Tree Moss 🌲

Pre industrial societies made use of the mosses growing in their areas.

The Laplanders, North American tribes, and other circumpolar people used mosses for bedding.

Mosses have also been used as insulation both for dwellings and in clothing.

Traditionally, dried moss was used in some Nordic countries and Russia as an insulator between logs in log cabins, and tribes of the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada used moss to fill chinks in wooden longhouses.

Circumpolar and alpine peoples have used mosses for insulation in boots and mittens.

The capacity dried mosses have to absorb fluids, has made their use practical in both medical and culinary uses.

North American tribal people used mosses for diapers, wound dressing, and menstrual fluid absorption.

Tribes of the Pacific Northwest in the United States and Canada used mosses to clean salmon prior to drying, and packed wet moss into pit ovens for steaming camas bulbs.

Food storage baskets and boiling baskets were also packed with mosses.

@simba and I found a lot of this kind of moss on trees all around Nahalal and Tiv'on* settlements.

They appear to flourish after a good few rainy days.

Enjoy!

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