How to Make Tea From Pine Needles

You can find a variety of flavors of teas at the store, or you can make your own tea. Finding natural ingredients for tea eliminates the hassle of going to the store when you can just step outside your front door. Does this Spark an idea?

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Pine or spruce trees
Stove or microwave
Mug
Teapot

Instructions

- 1
  
  Grab some fresh pine needles. You do not need very many needles for one cup, just one small bundle will do. Make sure that you grab needles that are fresh and green; the brown needles will not have many nutrients left in them.
- 2
  
  Boil water and place the pine needles in the tea pot. Allow it to steep for 30 minutes. The more that the pine needles steep, the more nutrients will leech out into the tea.
- 3
  
  Pour your pine needle tea and enjoy. You now have a cup of herbal tea that is high in vitamin C and other beneficial nutrients, tasty, and free.

Tips & Warnings

You can also use spruce as a substitute for the pine needles.
Make sure that you know your trees well. Just boiling something that might be a spruce or pine is not as good as something that you know is a spruce or pine, and may even be dangerous.

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