I love seeing the fruit you review, but here I also get a story of the area, seeing new things, it feels like I'm discovering the area and the fruit myself. I love this sort of stuff
Love the blogging adventure videos. Once the pandemic is over come here to South Carolina and try looking around for things around the coast. I’m not sure if sabal palmetto berries are edible tho
I have been wanting a collab video between you and the guy from Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't for a while now, and this just proves it would be a good idea!
I am just impressed that NYC planted a useful park. You'd probably get the "tragedy of the commons" phenomenon in a place like that, but at least it is different than the usual "lawns, athletic field, and a swing set" conception that is used everywhere.
Enjoyed it! That's a pretty interesting park. The mountain mint is an awesome native and there are a number of different species of them. And that groundhog is hilarious and too cute.
Something about the thumbnail seems very fantastically almost surreal. Fun video! I’d never heard of chocolate mint plants. I’ll have to look into getting some for my year.
This spring, summer, and fall are going to be big time foraging for me this year. In fact the anniversary trip the wife and I are going on this year will be centered around both foraging and fishing, so I'm super excited! If anyone has any suggestions on where to go, I'd be very grateful for the information!
In late spring, black locust trees bloom with sweet blossoms. Give the flowers a try, they're tasty. I usually harvest in central park, on the big rock just north of the amusement park.
yup, that makes an amazing herbal tea/"lemonade, i know it can also be concentrated it jelly but i don't have a canning rig atm it grows like wild around me but i cant harvest any with the current situation. Im imuno compromised so no going outside me ( also lost oif thoughtless people around whop wont wear masks) hopefully i can harvest some again next year :P
i love your adventure videos !! they're my favorite ones to watch. love your content. quarantine has had me so bored lately, so glad i came across this account !
well, the Bronx grew up since I been there in the early 90s from a toilet bowl to a fruit garden the scare to me at the time was will we get out alive!!
Wtfff I live 20 min from this park, recently started walking through it every now and then for my morning walks and didn't know about this fruit garden. Can't wait until the snow is gone! Thank you Weird Explorer!!
I live in a bigger city than NY but shame to me I have never tried raspberries from supermarket. we always grow it in a summer house lot ( called dacha in Russian). Special lot near the city for resting and growing what ever you wish in summer time.
I really like this video well i like all your videos I'm surprised they don't have a hand pump well there for people to enjoy and it would be nice for the plants that way they could be watered tell the city but I am amazed you never ate fresh berries iff the plants and that's a wood chuck he's loving it our town has small pathes of living fruit areas but people have abused the trees and it was never kept up but they're still there but not in the best condition. Ha Ha birthday candle lol who hasn't tasted that ? love it. Love the park love your video's. keep foraging :)
Thanks for your videos! At 3:43 in the video, on the other side of the fence from the eel sign it looks like there is a sumac bush. Again at 5:50 you can see more of what I believe it is staghorn sumac in the Anacardiadea family, not the poison variety of sumac which is in the Toxicodendron family along with poison oak. The staghorn sumac bush creates a bright red fruiting body which you can see in the video at 5:50. I believe the fruiting body is considered to be a drupe and is used as a spice in Middle Eastern cuisine. If you have never tried sumac, you should. it has a slight lemony flavor and I use it frequently in my cooking.
Those red Rhus typhina drupes at 05:48 are edible too. Not sure if you've already reviewed/tried them. Make sure you find some younger buds and properly inspect the insides, worms love it too.
I absolutely would watch JARED WALKS THE HIGH LINE. Probably old hat to New Yorkers, but a REALLY WELL DONE reclamation of the city's upper spaces for pedestrians. Anybody going to NYC should know about it.
In Colonial times, people used to make candle wax by boiling a big mess of bayberries, then letting it cool until the wax floated to the top. They'd skim the wax off and melt it and make candles, and I think they also used it for wax seals.
I particularly enjoy your foraging videos. That bay species is common wild along seashores here in Nova Scotia, Canada, and we did make candles from their berries when we were kids. You boil the berries and the wax rises to the surface. I've never heard of anybody eating them. Could it be an edible bay leaf? The commonly used bay leaf is a big tree species native to Turkey and Greece.
I have chocolate mint....it's great! A word to the wise...if you grow mint, make sure you grow it in a pot, not in your garden....it's very aggressive and will take over and choke out the rest of your plants. Yup....groundhog. don't want him in your garden, he will eat everything! But cute to watch😊
@@WeirdExplorer you can also turn the "ade" into a jelly really nice if you like marmalade. can also be used with some wild meat or mushroom dishes the tartness and sweetness help cancel some "gamey" flavors you get in some wilf mushrooms .
If you rub the chocolate mint leaf you can really smell the chocolate. I think it is a peppermint variety. If you boil some in water it makes your home smell like chocolate chip mint cookies.
Speaking of fruit fresh off the vine/tree/whatever, I don't think I have ever seen you eat fresh mulberries off the tree, which, around here in Minneapolis are pretty common, and I just love going for a walk and finding a mulberry tree. I think they get ripe in July or August, so hopefully you can find some near you and make a video then.
Yup, that's a groundhog. they're just big marmots. I have chocolate mint in my garden, it makes a nice tea - the local nurseries also sell pineapple and orange mint - the latter of which I honestly cannot fathom considering how bad mint and orange taste together.
I was just wondering how the winds are down your way. It gets brutal sometimes . The one time i got stranded in the city, it was 2017 mid winter, 50 degree weather with 65mph wind
I'm surprised the raspberry bushes were not picked clean. Whenever I go foraging in public parks the raspberry bushes are always completely picked through
So the thing about fruits you find in random industrial areas such as these is how do you know when they're not treated with something to clear out brush? Do you know? Maybe it's the worrier in me. I automatically think a crew just sprayed that like along the highway.
He is! I was doing something and watching so I didn't catch that, or maybe I haven't gotten to that point yet? I have not finished the video 😂 the story of my life. What's the timestamp?
These videos are very good, but be safe, ok? You must know this already, but don't eat forage from places close to certain types of factory, the ground could have some bad residue that the plant may absorb
@@sal0qwerty yeah, but I felt I had to say it, but to me it's better safe than sorry, I want the explorer to eat all of fruits in existence after all hehe
Consider traveling to Appalachia sometime to taste fresh off-the-tree Paw-Paws. To be honest, the best Paw Paws are the ones that have fallen off the tree on their own, rescued from insects immediately, and stored on a window sill for 48 hours. However, the flavor cannot be compared to anything else. So sweet, so creamy, so special. Some people even make wine from them. A very nice and rare wine.
I really liked this one, I could pretend it wasn't 3 F this morning. That white outer coating on the bayberry is the wax, they boil the fruit so it melts off and can be skimmed. Bayberry loves it by the coast here in Maine, but I've never eaten a berry. That's actually the strange thing. Today a coworker noted (as I chewed an Abies concolor needle I plucked) that the first time I met him I got all excited about a plant I picked and ate behind the shop. I said yeah, was probably pineapple weed. He said that was what he remembered me saying. You should try it this summer, it's a weed almost everywhere there's poor compacted soil.
that was peppermint not spearmint. The chocolate mint is spearmint based plant. peppermint has smooth hart shaped leavesd. Preppermint has oval serated toothed edged leaves.
There's probably all manner of stuff you can find within a 100 mile radius. 3 different day trips, north, west and south, could be enlightening. P. S. Chocolate mint makes a great tea, but it is as invasive as all other mints if you have a yard to put it in.
How are you liking these sorts of videos? Should I go on more adventures like this in NYC? Or should I stay at home?
How many fruits have you eaten?
I like these adventurous videos. The cloudberry video is what got me into your channel, and I think going out and exploring makes for a great format.
Do more
I love seeing the fruit you review, but here I also get a story of the area, seeing new things, it feels like I'm discovering the area and the fruit myself.
I love this sort of stuff
Love the blogging adventure videos. Once the pandemic is over come here to South Carolina and try looking around for things around the coast. I’m not sure if sabal palmetto berries are edible tho
this channel reminds me of when my dad would take me out to the woods and we'd pick huckleberries, salmonberries and blackberries :)
More forage videos would be cool
Haha that ground hog was loving those mulberry leaves
Didn't know that there was such a green and beautiful place in the Bronx.
I saw sumac in the background right after the groundhog. You should try making Sumacade like lemonade.
Yes! My grandmother used to make that.
The groundhog was eating Mulberry, which also has edible fruit.
I have been wanting a collab video between you and the guy from Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't for a while now, and this just proves it would be a good idea!
That is an OUTSTANDING idea!
I am just impressed that NYC planted a useful park. You'd probably get the "tragedy of the commons" phenomenon in a place like that, but at least it is different than the usual "lawns, athletic field, and a swing set" conception that is used everywhere.
Yeah you just have to visit the richer areas for stuff like that
Enjoyed it! That's a pretty interesting park. The mountain mint is an awesome native and there are a number of different species of them. And that groundhog is hilarious and too cute.
The groundhog must be enjoying all the edible plants people have planted for him :)
It's so nice to see wildlife thriving in oases like that in the midst of a large urban sprawl.
Have you been to NYC? I mean it’s full of parks my dude.
Thank you for showing this gem in the Bronx
That's awesome! Foodways are a great idea.
Really enjoy this type of content, hope you make more!
I have some chocolate mint in my garden. I love it i always munch on it while I’m gardening
Really love these types of adventurous videos!! Please keep them up ^^
Very cool!
I always enjoy watching you explore/try new fruits.
Glad you like them!
Something about the thumbnail seems very fantastically almost surreal. Fun video! I’d never heard of chocolate mint plants. I’ll have to look into getting some for my year.
Yeah like a Green Mad Max. I am watching after the third time of trying 😂. That might count as more than one view idk.
I know how you know that, we have all taken a bite out if a birthday candle at least once 🤣
What's the icing worth without a little wax?
I am lucky enough to have wild raspberries where I live. Also the groundhog was a nice surprise!
I liked this, it was a very casual video
Looks like the groundhogs eating a mulberry tree.
Gonna check this out with my partner next year, thanks for the idea!
great date spot!
That animal was adorbs. Also wax fruit 😂
I’ve seen bayberry scented candles, but I had no idea the berries can be made into candles. I learn so much from you!
I infused these berries in mineral oil and made cutting board conditioner!
This spring, summer, and fall are going to be big time foraging for me this year. In fact the anniversary trip the wife and I are going on this year will be centered around both foraging and fishing, so I'm super excited! If anyone has any suggestions on where to go, I'd be very grateful for the information!
In late spring, black locust trees bloom with sweet blossoms. Give the flowers a try, they're tasty. I usually harvest in central park, on the big rock just north of the amusement park.
Wow, it's an adventure. Hope to see many
5:50
Totally over looked that staghorn sumac!
yup, that makes an amazing herbal tea/"lemonade, i know it can also be concentrated it jelly but i don't have a canning rig atm it grows like wild around me but i cant harvest any with the current situation. Im imuno compromised so no going outside me ( also lost oif thoughtless people around whop wont wear masks) hopefully i can harvest some again next year :P
I used to live very close to there! I remember seeing a blackberry tree by one of the entrances.
I used to work around that area. Cool spot in the city. Neat stuff. Keep em coming please and thanks.
Yeah its such a fun spot!
i love your adventure videos !! they're my favorite ones to watch. love your content. quarantine has had me so bored lately, so glad i came across this account !
Glad you enjoy it!
😊 yay I caught a new one. This looks fun. ❤️
I love chocolate mint! Grow some here in southern California. Pineapple Mint is also a must try!
chill video!
well, the Bronx grew up since I been there in the early 90s from a toilet bowl to a fruit garden the scare to me at the time was will we get out alive!!
Love your Foraging videos
Hello, it seems I am early. I really like these types of videos! Keep it up!
I'm pretty sure a lone bee loses that fight. You get a little sting, it loses it's life.
Lol was wondering if anyone else caught that.
5:45 those red berries on the bottom are sumac and are edible.
good eye
Wtfff I live 20 min from this park, recently started walking through it every now and then for my morning walks and didn't know about this fruit garden. Can't wait until the snow is gone! Thank you Weird Explorer!!
What a coincidence! Yeah, definitely check it out, its such a nice place to stroll
Good video thanks
I live in a bigger city than NY but shame to me I have never tried raspberries from supermarket. we always grow it in a summer house lot ( called dacha in Russian). Special lot near the city for resting and growing what ever you wish in summer time.
I love your Videos... Greetings from Germany🌱
There were a whole bunch of sumac berries by the river! You can make a really delicious drink out of them that tastes like berry lemonade!
you can use the bayberry leaves to flavor things!
Omg, as a Bronx resident, I’ve been here before! Amazing place. Keep up the vids man. :)
store raspberries: ~raspberry~
fresh off the cane raspberries: *RASPBERRY*
I really like this video well i like all your videos I'm surprised they don't have a hand pump well there for people to enjoy and it would be nice for the plants that way they could be watered tell the city but I am amazed you never ate fresh berries iff the plants and that's a wood chuck he's loving it our town has small pathes of living fruit areas but people have abused the trees and it was never kept up but they're still there but not in the best condition. Ha Ha birthday candle lol who hasn't tasted that ? love it. Love the park love your video's. keep foraging :)
Thanks for your videos! At 3:43 in the video, on the other side of the fence from the eel sign it looks like there is a sumac bush. Again at 5:50 you can see more of what I believe it is staghorn sumac in the Anacardiadea family, not the poison variety of sumac which is in the Toxicodendron family along with poison oak. The staghorn sumac bush creates a bright red fruiting body which you can see in the video at 5:50. I believe the fruiting body is considered to be a drupe and is used as a spice in Middle Eastern cuisine. If you have never tried sumac, you should. it has a slight lemony flavor and I use it frequently in my cooking.
My parents grow chocolate mint in a container in their garden here in Denmark, and use it to make an herbal tea. It's great!
damn i wanna take a field trip to here sometime this summer
come on man, you can't honestly say you've never had a craving for some jellied eels. Good eatin'
He's a vegetarian (also hates fishy *tasting things). So chances are that's never going to happen.
Even if they were tofu eels, I wouldn't be eating them if they came out of that river. :)
@@WeirdExplorer Ah, yes I forgot that you were vegetarian. Either way I was kidding about the eels. :P
That really shocked me when you said you had never had a raspberry off the plant before.
Same here.
he mustve grown up in a big city i guess lol
Don't ask me, you already know that i like your videos.
5:45 was a Double-crested Cormorant
When was this filmed?
You're alive, so eating fruits and vegetables seems to be not too bad after all!
Those red Rhus typhina drupes at 05:48 are edible too. Not sure if you've already reviewed/tried them. Make sure you find some younger buds and properly inspect the insides, worms love it too.
I absolutely would watch JARED WALKS THE HIGH LINE. Probably old hat to New Yorkers, but a REALLY WELL DONE reclamation of the city's upper spaces for pedestrians. Anybody going to NYC should know about it.
Nice 6 month delay...
I can use summer and spring with all this snow.
The bay berry you can use the leaves as bayleaves in cooking they arnt the same thing but close just not as strong
In Colonial times, people used to make candle wax by boiling a big mess of bayberries, then letting it cool until the wax floated to the top. They'd skim the wax off and melt it and make candles, and I think they also used it for wax seals.
Cute groundhog eating mulberry
Lovely shoes sir!
Another Great Video. I try all Food. I ate Mulberry berries With my Cousin He would Pick the Best.
I particularly enjoy your foraging videos. That bay species is common wild along seashores here in Nova Scotia, Canada, and we did make candles from their berries when we were kids. You boil the berries and the wax rises to the surface. I've never heard of anybody eating them. Could it be an edible bay leaf? The commonly used bay leaf is a big tree species native to Turkey and Greece.
I'll have to try making the candles at some point. sounds like a fun project :)
I have chocolate mint....it's great! A word to the wise...if you grow mint, make sure you grow it in a pot, not in your garden....it's very aggressive and will take over and choke out the rest of your plants. Yup....groundhog. don't want him in your garden, he will eat everything! But cute to watch😊
Another reason why I shouldn't have a garden, I'd sit from my window smiling as groundhogs eat all my plants.
@@WeirdExplorer 😆
Yes, I wouldn't eat anything that you catch in the Bronx river. Fun video. Thanks
Chocolate min is easy to grown, it will take over any pot near by... trust me the only thing that grows on my death balcony.
The food industry: Brix, SUs
Jared: 🙂🍋☹🍎
I've had these decisions tart treats and was wondering what the nutritional value is between the two
Looks daycent, good episode bruhh
Yes you are correct that is a grownhog
Is that gopher also part of the food?
Nice sumac there you can make sumac -aid
Future episode :)
@@WeirdExplorer you can also turn the "ade" into a jelly really nice if you like marmalade. can also be used with some wild meat or mushroom dishes the tartness and sweetness help cancel some "gamey" flavors you get in some wilf mushrooms .
What month did you go in?
This was over the summer.. probably July
If you rub the chocolate mint leaf you can really smell the chocolate. I think it is a peppermint variety. If you boil some in water it makes your home smell like chocolate chip mint cookies.
Speaking of fruit fresh off the vine/tree/whatever, I don't think I have ever seen you eat fresh mulberries off the tree, which, around here in Minneapolis are pretty common, and I just love going for a walk and finding a mulberry tree. I think they get ripe in July or August, so hopefully you can find some near you and make a video then.
This guy is a marine he knows what wax tastes like xD
Crayon flavored
Yup, that's a groundhog. they're just big marmots.
I have chocolate mint in my garden, it makes a nice tea - the local nurseries also sell pineapple and orange mint - the latter of which I honestly cannot fathom considering how bad mint and orange taste together.
I was just wondering how the winds are down your way. It gets brutal sometimes . The one time i got stranded in the city, it was 2017 mid winter, 50 degree weather with 65mph wind
I'm surprised the raspberry bushes were not picked clean. Whenever I go foraging in public parks the raspberry bushes are always completely picked through
So the thing about fruits you find in random industrial areas such as these is how do you know when they're not treated with something to clear out brush? Do you know? Maybe it's the worrier in me. I automatically think a crew just sprayed that like along the highway.
You don’t. He’s in an edible garden so is like safe.
He is! I was doing something and watching so I didn't catch that, or maybe I haven't gotten to that point yet? I have not finished the video 😂 the story of my life. What's the timestamp?
How is it so nice in new York? It's still winter in Ontario .rrrrrrr
When was this? Was this in the summer?
why is it nice out where you are at?
shot in the summer, I film about 6 months in advance to airing
Use the bay for their leaves. They dry easily.
when was this filmed?
July I think
These videos are very good, but be safe, ok? You must know this already, but don't eat forage from places close to certain types of factory, the ground could have some bad residue that the plant may absorb
This place was designed with the intent of people eating it think he's good
@@sal0qwerty yeah, but I felt I had to say it, but to me it's better safe than sorry, I want the explorer to eat all of fruits in existence after all hehe
Consider traveling to Appalachia sometime to taste fresh off-the-tree Paw-Paws. To be honest, the best Paw Paws are the ones that have fallen off the tree on their own, rescued from insects immediately, and stored on a window sill for 48 hours. However, the flavor cannot be compared to anything else. So sweet, so creamy, so special. Some people even make wine from them. A very nice and rare wine.
I eat fresh raspberries and strawberries all the time because they grow everywhere in michigan
I've only ever had raspberries right off the plant.
Red, white, and black raspberries.
I didn’t think you could find groundhogs and herons in New York. I thought the people had scared them all away
you don't get snow?
filmed over the summer
can we have more chilli videos?
I really liked this one, I could pretend it wasn't 3 F this morning. That white outer coating on the bayberry is the wax, they boil the fruit so it melts off and can be skimmed. Bayberry loves it by the coast here in Maine, but I've never eaten a berry. That's actually the strange thing. Today a coworker noted (as I chewed an Abies concolor needle I plucked) that the first time I met him I got all excited about a plant I picked and ate behind the shop. I said yeah, was probably pineapple weed. He said that was what he remembered me saying. You should try it this summer, it's a weed almost everywhere there's poor compacted soil.
that was peppermint not spearmint. The chocolate mint is spearmint based plant. peppermint has smooth hart shaped leavesd. Preppermint has oval serated toothed edged leaves.
5:53 highlight of the video
There's probably all manner of stuff you can find within a 100 mile radius. 3 different day trips, north, west and south, could be enlightening. P. S. Chocolate mint makes a great tea, but it is as invasive as all other mints if you have a yard to put it in.