WHAT TO DO WITH… PINE NEEDLES

PRACTICAL: Use in your cupboards – see TST 115 for recipes for cough syrup and pine-infused vodka and more. Or fill fabric sachets with dried pine needles (as with lavender) for delightful smelling drawers. PLAYFUL: There's a Native American tradition of weaving pine needle baskets. Easier are pine needle tassels: loop twine or wire around bunches of trimmed needles to hang in your home: or even from your ears, with earring hook wire. OFFBEAT: In Uttarakhand, in the Indian Himalayas, the 1.3million tonnes or so of needles produced each year are used in special power plants. A JOLLY GOOD FOLLOW @audundahl Armchair travel at its coolest with photos of polar animals: walruses, penguins, polar bears and more (Instagram).…

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