"What can you do with pine cones?"
For starters, that's where the pine tree seeds are...so you can plant pinecones for more trees to sell a few years down the road. :)
Crafters love pinecones. We collect them in the spring, dry then in paper sacks during the summer (shake out the seeds) and then sell them to crafters who make wreathes and use them for decorations or add pine-scented oil to them for Christmas decorations and if you dip them in wax, you can make firestarters for your fireplace or wood stove or camp fires. Smear 'em with peanut butter, roll them in birdseed and hang them out for the birds as feeders in the winter months.
See? Plenty of ways to make a buck off of a "useless" old pinecone. :)
Let me send you some cockleburrs. You could sell them as porcupine eggs.
See? Plenty of ways to make a buck off of a "useless" old pinecone. :)
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Cool! I had no idea!