u/greywind21

Fruits have been a bit off this year in my local area. Climate shifts caused many species to bloom early then get hit hard by late freeze. Some species didn't produce any viable fruit at all this year like Oso Berry.

But my neighbor Hawthorne tree has been coming along slowly. I've seen others in the valley loaded with ripe delicious fruit. But my neighbor must have gotten more of that freeze damage cause they are still mostly green.

But they are coming along, soon I'll have a nice harvest to blend with the leaves for stronger fruity flavors.

How many other people forage for ingredients?

I gathered some fresh crab apples today the size of small grapes they are tart and fruity like a sour grape. I plan to dry them out but I'm not sure what to blend them with. Anyone have thoughts?

My major source for tea blending is native foraged plants. If anyone is interested I'd be happy to share info about what I forage.

I was struggling today with a mix of:

4 lrg scoops of doug fir needles

3 mounded scoops of dried fruit

2 scoops of apple blossom

The flavors developed very slowly but when the for began to get bitter the fruit hadn't infused enough so it got more bitter and astringent. I added some honey and got a little relief but the flavor wasn't balanced. It was bitter or it was overpowered by the honey.

I added:

2 scoops of chamomile

And wow! The mellow floral formed a great mild base that smoothed out the sharp flavors while still holding their notes. I'm thinking of cold steeping overnight to get a fuller expression of the overall flavor.

A blend of dried berries from my forage and CSA box (Sala, Serviceberry, Blueberry, Lingonberry) with serviceberry leaves and Doug Fir.

It was best cold steeped overnight and served iced without sweetener. Mostly a sweet berry flavor with a hint of fir. Made for a very refreshing drink.

But it felt pretty heavily dependant on purchased berries and didn't quite feel like my own creation.

Update: I upped the fir and got more flavor but it grew bitter and dry before the berries got infused. So I added chamomile and it smoothed out the flavors and brought it into balance.

I found a bunch of old comments on a years old post looking for a place to talk about learning to blend your own tea and everyone said there's no where to go why don't we make a community. But it didn't look like anyone ever did and new comments kept showing up saying "I'd join that!" So I did it come by and check it out!

I am a biologist and work outdoors in the pacific northwest. I have been foraging as a hobby with my plant ID skills for the last few years and trying to make teas with what I harvest.

Berries, conifers, leaves of fruiting plants there is a lot out there that is palatable but the flavors are complex, bitter or faint and I am struggling to find success.

I have held off on mixing my forage with store bought tea leaves though I'm starting to think I may need to shift to this approach to build from a stable base of flavor.

I'd love to share what I gather and have tried though I don't have much success to pass on.

I'd really like to hear from others who have tried this for themselves. What do you use, where do you get it, what flavors do you like, how long do you steep, how do you prep ingredients, what proportions do you use?

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I can understand being upset at someone who uses the stone to do nothing but spam wall throws. But even that is an easy counter and far from my play style.

I too get tired of people that use stubborn and adamant, especially together. Though I heard they are intending to remove the damage reduction on one in favor of just knock back protection which I think would help.

Volitial too can be annoying when a player relies on it to spam explode cubes and nothing else.

But charge always struck me as having the ability to be a more complex stone than any of the preceding mentioned. Especially when used with other move sets like waterbending, chambering, explosives, flick flail and flight. At least that's how I use it.

So what do you think? Are people just sore or do you agree that charge is a bad shiftstone?

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And feel free to share difficult experiences and ask for advice. I'd love to build a collection of positive experiences to share and increase morale. But I'd also like to generally have an open forum for union experience.

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