🌽 Have you seen a squirrel nibbling on a cone the same way you’d eat corn on the cob? They rotate cones in their paws, plucking off the scales to get to the seeds until only a cone “cobs” remains. If you’ve come across a big pile of deconstructed tree cones at the base of a tree, with the scales scattered or piled in an area, then you’ve likely encountered a squirrel midden. It’s basically a squirrels messy leftovers after a meal! Over time, even after generations of use, they can grow to be ma

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Elderberry fruits, medicinal flowers, pipes, flutes & more. paleoforaging.com/sambucus-canadensis Full video coming to my YouTube channel tomorrow! References: - Banks, William H. 1953. Ethnobotany of the Cherokee Indians. - Barrows, David Prescott. 1967. The ethno-botany of the Coahuilla Indians of Southern California. - Bean, John Lowell and Katherine Siva Saubel. 1972. Temalpakh (from the earth): Cahuilla Indian knowledge and usage of plants. - Castetter, Edward F. and M. E. Opler. 1936. The