Eating TREE BACON like a BEAVER with Viking AXE! | Cambium Survival Food | Tormund Giantsbane

The Wooded Beardsman
The Wooded Beardsman
3.7 میلیون بار بازدید - 6 سال پیش - Tree CAMBIUM or INNER BARK
Tree CAMBIUM or INNER BARK is touted as a survival food, but how PALATABLE is it really?  Can you just dive into the WOOD and get your fill like a BEAVER?  

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Not only will I cook TREE, but I will also start a FIRE from scratch using a BOW DRILL.  I will use a home made custom VIKING AXE like Tormund from Game of Thrones to help chop down a pine tree to get at the 'delicious' layer of bark!

Is tree cambium or inner bark good to eat or totally gross?  Is tree bark palatable.  I will show you how to eat inner bark of a pine tree.

Resources: http://www.fao.org/tempref/docrep/non...

Cambium contains about 1000-1200 calories per kilogram.  As well as being fried, it can also be dried and pounded into a flour or added to stew or soups.

Traditional diets of Indigenous peoples of Canada show that they ate about 35 species of plants with inner bark, cambium and sap.

The most common are in the Pine Family including True Firs  balsam fir, or Canada balsam, grand fir fir, and Pacific silver fir.

Other include Slippery Elm, Black Birch, Yellow Birch, Red Spruce, Black Spruce, Balsam Fir and Tamarack. Of all the contenders, Pine seems to be the genus of choice.

The  inner  bark  of  balsam  fir  was  grated  and  eaten  by  the Montagnais  of  Quebec. The inner bark (cambium and secondary phloem) of Engelmann spruce  was  occasionally  eaten  by  the  Nlaka'pamux and Chilcotin of British Columbia.

The  most  important  food  derived  from  lodgepole  pine,  however,  was  the  inner  bark,  including cambium and secondary phloem tissues, which was an almost universal food of the
Interior peoples of  British  Columbia.  The edible tissue is said to be at its prime for harvesting only for a very limited time in spring,  the  exact  interval  being  determined  by  elevation  and  local  weather conditions. It was and is usually obtained in late May or early June, when the sap is running and the cambium and surrounding tissues are thick and juicy. This is about the time when the new needles are expanding and the pollen cones in full production. Sometimes local testing is required to determine whether the harvesting time is right. For harvesting, the bark is removed and the ripe cambium tissues scraped off the exposed wood in long, fleshy ribbons 2-3 cm (about 1 in.) wide and up to 60 cm (2 ft) or more long. Special prying implements  were  used  to  remove  the  bark  and  scrapers,  traditionally  made  of  caribou  antler,  deer  ulna or rib, or shoulder blade of deer or bear, were used to harvest the edible tissue.

More recently, a sharp knife, or a tool cut from the curved side of a tin can, has been used as a scraper. A basket or  container  placed  at  the  bottom  of  the  tree  is  often  used  to  "catch"  the  edible  ribbons,  or  "pine  noodles" as they fall. Sometimes, if it were later in the season, the edible portion is scraped from the inside of the bark after it had been removed. Usually only a rectangular portion of the bark 1 to 2 m (about 3 to 6 ft) from the ground is removed, and the tree will continue to grow, the scar gradually growing over. There are many, many examples of such "culturally modified" trees in the interior of British Columbia, although recently, the practice of harvesting inner bark has been discouraged by Forestry management officials, and few Indigenous People still use this food.

The edible tissue was usually eaten fresh, as it was gathered, or shortly afterwards. When freshly harvested, it is sweet, juicy, and somewhat resinous, but when left it is said to discolor quickly and
"go sour." Sometimes, however, it was dried for winter, when it would be soaked in water before use. Some  people  like  to  add  sugar  to  this  food,  making  it  even  sweeter.  The  Gitksan  name  for  it translates as "tree fat." Bears are said to relish the inner bark of lodgepole pine, and sometimes one can see where they have scratched off the bark to get it.

The Chipewyan of northern Saskatchewan and the Woods Cree of  east-central  Saskatchewan  sometimes  ate  the  fresh  inner  bark  of  jack  pine.

Ponderosa Pine, or Yellow Pine was  harvested  in  spring and  eaten in the same manner.  The Flathead were said to have used it even more than lodgepole pine inner bark. The best tissue is said to come from young trees, before they have produced cones, and the food could also be harvested from the twigs and branches of older trees. The tree would be tested first to make sure
the sap was sweet, then the bark was removed with a special tool. The edible tissue was scraped from  the  wood  or  the  inside  of  the  bark  pieces.  It  was  usually  ready  two  or  three  weeks  before. Lodgepole  pine  inner  bark.  It  was  eaten  fresh,  or  stored  briefly,  and  was  sometimes  roasted  and dried for winter.
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