Peaceful Porter's Blog

Longhouse Chiefs Tulalip News. (2018, July 27). The Treaty of Point Elliott: A living document. Tulalip News. https://www.tulalipnews.com/2018/07/27/the-treaty-of-point-elliott-a-living-document/ It was May of 2023, I was about to go on a road trip with my best friend Steve . I was waiting for him to finish work so that we could start the drive to Portland and drive the coast of the Oregon. Before we left, I stopped at a bookstore in Silverdale, WA and I bought a book, "Plants of the Pacific Northwest". This book has become my bible and ever since that road trip, I have developed a relationship with flora like never before and I appreciate the numerous benefits and wisdom offered by plants, mushrooms, and the forest. The book outlines how to identify, use as medicine, and the historical use of the many plants it indexes. Learning all about indigenous uses of shrubs, trees, flowers, and other plants had me wondering: What even happened to all of them? There must have been such...

    The gum from trees is not only free but there are also medical benefits to doug-fir needles as well as the resin. There are also benefits to chewing gum, especially gum is hard to chew like this one, which strengthens jaw muscles and the muscles of the face which then make the breath-ways expand, leading to more effective breathing anyways, according to a chapter in one of my favorite books, Breath the science of a lost art , by James Nestor. Resin and pitch are the same thing, but resin/pitch is not sap. Required Items, starting with collecting the resin: *Note: Anything you use will get a bunch of resin on it and it is very difficult to remove, so it is best to use stuff and keep it for making tree gum  Douglas fir (or other resin producing conifer) resin A knife to collect the resin (it is very sticky and I do not recommend touching the resin before you cook it) A container for collecting resin (I use a small glass jars) And then for cooking/heating the resin and s...