Cedar berries uses

Juniper trees are fairly common and easy to forage. Learn more about foraging for juniper berries and how to use them for food and medicine!

Cedar oil is produced from three types of tree families: junipers, Thuja and cedars. Cedar oils are extracted from the leaves, the bark and the berries, with one of two key processes -- either distillation or chemical extraction. The oil is an aromatic essential oil that has been used holistically ...

The Cedar tree has many practical and medicinal uses

If I were asked what I love most about this tree, I probably couldn't give just one attribute, but the first thing that comes to mind is how much I enjoy the pleasant fragrance the tree emits, and how its handsome stature makes a perfect Christmas tree. But then maybe it's because it's so beneficial to songbirds and other wildlife, protecting and feeding so many over winter. Or maybe it's how much history the tree has, or how it provides medicine for many.

As far as I can tell, Eastern Red Cedar fruit production was about average this year. It’s hard to estimate because most of the fruit is in the upper half of the tree. Only a small percentage of trees have any fruits low enough on the tree for easy viewing. Big cedars can produce quite a load of fruit. This tree could easily produce a crop of fruit with seed enough to cover Blue Jay Barrens. Cedar fruit supports large flocks of birds through the winter and dropped seed produces an army of…

The herbal correspondences and magical properties of juniper make this plant super useful in witchcraft and paganism.

Learn to use eastern red cedar berries and twigs as native american did. Many people don't know the medicinal benefits of this common native tree.

Eastern red cedar - and cedars of all kinds - have been used for health in herbalism for thousands of years. Learn more about cedar in herbalism here.

Posts about medicinal uses of eastern red cedar written by Adrian White

Juniper berries are one of the most underappreciated, unsung heroes of the spice world. Learn how to use them in the kitchen and beyond on Gardener's Path.