VERNON — The longest running festival in Jennings County is set to return later this month, with planners for the Sassafras Tea Festival and Civil War Living History in Vernon setting a slate of free ...

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Best-known for the tea that pioneers made by boiling its root bark, the aromatic native Sassafras albidum, or sassafras tree, is an interesting, useful and showy addition to central Ohio landscapes.

The bright red and yellow-orange leaves on 8-foot trees were my first clue that a clump of sassafras trees had taken root in a drainage ditch. Once I spotted the mitten-shaped leaves, I knew it was ...

VERNON — The annual Sassafras Festival is being held in Jennings County this weekend, and while many different festivities will take place, the root of the celebration all can be found in the free tea ...

A: I found lots of articles online that recommend pine needle tea as a tasty "citrus'y" drink in winter. I have no idea if it is "safe" to drink. When I was a kid, it was a regular winter task ...

Some friends, aware that I liked sassafras tea, brought me some sassafras root one recent day. It was probably two feet long with a large amount of bark still attached, and even at the rate that I can ...

While walking on the Stage Trail at Hickory Run State Park, I was attracted to several unusual bronze, golden and yellow leaves beneath my feet. I put some little "mitten" shaped leaves in my pocket ...

During my first year in this country, I was missing the familiar vegetation of my native El Salvador when I run into a medium size tree that reminded me of an avocado. It was early in the spring, when ...

Once in awhile, on the way down the lane, my granddad would stop the truck, reach out the window and break off some twigs of sassafras. I don’t remember the root beer taste; it was more the novelty of ...

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