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posted 5 years ago

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This is a Badge Bit (BB) that is part of the PEP Curiculum. Completing this BB is part of getting the sand badge in Natural Medicine.

For this BB you will create a salve out of cottonwood buds.
- Make the cottonwood buds salve, and take a picture of it being made, and of it being finished.

Website pages on how to make cottonwood buds salve and the benefits of it:

https://www.wildernesscollege.com/cottonwood-salve.html

https://featherandfrond.org/blog/2016/10/26/blessings-from-the-wind-cottonwood-oil-and-salve

https://traditionalcookingschool.com/health-and-nutrition/balm-of-gilead-the-do-it-all-poplar-salve-its-spring-in-a-jar/

To show you've completed this Badge Bit, you must post:
- a picture of your cottonwood buds, freshly harvested
- a picture of the cottonwood buds in the oil with a description of what oil and other ingredients you used
- a picture of your completed salve in its permanent, labelled container/jar

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I made the infused cottonwood bud oil for the Balm of Gilead badge bit. I'd taken a ton of pictures when harvesting the cottonwood buds, and they are somehow all very depressingly gone. I went out and took pictures today of one of the cottonwood trees I harvested from, and some of the (now-too-far-gone) cottonwood buds lying on the ground that I did not harvest.

Buds on the ground (obviously, this is NOT the time right now to get buds)

Here's one of the many cottonwood trees.

Buds (April 20th, a good week or two after I harvested them), soaking in coconut oil and cocoa butter (on top of the car, under an old black shirt, to stay melted)