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Saille The Willow - food & remedies

Saille The Willow - food & remedies

part of Spring Prompt 4, from one of 20 modules of 'Ogham Prompts'

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All species of Willow trees are potentially edible, but rarely eaten due to not being palatable. The leaves, if you can stomach them, have 7 to 10 times higher vitamin C than oranges! A preparation of inner bark was once traditionally eaten by many Native People, but it took a lot of labour preparation so went right out of fashion a long time ago. I do …

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