Braiding Sweetgrass
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- In this video, I will show you how to braid your own Sweetgrass for smudge sticks or use for a sacred ceremony. Many Native tribes in North America use sweetgrass in prayer, smudging, or purifying ceremonies and consider it a sacred plant. It is usually braided, dried, and burned. Sweetgrass braids smolder and doesn't produce an open flame when burned. Just as the sweet scent of this natural grass is attractive and pleasing to people, so is it attractive to good spirits. Sweetgrass is often burned at the beginning of a prayer or ceremony to attract positive energies.
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I was very surprised to see a herbalist pull the Root out. As a Forager we must always only take a small % to allow growth for next year and to honor Mother Earth. Just surprised, no judgment. Thank you for making this video! I'm making my first braids this year!
Read the book braiding sweetgrass you’ll have another perspective
@@mymommatried8432ive read it... You still shouldn't pull it out by the "root" ... Unless ur planning on using the plug to replant... The proper way and responsible way of harvesting sweetgrass so you don't over harvest it and so you don't destroy it completely is to gently lift up the leaves and cut the grass blades - leaving about 1-2 inches (i prefer 2 minimum) of the stem for regrowth.... Telling people to pull it out completely is so irresponsible.... Once you yank it out that's it... Its not coming back...
Ignorance.
You don't think that the remaining broken roots will regenerate and be happy with the open space created by pulling older sections out by the roots? I don't know, just guessing and imagining based on the grasses I've pulled and re-pulled months later, in my work as a gardener and a weeder. I've never used sweetgrass, specifically. @@Norwood12
She is harvesting from her own garden that she is cultivating, and being careful to pull gently to allow it to continue to grow, and taking only from here and there, not too much in one spot. She is grateful and thankful. A few roots came up, but she said below she replants it. We should be glad anyone is helping restore this plant instead of only criticizing her for not being indigenous, which is racism. If you know something more, please help the world by sharing your knowledge with compassion and realize that everyone is coming from a different perspective. We are all connected.
0:45 from my understanding you should definitely be cutting them above the roots so that they’ll come back for future generations and not just taking for yourself.
Yes! That's what I do so they keep coming back!
Right? I was taught by elders that you should never pull from the roots; always cut above the root. So I was surprised to hear in this video that they were saying the opposite 🤔.
@@burnsvalleyherbalsandretre97 Oh really? Because where I timestamp you said that you “don’t cut them but pull them out of the ground” which is a big no no. Not only that but it also appears that there is roots on the ends of the sweetgrass so you’ll have to forgive me if I don’t exactly believe you…
@@Crimebuff2024 you were definitely taught the correct way and should continue to follow the teachings of your elders. Not only that but educate others on misguided videos such as this because many (including myself) don’t have any elders to learn from and unfortunately this is as close as we will get. I hope that the creator/great spirit watches over you and all of your relations 🙏
Hi. Thank you for the posts. I believe my daughter in law who helps with the social media replied previously & that is where the discrepancy occurred. I was taught to gently tug the grass from its sheath. If pulling too many grasses at a time sometimes roots will be pulled out. They are replanted. I only harvest small bunches at a time to be braided.
As with many things, people are taught various methods of doing something. Their intention & gratitude are usually the same.
Blessings.
So awesome!! I can see why sweetgrass baskets go for a lot of money! A lot of time and effort! Great video!
Yes! Thank you!
You should never buy sweet grass. It is a gift from Anishinaabe Aki. What has been given and a gift, cannot be sold…or bought.
i followed your advice and pulled enough to make one braid. It just didnt seem right to me so i looked into it further. Sad that i did pull some roots. in years past i had always cut the grass down low, but thought maybe i was doing it wrong. I think you should put a disclaimer on your video and advise ppl NOT to pull the roots. smh
Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Thanks for watching!
This was an awesome tutorial thank you!!!!
Thanks for watching!
❤ Thank You & Best Wishes!😊
Thank you!!
Thank you, love!
Thank you!
You should make a correction to your video as to how to harvest the sweet grass as you do not pull it from the ground . It should be cut close to the ground as to leave the rhizomes for future growth
"what you do is you don't cut them, you pull them out of the ground"... umm what? Please leave the roots! So many animals eat sweetgrass for medicine
this plant is for Indigenous people. if ur not Indigenous, please refrain & find ur own medicines from YOUR culture.
Are sugar maples and black walnuts and steelhead trout and white tailed deer also reserved for Indigenous people? Being a 12th generation New Englander, should I be consuming only plants and animals of European origin?
So racist. How about we use plants natural to the area. That would prevent bringing in non native plants that could be invasive. Just respect the land you live on and work with what you have, race, color, culture, whatever. Respect Earth where She is, that is true culture
Edit: this plant grows in the UK (if you're assuming this woman is specifically European descending. Which is also racist.)
You have no arguement
⚠️Irresponsible Harvesting ⚠️
Please read my comment BEFORE following the techniques from this lady's video...
🤍 U do NOT pull sweetgrass from the root, EVER! It WON'T grow back - i am shocked and appalled that somebody would even recommend that.
Sweetgrass is already REALLY scarce and if people watch this and harvest it this way it's going to become extinct.
You may ask "BUT WHY, can't we just replant some with seeds?"- the answer is NO, You can't just simply "plant" sweetgrass by seeds they are usually propagated and sweetgrass "plugs" are used to regrow them... so we DESPERATELY need to CONSERVE the established plants we already have... And Part of that... Is NOT YANKING IT OUT BY THE ROOT SYSTEM... So i beg of anyone watching this....
🤍 DONT DO THAT PLEASE! 🤍
Sweetgrass is a sacred plant for indigenous people and it should be protected and respected.
If you harvest it, gently lift the leaves up and out of the way, and cut at the base ⚠️ MAKE SURE YOU LEAVE ABOUT 2 INCHES OF THE STEM⚠️ . And when you harvest... Make sure you AREN'T harvesting 100% of the area... 30-40% max. Is all that should be collected from a general area when foraging as a general rule... And don't harvest plants in their first year. (however, if you're replanting a plug, you CAN cut it down to like 2-3 inches to help the root system exlstablish itself.)
The other thing too for braiding another way of doing it is to let it dry first outside in the sun flipping every 30-40 mins, then, when it's time to braid, dip in water to make strands flexible then braid... I suppose either way would work, it's just the way I was originally taught.
Then donate to a local tribe near you... 🫶
Peace and love.