@@TheOutsiderCabin One of the reasons I just subscribed. Your frequent reminders to do actual research, in a way that suggests that you know very well what that means, is another.
💚 your content is a true masterpiece! Being a forager with a small channel myself, I'm in awe of your skills and the passion you bring to your work. Keep forging ahead and blazing a trail for us all! 🌿
Cleaning roots are so much easier when done with a tooth brush. Get more of the grit out of the crevices and use some small pruning snips to cut the chicory roots up instead of fighting with the knife.
@@JesusLovesUs144: It would depend on what type of dirt it is. Some might have toxins to them. But a bit of grit is not bad. BUT, grit in with the roots when you try to grind or chop them can wreak havoc on your blades and or grinding wheel. Too much grit might make your gizzard (appendix) try to work again (after thousands of generations of not being in use) and that can be painful and in some cases even deadly.
While you call the chicory the poor man's coffee, in new orleans it is the orleans style coffee or simply orleans coffee and will set you back almost $5/mug. Also, just like the dandelion (the two are close cousins), the greens are great as cooked greens when older and salad greens when younger. The flowers can be fried with or without being batter dipped or used in a stir-fry. And of course, there is the wine made from dandelion flowers.
These plants you show are all very common to my views when i walk in the fields and all the times i have seen them when i was a child hiking in the woods near my home. Free healthy food with no pesticides. Walking by them all these years without a clue. till now. I subscribed. Thank you
@@mr.blackhawk142: Actually, the opposite has been proved to be true. See, without B12 in one's body, they start having immune issues and neuro disfunction that does lead to insanity. And adolph hilter became a prime example of that. And the most insane and violent people I have ever met are those who have lived most of their lives as vegan. I think y'all need to eat some turkey and get that triptophan sedation effect.
Contact the writer from nature's harvest. He does work along the same line and is extremely successful. Just telling somebody something is edible doesn't mean how to cook it. Or how to make it taste good. if you can tell somebody how they can enjoy it you will sell a million books. and what you get from RUclips will look like nothing.
As a child, my grandma had us picking dandelions to cook with her turnip greens or collard and the turnips or collard greens. She said the dandelion is good for flushing the kidneys and low iron and good for ur liver. When she cooked the greens without adding other greens, it was to flush the digestive system. We actually liked it.
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When we were kids my sister and I and went to the country, my dad used to show us all the plants he used to eat as a kid and it was fascinating. He found wild hazelnuts, wild fruits and some other sweet tangy leaves to eat. But the one that stuck was the pine sap gum. He used to pull pine sap that was dripping from the trees and chew it like gum. It had an intense pine taste but it was so good. But man was it sticky. We couldn't wash it off our hands and we'd be stuck like this for days. lol. Fun times. I'm totally going to share your videos with him. Thank you for making these.
Your videos are absolutely my favorite for learning about foraging! Your voice is calming, both you and your wife give easy instructions/suggestions with none of the annoying hype and music that many others insist on using. Thank you SO much!!!
Where have you been all my life? This channel is the most practical, fun survival channel ever. Thank you. Please keep making videos. PS I’m a NH girl in a California world. So watching your videos reminds me of the homeland. 🙏🏼
Your videos are very informative and verifiable. Everything that you have covered is correct. I have survived for over a year in the woods on almost everything that you have covered. I have used the pollen as a flour base from the cattail as well as the young cattail shoots as a type of corn on the cob. I appreciate that you have made this video as it helps those that may need to survive in the future.
Wild mint is a great thing to have available to you in your yard. I love a few leaves in a cup of cold brew iced tea. Absolutely delicious. Also in this time where artificial mint flavors are as strong as they can make them its so nice to have this natural source.
Why would people add a thumbs down to these informative, creative, and important, and entertaining videos...and the outsider is a brilliant and articulate gentleman..my favorite on UTube...
You've put a lot of work into this video. Thank you for your selfless service to others as you open the eyes of those who have never heard of natural earth foods.
That's just great video. My Grandma survived 3 major hungers in Russia and she was teaching me some. I was too young to pay an attention. Thank you for your videos!!!
Great explanations , great visuals, kudos for only showing good plants but explaining the differences in detail. you understand the human mind with intelligence mister wristbands. Thank You
as a child, i walked to/from school. my friends and i always passed a corner house with a black walnut tree that had branches hanging over the edge of the walkway. we often sat at the corner and took off one shoe or boot to crack and eat walnuts until we were full lol. one of my fond childhood memories.
The apple syrup was a new idea I hadn’t considered. I’ve made apple butter (which is essentially super thick apple sauce) but not made actual syrup. Grape leaves are very tasty in a salad or wrapped around rice or meat filling. Grapes sweeten up AFTER being hit by a frost. If you wait until night temps drop the grapes will be more tasty, often no sugar needed. My parents had a group of hawthorn bushes at the end of the garden (the house was built in 1820, so had a lot of odd things growing around) but we had NO IDEA they were edible! For those leaning toward sustainability, eco-friendly foraging, remember to thank the native plants you harvest by dispersing the seeds you don’t eat, or even as you did and transplant the roots so new plants will grow.
I wonder if you could make apple sugar in the same way you can make maple sugar. That'd be huge because it's hard to get crystal sugar whenever you're foraging
Its adorable when he does flourishes with end product. PRESENTATION. I'm just trying to picture this outdoorsy metal guy adding a mint as a drink garnish.
Black walnuts are a big favorite! They make awesome oatmeal cookies and wonderful biscotti. My grandma always made chocolate cake with black walnuts on top of white frosting for my birthday. My favorite! My friend adds them to her banana bread which is great. A good Mennonite friend taught me how to make awesome dill pickles that use lots of fresh dill leaves and a grape leaf for crispness. A mulberry leaf or horseradish leaf can be substituted but grape is best
FYI, in regards to grinding roots like the dandelion and chicory, I found an old style manual coffee grinder like my grandfather would have used in an antique store for eight or ten bucks. I often use it for grinding herb(s)... and for camping when there's no electricity available.
The wild grapes also make a great jelly. I use the same process to extract the juice, strain through cheesecloth and then prepare as you would any jam or jelly. The kids love it and it only takes some sugar and certo, and therefore much cheaper than buying at the store. Plus there is the pride of collecting the berries and making it all yourself.
I Learn so much watching your videos other videos tell you how to do something but you do it Thanks for making these videos and for not taking them down 👍🏻💕
I've been learning and studying about foraging for a while now... Now I have been wondering abour recipes... This was exactly what I was looking for! I wonder where he originally learned this from...
I love this idea of having an interactive menu and organizing everything into a neat set-up. Big fan of your clean, thorough, and trustworthy videos. Please do follow up with a season 2 :) I'll be looking forward to it if it's happening! 😀
a hint to make it even more simple would be to add the times in the description so people could click on a link to skip to the plants of interest :) But very well executed video!
thanks for taking the time to make these videos, they're informative and interesting. I'm so far removed from nature and its killed my spirit and made me sick. I'm returning to my roots and am happy that I stumbled across your channel, please keep these up! just made some apple syrup, dandelion coffee and cedar tea... yummy!!
my grandmother was big on these. before flowering, the leaves can be fried up with a little bacon grease, leaves with some mint leaves make a nice healthy tea & leaves also make a nice addition to a salad, the leaves alone make a nice salad. the flowers can be lightly dredged in seasoned flour & deep fried. the flowers can of course be used to make wine & poor man's honey
I am loving your channel!!! My Italian grandmother used to pick the dandelions off my front lawn and make a salad from the leaves. This is a while other purpose. Very cool!!!!
I love dandelions. I used to eat them out of my garden when I was a kid, but I can't do that anymore because the lawnmowers have exterminated it from the entire neighborhood because "Its a 'weed' it's 'EVIL!' And it must be destroyed!" I found dandelion wine at a bar and it cost me $7 for a 4oz. pour... ridiculous. The world was so great when I was a kid. The wine was still good though. It tasted like childhood dreams and escapism.
it amazes me that people like the taste of dandelions. I remember getting it in my mouth as a kid and it tasted terrible and bitter! maybe now that I'm older it will be more tolerable haha
I recently discovered your channel. You are very well spoken and I genuinely enjoy watching you plate the foods you create. There is art involved and it just adds to the experience. Thank you for all you do. Best vids I've found for general all area foraging.
With Sumac, I was taught to dry the flower heads then remove the berries from the stem and remove as much of the twigs as can be. The stem and the twigs actually contain a huge amount of tannin which will turn the drink bitter. I left the berries in the water, in the fridge overnight then strained it. Amazing. BTW I did not know that a coffee like drink can be made from dandelions! Thanks for that. I've done chicory but not dandelion....common spring and summer!
Your videos are very helpful and interesting, I think everyone should learn about this topic, you never know where you might find yourself and what you may need to know to survive.
I just love to learn about outside living and natural ways to find real remedies of plants that we all take for granted we buy things that kill off natural edible . most of which you've shown grows in and around my yard thanks now i will try these things out and send you an update of what i think of it thanks again ..
Okay, the rose hips. You can simply squeeze them and the goopy flesh will come out of the open part that was connected to the stem. The seeds stay inside the skin, and you suck out all the flesh goop. It's delicious, probably one of my favorite forage items all year.
Thanks for the info - just the right mix of identification and use, with some soil types thrown in. I hope to grow many of these in my back yard and start that way toward learning some basic wilderness identification skills. Enjoyed the little artistic touches too! :D
I recently discovered and identified garlic mustard in my garden here in the UK. I had not heard of it before. It was interesting to see your video with the garlic mustard vinaigrette. Maybe I should try it some time.
Growing up we use to collect black walnuts when they had fallen, put them in the drive and just drive over them during the fall and winter to remove the flesh, then we pick them up in the spring and crack them open. My mother would then put them in a warm oven to dry the nuts to store them
+OutsideFun1 Here's something useful you should know about black walnuts (and basically all walnuts in general): Black walnuts are allelopathic, meaning it will excrete harmful chemicals into the environment to kill off other plants living near or under the tree. The chemical is called hydrojuglone, commonly known as "juglone". Juglone, when exposed to air, becomes oxidized, and biologically activates, causing respiratory failure to most plants and shrubs. "juglone water" (aka, the outcome of walnut husks being mixed with water) not only kills plants, but also worms and small animals. If you find walnuts in a survival situation, you can use it's husks, leaves, and roots to catch not only bait worms, but also fish. *For instance* The water level of a river/lake rose above it's average height at high tide recently, and left a couple of fish stranded in puddles near the said water body. Make some "juglone water", pour it sparingly into your chosen puddle, and wait. Fish will begin to float up to the surface within 10-30 minutes. If not, they'll be 'unconcious', allowing you to grab/pick them up. *Confirmed source:* www.rogueturtle.com/articles/blackwalnut.php
Some plants , and especially grasses, do very well with juglone. Paw paws , for example , thrive around walnuts. Rose family plants (most domestic fruit trees) can't tolerate it well at all.
When I was in middle school, on my walks from home id pass a brush that had mint leaves growing in it. I would pluck a couple and eat them raw just to weird my friends out because they could never tell what or why I was eating them for. Took forever for them to realize it was just mint.
26:00 The plantain can also be fried ( I like it fried with a bit of olive oil better than boiled ), it is quite good if you fry it with a bit of garlic too, mmm good stuff! Good video!
Picture of that wild flower brought me here but no mention of it. The rest of the videos were a complete education about foraging. Thank you for sharing.
After you stomp on the cork type plug, try using a few pipe clamps to press it over night. Tighten the clamps every time you remember. At the clamp stage you can use a bucket with a few dozen 1/4 inch holes fitted inside another pail. You can gain more than a bit more.
I love dandelion tea/coffee too. I've never roasted them over a campfire. I bet that would be the best tasting way to do It. My mom and daughter and I like to batter up the dandelion flowers and fry them up to eat. They taste kind of like morel mushrooms when battered and fried like that.
I live in North Texas and there are Mustang grape vines everywhere! They are ripe now so I eat some when I go on my walks. I've picked some too! Got them in my freezer. I'm gonna make jelly! 🤭 We have muscadine grapes also. They aren't ripe yet.
thanks for this video...really appreciate you taking the time and consideration. I have researched as well about making bread in the woods...since we won't find a oven outside, I found two methods that works...1) using a flat stone and pouring the mix on top and laying it next to the fire...maybe it can also work in a dutch oven scenario (haven't tried) ...2) using a green stick and using the dough to wrap around it and placing it above the fire... the only dough like texture I found to work best for these methods was flour made from white oak acorns... thanks again. 5 stars!
The plant at 23.00 is fantastic and used by many Norwegians. If you have a wound that does not heal, eg many older immune defenses, roll the blade lightly between the fingers so that many cells in the leaf are pierced. Then you put the blade straight on the wound and cover with bandage. Very effective on wounds that will not heal. This plant is called groblad in Norwegian, directly translated to heal leaf.
A little tip I learned years ago from a man at work who was into home remedies, when I had injured my knee and was so uncomfortable: He told me to spread some Vicks Vaporub on my knee then cover it with some wild plantain and wrap it up with my elastic bandage. I was a little dubious "cause I had never thought of Vicks for anything but my chest for a cold but was desperate so gave it a try and darn if it wasn't better than anything else I tried for pain relief! Better even than the painkillers prescribed by the doctor. I tried the ingredients separately but it only worked together. Thanks to Marcellin, those three months of recuperation were easier to bear.
Find a local person knowledgeable in wild plants/mushrooms in your area. When you are sure you have identified an edible plant, take it to them to verify or correct your decision that it is edible?
I got a Collins Gem book (the pocket sized ones) on foraging and just learn 3/4 new plants each year and the poisonous stuff that grows around it. If you try to learn lots at once that's when you make mistakes.
I'm sure Rae is referring to those who do urban foraging. However, there may be areas in the wild that have been contaminated by chemicals carried in by the wind or people/animals. I would also be wary of areas near recent fires, as they may still have fire suppressant chemicals in them.
??? Why the hell is RUclips only now recommending your videos, I love this stuff I can't wait to try the mint chips, love the video can't wait to go thrue your videos.
Plantain juice can remove the sting on your skin from nettles, chew a leaf and spread it on the area that stings and burns. Wild grapes are also known as frost grapes, in the fall after the first frost they turn sweet.
Thank you for the subtitles :) The chicory coffee, if bake at lower temperature and avoid getting it black it will not taste so bitter. Add cardamon seeds for a different flavour to the milk free coffee for a change.
@@Sweet87671 I think it depends on your taste preferences. Try mixing it in with other greens in a salad or on a sandwich. I grew up in a household where all the food was over processed and over spiced/over seasoned. Now days it just makes me gag, so I mostly eat things fairly plain, but that's just me.
Share these videos as much as possible while they are available. Already stores are poorly stocked and harder to get to in many places. These videos can really help in these rough times
I like the way this is straight up and practical. No incessant talk or background music. Good teacher.
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it’s 6 years old but i think i found something truly binge worthy
Me too🎉
LOVE THE WAY YOU NOT ONLY SHOW AND IDENTIFY THAT YOU ALSO SHOW HOW TO USE IT!!!! THIS MAKES YOU THE BEST
May Woodworth I'm glad you like the series! Thanks for watching May.
@@TheOutsiderCabin One of the reasons I just subscribed. Your frequent reminders to do actual research, in a way that suggests that you know very well what that means, is another.
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💚 your content is a true masterpiece! Being a forager with a small channel myself, I'm in awe of your skills and the passion you bring to your work. Keep forging ahead and blazing a trail for us all! 🌿
Sometimes I find myself coming back here just to rewatch these videos I really enjoyed them
Cleaning roots are so much easier when done with a tooth brush. Get more of the grit out of the crevices and use some small pruning snips to cut the chicory roots up instead of fighting with the knife.
Would u brown or black the roots?
@@releventhurt: Roast them until a brown black in color. Keeping them moving while roasting helps to not burn them.
Azri'el Collier I am not sure if it’s true but I heard that a little bit of dirt in our diet is ok. It won’t hurt you?
@@JesusLovesUs144: It would depend on what type of dirt it is. Some might have toxins to them. But a bit of grit is not bad. BUT, grit in with the roots when you try to grind or chop them can wreak havoc on your blades and or grinding wheel. Too much grit might make your gizzard (appendix) try to work again (after thousands of generations of not being in use) and that can be painful and in some cases even deadly.
What if you don’t have an appendix?
This is one of the most informative post on wild edibles I've watched thus far.....really respect your knowledge!
While you call the chicory the poor man's coffee, in new orleans it is the orleans style coffee or simply orleans coffee and will set you back almost $5/mug. Also, just like the dandelion (the two are close cousins), the greens are great as cooked greens when older and salad greens when younger. The flowers can be fried with or without being batter dipped or used in a stir-fry. And of course, there is the wine made from dandelion flowers.
But doesn't the nutritional value of dandelion root get destroyed when you blacken them, over-cooking them?!
He wasn’t calling them that. It was just a name for them in the Great Depression
Azri'el Collier Does chickory and dandelion have caffeine in them?
Really good tea as well
Dandelion wine oh yeah!!!
Thank you for enlightening an old man on the attributes of healthy living with wild edible plants. So grateful for your knowledge.🙏
This channel should have much more views ! Such a enjoyable educational watch and learn! THANKYOU!
These plants you show are all very common to my views when i walk in the fields and all the times i have seen them when i was a child hiking in the woods near my home. Free healthy food with no pesticides. Walking by them all these years without a clue. till now. I subscribed. Thank you
Ingesting DEAD ANIMALS makes one INSANE. It has been clinically proven, but anyone with an OZ of consciousness will KNOW that intuitively.
@@mr.blackhawk142 Citation needed. Primary, peer reviewed research published in credible journals only, please.
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Dead Animals Like Cows, Chickens, Pigs, Ducks, and Rabbits.
Yes, I'm sure. Quite Insane.
@@mr.blackhawk142 Yes, indeed... *insanely delicious!*
@@mr.blackhawk142: Actually, the opposite has been proved to be true. See, without B12 in one's body, they start having immune issues and neuro disfunction that does lead to insanity. And adolph hilter became a prime example of that. And the most insane and violent people I have ever met are those who have lived most of their lives as vegan. I think y'all need to eat some turkey and get that triptophan sedation effect.
You should make a book with all of your wild edible recipes
Lithus17 anyone who cooks is just using an already done recipe and just adds their own flair to it.
Contact the writer from nature's harvest. He does work along the same line and is extremely successful. Just telling somebody something is edible doesn't mean how to cook it. Or how to make it taste good. if you can tell somebody how they can enjoy it you will sell a million books. and what you get from RUclips will look like nothing.
I second that
@Lithus17 great stuff...
Try the book "stalking the wild asparagus"
Thank you for educating people on things like this. With knowledge of wild edibles, you could feed a family.
As a child, my grandma had us picking dandelions to cook with her turnip greens or collard and the turnips or collard greens. She said the dandelion is good for flushing the kidneys and low iron and good for ur liver. When she cooked the greens without adding other greens, it was to flush the digestive system. We actually liked it.
When we were kids my sister and I and went to the country, my dad used to show us all the plants he used to eat as a kid and it was fascinating. He found wild hazelnuts, wild fruits and some other sweet tangy leaves to eat. But the one that stuck was the pine sap gum. He used to pull pine sap that was dripping from the trees and chew it like gum. It had an intense pine taste but it was so good. But man was it sticky. We couldn't wash it off our hands and we'd be stuck like this for days. lol. Fun times. I'm totally going to share your videos with him. Thank you for making these.
5:25 Sumac.
9:15 Chicory.
14:50 Mint.
23:15 Plantain.
28:05 Wild apple.
37:47 Wild grape.
41:55 Hawthorn.
45:35 Black walnut.
50:50 Rose hips.
54:25 Yellow birch.
Thank you! And 0:01 to 5:25 is dandelions, more specifically dandelion coffee!
Thankyou for posting this dear 💖
Nice one
Your videos are absolutely my favorite for learning about foraging! Your voice is calming, both you and your wife give easy instructions/suggestions with none of the annoying hype and music that many others insist on using. Thank you SO much!!!
I do this here in Alaska. It is great for my Off Grid existence.
I love all of our edible and medicinal plants and herbs here in Alaska... Ive so much more to learn!
So helpful to know what's growing around this planet earth. Thank you.
Where have you been all my life? This channel is the most practical, fun survival channel ever. Thank you. Please keep making videos. PS I’m a NH girl in a California world. So watching your videos reminds me of the homeland. 🙏🏼
Your videos are very informative and verifiable. Everything that you have covered is correct. I have survived for over a year in the woods on almost everything that you have covered. I have used the pollen as a flour base from the cattail as well as the young cattail shoots as a type of corn on the cob. I appreciate that you have made this video as it helps those that may need to survive in the future.
Is the Cedar tree the same as the TX Juniper tree?
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good to know
Rub outside of pot with a bar of soap black comes right off.
I don’t need to survive in the future, just the present. Thanks for the tip, saved me an hour!
Thanks for doing the hard work for us to learn about these wild edibles.
Wild mint is a great thing to have available to you in your yard. I love a few leaves in a cup of cold brew iced tea. Absolutely delicious. Also in this time where artificial mint flavors are as strong as they can make them its so nice to have this natural source.
Why would people add a thumbs down to these informative, creative, and important, and entertaining videos...and the outsider is a brilliant and articulate gentleman..my favorite on UTube...
Those wild grapes makes out of this world delicious grape jelly
You've put a lot of work into this video. Thank you for your selfless service to others as you open the eyes of those who have never heard of natural earth foods.
That's just great video. My Grandma survived 3 major hungers in Russia and she was teaching me some.
I was too young to pay an attention.
Thank you for your videos!!!
I know this is 8 years old, but I feel like I just binge watched your videos all in one awesome informative video!
Great explanations , great visuals, kudos for only showing good plants but explaining the differences in detail. you understand the human mind with intelligence mister wristbands. Thank You
as a child, i walked to/from school. my friends and i always passed a corner house with a black walnut tree that had branches hanging over the edge of the walkway. we often sat at the corner and took off one shoe or boot to crack and eat walnuts until we were full lol. one of my fond childhood memories.
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Corey Scanlan or when you have an amazing knowledge of plants but are also a heavy metal fan 😌
When you can't grammar correctly but love heavy metal (lol)
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You're very artistic with your presentations at the end of each segment I greatly appreciate your experience and research thank you
The apple syrup was a new idea I hadn’t considered. I’ve made apple butter (which is essentially super thick apple sauce) but not made actual syrup.
Grape leaves are very tasty in a salad or wrapped around rice or meat filling. Grapes sweeten up AFTER being hit by a frost. If you wait until night temps drop the grapes will be more tasty, often no sugar needed.
My parents had a group of hawthorn bushes at the end of the garden (the house was built in 1820, so had a lot of odd things growing around) but we had NO IDEA they were edible!
For those leaning toward sustainability, eco-friendly foraging, remember to thank the native plants you harvest by dispersing the seeds you don’t eat, or even as you did and transplant the roots so new plants will grow.
thank you for the info
I wonder if you could make apple sugar in the same way you can make maple sugar. That'd be huge because it's hard to get crystal sugar whenever you're foraging
Gotta say, some of the platting in this video is actually top notch.
Its adorable when he does flourishes with end product. PRESENTATION. I'm just trying to picture this outdoorsy metal guy adding a mint as a drink garnish.
Black walnuts are a big favorite! They make awesome oatmeal cookies and wonderful biscotti. My grandma always made chocolate cake with black walnuts on top of white frosting for my birthday. My favorite! My friend adds them to her banana bread which is great.
A good Mennonite friend taught me how to make awesome dill pickles that use lots of fresh dill leaves and a grape leaf for crispness. A mulberry leaf or horseradish leaf can be substituted but grape is best
FYI, in regards to grinding roots like the dandelion and chicory, I found an old style manual coffee grinder like my grandfather would have used in an antique store for eight or ten bucks. I often use it for grinding herb(s)... and for camping when there's no electricity available.
Another method is a mortar and pestle.
I love this channel.... Great information on wild plants and more.
The wild grapes also make a great jelly. I use the same process to extract the juice, strain through cheesecloth and then prepare as you would any jam or jelly. The kids love it and it only takes some sugar and certo, and therefore much cheaper than buying at the store. Plus there is the pride of collecting the berries and making it all yourself.
I love seeing young people like you that are so aware of they're environment and how to utilize it. So cool. Cooler than the other side of the pillow.
Really happy to have discovered your engaging and informative channel! Thank you!
I appreciate all the thought, preparation and work that you put into this.
You can freeze mint leaves in I cubes for a nice effect
I Learn so much watching your videos other videos tell you how to do something but you do it Thanks for making these videos and for not taking them down 👍🏻💕
I've been learning and studying about foraging for a while now... Now I have been wondering abour recipes...
This was exactly what I was looking for! I wonder where he originally learned this from...
I love this idea of having an interactive menu and organizing everything into a neat set-up. Big fan of your clean, thorough, and trustworthy videos. Please do follow up with a season 2 :) I'll be looking forward to it if it's happening! 😀
+Kelly Tang Thanks Kelly! I'm gradually producing more wild edibles episodes. Once I have enough, I'll definitely be compiling a second season.
+OutsideFun1 👍😀
a hint to make it even more simple would be to add the times in the description so people could click on a link to skip to the plants of interest :) But very well executed video!
thanks for taking the time to make these videos, they're informative and interesting. I'm so far removed from nature and its killed my spirit and made me sick. I'm returning to my roots and am happy that I stumbled across your channel, please keep these up! just made some apple syrup, dandelion coffee and cedar tea... yummy!!
Gray videos you got me rooting through my backyard and staring at the sides of the roads when I go for a walk. I'm really enjoying what you've done
Watch out for those roadsides excessively dosed with herbicides. They work until they don't and the weeds grow back with uptake you won't want.
my grandmother was big on these. before flowering, the leaves can be fried up with a little bacon grease, leaves with some mint leaves make a nice healthy tea & leaves also make a nice addition to a salad, the leaves alone make a nice salad. the flowers can be lightly dredged in seasoned flour & deep fried. the flowers can of course be used to make wine & poor man's honey
I am loving your channel!!! My Italian grandmother used to pick the dandelions off my front lawn and make a salad from the leaves. This is a while other purpose. Very cool!!!!
I love dandelions. I used to eat them out of my garden when I was a kid, but I can't do that anymore because the lawnmowers have exterminated it from the entire neighborhood because "Its a 'weed' it's 'EVIL!' And it must be destroyed!"
I found dandelion wine at a bar and it cost me $7 for a 4oz. pour... ridiculous. The world was so great when I was a kid.
The wine was still good though. It tasted like childhood dreams and escapism.
did they sweep up old cigarette butts to prevent you from shoving those in your face, too?
what fuckin outright nazis!
it amazes me that people like the taste of dandelions. I remember getting it in my mouth as a kid and it tasted terrible and bitter! maybe now that I'm older it will be more tolerable haha
@@Khunark I washed them first.
@@artsymarsy8480 Do you like kale and arugula?
I’d pay a lot for a lawnmower that can exterminate dandelions from lawns
I recently discovered your channel. You are very well spoken and I genuinely enjoy watching you plate the foods you create. There is art involved and it just adds to the experience. Thank you for all you do. Best vids I've found for general all area foraging.
With Sumac, I was taught to dry the flower heads then remove the berries from the stem and remove as much of the twigs as can be. The stem and the twigs actually contain a huge amount of tannin which will turn the drink bitter. I left the berries in the water, in the fridge overnight then strained it. Amazing. BTW I did not know that a coffee like drink can be made from dandelions! Thanks for that. I've done chicory but not dandelion....common spring and summer!
Your videos are very helpful and interesting, I think everyone should learn about this topic, you never know where you might find yourself and what you may need to know to survive.
What a great video. So helpful to see the plants and how you use them.
I'm enjoying this video on wild edibles. Thank you for this God Bless you and your family
Great video. I'm ready for a hike through our woods!
I just love to learn about outside living and natural ways to find real remedies of plants that we all take for granted we buy things that kill off natural edible . most of which you've shown grows in and around my yard thanks now i will try these things out and send you an update of what i think of it thanks again ..
Really interesting. Extremely well explained. Very thorough. Fab!
This is unique channel of wild edible recipes.
Very cool video. A lot of these plants grow all the way down here in Texas. It'll be fun to try some new recipes with the kids. Thank you for posting.
You should try making acorn flour. Thats what native Americans used most often for flour. Not sure of the recipe though.
Haven Perez Thanks for watching Haven! I have been wanting to make flour from acorns, but unfortunately there aren't many oak trees in my area.
OutsideFun1 What state was this filmed in? Thanks
dbcurlgirl56 , I don't know what territory, but he lives in Canada.
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Okay, the rose hips. You can simply squeeze them and the goopy flesh will come out of the open part that was connected to the stem. The seeds stay inside the skin, and you suck out all the flesh goop. It's delicious, probably one of my favorite forage items all year.
Thanks for the info - just the right mix of identification and use, with some soil types thrown in. I hope to grow many of these in my back yard and start that way toward learning some basic wilderness identification skills. Enjoyed the little artistic touches too! :D
Absolutely love your passion for nature and survival
I recently discovered and identified garlic mustard in my garden here in the UK. I had not heard of it before. It was interesting to see your video with the garlic mustard vinaigrette. Maybe I should try it some time.
Excellent videos, thank you for your research and explaining everything so well!
im sooooo happy I found your channel. absolutely in love!!!!
Brushing up before this Corona thing gets totally off the hook.
Yeah! I was thrilled about the dandelion coffee 100%
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Growing up we use to collect black walnuts when they had fallen, put them in the drive and just drive over them during the fall and winter to remove the flesh, then we pick them up in the spring and crack them open. My mother would then put them in a warm oven to dry the nuts to store them
Thanks for making this one whole video, makes it more fun to watch
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Here's something useful you should know about black walnuts (and basically all walnuts in general):
Black walnuts are allelopathic, meaning it will excrete harmful chemicals into the environment to kill off other plants living near or under the tree. The chemical is called hydrojuglone, commonly known as "juglone". Juglone, when exposed to air, becomes oxidized, and biologically activates, causing respiratory failure to most plants and shrubs. "juglone water" (aka, the outcome of walnut husks being mixed with water) not only kills plants, but also worms and small animals.
If you find walnuts in a survival situation, you can use it's husks, leaves, and roots to catch not only bait worms, but also fish.
*For instance*
The water level of a river/lake rose above it's average height at high tide recently, and left a couple of fish stranded in puddles near the said water body. Make some "juglone water", pour it sparingly into your chosen puddle, and wait.
Fish will begin to float up to the surface within 10-30 minutes. If not, they'll be 'unconcious', allowing you to grab/pick them up.
*Confirmed source:*
www.rogueturtle.com/articles/blackwalnut.php
Dplus_AlphaR4 is the fish safe to eat after?
yes, you can eat the fish. it is poisonous to fish, but not humans.
Some plants , and especially grasses, do very well with juglone. Paw paws , for example , thrive around walnuts. Rose family plants (most domestic fruit trees) can't tolerate it well at all.
Dplus_AlphaR4 sounds similar to conifers, any tree with needles instead of leaves. You can never grow anything under them, not even grass.
As long as there's some holes for sunlight, I can grow all kinds of things under or around conifers. Grasses don't generally like them though.
When I was in middle school, on my walks from home id pass a brush that had mint leaves growing in it. I would pluck a couple and eat them raw just to weird my friends out because they could never tell what or why I was eating them for. Took forever for them to realize it was just mint.
26:00 The plantain can also be fried ( I like it fried with a bit of olive oil better than boiled ), it is quite good if you fry it with a bit of garlic too, mmm good stuff!
Good video!
Thank You so very much. Your video is so well done. The information is clear and verifiable. Well worth watching again,
Picture of that wild flower brought me here but no mention of it. The rest of the videos were a complete education about foraging. Thank you for sharing.
It's clover
After you stomp on the cork type plug, try using a few pipe clamps to press it over night. Tighten the clamps every time you remember. At the clamp stage you can use a bucket with a few dozen 1/4 inch holes fitted inside another pail. You can gain more than a bit more.
Are u kidding me. I love this. Wow. Thanks so much. U totally changed my life, thanks brother
I love dandelion tea/coffee too. I've never roasted them over a campfire. I bet that would be the best tasting way to do It.
My mom and daughter and I like to batter up the dandelion flowers and fry them up to eat. They taste kind of like morel mushrooms when battered and fried like that.
I live in North Texas and there are Mustang grape vines everywhere! They are ripe now so I eat some when I go on my walks. I've picked some too! Got them in my freezer. I'm gonna make jelly! 🤭 We have muscadine grapes also. They aren't ripe yet.
My mother used to make rose hip jelly. Delicious!
chicory is also used to make inulin. Inulin is taken by diabetics to lower the blood sugar. The coffe is very old. It is also used as a sweetener.
thanks for this video...really appreciate you taking the time and consideration. I have researched as well about making bread in the woods...since we won't find a oven outside, I found two methods that works...1) using a flat stone and pouring the mix on top and laying it next to the fire...maybe it can also work in a dutch oven scenario (haven't tried) ...2) using a green stick and using the dough to wrap around it and placing it above the fire...
the only dough like texture I found to work best for these methods was flour made from white oak acorns...
thanks again. 5 stars!
This video was supper long for me but to my surprise I freakn enjoyed the whole video every bit of it. Thanks for shareing your wisdom❤️😘
The plant at 23.00 is fantastic and used by many Norwegians. If you have a wound that does not heal, eg many older immune defenses, roll the blade lightly between the fingers so that many cells in the leaf are pierced. Then you put the blade straight on the wound and cover with bandage. Very effective on wounds that will not heal. This plant is called groblad in Norwegian, directly translated to heal leaf.
A little tip I learned years ago from a man at work who was into home remedies, when I had injured my knee and was so uncomfortable: He told me to spread some Vicks Vaporub on my knee then cover it with some wild plantain and wrap it up with my elastic bandage. I was a little dubious "cause I had never thought of Vicks for anything but my chest for a cold but was desperate so gave it a try and darn if it wasn't better than anything else I tried for pain relief! Better even than the painkillers prescribed by the doctor. I tried the ingredients separately but it only worked together. Thanks to Marcellin, those three months of recuperation were easier to bear.
My grandma used Vicks rub for everything. Next time you have a headache, put a dab on your temples.
I'm interested in this lifestyle but I fear I might eat the wrong plant.
Krazy0ManMan Thank you.
Find a local person knowledgeable in wild plants/mushrooms in your area. When you are sure you have identified an edible plant, take it to them to verify or correct your decision that it is edible?
I got a Collins Gem book (the pocket sized ones) on foraging and just learn 3/4 new plants each year and the poisonous stuff that grows around it. If you try to learn lots at once that's when you make mistakes.
jelkel25 You are right about that. One step at the time is a good thing.
JUST DO IT!
Just a heads up folks, be aware of what the wild edibles have been exposed to, watch out for pesticides, herbicides, and contaminants before eating.
RaeSyngKane Really pestecides in the wild? Well than again its been recomended that you wash and boil things before consuming.
I'm sure Rae is referring to those who do urban foraging. However, there may be areas in the wild that have been contaminated by chemicals carried in by the wind or people/animals. I would also be wary of areas near recent fires, as they may still have fire suppressant chemicals in them.
RaeSyngKane might have been exposed to
Unlike all crops which are exposed to all you mention.
Can’t be any worse than the Round Up laden food we actually pay for at the supermarket! In fact it is probably better!
??? Why the hell is RUclips only now recommending your videos, I love this stuff I can't wait to try the mint chips, love the video can't wait to go thrue your videos.
I enjoy all of the information you're imparting . Thank you. I also love the beautiful plating of your results.
This is really cool stuff my grandfather would make all kinds of stuff from dandelions very common among old Italians
Just stumbled across this. Loved it! Going to check for more videos like this. God bless you.
I LOVE IT & THANK U SO MUCH FOR MAKING VIDEOS ABOUT THIS, I WANT TO LEARN EVERYTHING ABOUT EDIBLE & MEDICINAL PLANTS, THANX AGAIN MY FRIEND
Plantain juice can remove the sting on your skin from nettles, chew a leaf and spread it on the area that stings and burns.
Wild grapes are also known as frost grapes, in the fall after the first frost they turn sweet.
Thsnk you for all the info,
Very Interesting. !!
Black walnut 45.33
Rose hips 50.56
Birch trees: black sweet, yellow swamp, white paper 54.00
I'v watched all u'r shows and now you hit the bulls eye ! Tks and bless you!
Another mint family identifier is the squared stems.
Excellent thank you
Thank you for the subtitles :)
The chicory coffee, if bake at lower temperature and avoid getting it black it will not taste so bitter. Add cardamon seeds for a different flavour to the milk free coffee for a change.
Would you brown or toast them rather than blacken?
Don’t throw away the dandelion leaves, wash them thoroughly and use them in a salad.
I tried one leaf, does the flavor get better the more I eat it?
@@Sweet87671 I think it depends on your taste preferences. Try mixing it in with other greens in a salad or on a sandwich. I grew up in a household where all the food was over processed and over spiced/over seasoned. Now days it just makes me gag, so I mostly eat things fairly plain, but that's just me.
@@samanthaacevedo3482 ok. Thank you for the advised. I'll try it. Besides its free!!!
@@samanthaacevedo3482 eat it with fruit and berries
and the flowers. Most nutritious part of the plant.
We made wild grape juice and jelly this year and it is amazing!
Share these videos as much as possible while they are available. Already stores are poorly stocked and harder to get to in many places. These videos can really help in these rough times