C. ten Broeke wrote:

>
> I make tea from pine-needles in winter. They taste good (as tea) and are
> supposed to be a source of vitamins.  I try to walk into the woods as
> far as I can before harvesting because our overcrowded poluted country
> knows no clean pines anymore.

Do you know what kind of pne you gathered?  Or does any variety work?
We have ponderosa pine here, and pinon, as well as spruce.

    Lynnet