Pine pitch

Make pine salve from the pitch in your local trees. It is a traditional drawing salve, that draws infections, slivers, and inflammation out of the body.

I just returned from a backpacking trip to one of the most magical places I've EVER been...Fossil Spring, AZ.

Pine resin is produced when a tree needs healing or protection. It can be collected and used for our healing, too. Just be sure to leave plenty behind to protect the tree.

'I try to collect pine resin deposits that happen naturally, usually caused by a fracture in a limb by a storm, lightning, or animals scratching on the bark. I also gather resin that oozes naturally out of the broken knots in the pine tree. The runny clear resin, the dried up clumps of amber or the flakey white drips, dried from seasons past, are all good resin for making pine pitch. Usually I collect my resin in some sort of metal container, such as a soup can or a little larger can with…

If you want to improve your survival skills, bushcraft skills, or homesteading knowledge, then you’ll need to know how to make pine pitch. rn

Donny Dust on Instagram: “Pitch Stick and Pitch Ball... two easy ways to carry Pine Pitch Glue. I use mine in the backcountry for hafting bone/stone points, sealing…”

Make pine salve from the pitch in your local trees. It is a traditional drawing salve, that draws infections, slivers, and inflammation out of the body.

Piñon Pine salve is used to soothe and speed healing of minor cuts, scrapes and burns. I was unable to find a plant-based salve so I made one.

When my husband and I first moved to the Pacific Northwest, we immediately began to explore the vast wilderness areas around us so we could get to know our native plants here. One of the first things we started noticing about the trees in one particular area was that they had been drilled by woodpe