Don't try Russian olive.
Smells like piss when it burns!
Wonder if you can smoke with willow? Would have been about all my great grandparents would have had.
Have you ever chewed on green willow bark? It is nasty.
Have you ever tasted beaver meat? It tastes just like willow bark.
I would be very hesitant to use any form of willow to flavor meat.
After sawing and burning cottonwood in our wood stove, and burning the slash in the pasture. Yes, the stuff which covers the pasture with cotton. It is pretty damned stinky as well.
