" FORAGING IN NATURE’S SUPERMARKET ” 1970s DISCOVERY TV SHOW WILD FORAGING FOR FOOD FILM XD30532
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This educational film is an episode of the TV program titled “Discovery '70” . Discovery aired on ABC from 1962 until 1971 (with each season denoted as "Discovery XX" with XX as the year). It was an award-winning children’s program about the history and culture of America. This episode, titled “Foraging in Nature’s Supermarket” takes hosts Bill Owen and Virginia Gibson on a foraging expedition with Euell Gibbons to teach about wild foraging. Gibbons (1911 - 1975) was an outdoorsman and early health food advocate, promoting eating wild foods during the 1960s.
The episode ends with a four-course meal cooked with wild ingredients served for Gibson and Owen by Mr. Gibbons and his family. The film is a Jules Power production in association with ABC News, written and directed by Bernard Morris, photographed by Chuck Austin, edited by Kenneth Wagner, and produced in consultation with the National Educational Association in cooperation with the American Library Association.
Euell Gibbons and a boy, Mark, sailing a canoe (00:10). They walk onto land (00:35). “Foraging in Nature’s Supermarket” title banner (00:36). Discovery 70’ intro-segment (00:40). Hosts Virginia Gibson and Bill Owen introduce the episode (01:07). Gibbons and Mark sailing a canoe (01:41). They walk across a field (02:26). They start foraging on the forest ground (02:46). Mark finds Burdock (03:06). Gibbons walking around in the forest (03:14). He and Mark walk on a field (03:31). Gibbons finds Sumac bushes and picks berries (03:44). Mark digs for wild parsnip (04:03). Gibbons picks white pine needles (04:17). Mark picks fruit from a viburnum tree (04:33). Gibbons is walking through a stream to catch freshwater crayfish (04:49). Mark and Gibbons fish from the shore using rods (05:21). Gibbons catches a bluegill fish (05:28). Gibbons prepares Bluegill fillets (05:51). They are fried on a pan over a bonfire (06:00). Mark is preparing the vegetables including burdock root and leaf stem and the wild parsnip (06:06). Mark and Gibbons soak the sumac berries in cold water, add sugar, and make a drink (06:26). Blackhawk berries and hickory nuts (06:51). Mark and Gibbons sit and eat (06:56). Virginia Gibson and Bill Owen speak about foraging (07:34). Gibson and Owen begin a foraging expedition with Gibbons in his backyard (08:00). They walk into the forest (08:13). They find and dig up Jerusalem artichoke (08:26). Mr. Gibbons shows Gibson and Owen dwarf mallow (09:32), sheep’s sorrel (09:42), dandelion (09:49), and watercress (10:22). Gibbons harvest persimmons by climbing up the tree and shaking it to let the ripe ones fall (10:37). A drive through the countryside (12:24). Fruits and vegetables, which reach peak in late autumn include wintergreen leaves and berries (12:40) and ground cherry related to the deadly nightshade (12:46). Gibbons walks through a stream picking cattails (13:15). Mr. Gibbons explains about the cattails to Gibson and Owen (13:32). He shows them slides of cattails during other seasons (14:31). Owen and Gibson have dinner cooked by Euell and Freda. Gibbons of wild foraged ingredients in his kitchen (15:30). Gibbons is making a chiffon pie made from ground cherries and graham crackers (16:08). They made a watercress, sheep’s sorrel, wild garlic, and wintergreen berry salad (16:44). Freda Gibbons is frying young groundhog (17:41), boiling Jerusalem artichokes (17:55), and boiled dandelion crowns serves with butter and salt (18:03). Tea made from the root of the sassafras plant (18:10). Gibbons and his family are seated for dinner with Gibson and Owen (18:18). They pray (18:23) and start eating (18:32). First dish is a cold soup made from wild black raspberries and dewberries eaten with sour cream (18:36). Second dish is a crayfish cocktail (18:48). The main dish is fried groundhog served with wild grape juice, a persimmon and hickory nut bread, wild plum and strawberry jam (18:57). The dessert is ground cherry chiffon pie served with whipped cream and frozen wild strawberries (19:21). Credits (21:41).
Often mistaken for a survivalist, Gibbons was simply an advocate of nutritious but neglected plants, which he typically prepared not in the wild, but in the kitchen with abundant use of spices, butter and garnishes. His first book, Stalking the Wild Asparagus, was an instant success. Gibbons followed it up with the cookbooks Stalking the Blue-Eyed Scallop in 1964 and Stalking the Healthful Herbs in 1966. He was widely published in various magazines, including two pieces in National Geographic.
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In every generation there must be people who carry the wisdom of the living off the land. Euell Gibbons was a sage in his time.
Hi, I’m Euell Gibbons. Ever eaten a pine tree? Some parts are edible!”
I still remember Johnny Carson making jokes about Euell Gibbons on the Tonight Show as a kid in the 70s 😂❤. I still remember him on the Grape Nuts cereal commercials.
That's why he seemed so familiar to me! Thanks!
Yup
Yeah Johnny Carson was great. Back when late night television was worth watching. I miss those times.
I remember that as well. Where has this society gone since the 1970s?
Definitely childhood memories of Mr. Gibbons! 👍🏻❤️
Remembering the spoofs of Euell on The Carol Burnett Show and The Electric Company
Right
Great episode. Thanks for sharing.
i looove this sooo much.
At 66 These old films bring back my teenage years in the 70's. The world and people as a whole have changed too much and gotten away from the age of reason and common sense. hard times make hard men, hard men make soft times, and soft times make soft men. I'll say that's right where we are at today. I'm a farmer can you tell?
Euell came along when the big thing was TV dinners. It was most extraordinary to think you could actually eat weeds that were good for you. This struck a cord with many people and his books sold quite well. The image produced was he ate a healthy diet, by today's standards he did not. His books were often referred to as 'cookbooks' as he told many ways to prepare what you gathered. Chiffon pie(cream), greens(cooked in bacon fat).
He had 2 articles in National Geographic (July 1972; August 1973). July article was living off the sea coast on a Maine island. Did this with the Hurricane Outward Bound School. Which he would produce a booklet on wild edibles from the sea for Outward Bound students.
The FTC would ban his Grape Nuts commercials for fear children would see them and go out foraging and get poisoned.
Beachcomber's Handbook is my favorite, tells the story of living off the bounty of sea and land in Hawaii. Whatever can be said about Euell Gibbons he was the Godfather of wild edibles, so many things today bushcraft, preppers survival so much really comes from him
I mostly associate Euell Gibbons from the mention of his name in the 1976 novelty song Junk Food Junkie - the boy with him was really cute!
“Ever eat a pine tree, many parts are edible”…… I love my grape-nuts!
I remember he had several articles in National Geographic. He'd take a group out to an area and they would live off the land.
Born '65 don't remember the series specifically but Gibbons yes from Grape Nuts ads on tv.
😍 YUL 😍 QUAKER 🦆
Looks like the Gibbons have a Frigidaire Flair range!
Great video!
Oh god quakers....
He did ads for Grape Nuts for years till he died.
nothing like some fried groundhog
I prefer them baked.
Does Euell's 14 year old "companions" parents know their child is camping with a 45 year old unmarried man?
The kid's mother was filming. Only Christians and Republicans molest children.
No kidding.
Actually… he was married twice and had 2 kids.
So he liked to go camping w/ 15 year old boys.He died young from something he ate off the sidewalk in NYC.
I just want to know the little boy was ok?
Why is the old man so interested in this underage boy
He likes going on trips with a 15-year-old boy once in a while with no supervision
People got to look for the worst, instead of just watching how beautiful times were.
Fraid that's what our world has taught us. Not a dig at Euell Gibbons, just the sorry state of things.