce trees.

One of the last times I picked spruce tips with my elder Dad. He’d go out with me every year. 🌲 I took care of him for almost TEN years! My fishcamp was his old folks home. I was the chef & activities director & more!!!!

#AlaskaSky #Alaska #sprucetips #Alaskan

Spruce tree with new growth green tips against a bright blue cloudless sky.

Going to look for these today! Spruce tips!

🌲 My best tip for spruce tip harvesting is WEAR GLOVES! 🧤 It seems obvious but I’ve often forgot to bring mine. You can have mild rash reaction to being poked a zillion times by the older needles.

#Alaskasky #Sprucetips #Alaskan #Alaska #foragertips

Spruce tip, carrot, zucchini bread laying on a wood plate on a rock atop a seawall. Spruce tips are sprinkled on the cream cheese frosting.

Spruce tips mixed with carrots & zucchini to make spruce tip bread.

#AlaskaSky #Alaskan #sprucetips

🌲 Making spruce tip iced tea for a writers gathering tomorrow!

🌲 Last year’s spruce tips. You can freeze them for use all year & beyond.

#alaskasky #Alaska #sprucetips #foodoir

Edible Spruce: Cones and Spring Tips—Foraging Immature Norway Spruce male cones, ON (photo by Nina Munteanu) Intending to forage the new spring tips of the local spruce here in Ontario, I visited a grove of Norway Spruce (Picea abies) in a nea…

Very soon, spring #Foraging for young #sprucetips and cones can happen... Tasty and nutritious! themeaningofwater.com/2021/05/20/e...

Written on the side of a Philips Brewing beer can: BREWED WITH FORAGED SPRUCE TIPS. INTERESTING FACTS* ANCIENT SCANDINAVIANS AND THEIR VIKING DESCENDANTS BREWED BEER FROM YOUNG SHOOTS OF NORWAY SPRUCE, DRINKING THE BEER FOR STRENGTH IN BATTLE, FOR FERTILITY AND TO PREVENT SCURVY ON LONG SEA VOYAGES.

Interesting if true*

#beercan #interestingfact #philipsbrewing #sprucebeer #sprucetips

You could always start a hashtag! Looks like there is one other person who has used #sprucetips

If I had better photography skills, you would find this as aesthetically pleasing as I do. #SpruceTips