You're standing in a forest of evergreens and eating grass roots? Okay, sure, for a video. But did you ever try steeping evergreen needles for tea? Pretty much every type of evergreen tree makes delicious tea. Spruces, pines, firs, cedar etc. I don't know of a single one that is toxic, and they're all delicious, though cedar is pretty much universally thought of as the best. You just brew it like any tea. I make cedar tea daily in my drip coffee maker. Just chop up the fresh leaves and enjoy with or without sugar like you would any tea. Apparently they are rich sources of vitamin C and other nutrients. Teas made of the spring needles are best, but any time of the year they are a comforting hot drink. Anyway, thank you for a nice video! It's always good to see you again. I love your video quality. edit: BTW, I dont' recommend steeping evergreen tea for ten minutes, or it may develop tannins and resinous flavor. 2-3 minutes would be best, similar to green tea.
"The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know." :) We've not tried evergreen herbal tea, but my goodness, I'll add that to the list for sure! Thanks for the recommendation!
@@az55544 Thank you for mentioning! I've never seen a yew tree because they don't grow around here, so I never researched them or thought of them. But if someone did drink it and it was toxic that would be terrible! PLEASE DERRICK, do be sure that the trees you're sampling are not yew! It is always best to be sure of wild foods you are testing.
You should try "fermenting" different wild herbs to create something similar to black tea:) it's not technically fermenting but more of a oxidization process, basically what is done to tea leaves to create black tea 😄 try, willowherb (the russians call it Ivan Chai), the leaves of blackberry, raspberry, strawberry Hawthorne or hazelnut! I'm sure when you google ivan chai you can find the process of making it. It's really fun and very delicious 😊
One of my favorite “coffee substitute” wild forage drinks is roasted dandelion root tea it doesn’t taste like coffee per se but it is good solid way to start the morning
I can't remember if you guys grow your own ginger, but gosh I love ginger so much and it always tastes so good in tea. That being said, not sure how an Herbal tea made just from ginger would be, would love to try it myself and definitely would be healthy from my understanding!
I really like your channel, I'm also from Ontario! Do you guys have an Instagram? I'm creating a startup related to gardening and would love to chat for a bit!
I think you hit the nail on the head, I would be happy to let someone else prepare the roots, too much time spent for little return. I guess this is no different than dandelion tea, where root and leaves can be used or chicory root as a coffee "substitute" (a stretch imo). Being bigger roots, greater return. Good to see no nervous twitches resulted from the making of this video 🙂👍
I do nettle teas for allergies. I tell the plants...one hand full for today, and I'm going to pick more for frying for this winter. So I do both drying and fresh. Those guys are are really performing...about the only time don't see fresh is in August when it is too hot...the nestle in the mulch and while they use nutrients my garden would like, they do shade the soil to keep it cooler. I can't come to an understanding with that grass though. Perhaps I should harvest the rhyzomes for tea, bit am afraid it would outdo itself trying to 'help' me.
I had always thought that real tea was smoked as opposed to roasted, but at the same time I knew that some were pan-fried... Interesting the way the mind categorizes things sometimes... That being said, Coffee beans are roasted, chicory root is roasted, and then called coffee, dandelion root is roasted and then called coffee... so are the tea snobs or the coffee snobs more obnoxious??? ;)
Tea for the garden? I've heard of compost tea but have never tried it. Could i make q tea out of some of the lawn clippings? Using a 5 gallon bucket, how much grass to water should I use, etc? How should it be applied? How is compost tea done?
I like making an herbal tea from white pine - using the needles. Sometimes plain, or with dandelion. I also like adding in some zest from the inside of an orange and ginger. Yum!
I have a Question with the money, you make on RUclips, do you have to claim it to Revenue Canada? Does RUclips give you a T4? Do you have to claim it to E.I.? I was just wondering as a fellow Canadian. Big Fan, Keep up the Good Work. I was just Curious.
Tulsi! My friend says that any garden isn't complete without Tulsi. It's super medicinal, called Krishna's holy Basil, and has a lovely mild herbal flavour. My friends get so excited; it's a home grown delicacy.
Sorry to point that out but: you're not wearing a scarf with that cold!! And you were standing still for long minutes to film your vidéo... OMG, I was freezing just looking out you. Thanks for the amazing content though.
I'll bet with a few additions, that could be pretty good. Ginger perhaps? Mint? I've heard you can make tea out of the Mare's Tail plant, and also Dandelion root?
You guys should try making chicory, a popular coffee replacement. My favourite mix in my country is made with Obviously Chicory roots, Rye, Barley and Sugar Beet, all dried and roasted. The Coarse Powder looks quite like coffee. I believe what is happening in this one that the sugar beets are dried and roasted even burned a little amount to achieve the bitterness found in normal coffee. I started drinking it because coffee unless extremely diluted started to make me sick, so I found this as a nice alternative and I found that it soothed my stomach too. Not trying to say its better than coffee, coffee is still way better at being coffee :D
Not to start any internet tea arguments, but I take the opinion that languages are descriptive and not prescriptive and therefore very liable to change. In this case, “tea” might originally be from a specific plant, but these days is accepted wider vernacular for any plant steeped in water. The same to be said with “Googling” and “Hoovering”. On another note, fantastic content. Much love from the UK and I dream of the day I can sell up and buy some acres of land in Canada
I think I read somewhere that grass is full of B17 or Laetrile, which is a cancer fighter. And grass clippings are good in compost piles. I made grass tea for my tomato plants and they were huge. As long as it hasn't been fertilized, grass is great.
try mixing it with other herbal tea ingredients! some chamomile and sage in there would propbably make for a lovely herbal tea that could become a daily drinker like you say
It's kinda extra supper cool that you're posting an update rather than reposting a corrected video. I wish more people would show that mistakes are not the end of the world.
Hey Blackhuf! We're working on a multi-part series about the fence. But much like the fence itself, it continues to be a bit of a work in progress. Thanks for the prodding though. It's helpful to see what people are interested in hearing about next! :)
I can't believe you were corrected so much... Its a RUclips vid..... Just enjoy it. Please don't correct yourself so much, I'm watching a couple who lived in a van for a couple of years.... And experiment with most things they do..... This is the def worth cutting some slack for!
Bit late to comment here, but I honestly think everyone correcting you on the definition of tea should calm down. If we're going to be that technical--tea is a plant, not a beverage. The actual liquid that we drink is properly called 'tea liquor', or an 'infusion'; not 'tea'.
Anyway, as far as herbal teas, many culinary herbs are also usable as tea. Rosemary, sage, basil, and thyme. For basil it's generally 'Holy Basil'. Other plants you can research include bee balm, Echinacea, Lemon balm, ginger, valerian, catnip, blackberry, raspberry, mint, lemongrass... that's everything I can think of off hand. I don't know what all is tolerant to your zone though.
Funny. I was cooking a few hours ago and something remind me of this channel. I picked a few cloves of garlic with the intention to mince them and adding then to some peas, etc. One of those cloves had quite a big root already, a couple centimeters or so (for those who don't speak metric: under two inches). I wouldn't usually care, I would just slice it in half, remove that part of the clove and mince the rest. But for whatever reason, I remembered this channel and decided that, now that a few weeks ago I set up a small and quick fence to protect some vegetables from my chicken, I decided I would plant that clove there as well, and so I did. I know, it's something completely irrelevant but, still, it's funny that I see you've published a video in the very same day. Have a nice day!
@@tonyaltobello6885 thank you. I live in the countryside and we used to always plant all kinds of things, from garlic to potatoes, from onions to tomatoes, from several kinds of peppers to beans and peas. Now I only take care of my small vineyard. What I meant by "I'm not expecting anything" is that it's only one clover and I just did a hole in the ground with my finger, put the clover in and covered it again with soil. So, whatever comes, will be nice, but still, I didn't even remember when was the right time to plant, but it seems it's just about now in this part of the world. Thank you for your kind words. I may try with some more clovers if I see some others with a grown root.
I recently dried some rosehips from a wild rosebush in my yard. I spent a couple hours collecting enough to fill a cereal bowl, they're so small! I smashed them up with a fork and let it dry, stirring it daily in a bowl, for a week. My husband doesn't like the flavor of the tea, but I enjoy the fruity taste.
As a comparison, you could try making pearl barley and toasted pearl barley tea. Your description of the tea you made reminded me of those teas. I bought my toasted barley tea from a Korean market, since it’s such a staple in Korea, but the first time I made it I did it pretty much how you did in this video. Anyway very interesting experiment 🙂
I planted chamomile a few years ago in my yard and now it just keeps coming up and reseeding itself. It's tedious picking enough little flowers, but not as tedious as your tea.. Will definitely give your recipe a try, tho, when I get the chance.
I buy roasted dandelion root tea all the time and it is delightful . I have never tried making my own but maybe you will be up to the challenge this year. Thank you for all the wonderful videos .
If someone industrialized the plant, would we figuratively hit gold? is it feasible to mass produce it, and have anyone research it medicinal benefits? So much intrigue
One plant that I was surprised to enjoy as a herbal "tea" was stinging nettle leaves. Make sure to wear gloves and long sleeves when picking! And drying/dehydrating takes away the "sting" of the leaves.
I always listen to those wild calming sounds to the very end......
You're standing in a forest of evergreens and eating grass roots?
Okay, sure, for a video.
But did you ever try steeping evergreen needles for tea? Pretty much every type of evergreen tree makes delicious tea. Spruces, pines, firs, cedar etc. I don't know of a single one that is toxic, and they're all delicious, though cedar is pretty much universally thought of as the best. You just brew it like any tea. I make cedar tea daily in my drip coffee maker. Just chop up the fresh leaves and enjoy with or without sugar like you would any tea. Apparently they are rich sources of vitamin C and other nutrients. Teas made of the spring needles are best, but any time of the year they are a comforting hot drink.
Anyway, thank you for a nice video! It's always good to see you again. I love your video quality.
edit: BTW, I dont' recommend steeping evergreen tea for ten minutes, or it may develop tannins and resinous flavor. 2-3 minutes would be best, similar to green tea.
"The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know." :)
We've not tried evergreen herbal tea, but my goodness, I'll add that to the list for sure! Thanks for the recommendation!
Use the tips of spruce. Makes jam even.
Yew needles are toxic and can be confused with other conifer needles.
@@az55544 Thank you for mentioning! I've never seen a yew tree because they don't grow around here, so I never researched them or thought of them. But if someone did drink it and it was toxic that would be terrible!
PLEASE DERRICK, do be sure that the trees you're sampling are not yew! It is always best to be sure of wild foods you are testing.
Love your videos sir
Thank you so much! :)
Its like champagne and sparkling wine
Hey Derek, What's Paula been up to? We miss her!
Have y'all thought of making clayware ? 😀
Ooooh, we haven't. But now I am! lol
Stop trying to eat grass when you are standing in front of a perfectly delicious forest of pine tea ;)
LOL, now you would say to stop trying to eat the grass, wouldn't you??? ;)
You should try "fermenting" different wild herbs to create something similar to black tea:) it's not technically fermenting but more of a oxidization process, basically what is done to tea leaves to create black tea 😄 try, willowherb (the russians call it Ivan Chai), the leaves of blackberry, raspberry, strawberry Hawthorne or hazelnut! I'm sure when you google ivan chai you can find the process of making it. It's really fun and very delicious 😊
being almost directly quoted gave me chills :D
Thank you for the inspiration! :)
Rhizome beer next! 🍻
Now we're talking! ;)
It’s cool that you took the feedback and clarified. Enjoyable video
If you can't beat 'em, eat 'em. Or at least drink 'em.
One of my favorite “coffee substitute” wild forage drinks is roasted dandelion root tea it doesn’t taste like coffee per se but it is good solid way to start the morning
I can't remember if you guys grow your own ginger, but gosh I love ginger so much and it always tastes so good in tea. That being said, not sure how an Herbal tea made just from ginger would be, would love to try it myself and definitely would be healthy from my understanding!
Pure ginger tea is awesome, I used to drink it all the time...
My dad's favorite beverage :-)
Guys please post more often, I didn't even see the video and I had already clicked the like button.. I love your experiments and quality videos..
I really like your channel, I'm also from Ontario! Do you guys have an Instagram? I'm creating a startup related to gardening and would love to chat for a bit!
Hey Joshua! I'm intrigued!
We do have instagram (though we're not super active there). Our account is @guygirlvan :)
I think you hit the nail on the head, I would be happy to let someone else prepare the roots, too much time spent for little return. I guess this is no different than dandelion tea, where root and leaves can be used or chicory root as a coffee "substitute" (a stretch imo). Being bigger roots, greater return. Good to see no nervous twitches resulted from the making of this video 🙂👍
I do nettle teas for allergies. I tell the plants...one hand full for today, and I'm going to pick more for frying for this winter. So I do both drying and fresh. Those guys are are really performing...about the only time don't see fresh is in August when it is too hot...the nestle in the mulch and while they use nutrients my garden would like, they do shade the soil to keep it cooler. I can't come to an understanding with that grass though. Perhaps I should harvest the rhyzomes for tea, bit am afraid it would outdo itself trying to 'help' me.
I had always thought that real tea was smoked as opposed to roasted, but at the same time I knew that some were pan-fried... Interesting the way the mind categorizes things sometimes... That being said, Coffee beans are roasted, chicory root is roasted, and then called coffee, dandelion root is roasted and then called coffee... so are the tea snobs or the coffee snobs more obnoxious??? ;)
Tea for the garden?
I've heard of compost tea but have never tried it.
Could i make q tea out of some of the lawn clippings? Using a 5 gallon bucket, how much grass to water should I use, etc? How should it be applied?
How is compost tea done?
I like making an herbal tea from white pine - using the needles. Sometimes plain, or with dandelion. I also like adding in some zest from the inside of an orange and ginger. Yum!
I have a Question with the money, you make on RUclips, do you have to claim it to Revenue Canada? Does RUclips give you a T4? Do you have to claim it to E.I.? I was just wondering as a fellow Canadian. Big Fan, Keep up the Good Work. I was just Curious.
Tulsi! My friend says that any garden isn't complete without Tulsi. It's super medicinal, called Krishna's holy Basil, and has a lovely mild herbal flavour. My friends get so excited; it's a home grown delicacy.
Sorry to point that out but: you're not wearing a scarf with that cold!! And you were standing still for long minutes to film your vidéo... OMG, I was freezing just looking out you. Thanks for the amazing content though.
I'll bet with a few additions, that could be pretty good. Ginger perhaps? Mint?
I've heard you can make tea out of the Mare's Tail plant, and also Dandelion root?
You guys should try making chicory, a popular coffee replacement. My favourite mix in my country is made with Obviously Chicory roots, Rye, Barley and Sugar Beet, all dried and roasted. The Coarse Powder looks quite like coffee. I believe what is happening in this one that the sugar beets are dried and roasted even burned a little amount to achieve the bitterness found in normal coffee.
I started drinking it because coffee unless extremely diluted started to make me sick, so I found this as a nice alternative and I found that it soothed my stomach too. Not trying to say its better than coffee, coffee is still way better at being coffee :D
Not to start any internet tea arguments, but I take the opinion that languages are descriptive and not prescriptive and therefore very liable to change. In this case, “tea” might originally be from a specific plant, but these days is accepted wider vernacular for any plant steeped in water. The same to be said with “Googling” and “Hoovering”. On another note, fantastic content. Much love from the UK and I dream of the day I can sell up and buy some acres of land in Canada
Wow, I love your videos! Subscribed! Now I know I have an endless supply of "tea" if the supply of coffee goes dry.
Hello! Also from Ontario here!! Curious as to where About’s you are because I’d like to try some of your gardening methods.
I think I read somewhere that grass is full of B17 or Laetrile, which is a cancer fighter. And grass clippings are good in compost piles. I made grass tea for my tomato plants and they were huge. As long as it hasn't been fertilized, grass is great.
try mixing it with other herbal tea ingredients! some chamomile and sage in there would propbably make for a lovely herbal tea that could become a daily drinker like you say
It's kinda extra supper cool that you're posting an update rather than reposting a corrected video. I wish more people would show that mistakes are not the end of the world.
I read the title as "Gross Herbal Tea Upgrade" and thought, doesn't that already say enough about it?
old video so odds are you won't see this but in Korea they dry the silk from corn and brew a tea like beverage from that
It's great to hear from you :)
Will there be an update video about the fence somtime, like you teased at the end of your video in August 2020?
Hey Blackhuf! We're working on a multi-part series about the fence. But much like the fence itself, it continues to be a bit of a work in progress. Thanks for the prodding though. It's helpful to see what people are interested in hearing about next! :)
@@BackToReality Aweseome! But remember, that it's most important to make videos, that YOU enjoy doing ;)
Good vibes your way 👩🏼🌾💕👨🌾
I can't believe you were corrected so much... Its a RUclips vid..... Just enjoy it. Please don't correct yourself so much, I'm watching a couple who lived in a van for a couple of years.... And experiment with most things they do..... This is the def worth cutting some slack for!
As long as the corrections are polite and helpful. I appreciate them too.
Great video
Bit late to comment here, but I honestly think everyone correcting you on the definition of tea should calm down. If we're going to be that technical--tea is a plant, not a beverage. The actual liquid that we drink is properly called 'tea liquor', or an 'infusion'; not 'tea'.
Anyway, as far as herbal teas, many culinary herbs are also usable as tea. Rosemary, sage, basil, and thyme. For basil it's generally 'Holy Basil'. Other plants you can research include bee balm, Echinacea, Lemon balm, ginger, valerian, catnip, blackberry, raspberry, mint, lemongrass... that's everything I can think of off hand. I don't know what all is tolerant to your zone though.
Funny. I was cooking a few hours ago and something remind me of this channel. I picked a few cloves of garlic with the intention to mince them and adding then to some peas, etc. One of those cloves had quite a big root already, a couple centimeters or so (for those who don't speak metric: under two inches). I wouldn't usually care, I would just slice it in half, remove that part of the clove and mince the rest.
But for whatever reason, I remembered this channel and decided that, now that a few weeks ago I set up a small and quick fence to protect some vegetables from my chicken, I decided I would plant that clove there as well, and so I did.
I know, it's something completely irrelevant but, still, it's funny that I see you've published a video in the very same day.
Have a nice day!
Thank you for sharing this little tidbit. I love these types of serendipity.
Please let us know if/how that clove grows in the coming months! :)
@@BackToReality haha, I'm not expecting anything but if it grows, I'll let you know.
@@fadetounforgiven you'd be surprised at how easy garlic is. It practically gross itself!
@@tonyaltobello6885 thank you. I live in the countryside and we used to always plant all kinds of things, from garlic to potatoes, from onions to tomatoes, from several kinds of peppers to beans and peas. Now I only take care of my small vineyard.
What I meant by "I'm not expecting anything" is that it's only one clover and I just did a hole in the ground with my finger, put the clover in and covered it again with soil. So, whatever comes, will be nice, but still, I didn't even remember when was the right time to plant, but it seems it's just about now in this part of the world.
Thank you for your kind words. I may try with some more clovers if I see some others with a grown root.
@@fadetounforgiven its never too late to plant garlic! I wish you goodluck with your garden!
Try a roasted comfrey tea!
This is all a great way to waste time instead of finishing the fence....
HA! Yeah, fair point. Lol
Interesting idea.
😁✌🖖👌👍😎
How interesting
corn tea, anyone?
I recently dried some rosehips from a wild rosebush in my yard. I spent a couple hours collecting enough to fill a cereal bowl, they're so small! I smashed them up with a fork and let it dry, stirring it daily in a bowl, for a week. My husband doesn't like the flavor of the tea, but I enjoy the fruity taste.
As a comparison, you could try making pearl barley and toasted pearl barley tea. Your description of the tea you made reminded me of those teas. I bought my toasted barley tea from a Korean market, since it’s such a staple in Korea, but the first time I made it I did it pretty much how you did in this video. Anyway very interesting experiment 🙂
GRASS BEER
I planted chamomile a few years ago in my yard and now it just keeps coming up and reseeding itself. It's tedious picking enough little flowers, but not as tedious as your tea.. Will definitely give your recipe a try, tho, when I get the chance.
Cool!
I buy roasted dandelion root tea all the time and it is delightful . I have never tried making my own but maybe you will be up to the challenge this year. Thank you for all the wonderful videos .
If someone industrialized the plant, would we figuratively hit gold? is it feasible to mass produce it, and have anyone research it medicinal benefits?
So much intrigue
This really has me giving a second look at all the Bermuda and st Augustine I’m pulling out these days.
We can all learn from each other! Thank you for clarifying and sharing.
Loving this down to our roots kind of conversation!!
One plant that I was surprised to enjoy as a herbal "tea" was stinging nettle leaves. Make sure to wear gloves and long sleeves when picking! And drying/dehydrating takes away the "sting" of the leaves.
I've never tried them as tea, but I have cooked them like spinach. They felt thicker, but very similar, and pretty comparable in flavor.