Eastern red cedar

Because we had talked about it, yeah

... 'cause we talked about this coming up, and s- uh, the one that I, I agree with him on is, um, Juniperus virginiana-

In the Midwest

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Yeah.

Do you mind talking about some of the stuff that you've done with kind of like the spatial planning of conservation and particularly for Eastern Red Cedar?

Yeah.

And Eastern Red Cedar is a good poster child because it's like, you know, we also did work on resprouting species with fire and so forth.

Right.

Like.

How you break that down is different than when everybody agrees cheatgrass is a problem.

That's actually one of my favorite questions I received.

We found out from working with the...

Department of Kansas Eastern Red Cedar is a conifer that you can use their berries 100% I've done a sourdough starter out of those berries oh really okay

so when that like you see the berry on the tree and they have that like white film on it that's wild yeast that's wild yeast that's the yeast on it and you can take those berries throw them in a little bit of flour and water and then that culture will start that sourdough that sounds tasty it is tasty and it does it's reminiscent of some of that like seedery conifer kind of flavor to you it's it's it's cool it's cool now that the more generations of that you use the less of it's there

right yeah we're gonna i think that's gonna be our experiment over the winter and then see what i because you you'll harvest juniper berries about like december january in that time frame yep when it's nice and cold

It's the same thing that you run into in the hill country, like Mason County that, well, even Even Fisher County, which is not even – it's in the Rolling Plains.

You look at the quail numbers there down, and a lot of it has to do with the Eastern Red Cedars moved in, which is great for robins.

You've got to have some of them, but not what they've got.

I would suggest – I would – expect that there's a potential that with that big 47,000 acre fire in Palo Pinto and Jack County, you know, they could be setting the stage to have a couple of pretty good quail years, a good quail year or four in the next two or three

I hope everybody's enjoying this blazing hot July weather.

I'm actually going to talk about a tree today as we continue our series herbal medicine for preppers focusing on the trees with a tree that actually grows in very hot climates but is more associated I would say with cooler climates and it's juniper now in the southeast And I think throughout most, at least the eastern United States, we have what's called the eastern red cedar, which is not a cedar at all.

It's a juniper.

It's juniperus virginiana, I think, or virginius.

You can have everything from trees to bushes to a low ground cover.

They're all in the same family.

the um yeah the the juniper the eastern red cedar so-called is juniper juniperus virginiana and that just means it was first identified in juniper in europe uh they have so many varieties there are um i mean there are varieties of junipers that just grow in the alps they have varieties of juniper that grow in england in france i mean you can go all over the place There are Asian junipers, the many Chinese varieties and Japanese varieties that have been brought here.

The cedars of Lebanon are a closely, you know, related plant.

We were pushing Steve Bayshore at Mount Vernon like – come on, let us let us make a gin with the George Washington dry.

And so of course, we had Eric and I had to take it to like the extreme of like, you know, over there on Washington's original tomb, there's all kinds of Eastern Red Cedars just covered, covered with berries.

Let us let's go get some, some corpse berries there and throw them in the still and, and turn this into a thing.

He never would let us do it.

And that turned out to be it.

And because when you base the wood, I mean, you've got, you know, there's no way in the world anyone would ever look at Eastern red Cedar and say, oh, well there, there's a comparison between Eastern red Cedar and Osage.

No one would ever say that.

Um, but there is a way to make it to link the two together and that's by their density ERC is less dense than Osage but when you compare the two on a level playing field like density per density then you'll realize that you can actually make the comparison between the two and you can even the playing field and it takes a certain amount of wood in a bow to make a bow No matter what the wood is, it takes X amount.

Very good.

And I had Chinquapin Oak, American Holly, Yoshino Cherry, Eastern Red Cedar, and Magnolia Virginiana, the Sweet Bay Magnolia.

All good choices.

Thank you.