Wild Hawthorn

A Little Bit of the Forest There is something about the scent of pine that brings me immediately back to the woods. Resin warming on bark. Needles beneath my feet. The clean scent that rises from the trees after rain. Perhaps that is why I have always loved making pine salve. It begins simply- with pine resin gathered from the forest, infused slowly into oil, and blended with beeswax until it becomes a soft golden balm. But what I love most about it isn't what it does. It's w