Which led to this great blog about wildcrafting spruce (or fir or pine) tips and the million bajillion ways you can use them.
How about a spruce rhubarb cooler?
An Evergreen Martini, or an Alpine Martini? (before you laugh..remember that gin is flavored with juniper berries! same taste family)
And there's loads of recipes for Spruce Beer.
I have alot to learn about wildcrafting from trees....