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You can make #pesto out of many things. A month ago it was bärlauch (wild garlic) and today it was spring #spruce needles, they are bright bright green, feather-soft and make amazing pesto. This one with ground roast hazelnuts.

It’s not much to look at, so imagine a mild fir flavour with a light garlic and nut background. Parmesan everywhere, pepper as needed.

We make batches and freeze them, they last for months.

Making more clones of the two condemned trees damaging our foundation. I think it's a blue spruce.

Last winter I did two pots of these, in an experiment. The ones with torn off twigs didn't seem to root so well, the cut ones did.

This time I got some rooting hormone to try and see if that accelerates things a little. Of course it's now also spring.

That way the trees can live on, planted anew, further out in the garden.

caravelle kitchen jazz manouche élite grand bouche

once again triggered by a review on gotaukulele.com i laid my hands on this handmade ukulele from caravelle kitchen in France. concert scale, spruce top, mango body - and the shape of an old selmer macaferri "gypsy" guitar.

came with martin m600 strings which i swapped for a set of fremont black medium low-g

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Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen, 4L secured an eight hour work day, soldiers paid the same as civilian loggers (a higher rate than the average soldier), and military sanitary regulations. In the end, the nationalization of the lumber industry brought about many of the changes the IWW had called for before the war.”

Members of the new union had to sign a loyalty oath to the United States and a no-strike agreement.

dailykos.com/stories/2024/11/2

Daily KosHistory 101: Nationalizing spruce productionWorld War I (1914-1918) was the first war in which airplanes played an important role. The war sparked rapid changes in aviation technology. At this time, airplanes were constructed with wood frames ...

#ThickTrunkTuesday with a bonus #SquirrelScrolling
I was harvesting firewood in the bush last week, an area I hadn't spent too much time yet this year, so this Red #Squirrel Tamiasciurus hudsonicus was not at all sure what I was doing there-- it held still for a while, hoping I didn't see it and would go away...
It is on a decent sized Picea glauca/ White #Spruce in #winter afternoon #sunlight #WinterBright #BorealForest #Alberta #Canada #wildlife #SolaceInNature #GoOutsideForMe

The oldest living tree is a Spruce. It is called Old Tjikko and is located in Sweden. The tree is thought to be 9,550 years old. Leif Kullman, the geologist who discovered this tree, named it after his Dog.

10 things you didn't know about spruce trees.

topicaltens.blogspot.com/2024/

Topical Tens9 December: Spruce treesToday’s Plant of the Day is the Corsican spruce, Pinus laricio , dedicated to St Leocadia. 10 facts about spruce trees: Spruce ...