Here in my local community, we've decided not to mow our lawns or use Roundup or other pesticides. Instead, we're letting our lawns grow. So many edible weeds and plants you can grow in our own backyards for some truly sustainable backyard-to-table dining. . We're also letting the lawns grow in a couple of abandoned houses, to supplement our neighborhood stockpile and donate the surplus to local food banks and church pantries.
Sadly, when I was a child (4 1/2) living rural on a fairly large acreage, I was taught that these plants were weeds. It wasn't until years later that I discovered a friend was making wine from dandelion blooms. Amazing! And in more recent years discovered that plants like dock and plantain had edible parts. It's mind boggling to think of all the food that was wasted.. "too soon old, too late smart" 🙃🙂🙃 Thanks for sharing.
It’s not your fault!! It was just your generation and what you heard others say. It’s never too late to wake up to this beauty around us that Yahweh created for his creation!
Our pasture has tons of dock. I’ve considered listing and selling it because it has fairly taken over the barn lot and my brother just mows it with the lawn tractor and spreads it further. Of course my meadowy yard has some too and I have one in the back “yarden”.
You can even soak the seed stalks of plantain over night and in the morning you'll have a gelatinous type liquid that you can fry up like an egg white substitute . I frickin love plantain
We discovered that I wasted money on grape vines. They are EVERYWHERE on my property. Red mulberry EVERYWHERE. 😆 Carolina allspice. Common blue violet. Lots of black walnut trees and lots of Persian silk trees aka mimosa tree.
About harvesting plantain seeds for flour: my niece has done this. She said she wanted to see how long it would take her to gather enough to bake with. It took her two hours, and she made two loaves of bread with it. I was very excited to hear this; I'm celiac, and gluten free flour is expensive! She said the loaves were quite dense. If I try this, I will probably add xanthan gum just as I would with any other GF flour.
I have the Mushrooms without fear. I think it is a must to have these books for when the internet goes out we need physical teaching information. I love your videos.. I agree adding some herbs to them is the best thing you can do. Cause they really do taste bitter.
I bought both the books Haley mentioned in this vid and told my husband the same thing that we need these incase the internet goes down. He said that was a good investment 😆
I live within the township limits, in a little subdivision and can easily find 5 edible plants in my yard (not including those I planted in the garden). I live a couple miles from the National Forest boundary and know where to find many different edibles as well. Thank you for giving us confidence in our ability to gather food in the event of food shortages! I remember the craziness society was going through in preparation for Y2K (My mom finally got rid of the last of her stores). People were not looking to the land for sustainance, they were buying up everything they could find. I think more people are looking to grow their own food, but if their gardens fail, they will need a back up plan. This is it. Thank you, thank you!
There is 1 plant that you can grow that will keep you alive and you can eat the WHOLE PLANT, seeds, leaves, petals, stalk to make flour with !!!! Great survival plant....The Sunflower
I love that you are teaching people there are so many edible plants out there even if nothing ever happens it is still great to know, I teach my kids any time we are out, my four year old can identify Plantain, jewelweed and red clover and a few other plants, one time my dad picked her a red clover, as a flower, she took it and ate it lol
@@TheHoneystead yes they do, a lady got stung the other day and our daughter was looking around for some Plantain to put on it, Love the she already knows at 4!
This is so amazing thanks so much I haven't yet gotten to the last plant. I recently moved to a forest area and we are so far from town that I have been going out and harvesting things from around me. unfortunately I have been fighting the ticks and chiggars but its all worth it. A lady who is a naturalist has been taking me out and teaching me all kinds of things. I dont think we have the wine berries but I know we have Black berries cause we have been going out for the last 3 or 4 weeks and gathering a bunch of them. I am learning more every day and am looking forward to finding more treasures out in nature. I thank the Lord every day for His provisions and His abundant harvest. many blessings and happy foraging.
Great and very timely video! A group of us who live across the mountain from you in Shenandoah County have been getting together to discuss the edible plants that can be foraged around here. There really are so many! Hopefully, in other videos, you can discuss the "nuts" (pignuts and hickory nuts), American Burnweed, Lamb's Quarters, etc. The latter two have overtaken parts of my garden!
Love this type of helpful video. I have, in the last year or so, gotten very excited about learning the edible plants in my neck of the woods. Thanks for the great video. Please keep it up.
I have broad and narrow leaf plantain, lambs quarters, French weed, purslane, poor man's pepper/pepper weed, curly dock, burdock, wild lettuce, wood sorrel, dandelion, white clover, chicory, wine berries, black raspberries, and black berries. Whew! I'm sure I missed some. So good!
I'm in west middle Tennessee, and I have most of those: both plantains, lambs quarter, purslane, I think two of the docks, wood sorrel, dandelion, chicory, and black raspberries. We probably have more, but those are the ones I can identify.
@@Romans828girl I’m also in middle Tennessee & I have all that you mentioned & probably more. Plantain is my absolute favorite. I just discovered wild plants a few years ago & my first to try was plantain leaves as a medicinal tea. I read that they were also fantastic on mosquito bites so when I got bit I grabbed a plantain leaf popped it in my mouth & chewed it into a paste then put it on the red mosquito bump. Within 20-30!seconds the intense itch was completely gone & after a minute or two I’d forgotten all about it. But more importantly I realized that plantain is DELICIOUS! After that first leaf I was hooked! I couldn’t stop eating the young tender leaves! It’s my favorite green plant by far.
I just ordered a hard copy of your book suggestions here. I really appreciate that you share so many aspects and branches of herbalism. For anyone that has Kindle, some of the book options on the Honeystead list are available for free. I wanted to support this channel, so I bought the books. Not everyone can do that. Kindle is a very reasonably priced membership for the amount of books you have access to. just wanted to mention that for anyone that really wants to dive into this and is limited on finances right now.
Top of my head ... dandelion, wild lettuce, lamb's quarter, puff ball mushrooms (which I don't/won't eat), stinging nettle, yellow dock, sunflowers (wild, grind flowers), plantain, burdock (I call it the sticker plant), slippery elm (spring).
Wild black raspberry is our favorite. Morel mushrooms- white & black varieties - or some say yellow instead of white. Also black walnut nuts. We have made lemonade from sumac.
At minute 18 directly to your right and behind you is another edible plant (flat dutch white clover) which is high in protein, because it is green it has chlorophyll which means it has magnesium and in the plant world that means it likely has calcium (it does) and probably a fair amount of potassium all of those are elemental nutrients.. While uncooked it has vitamin C. Great information thank you!
A person can save alot of money 💵 this way on spices & always have the freshest without worry of contaminated by products the FDA took bribes to ignore - thank you for what you do 😉👌
I am so very happy to have found you. I study herbs but, it is hard to learn about the plants without being able to hear someone talk about them, that helps me understand.
That's Awesome 🤗💝 I've Always Wanted To Read Them and To Have To Teach My Children and Myself. Definitely On Our Wish List💝. Thank You For Sharing and Teaching Others. Books Are A Wealth Of Knowledge, I LOVE Books and To Learn. Love Always and God Bless Ya'll 💕 🙏 Stephanie
It is so important to have many guides when foraging, cross reference everything if you can. Have a mentor, indeed edible things are all around us. Thanks for mentioning sourcing. Know the source in regard to pollution exposure, many mushrooms as well as many of the large roots like dandelion, burdock, and comfrey draw up nutrients and accumulate compounds on the surface. Also, know the regulations on public and private land. Better yet, get to know the private landowners where you wish to forage, they may be future customers. Thanks for sharing, have a great weekend.
We have curly dock here. They are longer leaves and curl back at the ends. We don't have wine berries that I have seen but we do have beauty berries and wild blackberries. We have lots of plantain, both wide and narrow leaved, and we have wild elderberries. I love your channel. thanks for being here.
Chili pequin, prickly pear, mesquite beans, mustang grapes, dewberry. ( there’s more but that’s just off the top of my head for south Texas) Thanks for the video!😎😊
A lot of times when I’m cooking bitter greens, we garnish it with garlic and onion while cooking, and a drizzle of olive oil and red wine vinegar when serving.
Dandy lion root, stinging nettle, thistle, elder berry, BLACK BERRIES off the top of my head🤔does honey from my bees count? Living on 10 acres and getting back to my childhood roots, glad I was raised on a small family farm.🤠What kind of bees were those I know bumbles 🙂that green one was cool looking? You should keep up the foraging edibles series, I find it very informative and enjoyable. Maybe even a foraging edible cook book in yours and your mom's future? 🤔 Ty for sharing your time, Blessed Days...
I agree there are many edible weeds but a huge problem we have where I live Is winter in Minnesota and that is why we grow vegetables and preserve . Teaching people how to survive is really important. Good for you.
I had to go out to the ditches to find dock seed, brought it back home and have been letting it go wild since .. not the highest calories for a 'free' vegetable, but they are vitamin and mineral rich. The oxalic acid cooks out easily, making them very palatable as a pot herb (We cook them with canna root, chenopodium, sage, garlic, onion and eggs .. seasoned with a blend of Szechuan pepper, mustard seed and cayenne pepper, all from right here.) My *entire* philosophy of gardening is trying to put my forage as close to home as possible 😉
Thanks for the plant identification for Dock and burdock. It helps to see the plants in their different stages of growth! I have made a simple poultice from Plantain leaves on cuts and it heals just like antibacterial cream! I was amazed and learned this from my mom from her mom and backed it up by using on gashes. Thanks for the video!!
Great information.! Plant more trees to make your own forest with its own wildlife. You have alot of empty land. Planting trees will attract more wildlife and it'd make your food forest more abundant. 👍😊
I too eat dandelion leaves in my salad. It helps them to grow if you put urine on them in the winter. They will grow like they are on steroids in the spring and will have better flavor and be more tender. I always look forward to the first dandelion blooms in the spring. I let them grow in my lawn areas and it is like a yellow carpet. Mix in some creeping charlie blooms and you have natural beauty. Every honey bee in the area visits my homestead for a free snack. As for plantain, I am not a fan. The leaves are a bit tough (probably why you suggesting eating the inner leaves) and the flavor is not appealing. If I was starving I would eat it with no problem. Another plant I like is purslane. It is crunchier than dandelion leaves and not as bitter. Be warned, however, if you let it go to seed in your garden you will need to deal with it for years! It seeds thousand at a time and the seeds can live in the soil for a very long time.
I recognize a lot of these plants here in England, I know they make dandelion & Burdock pop. But now I also know I can eat them. You said not to eat to many leaves from the plants as it may upset the stomach, how many would you suggest as like a starter to see how my body reacts to this new food resource it has not eaten before & what would you recommend as the highest amount of leaves that I wouldn't want to eat that many anyway? Plus Kaylee I purchased my 1st packet of dandelion coffee a couple weeks ago, I have been putting a cup of water in the saucepan & adding a couple of tea spoons of coffee & just boiling it. I don't know if this is the way to cook it, but it tastes really nice. I copied a Viking on how he cooks his coffee on another Chanel. It's good to have people like yourself & your mother to take the time out to offer advice & knowledge to people. Thankyou 👍♥️.
I see only the dandelion grows here in the low desert of Arizona. Many of the plants you usually speak of we don't have here. However, we do have others that are wonderful and free. Right now it's the Mesquite pods my DIL and I have been gathering. We grind them into mesquite flour and it's wonderful.
You know my pain. The high desert in Nevada is so hot and without irrigation, nothing grows. My little paradise in my backyard is dead now. Trying to sell and move to Arkansas
Oh my. My grandmother told me that they used to use the brown seed parts of that first plant to pretend that they were coffee grounds, when they were playing "house." 😍
If you talking about dock, my ex said when he was a boy he and friends used the red seeds as "monkey tobacco". They were trying to be grownup and smoke!!! He said it was disgusting. Lol
Don't forget the lowly Mung Bean. They have an incredible long storage life & don't seem to attract pests. Mung beans can be sprouted in 3-4 days & are super Nutritious. They can also be Cooked in various recipes. If you Plant the dry seed EACH PLANT produces 100's more mung beans and you can harvest numerous times from each plant. We practice No till methods and Don't use any chemical pesticides or fertilizers. The Mung Bean is our most prolific and successful year round vegetable.
Wine berries are newly encroaching my yard and while sweetish they are sort of bland compared with black berries. So I combine them! BUT they are a rich source of veggie melatonin which if I eat too much makes me wake 4 hours into sleep WIDE AWAKE! like an energy overdose! I notice this with dark berries too. Burdock root I slice into small cubes to dry and roast (outside due to smoke!!) like coffee beans, then grind and add boiling water, a sprinkle of cinnamon and your favorite sweetner. Sometimes I throw in a couple raw eggs and blend to a hot foamy smoothie. Perfect by the campfire. The whole dandelion (really scrub the neck area) cook in broth/h2o as a soup until root it is tender then season. Plantain!! getting ready to fine slice them into Kraut and the tender leaves go into green veggie smoothies! Yes we are just getting started! Tell your mom that mushrooms are God's way of making MEAT out of wood! Amazing!
I love this video. That burdock plant - I have a huge one growing close to were I park and yesterday I said I need to get rid of this. Guess what - time to dig it up and try the root. It grows all around here. I use dandelion - greens and flowers for tea and we turned the root to powder which we add to yogurt to eat. Interesting facts on the plantain. I just got stung by hornets a few weeks ago and went straight to a plantain plant. We have red and black raspberries that grow here. Also there are some blackberries. To be honest I have always been uncomfortable with foraging because of fear of something poisoning. Over the last few years we have also foraged ramps, morel mushrooms, wild grapes, and fiddleheads.
I'm loving your channel... I'm strictly gluten-free, and would love to see a video on foraged gluten-free grains for baking and bread. Is that possible?
Last time I went to the eye doctor, while he was examining me, he commented how good something looked for my age (I forget what) and goes, "you eat a lot of leafy greens don't you?" I said yes, I use dandelion greens in my smoothies. He said, yeah kale is very good for you.
If one does not have enough berries to make a serving, they can be used for flavoring, such as mixing with some wine for a sauce on fish or the like. When I was a kid w used dried burdock leaves like a tobacco (no nicotine.) ANd When I was a kid the fist wine made was out of dandelion blossoms.
Here in my local community, we've decided not to mow our lawns or use Roundup or other pesticides. Instead, we're letting our lawns grow. So many edible weeds and plants you can grow in our own backyards for some truly sustainable backyard-to-table dining. . We're also letting the lawns grow in a couple of abandoned houses, to supplement our neighborhood stockpile and donate the surplus to local food banks and church pantries.
Great idea! Good on ya!
Wow that is amazing I like that idea ...
its about time !!
Sadly, when I was a child (4 1/2) living rural on a fairly large acreage, I was taught that these plants were weeds. It wasn't until years later that I discovered a friend was making wine from dandelion blooms. Amazing! And in more recent years discovered that plants like dock and plantain had edible parts. It's mind boggling to think of all the food that was wasted.. "too soon old, too late smart" 🙃🙂🙃 Thanks for sharing.
It’s not your fault!! It was just your generation and what you heard others say. It’s never too late to wake up to this beauty around us that Yahweh created for his creation!
Our pasture has tons
of dock. I’ve considered listing and selling it because it has fairly taken over the barn lot and my brother just mows it with the lawn tractor and spreads it further. Of course my meadowy yard has some too and I have one in the back “yarden”.
Love your video so much information thank you
You can even soak the seed stalks of plantain over night and in the morning you'll have a gelatinous type liquid that you can fry up like an egg white substitute . I frickin love plantain
Very interesting! I’ll have to try that! Thank you for sharing this with me!
Oh wow, like flaxseed! I love that!
❤ Thank you! i will try this too
I want to buy your two books about Ganoderma lucidum and wild vegetables? Can you tell me how I can buy it?
I did not know!
We discovered that I wasted money on grape vines. They are EVERYWHERE on my property. Red mulberry EVERYWHERE. 😆 Carolina allspice. Common blue violet. Lots of black walnut trees and lots of Persian silk trees aka mimosa tree.
Five edible plants in my yard :
Coltsfoot
Rose hips
Plantain
Wild grape leaves
Black locust flowers
More :
Day Lilly
May apple
Mallow
Elder
Aster
While my husband is fishing I am searching the area for herbs. Its so fun.
Ohhh a woman after my own heart! I’ll set my catfish line with a bell on it… then sneak into the woods lol
We have durdock is everywhere here on our property.
The bees love the flowers
Thanx for sharing! I really wish people would stop trying to kill these types of plants. Look forward to your next videos on this type of content!!
Thank you! Me too!!!
I do not know english. But it's nice to watch farm work agricultural production.
I would LOVE a series on edible wild plants. Especially if you share how to cook/eat it. ❤
I have 'taken' on your challenge, my library books have arrived, now I can go pick them up :)
Keep these types of videos coming! Please and thank you!
About harvesting plantain seeds for flour: my niece has done this. She said she wanted to see how long it would take her to gather enough to bake with. It took her two hours, and she made two loaves of bread with it. I was very excited to hear this; I'm celiac, and gluten free flour is expensive! She said the loaves were quite dense. If I try this, I will probably add xanthan gum just as I would with any other GF flour.
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I have the Mushrooms without fear. I think it is a must to have these books for when the internet goes out we need physical teaching information. I love your videos.. I agree adding some herbs to them is the best thing you can do. Cause they really do taste bitter.
Oh yeah it’s a really nice book for sure! I agree-books are priceless when it comes to these topics!
I bought both the books Haley mentioned in this vid and told my husband the same thing that we need these incase the internet goes down. He said that was a good investment 😆
@@ladydazed7115 i have the same feeling.
I live within the township limits, in a little subdivision and can easily find 5 edible plants in my yard (not including those I planted in the garden). I live a couple miles from the National Forest boundary and know where to find many different edibles as well.
Thank you for giving us confidence in our ability to gather food in the event of food shortages! I remember the craziness society was going through in preparation for Y2K (My mom finally got rid of the last of her stores). People were not looking to the land for sustainance, they were buying up everything they could find. I think more people are looking to grow their own food, but if their gardens fail, they will need a back up plan. This is it. Thank you, thank you!
I finally used up my Y2K supply of matches this year. Lol
Ever eat a Pine Tree ? Many parts are edible...Ewell Gibbins, Grape Nuts commercial...throwback 1970's 😁😁😂😂🤣🤣🌲🌲 And it's true.🤪🤪
I actually just started ready about pine :)
In our garden we have Tansy, St Johns wort, Dandelion, Yarrow, Goutweed and some more! Love herbs! Thanks for your films! Love from Sweden!
There is 1 plant that you can grow that will keep you alive and you can eat the WHOLE PLANT, seeds, leaves, petals, stalk to make flour with !!!! Great survival plant....The Sunflower
I didn't realize you could eat the stalk.
This is the stuff that excites me. Wonderful. Beautiful.
Great video...Thanks for sharing it...
i love you!!! caring about our food you are the best ever!!!!!!! i dont llive with land like you have but i sill like it thanks
Thank you for this great information. You're blessing people that you don't know with this info so thanks again and be blessed.
I love that you are teaching people there are so many edible plants out there even if nothing ever happens it is still great to know, I teach my kids any time we are out, my four year old can identify Plantain, jewelweed and red clover and a few other plants, one time my dad picked her a red clover, as a flower, she took it and ate it lol
That is so awesome! I do the same with my kiddos 💛 they definitely retain a lot when they are younger!
@@TheHoneystead yes they do, a lady got stung the other day and our daughter was looking around for some Plantain to put on it, Love the she already knows at 4!
Yes!!! This is what makes my heart full!
Too sweet! My 4 year old daughter knows plantain, Mullien, honeysuckle, clover, and dandelions. She eats the dandelion
@@Kali08012 that is wonderful!
Just beautiful
This is so amazing thanks so much I haven't yet gotten to the last plant. I recently moved to a forest area and we are so far from town that I have been going out and harvesting things from around me. unfortunately I have been fighting the ticks and chiggars but its all worth it. A lady who is a naturalist has been taking me out and teaching me all kinds of things. I dont think we have the wine berries but I know we have Black berries cause we have been going out for the last 3 or 4 weeks and gathering a bunch of them. I am learning more every day and am looking forward to finding more treasures out in nature. I thank the Lord every day for His provisions and His abundant harvest.
many blessings and happy foraging.
Great and very timely video! A group of us who live across the mountain from you in Shenandoah County have been getting together to discuss the edible plants that can be foraged around here. There really are so many! Hopefully, in other videos, you can discuss the "nuts" (pignuts and hickory nuts), American Burnweed, Lamb's Quarters, etc. The latter two have overtaken parts of my garden!
I was literally flipping through the Edible wild plants book when I started watching this... This is my sign ✌️💚
More videos like this please! Thank you!!
Plantain 😊 I have used it for bee stings ever sense my kids were little
Love this type of helpful video. I have, in the last year or so, gotten very excited about learning the edible plants in my neck of the woods. Thanks for the great video. Please keep it up.
Thank you so much for freely sharing your knowledge.
I love it, it like a treasure hunt. looking for the good herbs you may have in my own back yard.
I'm cracking up because as I sit here in green overalls, I realize that I also own those two books, lol! Ahhh yes... great minds!
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I let part of my garden go wild in one section...so far knotweed and spiny amaranth..
I have broad and narrow leaf plantain, lambs quarters, French weed, purslane, poor man's pepper/pepper weed, curly dock, burdock, wild lettuce, wood sorrel, dandelion, white clover, chicory, wine berries, black raspberries, and black berries. Whew! I'm sure I missed some. So good!
I'm in west middle Tennessee, and I have most of those: both plantains, lambs quarter, purslane, I think two of the docks, wood sorrel, dandelion, chicory, and black raspberries. We probably have more, but those are the ones I can identify.
@@Romans828girl I’m also in middle Tennessee & I have all that you mentioned & probably more. Plantain is my absolute favorite. I just discovered wild plants a few years ago & my first to try was plantain leaves as a medicinal tea. I read that they were also fantastic on mosquito bites so when I got bit I grabbed a plantain leaf popped it in my mouth & chewed it into a paste then put it on the red mosquito bump. Within 20-30!seconds the intense itch was completely gone & after a minute or two I’d forgotten all about it. But more importantly I realized that plantain is DELICIOUS! After that first leaf I was hooked! I couldn’t stop eating the young tender leaves! It’s my favorite green plant by far.
I just ordered a hard copy of your book suggestions here. I really appreciate that you share so many aspects and branches of herbalism. For anyone that has Kindle, some of the book options on the Honeystead list are available for free. I wanted to support this channel, so I bought the books. Not everyone can do that. Kindle is a very reasonably priced membership for the amount of books you have access to. just wanted to mention that for anyone that really wants to dive into this and is limited on finances right now.
Thank you
Thank you, I ordered both books.
Top of my head ... dandelion, wild lettuce, lamb's quarter, puff ball mushrooms (which I don't/won't eat), stinging nettle, yellow dock, sunflowers (wild, grind flowers), plantain, burdock (I call it the sticker plant), slippery elm (spring).
You are so beautiful and such a beautiful soul you and your mom are so sweet thank you for the videos
I bought the mushrooming without fear I read it and really like it now I just have to take it on a hike ☺👍
Wild black raspberry is our favorite. Morel mushrooms- white & black varieties - or some say yellow instead of white.
Also black walnut nuts.
We have made lemonade from sumac.
At minute 18 directly to your right and behind you is another edible plant (flat dutch white clover) which is high in protein, because it is green it has chlorophyll which means it has magnesium and in the plant world that means it likely has calcium (it does) and probably a fair amount of potassium all of those are elemental nutrients.. While uncooked it has vitamin C. Great information thank you!
A person can save alot of money 💵 this way on spices & always have the freshest without worry of contaminated by products the FDA took bribes to ignore - thank you for what you do 😉👌
I am so very happy to have found you. I study herbs but, it is hard to learn about the plants without being able to hear someone talk about them, that helps me understand.
I love/adore all the info you share here and my 65 year old brain can't take it all in. Thank you
dandelion and strawberry right below
I feel like there could be a list of just seeds that could be used as a flour substitute....I've always wanted to try a blend of all of them
There are many!!! It’s a great idea to look at alternatives:)
For those of us who have issues with modern flour, I'm betting that we could digest these "wild flour" much easier than modern.
I know a few like cattails, acorns, quinoa & plantain seeds.
Luvwhat you are doing with the bees . Luv your videos 👍
That's Awesome 🤗💝
I've Always Wanted To Read Them and To Have To Teach My Children and Myself. Definitely On Our Wish List💝.
Thank You For Sharing and Teaching Others. Books Are A Wealth Of Knowledge, I LOVE Books and To Learn.
Love Always and God Bless Ya'll 💕 🙏
Stephanie
Yo Kaley I even ordered a book after your previous video to figure out edible plants in my world. Thanks for the inspiration
*UMA ÓTIMA TARDE PARA VOCÊ 👏🏻*
It is so important to have many guides when foraging, cross reference everything if you can. Have a mentor, indeed edible things are all around us. Thanks for mentioning sourcing. Know the source in regard to pollution exposure, many mushrooms as well as many of the large roots like dandelion, burdock, and comfrey draw up nutrients and accumulate compounds on the surface. Also, know the regulations on public and private land. Better yet, get to know the private landowners where you wish to forage, they may be future customers. Thanks for sharing, have a great weekend.
We have curly dock here. They are longer leaves and curl back at the ends. We don't have wine berries that I have seen but we do have beauty berries and wild blackberries. We have lots of plantain, both wide and narrow leaved, and we have wild elderberries. I love your channel. thanks for being here.
Chili pequin, prickly pear, mesquite beans, mustang grapes, dewberry. ( there’s more but that’s just off the top of my head for south Texas) Thanks for the video!😎😊
🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌 that’s awesome!
As always, great information! Thanks Kaylee! 🌱 🐝💛
A lot of times when I’m cooking bitter greens, we garnish it with garlic and onion while cooking, and a drizzle of olive oil and red wine vinegar when serving.
Amazing content! Thank you 😊
Dandy lion root, stinging nettle, thistle, elder berry, BLACK BERRIES off the top of my head🤔does honey from my bees count? Living on 10 acres and getting back to my childhood roots, glad I was raised on a small family farm.🤠What kind of bees were those I know bumbles 🙂that green one was cool looking? You should keep up the foraging edibles series, I find it very informative and enjoyable. Maybe even a foraging edible cook book in yours and your mom's future? 🤔 Ty for sharing your time, Blessed Days...
More please love this stuff!!!
I literally have three of your five growing in the cracks of my patio. Thanks for putting these books on your amazon. They are in my cart already.
I agree there are many edible weeds but a huge problem we have where I live Is winter in Minnesota and that is why we grow vegetables and preserve . Teaching people how to survive is really important. Good for you.
I had to go out to the ditches to find dock seed, brought it back home and have been letting it go wild since .. not the highest calories for a 'free' vegetable, but they are vitamin and mineral rich. The oxalic acid cooks out easily, making them very palatable as a pot herb (We cook them with canna root, chenopodium, sage, garlic, onion and eggs .. seasoned with a blend of Szechuan pepper, mustard seed and cayenne pepper, all from right here.)
My *entire* philosophy of gardening is trying to put my forage as close to home as possible 😉
Love this!
Thanks for the plant identification for Dock and burdock. It helps to see the plants in their different stages of growth! I have made a simple poultice from Plantain leaves on cuts and it heals just like antibacterial cream! I was amazed and learned this from my mom from her mom and backed it up by using on gashes. Thanks for the video!!
Thank you, Love the video. My mom made dandelion wine, good stuff.
Great information.! Plant more trees to make your own forest with its own wildlife. You have alot of empty land. Planting trees will attract more wildlife and it'd make your food forest more abundant. 👍😊
I too eat dandelion leaves in my salad. It helps them to grow if you put urine on them in the winter. They will grow like they are on steroids in the spring and will have better flavor and be more tender. I always look forward to the first dandelion blooms in the spring. I let them grow in my lawn areas and it is like a yellow carpet. Mix in some creeping charlie blooms and you have natural beauty. Every honey bee in the area visits my homestead for a free snack.
As for plantain, I am not a fan. The leaves are a bit tough (probably why you suggesting eating the inner leaves) and the flavor is not appealing. If I was starving I would eat it with no problem.
Another plant I like is purslane. It is crunchier than dandelion leaves and not as bitter. Be warned, however, if you let it go to seed in your garden you will need to deal with it for years! It seeds thousand at a time and the seeds can live in the soil for a very long time.
Plantain, chickweed (who knew), pineapple weed, wild raspberry, dandelions again the properties in this plant shocked me. Bolete mushrooms and Chaga.🎉
Thank you, very interesting. Look forward to more.
I recognize a lot of these plants here in England, I know they make dandelion & Burdock pop. But now I also know I can eat them. You said not to eat to many leaves from the plants as it may upset the stomach, how many would you suggest as like a starter to see how my body reacts to this new food resource it has not eaten before & what would you recommend as the highest amount of leaves that I wouldn't want to eat that many anyway? Plus Kaylee I purchased my 1st packet of dandelion coffee a couple weeks ago, I have been putting a cup of water in the saucepan & adding a couple of tea spoons of coffee & just boiling it. I don't know if this is the way to cook it, but it tastes really nice. I copied a Viking on how he cooks his coffee on another Chanel. It's good to have people like yourself & your mother to take the time out to offer advice & knowledge to people. Thankyou 👍♥️.
Hi from UK. I make dandelion syrup, and dry the leaves for tea. Very healthy.
I see only the dandelion grows here in the low desert of Arizona. Many of the plants you usually speak of we don't have here. However, we do have others that are wonderful and free. Right now it's the Mesquite pods my DIL and I have been gathering. We grind them into mesquite flour and it's wonderful.
You know my pain. The high desert in Nevada is so hot and without irrigation, nothing grows. My little paradise in my backyard is dead now. Trying to sell and move to Arkansas
Great idea!!!
100% yes!!!!
My son makes wreaths out of green and brown dock. He sells these, they are beautiful.
I just love your videos!!
my five in my yard would be rocky mountain dew berries, clover, dandelions, huckleberry, cinquefoil (wild strawberries)
We call the wine-berries thimbleberries in Washington State. Great stuff.
Burdock is on my 5 list 😉
Thank you for sharing ✌️💞🤟
Oh my. My grandmother told me that they used to use the brown seed parts of that first plant to pretend that they were coffee grounds, when they were playing "house." 😍
If you talking about dock, my ex said when he was a boy he and friends used the red seeds as "monkey tobacco". They were trying to be grownup and smoke!!! He said it was disgusting. Lol
Lamb's Quarters are delicious steamed.
Awesome information!!! Thanks for sharing!!!
grateful ❤
Many thanks for the presentation ,we ALL NEED TO KNOW THE PLANTS IN OUR AREA!
Thank you 🥰
I have the book Edible Wild Plants, love it!!!!!
Don't forget the lowly Mung Bean. They have an incredible long storage life & don't seem to attract pests. Mung beans can be sprouted in 3-4 days & are super Nutritious. They can also be Cooked in various recipes. If you Plant the dry seed EACH PLANT produces 100's more mung beans and you can harvest numerous times from each plant. We practice No till methods and Don't use any chemical pesticides or fertilizers. The Mung Bean is our most prolific and successful year round vegetable.
Thanks for the information. I'll have to try it in the garden
Wine berries are newly encroaching my yard and while sweetish they are sort of bland compared with black berries. So I combine them! BUT they are a rich source of veggie melatonin which if I eat too much makes me wake 4 hours into sleep WIDE AWAKE! like an energy overdose! I notice this with dark berries too. Burdock root I slice into small cubes to dry and roast (outside due to smoke!!) like coffee beans, then grind and add boiling water, a sprinkle of cinnamon and your favorite sweetner. Sometimes I throw in a couple raw eggs and blend to a hot foamy smoothie. Perfect by the campfire. The whole dandelion (really scrub the neck area) cook in broth/h2o as a soup until root it is tender then season. Plantain!! getting ready to fine slice them into Kraut and the tender leaves go into green veggie smoothies!
Yes we are just getting started! Tell your mom that mushrooms are God's way of making MEAT out of wood! Amazing!
I love this video. That burdock plant - I have a huge one growing close to were I park and yesterday I said I need to get rid of this. Guess what - time to dig it up and try the root. It grows all around here. I use dandelion - greens and flowers for tea and we turned the root to powder which we add to yogurt to eat. Interesting facts on the plantain. I just got stung by hornets a few weeks ago and went straight to a plantain plant.
We have red and black raspberries that grow here. Also there are some blackberries.
To be honest I have always been uncomfortable with foraging because of fear of something poisoning. Over the last few years we have also foraged ramps, morel mushrooms, wild grapes, and fiddleheads.
Nice resources! Thank you!
Very welcome 💛
If you use pepper alcohol extract on back and cover with velvety back side of burdock it gives warmth all night and helps with back pain.
Plantain goes good in a salad
Excellent video, thank you so much. I actually purchased dandelion seeds so I could grow a large patch this coming spring.
Please make this a series.
Girl you made me buy more books.
I have been pulling them away from my garden ,i had try them with spinach and they make it so tasty then normal spinach alone tbank you so much
I'm loving your channel... I'm strictly gluten-free, and would love to see a video on foraged gluten-free grains for baking and bread. Is that possible?
Last time I went to the eye doctor, while he was examining me, he commented how good something looked for my age (I forget what) and goes, "you eat a lot of leafy greens don't you?" I said yes, I use dandelion greens in my smoothies. He said, yeah kale is very good for you.
Thanks for information. I have been having troubles with my eyes
dandelion, pine buds, stinging nettle, skunk cabbage, pine mushrooms, chanterelles
Lovely
If one does not have enough berries to make a serving, they can be used for flavoring, such as mixing with some wine for a sauce on fish or the like. When I was a kid w used dried burdock leaves like a tobacco (no nicotine.) ANd When I was a kid the fist wine made was out of dandelion blossoms.
Burdock leaves are blanched in our community and are used to treat burn wounds.
Love this video thank you