Birch Bark Tea

Nicely done and well explained. Looks like we have the same interests Share the knowledge my friend. Atb Steve

I came here after playing the game "The Long Dark", to see, wether this is actually a thing people do.

I live in Norway, and right now its summer time, so ideally not the best time to harvest, but the last few days i have made a "cold brew" tea w birch bark. Filled a glass of the bark and water and let i stand i the sun for two days. yummy

Where you found your river birch, did you find other variety of birches? I planted 7 years ago 25 River birches from the state conservation department and have a whole mess of trees running wild spreading on me. I thought they were river, but turns out sweet birch settled in as well as a paper so all three varieties are filling in an area which once was black locust. They grow real fast. There is even a quacking aspen that got in there somehow. Sweet birch has that wintergreen smell in it and doesn't exfoliate when older like the rusty brown river birch or white paper birch. I don't think birch grows as a specimen. You go back there, you take another look? A mature sweet birch's bark looks like a black cherries. Perhaps the canopy was too high up and you missed sight of the leaves as they had dropped from winter?

Never heard of it. I would like to try it.

there is a native fellow out western canada, he does bark teas as medicines, wish he had a book, do you know of any ,or any other web sites? would love to have that info