Western Siberia
The part of Siberian region between the Urals in the west and the Yenisey River in the east. The area of 2.5 million square km from the Arctic Ocean to Kazakhstan uplands makes 15 % of the territory of Russia. About 80 % of the Western Siberia's area is located within the West Siberian Plain, its two cup-like cavities predominantly covered by swamps.
Western Siberia is the home for Siberian Cedar whose fruit — siberian pinenut - has unique nutritional qualities.
Siberian Cedar
The plant known in Russia as «Siberian Cedar» is academically one of the pine tree species (Pinus Siberica) and botanically does not relate to the Cedar of Lebanon or Himalayan or Atlas Cedars.
Siberian Cedar is an evergreen tree 20-25 meters tall. Being highly fertile one plant can give up to 12 kg of nuts within one season. A young tree reaches maturity and starts giving fruit not earlier than 60 years pass. Abundant seeding repeats every 3-10 years.
Pine Cone
Pine cone is the house for the precious pine nuts which are protected from outside factors such is bad weather condition, insects and some animals. Cones ripen within 14—15 month and fall usually in sptember of the following year. Every cone contains 30-150 nuts. Ripe pine cones are corpulent, egg-shaped, purple turning brown, 2—3.5 cm wide, 5-5.5 inches long. Rhomboid scales firmly closed.
Pine Nuts
Pine Nuts is the final product of the Siberian Pine which is harvested for centuries in wild forests of Siberia. Apart from being delicious food pine nuts are healthy nutrition product. Pine nut protein contains at least 19 amino acids of which 70% are considered indispensable or conventionally indispensable. Pine nut amino acids due to their specific composition provide structure-plastic and regulatory functionality of proteins, moreover, they help prevent a number of metabolic disorders.
Pine Nuts Shell
Nut shell as a sub-product of technological processing of pine nuts makes 53-60% of the initial mass may seem useless. In fact, Siberian farmers have been using these wastes for decades as valuable raw material making their households more productive. Also pine nut shell is used as an ingredient for a variety of traditional siberian medicines.
Pine Nut Shell Products and Use
Depends on the fracture of the pine nut shell it can be used as a mulch or additive to a soil as a natural amendment. Adding a largers fracture of the shell you make the soil breathable and shielded from fungus making sure that the roots of your plant get enough oxygen. If you add fine fractured pine shell it's in a powder form and you are getting now a bio-available natural fertilizer.
Make your soil alive!
Soil Amendment
Lets make the difference by using ecologically clean sub-product from manufacturing a pine nuts. It's a long-term investment into your garden, soil and future of the earth!