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season: winter
section: what the land is offering
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- pine needle tea, from white pine or other soft pines. sharp and bright and full of vitamin c.
- birch twigs, snapped and steeped. wintergreen flavor from the young branches.
- dried rose hips if you stored them. brew with honey for cold nights.
- oyster mushrooms on dead hardwoods after a warm spell. they fruit in the cold.
- chickweed, still growing low in sheltered spots even now.
- witch hazel bark, harvested carefully. steep for a skin wash.

winter foraging is quiet work. the land is not dead, just still. there is always something if you know where to look and what to ask for.