Yeah I have a book on identifying mushrooms, but I still wouldn’t collect them without someone who knows mushrooms and study’s them to confirm the species.
My neighbors hate me because I let chunks of my yard just grow so I can ID the plants. For instance, those monster greens in my yard are not weeds. They are curly dock.
If they are anything like my town they hand out tickets for anything that looks unkept. Some places won't let you have certain types of plants in your front yard. I'm surprised gardening isn't illegal without our government demanding a tax on us. Freedom is just a word
@@angel_0f_heaven because our country is so """""""free"""""""" you aren't even allowed to choose what plants are allowed to grow in your own yard without being harassed by police
@@angel_0f_heaven the police are the ones who come enforce things if you dont comply with the HOA, also, they are known for tearing down community gardens people will create without the proper permits. police go hand-in-hand with the destruction of our ecosystem & planet. they allow for it and they enforce it. they knowingly uphold it.
Honestly knowing foraging had helped so much in my gardening. All of my classmates ask me to identify weeds because our most common "weeds" are edible plants 😂
@@maryamaziz6009there's a very old channel called Trillium Wild Edibles that has a lot of great videos about wild edible plants if you couldn't tell from the name 😂
@@maryamaziz6009watch videos, read books about foraging and go outside and just start identifying plant. Everyday you will learn a new plant that you didn't know yesterday. It's so cool!
@@sunfI0wer😢 I'm sorry to hear that we have wild berries on our property and do our dander not to damage them. I also forage for wild leeks and mushrooms
My crazy neighbor guy has reported me for having dandelions growing in my flower bed and dead purple needle patch growing in a corner in my yard. Code enforcement actually came out to talk to me about it. I told them, “one man’s weeds is smother man’s food.” I let him know I eat those edibles for health reasons snd that was the end of that.
Yup. I do this too but I added medicinal herbs as well. If I can't eat it, make tea from it, or use it for medicine, then it doesn't belong in my garden. Neighbors complain about the "weeds" sometimes though.
I tried violet greens (seasoned like turnip or collard greens, cooked like similarly easy-wilting spinach) not long ago and LOVE them. I make violet syrup every spring (for violet soda) and have some oil and a tincture, and I've made candied/crystallized violet flowers but the greens and the soda are my favorite uses for violet so far.
I so dearly love the flavour of violet blossoms, and the scent, but, in the PNW, most violets are scentless yellow ones, and trying to find decent violet flavours online is nearly impossible.
@@TootiFruuti gather tons of violets, if they're fragrant ones. Wash them and get as much water off as possible. Pack in a clean, heat proof container, pour boiling water over them, let it sit until you have a deep purple liquid, strain flowers out, add an equal amount of sugar even with the liquid, for light syrup, two cups of sugar per cup of liquid for heavy syrup. Boil for a few, until the sugar is dissolved, Cool, put in fridge, use soda water to make violet soda
@@drq_seedeh i feel like they could understand. You don’t buy the dissection animals from a store, do you? If the teachers were qualified to forage than they could teach them one area they know and be confident no one’s going to poison themselves. I’m not American but my school even has an Outdoor Education elective that many picked.
So I'm not the only one scouring my lawn for food lol. 🌱🌿🌾☘🍃 I live in the country and I'm always wandering my properly collecting wild lettuce, plantain, dandelion & dead nettle etc. Thanks for the great content !
You may also learn that there's a range between cultivated and wild rather than two separate groups. Growing perennials in their own niche after realizing that plants grow in the proper conditions in the wild, and intercropping after learning that plants exist in various forms like groundcover or climbers is going to make this year and the next far more productive.
Im mainly pulling grass from the garden. Im currently keeping an eye on the plantains and goung to be sprinkling some of their seeds into the corners of the beds so theres better plants in the future since theres so many uses for them. You can eat them or use them to make a salve.
The epic thing about this is that as you journey from gardener to gardener+forager, you also become a better cook. Everybody will always ask "what's that flowery/peppery/lemony/slight bitter/woodsy note in the dish, it's great!" and you get to play with and make weird fusions of forgotten flavors that people of the past used on the daily.
You’re the one who turned me into a foraging fanatic! Now I know my rich, neighbors must wonder wtf I’m doing when I’m standing, really just inching along the perimeter of my yard, staring at all the wild vegetation that grows on the other side of my fencing. I live along a tidal marsh in New England so there’s just a crazy bunch of stuff that grows here! Thank you for peeking my new interest! ❤
Lol…the mailman though I was pulling weeds. I told him I was harvesting. He laughed until I mentioned some things and about the benefits of dandelion leaves and roots and how my Italian grandmother and I would walk in the woods to forage for wild greens. He said he was gonna leave his to grow and make some dandelion greens for him and his wife. These violets grow all over my lettuce and arugula beds. I just roasted em with the chiles, onions, and tomatillos and made salsa with em. Game changer. Definitely making that again.
I literally learn just this year just to cut a path just so I can walk through it and just let everything else grow wild and it looks so pretty though violets wild violets are just growing like crazy and huge clumps so now I know what to eat because I've let them grow so big and the dandelions went into seed so they're the white puffy little snowballs which are cute and then there's these purple lawn peppermint like stalks or square like that have purple tube like flowers but I don't know if you could eat those but they're still pretty to look at when you let the grass grow wild like that
If you're interested in this stuff I'd highly recommend getting the book "The path to wild food by Sandra Walker" it has native plants to North America the prairies to be more specific and what you can use them for and good recipes
This a misconception about gardeners, any garderner that knows what they’re doing will leave a few weeds here and there as it helps out the ecosystem of our garden
499...my son and daughters grew up with wat we all called yard salad...violets chickweed wood sorrel plantain and wild onion ...add a tomatoe a bit of cheese and your favorite dressing soooo delicious...btw we were shocked to see some of these plants in gourmet salad bags at kroger...
Yes! I always let lambs quarters grow in my garden. I harvest most when they are young and tender. ( I blanch and freeze them) I let done go to seed so I get my favorite wild friend returning every year!❤
I have only been gardening for 3 years. I started out with just flowers. Last year I got more involved and started noticing interesting leaves on "weeds". This year as soon as spring hit I started IDing the plants and finding out most of them are edible and/or medicinal. My husband was mad at me at first because I don't weed certain sections of the garden and I ask him not to mow sections of the yatd because they are full of wild edibles. I have since become a collector of foraging books am pretty much obsessed with learning to live independently of grocery stores. Whenever we need to grocery shop I just make a meal from stuff I collect from the garden and yard. It's incredibly fulfilling. The only down side is that it has bred a lot of insects and finding a natural way to protect my plants without poison is very difficult and I have lost a lot of plants due to bugs.
Dandelions, and poke salad. Wild basil, mint, and chives. I forget the name but there's a plant that has a heart shaped clover petals, and it taste like lemons.
I agree with you 1000%, i am a gardener,forager, herbalist. So I know the benefits of each flora that are growing in my yard. Wild or farmed, edible or medicinal or even toxic. Nothing goes to waste! Nothing is useless!
In the philippines we also sauté it and then eat it sautéed qnd not blended It taste good especially when theres an oystersauce while cooking and then paired with rice ❤❤❤❤❤❤
The only thing I pull out of garden is bindweed and lawn grass. Every so called week is actually an herb for culinary of medicinal use. Plus the chickens eat too
Its actually my dream if I ever own my own yard to plant it entirely with edible foods, primarily focused on local forage plants. With an impenetrable fence to keep my golf green happy neighbor from spraying the "weeds"/dandelion.
My Grandmother loves Gardening and is also good at identifying if the plant in front of her is a herb or not...She used an herb that she picked on our garden to treat my skin irritation one time
Imagine come home from a 9 to 5 that may even just be a midnight shift… and go into the wilderness with your happy-go-lucky basket to collect your very own food for fun
@@Marj-fi2ne wood sorrel has leaves almost identical to white clover, it will grow usually between 4 and 8 inches tall and has small yellow flowers,, it's stem will be almowt woody at the bottom if its mature, it's actually one of the easiest wild edibles i know to identify, it's also called lemon sorrel because it tastes just like citrus.
Huh. I'm sure the gardeners also love how you go and leave the roots so their plants that are cultivated to be as nutritious and tasty as possible have to share nutrients with common weeds that are not.
@@toururururururu its what kidney stones are made out of. if ya dont have kidney stones. then no problem. if ya do, its gonna burn when you pee. make up your own mind
@@toururururururu Probably yes. Oxalic acid is not great™ for your kidneys, although quite a few common foods do have a meaningful amount of it in them too. Fortunately it's water-soluble, so if you boil your sorrel and dump the water, you remove most of the oxalates you would be ingesting.
@@Amigo21189 Eating a lot in one sitting or eating it frequently is definitely bad, but would it be safe to add a small quantity to a salad or a glass of lemonade every once in a while? Would you still have to boil it, or would a tiny bit be safe to consume raw?
🧙🏻♂️ I have two kiddie pool planters set aside under a silver maple just for propagating viola sororia .. one for me, the other for my customers, who know its value in their food forests 😉
I have no idea from that short footage how to identify that plant. I'm an absolute novice (dandelion, clover, fiddleheads, morels) I'd love to learn more.
I have two tall hedge mustard looking plants in my garden. One is really delicate and extremely spicy(tastes like wasabi mixed with paint thinner), more or less smooth leaves. The other is sturdy, less spicy and hairy. Otherwise they are identical in every way. They look like two different species, but allegedly there's only one. Not sure what is going on there.
exwife, weedwack around this old jeep and trailer.. me- thats wild lettuce, morels and stjohns wort... um no, plus a tiny touch of stinging nettles (i make small strings and guide lines, jute line replacement). I had, 2 types lettuces from my raised bed, some red amaranth leaves, some wild lettuce, dandylion leaves, 2 fried morels and 3 (different types) radish's for lunch today. all topped with a egg from my hen. she's missing out :p It was delish :D
I eat the weeds some, but we have a ton of dock growing in the yard and I'm not sure exactly what kind it is or if it's OK or how to cook it. I've looked up about it, but none of it makes me certain enough to eat it. Then henbit and chickweed is easy and safe. And I don't use my wild onions nearly as much as I should. I've wondered about trying to move them to an area I don't mow but I'm not sure they'd survive it.
Take a photo and ask for plant ID apps. Don't depend on just one, I've gotten contradictory info. Safer to do as much research as possible b4 you eat anything 😋 good luck 👍 😉
I thought the plant was plantain! They have the same leaf shape don't they? Did you make soup or a dip? Looks delicious. Makes me miss eating Poke salad when my mom and dad would make it. 😊
Is that basically violet leaf soup? I've eaten the leaves raw in salads and cooked in mixed greens, but I'm hesitant about soup. Is it really good like that? And what did you add to it? It looked perhaps like chicken broth and maybe a little oil?
Most of the weeds I pull out of my garden beds are just plain grass. Plus, I have plenty of greens that I grow on purpose, I don't need to eat random weeds.
Hm, I wonder if one reason why some weeds are so abundant in places (besides their natural growing habits) is because people used to grow them as food, then they were abandoned as "undesirable" when lawns became popular?
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The plant in the video was Common Blue Violet - Viola sororia
I'm a herbalist and a forager and you never give really any information😢
I appreciate you mentioning it🤷🏽♀️👩🌾
Yup. Got em❤
Nice content
My front yard is full on these . I will not let my husband mow them down
Need to get on this level. I’m at the eat dandelion level currently
Me too 😂
same, dandelion!! This year, I'm expanding on mushrooms. The health benefits are incredible!
@@cayseydouglas6603 just remember there’s no such thing as a curious mushroom hunter.
Yeah I have a book on identifying mushrooms, but I still wouldn’t collect them without someone who knows mushrooms and study’s them to confirm the species.
Wild lettuce for me, dog.
My neighbors hate me because I let chunks of my yard just grow so I can ID the plants.
For instance, those monster greens in my yard are not weeds. They are curly dock.
What does the "5-0" have to do with foraging???
If they are anything like my town they hand out tickets for anything that looks unkept. Some places won't let you have certain types of plants in your front yard. I'm surprised gardening isn't illegal without our government demanding a tax on us. Freedom is just a word
@@angel_0f_heaven because our country is so """""""free"""""""" you aren't even allowed to choose what plants are allowed to grow in your own yard without being harassed by police
objectively based
@@angel_0f_heaven the police are the ones who come enforce things if you dont comply with the HOA, also, they are known for tearing down community gardens people will create without the proper permits. police go hand-in-hand with the destruction of our ecosystem & planet. they allow for it and they enforce it. they knowingly uphold it.
Honestly knowing foraging had helped so much in my gardening. All of my classmates ask me to identify weeds because our most common "weeds" are edible plants 😂
How or from where did you learn foraging i really want to but dont know where to start
@@maryamaziz6009just search up "wild edible plants in my area" + there's a lot of RUclips videos on the topic
@@maryamaziz6009there's a very old channel called Trillium Wild Edibles that has a lot of great videos about wild edible plants if you couldn't tell from the name 😂
@@maryamaziz6009watch videos, read books about foraging and go outside and just start identifying plant. Everyday you will learn a new plant that you didn't know yesterday. It's so cool!
To be fair, a weed is just anything that grows in a spot you don't want it to, especially if it does so repeatedly.
I love how, the more "weeds" I make friends with, the easier gardening becomes. it's a lot harder to kill something once you learn it's name
That is in fact incorrect sometimes knowing its name just allows you to hate it more gives it a label some thing easy to identify
How can I make peace with thorny goat weeds, and the crab grass.?
I think that's the psychological approach that has saved the lives of a few who encountered serial killers
I dont pull any dandelions out of my garden anymore. I just pluck off the flower when it starts to go to seed or else they can get out of control
I haven't even had to "go foraging" because all of my greens have been things I've weeded from the garden.
Nice! It's a great place to get them.
Yes, I forage on my own property.
me with my woodsorel could get wild blackberries too but my gma always kills them bc they have thorns
@@sunfI0wer😢 I'm sorry to hear that we have wild berries on our property and do our dander not to damage them. I also forage for wild leeks and mushrooms
My crazy neighbor guy has reported me for having dandelions growing in my flower bed and dead purple needle patch growing in a corner in my yard. Code enforcement actually came out to talk to me about it. I told them, “one man’s weeds is smother man’s food.” I let him know I eat those edibles for health reasons snd that was the end of that.
Yeah this is the basis of my native plant garden. I want to know every possible edible plant that will just grow anyways and then let it explode
Stay tuned for more! :D
Yup. I do this too but I added medicinal herbs as well. If I can't eat it, make tea from it, or use it for medicine, then it doesn't belong in my garden.
Neighbors complain about the "weeds" sometimes though.
I tried violet greens (seasoned like turnip or collard greens, cooked like similarly easy-wilting spinach) not long ago and LOVE them. I make violet syrup every spring (for violet soda) and have some oil and a tincture, and I've made candied/crystallized violet flowers but the greens and the soda are my favorite uses for violet so far.
I so dearly love the flavour of violet blossoms, and the scent, but, in the PNW, most violets are scentless yellow ones, and trying to find decent violet flavours online is nearly impossible.
VIOLET SODA???? My yard gets FILLED with violets each spring! I need to know how to make that
@@TootiFruuti gather tons of violets, if they're fragrant ones. Wash them and get as much water off as possible. Pack in a clean, heat proof container, pour boiling water over them, let it sit until you have a deep purple liquid, strain flowers out, add an equal amount of sugar even with the liquid, for light syrup, two cups of sugar per cup of liquid for heavy syrup. Boil for a few, until the sugar is dissolved, Cool, put in fridge, use soda water to make violet soda
@@AhNee so cool!! Thank you 🥹
@@AhNeewhere do you find the violets?
Foraging would be a great school subject. It's practical and fun, can be integrated into biology or PE.
omg I wish but most government wouldn't allow that since those aren't bought from shops or anything like that
@@drq_seedeh i feel like they could understand. You don’t buy the dissection animals from a store, do you? If the teachers were qualified to forage than they could teach them one area they know and be confident no one’s going to poison themselves. I’m not American but my school even has an Outdoor Education elective that many picked.
@@altrag3748 Iam pretty sure u misunderstood my comment but i don't remember the original meaning just know u got it wrong
@@drq_seed Did you not mean that food from wild plants that aren't from a store could be misidentified and potentially poisonous?
@@altrag3748 while that is true it's not what my comment meant as iam not against foraging. I still have no idea what it meant
I actually have a wild greens garden. lambsquartr, dock, dandelions, etc... so good!
"Sweet violets, sweeter than all the roses..."
So I'm not the only one scouring my lawn for food lol.
🌱🌿🌾☘🍃
I live in the country and I'm always wandering my properly collecting wild lettuce, plantain, dandelion & dead nettle etc. Thanks for the great content !
Don't forget lambs quarters...
"The weeds at the park are free. You can just take them."
but be careful of chemicals/pesticides :)
I once got told that I was the person someone would want with me in a crisis because I could "Turn lawn into lunch" 😆
Gardeners learning more about recognizijg plants and their habitats really helps plan the garden better.
You may also learn that there's a range between cultivated and wild rather than two separate groups. Growing perennials in their own niche after realizing that plants grow in the proper conditions in the wild, and intercropping after learning that plants exist in various forms like groundcover or climbers is going to make this year and the next far more productive.
You might also start seeking out edible landscaping plants hardy to your soil and zone. That's another one.
I love lambs quarters... put it in everything.
Im mainly pulling grass from the garden. Im currently keeping an eye on the plantains and goung to be sprinkling some of their seeds into the corners of the beds so theres better plants in the future since theres so many uses for them. You can eat them or use them to make a salve.
When the end comes…this guy will surely survive
These are the types of soups that my mum used to make, not foraged but green soups sometimes with a little milk or cream. YUM! Yours looks delicious 🎉
I’ve done the same with stinging nettle, so I know that is delicious.
Love it when I can "harvest" my yard!!
The epic thing about this is that as you journey from gardener to gardener+forager, you also become a better cook.
Everybody will always ask "what's that flowery/peppery/lemony/slight bitter/woodsy note in the dish, it's great!" and you get to play with and make weird fusions of forgotten flavors that people of the past used on the daily.
You’re the one who turned me into a foraging fanatic! Now I know my rich, neighbors must wonder wtf I’m doing when I’m standing, really just inching along the perimeter of my yard, staring at all the wild vegetation that grows on the other side of my fencing. I live along a tidal marsh in New England so there’s just a crazy bunch of stuff that grows here! Thank you for peeking my new interest! ❤
I'm so glad to hear that!! :D
Lol…the mailman though I was pulling weeds. I told him I was harvesting. He laughed until I mentioned some things and about the benefits of dandelion leaves and roots and how my Italian grandmother and I would walk in the woods to forage for wild greens. He said he was gonna leave his to grow and make some dandelion greens for him and his wife. These violets grow all over my lettuce and arugula beds. I just roasted em with the chiles, onions, and tomatillos and made salsa with em. Game changer. Definitely making that again.
Me: “I can use this!”
*begins eating the poison oak*
“oooh! stinging nettle!”
*makes poison ivy soup*
Really nice to see you doing this. It is very enjoyable and informative and I would love to learn more.😊
Where I live the purple ones grow in the valley and the yellow ones on top of the mountains
"here i made you some soup"
"Its green, whats in it?"
"Grass"
I literally learn just this year just to cut a path just so I can walk through it and just let everything else grow wild and it looks so pretty though violets wild violets are just growing like crazy and huge clumps so now I know what to eat because I've let them grow so big and the dandelions went into seed so they're the white puffy little snowballs which are cute and then there's these purple lawn peppermint like stalks or square like that have purple tube like flowers but I don't know if you could eat those but they're still pretty to look at when you let the grass grow wild like that
I am definitely trying this! Thank you!
What is the nutritional value?
Can it be eaten raw?
(eg: how is this applicable in a situation where one *_actually needs_* to forage?)
It looked perfect at the pot of greens. Yummm
As a gardener, you have a single plot, as a forager, the whole worlds your garden
If you're interested in this stuff I'd highly recommend getting the book "The path to wild food by Sandra Walker" it has native plants to North America the prairies to be more specific and what you can use them for and good recipes
No waste! Love it
What are those leaves? They almost look like big violet leaves
You got it!
Because they Are! Full credit!!!
This a misconception about gardeners, any garderner that knows what they’re doing will leave a few weeds here and there as it helps out the ecosystem of our garden
499...my son and daughters grew up with wat we all called yard salad...violets chickweed wood sorrel plantain and wild onion ...add a tomatoe a bit of cheese and your favorite dressing soooo delicious...btw we were shocked to see some of these plants in gourmet salad bags at kroger...
I knew violets were edible but I didn't know you could make a savory dish with them 😱
I have 2 male dogs. No foraging 😢. But i learn what was growing in my yard that is toxic to my dogs and ducks.
That soup …its colour…so dreamy 🤩
I have a ton of those in my yard! I love them, as do my chickens. I think they are so pretty. Havent tried to eat em!
Yes! I always let lambs quarters grow in my garden. I harvest most when they are young and tender. ( I blanch and freeze them) I let done go to seed so I get my favorite wild friend returning every year!❤
I have only been gardening for 3 years. I started out with just flowers. Last year I got more involved and started noticing interesting leaves on "weeds". This year as soon as spring hit I started IDing the plants and finding out most of them are edible and/or medicinal. My husband was mad at me at first because I don't weed certain sections of the garden and I ask him not to mow sections of the yatd because they are full of wild edibles. I have since become a collector of foraging books am pretty much obsessed with learning to live independently of grocery stores. Whenever we need to grocery shop I just make a meal from stuff I collect from the garden and yard. It's incredibly fulfilling. The only down side is that it has bred a lot of insects and finding a natural way to protect my plants without poison is very difficult and I have lost a lot of plants due to bugs.
Dandelions, and poke salad. Wild basil, mint, and chives. I forget the name but there's a plant that has a heart shaped clover petals, and it taste like lemons.
me whipping out my blender in the middle of the forest
I love purslane, it grows thick in my backyard, so good😁
I have some cactus as well. ❤
If I've learned one thing from foraging videos, it's that there are a million more greens to eat than what we usually see 😅
They're delicious the flowers edible also
I agree with you 1000%, i am a gardener,forager, herbalist.
So I know the benefits of each flora that are growing in my yard. Wild or farmed, edible or medicinal or even toxic. Nothing goes to waste! Nothing is useless!
Chlorophyll soup awesome
Yep got some purslane the other day . The birds planted it in one of my flowerpots . Got white violets too.
I’m making my gallons of dandelion wine right now. It is so worth the effort!
In the philippines we also sauté it and then eat it sautéed qnd not blended
It taste good especially when theres an oystersauce while cooking and then paired with rice ❤❤❤❤❤❤
What does it taste like? If it can be described…
I'm gonna guess it tastes of the colour green!!! 🤔🤣🤣🤣
violet greens taste like a milder version of baby spinach
@@smartard Thank you! I appreciate the educated answer 🙏🏼☺️
@@EddieTheH soooo money? 😝🤌🏼🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@LaDii3BuBbLeS i have eaten a lot of it as well. go try it, you wont be surprised, nor will you be disappointed.
The only thing I pull out of garden is bindweed and lawn grass. Every so called week is actually an herb for culinary of medicinal use. Plus the chickens eat too
Its actually my dream if I ever own my own yard to plant it entirely with edible foods, primarily focused on local forage plants. With an impenetrable fence to keep my golf green happy neighbor from spraying the "weeds"/dandelion.
My Grandmother loves Gardening and is also good at identifying if the plant in front of her is a herb or not...She used an herb that she picked on our garden to treat my skin irritation one time
You would probably like my yard, it’s basically just a field and there’s more fields and woods around us
Mushrooms are abundant
Wild edible vegetables, flowers, roots and fruits are among the healthiest nutrients for the body!
Imagine come home from a 9 to 5 that may even just be a midnight shift… and go into the wilderness with your happy-go-lucky basket to collect your very own food for fun
👍
❤️ From India 🇮🇳
Im proud of myself..I don't have Violets, but I knew what they were! And I am a foraging gardener. I have issues weeding...lol!
I’ve got thousands of plants growing all over my farm
Purslane grows like crazy in my garden as does wood sorrel
Purslane is yummy. Never tried wood sorrel and don't know how to identify it.
@@Marj-fi2ne wood sorrel has leaves almost identical to white clover, it will grow usually between 4 and 8 inches tall and has small yellow flowers,, it's stem will be almowt woody at the bottom if its mature, it's actually one of the easiest wild edibles i know to identify, it's also called lemon sorrel because it tastes just like citrus.
Huh. I'm sure the gardeners also love how you go and leave the roots so their plants that are cultivated to be as nutritious and tasty as possible have to share nutrients with common weeds that are not.
gardener: a u stealing my mulch?
The only thing i know how to forage is sorrel because it looks like clover and it tastes sour with a tiny yellow flower
too bad about it containing oxalic acid though
@@smartard is that bad I've eaten so much of it
@@toururururururu its what kidney stones are made out of.
if ya dont have kidney stones. then no problem.
if ya do, its gonna burn when you pee. make up your own mind
@@toururururururu Probably yes. Oxalic acid is not great™ for your kidneys, although quite a few common foods do have a meaningful amount of it in them too. Fortunately it's water-soluble, so if you boil your sorrel and dump the water, you remove most of the oxalates you would be ingesting.
@@Amigo21189 Eating a lot in one sitting or eating it frequently is definitely bad, but would it be safe to add a small quantity to a salad or a glass of lemonade every once in a while? Would you still have to boil it, or would a tiny bit be safe to consume raw?
I'm constantly trying to identify every weed that pops up before I pull it. It's added many amazing natives to my yard.
I sure do hope that after a while ican start getting iridium quality forage items
That's me with all the gosh dang lamb's quarters in my garden.
Violet greens, yes sir! Never thought to make a soup out of them, though 🤔
That green good reminds me of lunch time at kindergarden
🧙🏻♂️ I have two kiddie pool planters set aside under a silver maple just for propagating viola sororia .. one for me, the other for my customers, who know its value in their food forests 😉
Oops, all night shade, proceeds to hallucinate vividly and die
Not ALL Nightshade: Potatoes, Tomatoes, and Eggplant ring a bell?
I have no idea from that short footage how to identify that plant. I'm an absolute novice (dandelion, clover, fiddleheads, morels) I'd love to learn more.
Random fact: you can make something similar to coffee with dandelion roots
I make violet jelly every year. Now Ibhave to try this also.
foraging is goals
I guess I know what I'm having for lunch for the next five years
Knew they were edible and ate the flowers this spring. Didn’t think about soup. What was the thing you added some sort of broth or something?
Yes, frozen chicken broth!
Wild violets are good raw I eat them all the time out of the yard very high in vitamin c I eat a few very day
All of that food that I have been throwing in yard debris.
how did you learn how to ID plants? do you have any book recommendations?
Local field guides for your area. I write about this more in my "How to Start Foraging" article! Link is in my bio.
I have two tall hedge mustard looking plants in my garden. One is really delicate and extremely spicy(tastes like wasabi mixed with paint thinner), more or less smooth leaves. The other is sturdy, less spicy and hairy. Otherwise they are identical in every way.
They look like two different species, but allegedly there's only one. Not sure what is going on there.
exwife, weedwack around this old jeep and trailer.. me- thats wild lettuce, morels and stjohns wort... um no, plus a tiny touch of stinging nettles (i make small strings and guide lines, jute line replacement).
I had, 2 types lettuces from my raised bed, some red amaranth leaves, some wild lettuce, dandylion leaves, 2 fried morels and 3 (different types) radish's for lunch today. all topped with a egg from my hen. she's missing out :p It was delish :D
Yes I agree. Getting the wrong thing is scary though.
awesome goop dude !
I eat the weeds some, but we have a ton of dock growing in the yard and I'm not sure exactly what kind it is or if it's OK or how to cook it. I've looked up about it, but none of it makes me certain enough to eat it. Then henbit and chickweed is easy and safe. And I don't use my wild onions nearly as much as I should. I've wondered about trying to move them to an area I don't mow but I'm not sure they'd survive it.
Take a photo and ask for plant ID apps. Don't depend on just one, I've gotten contradictory info. Safer to do as much research as possible b4 you eat anything 😋 good luck 👍 😉
When the flowers turn to little onions, place Those where you want onions 🧅🧅🧅
Genius
Also gardeners that plant has rhizomes kind of like bulbs, so you have the dig out violets instead of pulling them out….
I thought the plant was plantain! They have the same leaf shape don't they? Did you make soup or a dip? Looks delicious. Makes me miss eating Poke salad when my mom and dad would make it. 😊
Is that basically violet leaf soup? I've eaten the leaves raw in salads and cooked in mixed greens, but I'm hesitant about soup. Is it really good like that? And what did you add to it? It looked perhaps like chicken broth and maybe a little oil?
Yes, soup. Chicken broth and flavoring agents!
Or just eat them as a salad green...
Most of the weeds I pull out of my garden beds are just plain grass. Plus, I have plenty of greens that I grow on purpose, I don't need to eat random weeds.
Omg. If this is what’s growing all in the shady area of my yard… I’m going to FREAK!!!!!
wow😍😍😍😍
I get your point, but plants aren't super friendly with one another, and letting one plant grow may mean killing another
I have the same flannel!!
Hm, I wonder if one reason why some weeds are so abundant in places (besides their natural growing habits) is because people used to grow them as food, then they were abandoned as "undesirable" when lawns became popular?