When I was growing up in the Allegheny Mountains of Western PA, and I was still a very small child, my father and I would seek out the sweet birch saplings. A good sapling was tall and lithe but bent …
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Black Birch Tree Information and Recipe for Sore Muscle Rub / Massage Oil and Birch Tincture
Black Birch (Betula lenta) is one of my all-time favorite trees. In the forest where I grew up, I we had thousands of black birch trees. Any time there was a thicket (or if someone would cut a part of …