Foraging Walk at the US Capitol in Washington DC. Food is Growing EVERYWHERE!
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- Can you find food and medicine growing in your city? Robin Greenfield’s answer… YES!
To show you, he led a foraging walk at the US Capitol in Washington DC. Here he found food and medicine growing even in this manicured landscape.
In this video Robin introduces you to approximately 10 common edible and medicinal plants and shares tips on how to get started foraging and overcome the anxiety and fear, foraging safety, ethical foraging and how to become a plant wizard!
For one month Robin Greenfield foraged 100% of his food, over 100 different foods from the land. At the same time he traveled from city to city, leading foraging walks connecting helping to reconnect his Dear Friend with Earth. We recorded this plant walk at the US Capitol for YOU!
Inspired to learn the foods and medicines growing freely and abundantly around you?
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(For links to all resources mentioned in this plant walk, see the above link).
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Here is a list of the plants we met at the US Capitol and timestamps so you can click right to meeting that plant:
wild rice (Zizania aquatica) - 1:05
sea salt - 6:50
Staghorn sumac (Rhus typhina) - 11:00
clover (Trifolium pratense, T. repens) - 12:50
creeping Charlie (Glechoma hederacea) - 15:20
violet (Viola spp.) - 17:40
goldenrod (Solidago canadensis) - 18:25
dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) - 19:15
dandelion, chicory, burdock, dock - 26:00
reishi, Lion’s mane, turkey tail, maitake - 26:45
yaupon holly (Ilex vomitoria) - 27:30
Peppercress (Lepidium spp.) - 36:35
black nightshade (Solanum nigrum) - 41:40
sugar maple (Acer saccharum) - 46:15
wood sorrel (Oxalis spp.) - 48:20
Plantago (Plantago spp.) - 49:00
Oak (Quercus spp.) - 56:40
Black Walnut (Juglans nigra) - 1:00:00
Japanese Knotweed (Reynoutria japonica) - 1:03:12
Filmed by Daniel Troia
Edited by Belle Brown
Special thanks to Daniel Troia, Ethan Harris, Carly Fulton, Belle Brown and Sebastiano Pestoni for your support.
Robin Greenfield is a truth-seeker, activist, social reformer and servant to Earth, humanity and our plant and animal relatives. He lives simply and sustainably to be the change he wishes to see in the world. Through living closely connected to Earth, he rejects the status quo of consumerism and demonstrates a way of being in gratitude, mindfulness and presence. His life is an experiment with truth and integrity.
Robin’s public activism involves dramatic actions designed to provoke critical thought, self-reflection and positive change. His activism creates nuanced conversations on the critical issues of our time, with a focus on solutions for living in harmony.
His life’s work has been covered by media worldwide and he has been named “The Robin Hood of Modern Times” by France 2 TV and “The Forrest Gump of Ecology”.
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A friend I used to have, she was a walking encycolpedia of plants, and she showed me how around the city we are there are edible plants, leaves of trees, etc everywhere you look at, its amazing!💜
Inspired to break free? Get Rob’s new book: Food Freedom
www.indiegogo.com/projects/food-freedom-book
Here is a list of the plants we met at the US Capitol and timestamps so you can click right to meeting that plant:
wild rice (Zizania aquatica) - 1:05
sea salt - 6:50
Staghorn sumac (Rhus typhina) - 11:00
clover (Trifolium pratense, T. repens) - 12:50
creeping Charlie (Glechoma hederacea) - 15:20
violet (Viola spp.) - 17:40
goldenrod (Solidago canadensis) - 18:25
dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) - 19:15
dandelion, chicory, burdock, dock - 26:00
reishi, Lion’s mane, turkey tail, maitake - 26:45
yaupon holly (Ilex vomitoria) - 27:30
Peppercress (Lepidium spp.) - 36:35
black nightshade (Solanum nigrum) - 41:40
sugar maple (Acer saccharum) - 46:15
wood sorrel (Oxalis spp.) - 48:20
Plantago (Plantago spp.) - 49:00
Oak (Quercus spp.) - 56:40
Black Walnut (Juglans nigra) - 1:00:00
Japanese Knotweed (Reynoutria japonica) - 1:03:12
Dear Rob, when you boil sera water to make salut, you Also boil the iode out of the salt.
You WILL GET A Goiter from iode deficiency.
That's probably the one place you can go and fall upon Deaf ears. Their priorities aren't health, the Earth, and helping people. Their priority is profit.
Have you heard of the Save Soil movement before?🌏🌍🌎 It's a great initiative, I think it could interest you 🌿
You ever spend any time in DC on the Mall? Clearly not. This is definitely the one place you can talk nonsense I see.
Thank you Rob for these videos! A few years back I started to teach my children how to identify plants around our yard. They now look forward to spring to enjoy the spruce tips & excitedly look into our mushroom patch where I inoculated the hardwood mulch with Wine Cap mushrooms. We harvest and dry out our staghorn sumac to use as a lemony seasoning as well! I never knew that Clover was edible, and will certainly try the nectar next spring!! Hopefully you are able to come up to the Toronto area!
Keep up the amazing work!
Barefooted and wholesomely standing tall with truthful, considerate and compassionate mindfulness in gratitude. Sharing and caring about Earth and nature and society. Living as a new kind of messenger. Not describing a single person in a representative position in that town of murky lies and selfishness. Rob to the rescue! 👍 Going strong.
Learned a new plant today ground ivy.Thanks
Thank you for this! I work in DC all the time! Can’t wait to do some foraging there
Hey Rob we in South India also use chicory to make coffee, and my father foraged in his village I have went once when I was 6 years old we harvested mushrooms and last year I went early morning(in village) with my uncle to just have a morning walk we ended up Foraging few edible leaves. 😀
After I finish my education I will work for 5 or more for buying a piece of land and l will settle in my village.
My dream is to also move to the village my mom comes from. I want to live off the land and forage like my grandma and I used to do together. I was forced to live in America since childhood and I've never felt at home here. It's sad to see how detached society here is from nature and foraging. And how dystopian California in particular is becoming.
Coffee is made from coffee beans. You can add chicory to it, but just chicory isn't coffee and it doesn't taste close to it .
@@michaelconfoy2862 we always used a set of roasted chick pea flour + chicory or roasted coffee beans + chicory in ratio 3:1.
That's pretty much.
Don't die, have you seen Into the Wild? I'm surprised there's creeping Charlie on the state capitol grounds, here in the Midwest they do their best to eradicate it from their lawns. It typically takes three applications of killer in the summer to get rid of it. Thanks Rob, we need more like you on this forgiving Mother Earth.
I am from the dmv so THANK YOU SO MUCH for making this video it is very deeply appreciated
I only eat weeds that have not been sprayed for bugs and have not been walked on for safety
I find ground ivy a bit sage-like. I've only used it as a seasoning, though, not as a potherb or in salads so I'll have to try that. I love it as an herb.
(stunned that you've never had knotweed before this! it's such a versatile vegetable and I always feel like I've stocked up for the year but I always run out well before the season is coming back.)
Expletive are wearing jackets and he’s barefoot and in summer clothes
come stay with me at Strasburg virginia 🎉
you will love it
Today. The day after Halloween. Wow! All my kids are struggling to function after massive sugar spikes, and it's a timely reminder that junk food is oppressive. Processed food is stealing our health, our freedom. Today, let the healing begin! I want to surround myself in a new environment that nourishes me.
While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." Genesis 8:22.
Eating from a lawn you don’t know what has been sprayed on it and walked on.
What! I live around the block! I want to join you next time!
Laaa e laaha ill lal laaw ( there's no God but the God) blessing for you
You can fry fall maple leaves .
Nothing about dandelion wine? Ray Bradbury wrote a book called Dandelion Wine as it's very popular in the Midwest.
Thanks Rob. I was surprised that I knew most of the plants. It brought back memories as a kid eating bits of the plants that I knew and enjoying the sour, sweet or pepper flavors.
Amazing video.
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Love walnuts and hickory nuts!!
This is great but whenever I watch your video I try to imagine 330 million people trying to forage. It’s not sustainable.
Um, hello? You realize the Earth itself is sustainable and provides everything we need, free from charge?
@@earthzeroapothecary yeah if we lose several million inhabitants sure.
@@sarahbhutta251 the entire human population of the earth could stand in about a 30 mile circle.. subtracting all the uninhabitable land there is about 2.3 acres per person. nobody is growing food right now and we live in a terrible way there is so much potential for the earth to care for people especially if they just care a little bit back, you have been told lies by global elites who view human beings as parasites on the earth to make you devalue the sanctity of life including your own. you are not a parasite you are divine and have much more potential to care for the mother than you could ever harm her
a) in a highly optimistic world re: the normalization of foraging, there still wouldn't be 330 million people doing more than light hobby foraging (barring some kind of catastrophic societal collapse); b) if millions of people worked together to re-wild developed land and became good stewards for the environment, foraging thoughtfully and sustainably, there would be abundance for everyone
@@sarahbhutta251 I think about this but then I think that how we feed so many people now. But incorporating a garden or chicken on your life is also a part of it.
When we were kids we ate the pepper plant.
i am from nas daily😊
Very interesting