How to Harvest Pine Pollen
8 years ago in #foraging by haphazard-hstead (66)
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I have heard of this, but never tried it. Now I know how. Maybe next year!
here and here. Enjoy the outdoors!It's not too hard. And you can pick out the pines that are easy to reach, any time of year. Then you will be ready! If you do try pine pollen, I'd like to read your taste review! If you add the Foraging tag, it will be easier for me to find it for the SteemTrail @foraging-trail curation. You can find out more
Wow never heard of this and will share to my page. New fan here from Australia.
I imagine you have some pines down in Australia! This would work for you, too.
Yes possibly, I plan on making acorn flour once I gather up the acorns.
Acorns are so good and worthwhile! Lucky you! :D
thanks
Is that similar to pine nuts??
Pine nuts are what the pollen is trying to produce, when it gets to the female cones. Those nuts are hidden within the big, woody cones, between the scales of the cone. Not all pine trees make pine nuts big enough for people to bother with. But all the pines make a lot of pollen! Pine pollen is fine like dust or flour.
Can they be used i smoothies?
Yes, like any nut. But I think they are pretty expensive and the flavor of pine nuts probably is better appreciate when they are lightly toasted and added in with some grilled vegetables. People use pine nuts to make traditional pesto with basil, Parmesan cheese, and olive oil, too.
we're mixing them in salad..i haven't seen them used in anything else. pine powder seems interesting :)
It sounds like you make some good salads, with those pine nuts! :D
Not me but my cousin :)
Interesting post!
So far, I have only eaten the pollen and the seeds (roasted).
That's a good start! I eat the fresh, new growing tips, too. They are great in a salad. I'll post about that pretty soon! :D
I have only used those medicinally. Are there useful nutrients in them?
Oh boy! There are so many YouTube videos that are super enthusiastic about the many health benefits of pine pollen, especially for guys. And there are lots of health claims on Amazon, where lots of pine pollen is sold - straight up or as supplements. I'm not making any claims about anything - I'm not a nutritionist and I'll never be a role model for the healthiest eating, lol. And all the science literature I've looked at hasn't found any statistical effects from eating it for folks looking for enhancements. But pollen does have lots of fats and protein - that's why it can go rancid.
I have learned something new today thank you :)
Glad you enjoyed this post. Pine pollen is pretty good!
I hope I get the chance to try it :)
There are so many pine trees all over the northern hemisphere. If your season is over, you have time to find some pines that are easy to access for next spring -- and to line up some helpers to pick the cones. : )
I can't do much I can only walk a few steps :(
If you can convince someone to get you the male pollen cones, you can process the pollen pretty easily, sitting down. I hope you do get a chance to try some sometime.
I will do some research, thank you :)
This is very interesting. Thanks for sharing @haphazard-hstead
Glad you enjoyed my pine pollen post, @bontonstory. It's tasty stuff!
I just like the sound of pine pollen pancakes. It has a nice sound to it. And the Spruce Tree cookies...who would've thought..? I like it! I have only brewed hot tea with pine needles, but never eaten any product from the tree.
They are good cookies! I make too many, lol, every spring. But the pancakes are good, too. I'll make some the week after next, when I get back from some work travel. Cattail pollen pancakes are great, too!
Wow, I absolutely love your post! Joining your video was a great idea!! Upped & Resteemed!
Glad you enjoyed this -- and I hope you can enjoy some pine pollen sometime, too. It's fun and tasty. Pines grow in a lot of places and different ones have slightly different seasons. Glad you liked my video, too!
Your video is really top notch!! We have a lot of pines in Portugal, actually, it occupies one of the biggest wood plantation areas! I'll remind this post the next time I see a pine plantation :)
yesh glad to find you... I forage all over the rainforest medicines and food... im new here and looking for like minded friends and well non like minded friends too because different perspectives interest me.
There are so many plants in the rainforest, if you are in a tropical rainforest. That's a lot of different plants to get to know! If you post about foraging, be sure to use the #foraging tag, so we can all find it! Happy foraging!
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Excellent post! To us here in Wi , It always seems like a nuisance, it gets into and on everything. But now after seeing your post I will give it a try! Thank you and forage on!
Pine pollen is definitely worth trying. It does take some effort, but it's a fun kind of effort. And there is so much pollen -- it's one thing that harvesting will not make a dent in, lol! Happy foraging!
I love the detail on this post! So many times I get a foraging book and the pictures or information isn't clear and I can't be confident enough to actually try it myself. Thanks! I'm looking forward to checking out your other posts.
I'm glad you enjoyed all those pictures. Getting pine pollen isn't very difficult, as long as you can reach the branches where the cones are. On some pines, the pollen cones are a more yellow color. But it all works the same. If you try it, I'd enjoy reading about what you think about it. If you use the #foraging tag, then all us Steemit foragers can find it. Happy foraging!
I didn't realize there was a foraging tag recognized by the group. Thanks! I'm new to figuring out what tags to use.
This is fascinating. I was born where there are many pine trees in Texas. I have eaten pine nuts. I am resteeming this.
I bet you have seen a lot of pollen, coming from Texas pine country! Thanks for resteeming and I hope you get a chance to have some pine pollen sometime!
I'm not in Texas anymore. I will look that up though.
Very interesting information! I haven't ever heard that the pine pollen can be eaten! Very beautiful pictures! I enjoyed watching your video, very informative! The cookies look really tasty! It's amazing that you can cook many foods from the pine pollen! Thanks so much for sharing! ;)
I'm glad you enjoyed my pine pollen post and the video, too. It's not the most efficient food to gather, because the pollen is so small. But it's fun and tasty, so I think it's worth it to get some every spring.
That's very great for you! It seems to be hard works! Well done! ;)
This is the most awesome post of all pine! LOL! Thank you so much for sharing all of this information with us HH! I went out this morning and harvested a bunch of male cones off some of my plentiful lodgepole pine trees (AKA Pinus contorta). We also have a ton of Ponderosa pine, think I will grab some cones off of that species in the morning. Also, I saw that the yarrow is about ready to harvest. It appears that I have drying and hydrosol creation to do. Can't wait to try a pine pollen smoothie, thank you so much once again!! Upvoted and resteemed!!!
You got after that pollen pretty quick, @generikat! Which is good, because it's all blown away pretty quickly. Pine pollen isn't the most efficient wild food to gather, but it's fun, I think. I would enjoy reading a taste review and maybe you will improve on the gathering or processing. You will probably figure out other ways to use the pollen, too. It's nice to be able to enjoy some of all that fine pollen that's blowing about in the air. And thanks for resteeming!
As soon as I eat some of that pollen I will give you taste review, lol! My horses thought I was bananas as I wandered the fields harvesting cones. One mare kept putting her nose in the bag and then looked at me in grain deprived angst. Love it!
You are most welcome for the resteeming.😊 I think your post is only my third resteem ever, but you seriously deserve it, I so totally enjoy learning new things, and you are such a fountain of knowledge! Hope you are having a fine evening!!!
I don't think the horses appreciate those pollen cones, lol. Grain for them, all the way -- and hay.
Thanks for resteeming my pine pollen post, @liliana.duarte, @rebeccabe, and @generikat! I hope you get to enjoy some pine pollen yourself sometime! If you do, I hope you write a taste review! :D
Ohh wow! What a great post. Never knew that you could eat the pine pollen... and Belgium was packed with pine trees! Well, it's too late for that! But I'll show this to my dad! He'll love it! Thanks for sharing!
The tropical fruits around you are a lot more efficient to harvest, I think, lol. But I enjoy getting some pollen every spring. It's a shame to let it all blow around with enjoying some pine pollen cookies or pancakes! I hope you dad gets to enjoy some pine pollen!
He just retired a week ago and is happy to find new projects to spend his time on.
I was told there was a family cooking hot dogs and used sticks from the cattail plant and were poisoned. I have not researched this.. thought I would find out from you.@haphazard-hstead you had a slight mention of cattail pollen.. in Texas we are taught those are poisonous. They grow near the beach at the Gulf of Mexico, not far from where I grew up.
I have never heard of cattails being poisonous. I have eaten a lot of cattails and a lot of parts of cattails (Typha latifolia and T. angustifolia) -- the roots, the core of the emerging leaves, the based of young leaves, the young flower spike, and the pollen. The roots are the most trouble to use. And they can take up chemicals in the water, like pesticides or metals - and that's not good for eating at all. So maybe that's why people were cautious of them in your area.
This is cool. I never knew you could eat the stuff, although I have seen clouds of it floating through my neighborhood... looks kind of like a chemical weapons attack
That's a good description, alright. That pollen is so fine, it sticks to everything. And it floats on top of the water in lakes and ponds, so it does look like an attack. It's time to attack back and eat some of that pine pollen! I hope you get to try some sometime!
This is amazing!!! I can't help but follow!!! I can't wait to learn more from you. Maybe I'll even be brave enough to homestead one day.
Thanks! That's the nice thing about foraging -- you can find some of the same plants where ever you go around the world. They are like old friends. Pine trees are in a lot of places. And the pollen from any of them are good. I hope you get to enjoy pine pollen!