Want to start foraging? Here is my foraging resource guide to help you get started: robgreenfield.org/foraging Here is my Find a Forager page to find a forager to learn from in your area: robgreenfield.org/findaforager
Surprised you didn't cover purslane the most nutritious with ALA/EPA Omega 3 which is hard to get from the SAD diet. Nice video I kept wood sorrel in my potted plants thinking they are clovers fixing nitrogen. But no sorrel use nitrogen.
Rob.. a favorite treat of mine is to take a bunch or the dandelion flowers, brush it off with a pastry brush, then poke it down into a jar of raw honey. Let sit for a couple weeks. You can eat these alone of put them on other dishes/salads as a condiment.
Warning: there's a plant called "mountain death-camas" that looks a lot like wild onions, but is quite poisonous (hence the name). Make sure you pick the right plant!
I was wondering how you tell the difference when he was talking about wild onions and garlic. Do either of those plants smell like onions enough that they confuse you? Because there's many allium bulbs that have been domesticated that are poison so it doesn't surprise me that there are things in the family that are poison
Notes: ***Only Eat What You Know*** Stinging Nettle- 1:50 You can roll it up and eat it raw, in a tea or sautéed Plantain: 2:59 both food and medicine. Chew it up to make a pulsus and apply to area. Dandelion: 4:06 Every part is edible. Root can be used to make coffee substitute when roasted. Wild Mint: 5:00 Many varieties and found in different locations. Wood Sorrel: 5:50 Often mistaken for clover. Lemon/tart flavor. Watercress 7:00 Found by fresh water. Strong flavor add to salads sauté or eat raw. Wild Brassica 7:50 Buds, flowers, seed pods and leaves are edible. Wild Onion/Ramps/Wild Leeks: 9:03 Seeds, leaves, bulbs are all edible. Blackberry/Raspberry 10:09 Can eat the berries and the leaves make a good tea. Apples: 11:45
My grandmother was Cherokee. She never actually taught me to forage, but I would see her occasionally chew on a wall plant. She kind of didn't do lunch. So I learned on her Farm to eat pawpaws, crabapples, walnuts, wood sorrel, dandelions and blackberries, raspberries, and mulberries. Then my mom would send me to her sister's house in the city and she would catch me eating acorns and other such things and just freaked out lol. Once her mother-in-law caught her spanking me for eating blackberries that's a lady had planted herself LOL. by the way I mentioned eating raw acorns don't eat too many Raw where they will make you very sick LOL if you boil them, dry them and grind them up and had a little to your pancake batter it's yummy though. I wish Grandma had taught me formally and more. She died when I was young. And she taught my mom's son but Mom couldn't remember and now she's gone too.
Wow I remember 8 years ago, when I was 17 y/o and interview to be you and your sister's roommate. So much has changed for you in a decade, its great to see you thriving! Growing fast like this beautiful plants
Great video! Be careful not to mistake wild onion for lily of the valley, an extremly poisonous plant! They look very alike, especially without the blossoms! They look a bit like wild garlic, which tastes awesome!
Thanks for sharing! I've been living in rural Japan for over a year now and have been surprised to see fruit growing wild during my walks to and from work. I occasionally harvest some fruit on my way home. It's wonderful to be able to tell what time of the year it is just by seeing what's growing by the side of the road!
Try to eat the youngest ferns’ leaves it can be eaten too. It’s delicious. You can steam and mix with salad dressing, or sautéed in cooking oil with garlic, soy sauce and onion with pork meat or shrimp. Or even without.
When i was young i knew a lot of edible weeds, i went to the field to get greens for our chickens. Here, i am in America, i found there are so many varieties there, look so similar...we had some wild blue berries Even in Fl, when we were hiking in Suwannee rive State Park. Foraging is fun.💜
I really loved how encouraging you were. I've been thinking about learning how to forage, and I was pretty nervous about it. This was exactly what I needed to hear!
rec. watching the ALONE series on the history channel $ 500,000 winners purse. There was a women on the channel I was rooting for that was on season 3? and she was a biologist- her foraging knowledge played well in her survival.
Hickory nuts were a staple in my home growing up...if you were watching tv, then you sat at the corner table & picked the nuts from the hulls. My mom used them when baking Christmas cookies.
Broad Leaf Plantain has adapted in my area to grow it's leaves much closer to the ground to evade destruction by lawn mowers. It's most common use has been making poultice with honey and aloe to alleviate bee stings. Didn't know you could eat it. :) Thanks!
I like that... by Robin Greenfield: Start in your own backyard... Dandelions, Nettles, Wood Sorrels, And The Clovers... In Video Duration 12:47 - 13:31.
In my area there are crabapple, apple, and peach trees that are completely abandoned. There is also a filbert tree that I collect nuts from. Stinging Nettle is probably my favorite. Most consider it a weed, but it's quite awesome -- and good for making cordage or even textiles (if you have the time)
Great video! I appreciate you sharing this knowledge. One recommendation would be to show a close-up picture of all the plants you cover along with the name on the picture. There were a few of the plants there was no close up of. Thank you again! Keep up the great work.
Thank you for making the videos that you make! I'm a beginner and I'm taking notes. Can't believe we've just been walking through food this whole time! Definitely not going to touch what I'm not sure about. Also gonna definitely wash my greens before I eat them hahaha I'm too paranoid about poop particles
I live in Madison Wisconsin and I have been walking around trying to find wild edibles. And I have a book but it's kinda old and so I research online. I'm a prepper and I am trying to learn this stuff so that I can survive in the wild living off the land.
12:30, I remember when I was teaching up at Fordham College Rose Hill campus. Tons of apple trees with apples going to waste. Used to take home a bagful, but it really depressed me. I mean, all those hungry students who could've been fed...
Crab Apples are also easy to find and pick. If you boil them into a jelly and add to taste; sugar. You will find a free source of jam....well minus the sugar.
I remember as a child at church we would eat berries that grew on the side and other plants from the floor lol until they told us to stop cuz bums pee there 🥲 no one even thought us to do it we just tried it and they were good 😂 Thank you for making this video
This guy is my hero!! How synchronistic that his name is Greenfield. I just started foraging and am amazed how much is edible/medicinal. My dream is to also live sustainably off-grid with a bike as transport; I have already started designing my tiny house with a lot of brainstorming help from Rob. PS: I'm from Wisconsin too and could totally hear his accent when he says "Grocery Store". Hahaha
I wasn't sure about giving him a like because I would have appreciated a slower close ups , but he redeemed his self after telling me he's from Wisconsin. Fond du lacians might be a bunch of drunken bar brawler, but we're loyal ones😂
Foraging wild plants and foraging wild animals are a great choice. All are free, free veggies and free meat. Too much plants increase my sugar. Plants use sunlight and chlorophyll to create sugar from the nutrients and water in the soil to create energy for the plant. Sugar is the main cause of heart disease fat isn’t. I use both plants and animals.
I’m pretty sure that they’re blackberries. I’m growing some in my garden and have raspberries right next to it and the leaves look similar to blackberries.
This video would be more helpful if it included closeup of the plants' key features so we could tell what they look like! Watercress just looks like the back of a stump covered in sorrel, from what I can tell!
Hey me and my kids are moonseed today. It’s confirmed. My kids ate more. They didn’t eat the seeds though. They started acting weird and so I realized the fruit was not wild grapes at that point. Took them to ER. Still waiting the response form poison control. What do you think we should do? They seem fine now, about 4.5 hours later
I’ve tried and tried but I can never find much of anything! The hardest part is knowing where I can even forage without having to pay a lot of money to someone for a permit or something. Any tips on that?
Hii, I want to do this sooo bad, but I don’t know where to start. How do you find the places to forage? I live in a city in Canada and have no idea how to find these areas
I do forage but mostly mushrooms in season. A note of caution should be added: don't forage in areas where the landscape is maintained by professional services using pesticides and fertilizers. Also, avoid foraging near areas of heavy traffic including trails where people walk their pets.
@@nic.k_o You study and learn the basic tests (Spore test, etc.) and never eat a mushroom you aren't sure is edible. And, never eat raw mushrooms. Most of the easy to identify edibles are safe and require a little investigation to become familiar with. Learn the mushrooms that will kill you especially Aminita Phalloides & Aminita Virosa there are others to learn too. Then start with oyster mushrooms, Shaggy Manes and Slippery Jacks (Suillus & Boletes). Find a mushroom club near you and learn. Good Luck and if you are not certain DO NOT EAT.
@@nic.k_o quick word of advice on identifying shrooms or any other plant or fungus. Learn the ones that will harm u first. Easier that way. Also don’t mess with lbm’s little brown mushrooms, there all poisonous.
@@nic.k_o quick word of advice on identifying shrooms or any other plant or fungus. Learn the ones that will harm u first. Easier that way. Also don’t mess with lbm’s little brown mushrooms, there all poisonous.
Many many many edible plants have a poisonous look alike. I wish when he was talking about wild onions he would have mentioned that they have a poisonous look alike. If it smells like an onion and it taste like an onion it's an onion. If it doesn't it's poisonous.
@@78_mary31 never eat anything that you're not sure of. An easy plant to start with that everyone can recognize is dandelions. There's no look alike, and every part of the plant is edible do mature plants the leaves my taste. slightly bitter. it's very nutritional and has medicinal benefits. Wild Onion is easy to spot, there is a Dudley look alike. But there's an easy way to tell. And that is just smell it. If it's small sulfurous like onion or garlic then it's onion if not then it isn't. They grow right next to each other so test each shoot. Clover is easy to recognize. Plantain if you know it. I'm not sure where is your location but Papa's are pretty easy to recognize and crab apples. And black walnuts. if you know what wood sorrel is it's edible. Acorns are edible if they are prepared properly. You'll find a video how to bleach the tannins out of them dry dry them out then and grind them up like a flour, I love to replace a little flower with a Acorn flour in pancakes. when you begin getting two things you don't know, you might get help at the local University or Community College to identify plants. Some may even offer a course. You can take survival courses, You can go with someone who Gathers. it is possible to learn from a book, but as Chris learned in Into the Wild that can be very dangerous. so don't eat anything you dont know
@@carolmoore1038 damn thank you so much usually while watching discovery I wonder if people had the knowledge to know if each plant was edible or not it would be much easier to live in the wild
Be very careful when harvesting wild onions. Death camas look scarily similar to them, and you don't want to eat those. Wild onions smell like onions and have more roundly curved leaves, while death camas don't smell like onions and have more sharply curved leaves.
Several of these things you point out have dangerous, similar plants, often in the same family. Foraging for beginners should never be seperate from the identification factor. Knowing what NOT to eat is far more important.
@@twitch.tvmorkani3142 that is exactly what the title is, and it doesn't mention identification. It's a list of ideas for things somebody can look into if they don't know where to start
? I wouldn't go off of just this video even if he had closeups. Everyone still needs to look up pictures and info or even take a foraging course maybe...
These plants really are for beginners. But if you want to forage, you HAVE to research and research. To know the plants each day a little bit more. Watch many videos, read books, go outside. Don't rely only on this video. There are many videos about foraging in general, identification, and there are a lot of videos that talk about just one plant at a time. Always learn each day to be sure that what you're foraging it's edible.
Great video! Back in early April during the worst of the CV Lockdown, I ran out of fresh vegetables but was able to forage dandelions and chickweed growing in my tiny backyard.
We had Hard Times once and took the foraging. My adult children came to check up on us and wouldn't touch the food LOL my one son's girlfriend had a salad with us and she said it was quite yummy I told her she's going to die now LOL Anyway the point is that we didn't miss a Beat nutrition-wise. And saved a ton of money. And I didn't have to ask my children to make sacrifices for us.
Stinging nettles are my favourite, very rich in iron. Just boil some water and put them in for 30 seconds, after that they won't sting any longer. When I was in Italy, I used to cook "risotto alle ortiche" (ortiche = stinging nettles) which is a traditional delicious dish in the mountains in Italy. Rob, alternatively, if you are still foraging, eat them as spinach, they are absolutely delicious! 🤗💖😁
Great info! I have been eating them most days for the last couple months! I make tea, soup, pesto, and boil and then lightly sauté them with olive oil. Sending love!
@@thesanfranciscoseahorse473 No spines. It's more like short hairs that have an irritant on them. If you lightly brush the plant, you feel it sting for a few minutes, but you grab it hard and nothing happens. When you're eating them you don't really notice it at all.
I just made a comment elsewhere about forging as a child and how am I native Grandmother Had taught me things but my mother's sister didn't understand. She would spank me LOL wood sorrel was my favorite
Let's all take a second to reflect on the apparent origins of the name: Dandelion. I've heard many tales of how the vibrant, yellow flower with sharply serrated leaves was originally named "Dents de Lion", meaning "Lion's Teeth". Given the flower's mane-like appearance and the toothy nature of it's leaves, this would make a lot of sense. Ironically however, the French have their own name for the plant: "Pissenlit", which comes from the yellow streaks that pale children like to smear on each other's arms while chiding, "You pissed the bed, pissed the bed". Just a little fun fact, and back to episode.....
Yep we used to call the dandelion pee the beds, put under your chin and if it glowed means you peed the bed, , , , I was about 6yrs old, honest, I want to make dandelion coffee, but finding an area where dogs dont walk is about as rare as rocking horse doo doo around here in the uk, hull
And sadly corporations like MONSANTO kill it all & convince the sheeple that weeds are useless & troublesome when this couldn't be further from the truth. So everyone be sure that where you forage it hasn't been sprayed by the local council with glyphosates but hasn't died off yet.
One of my favorites and easy to find is lambsquarters or goosefoot or as I call it wild spinach. I am blessed to have an acre full! I steam and jar over 200 pints a year!. Sauteed with EVOO and fresh ramps and wild garlic, it is a great side with my annual venison harvest, It seems every time I forage I discover a new addition to my knowlwdge. Here in NY state I have recently come upon a large patch of wild asparagus!!! The crown jewel of foraging!!! What most people don't realize is that all these wild foods are pesticide free and nutritionally more potent than their store counterparts!!! Love to forage!! Saves money too as a pound an 8 oz bag of fresh spinach costs around 3 dollars.
Oh! Watching you wander around, plucking and chewing all manner of botanica, reminds me of my childhood in South San Francisco, CA. I learned purely through childlore about plants were edible. Kids are willing to try so much. To eat weird things. Especially things that grow wild. There was a hanging blossom we'd pluck, pick off the petals, and suck out what we believed to be nectar. There was sour grass, dunno what it was called. Did have a bloom but I don't believe it was dandelion. Long, dark green, sturdy stem we'd pick, pop off the flower, and chew on the grass, puckering our cheeks. Millennials had Sour Patch Kids. We had grass in the side yard.
I am growing broad leaf plantain (Plantago major) in a pot here in my home in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I found it growing by the roadside, I picked it and planted in a pot. There are more of them in the mountains in Malaysia, I found them growing wild abundantly in Cameron Highlands which is Malaysia's premier mountain resort. The leaves have anti-nicotine substances, so for people trying to quit smoking, I was told from what I read that chewing the leaves can kill nicotine craving..in US they have commercially manufactured anti-nicotine pills from this plant..
Want to start foraging?
Here is my foraging resource guide to help you get started:
robgreenfield.org/foraging
Here is my Find a Forager page to find a forager to learn from in your area:
robgreenfield.org/findaforager
Surprised you didn't cover purslane the most nutritious with ALA/EPA Omega 3 which is hard to get from the SAD diet. Nice video I kept wood sorrel in my potted plants thinking they are clovers fixing nitrogen. But no sorrel use nitrogen.
Rob.. a favorite treat of mine is to take a bunch or the dandelion flowers, brush it off with a pastry brush, then poke it down into a jar of raw honey. Let sit for a couple weeks. You can eat these alone of put them on other dishes/salads as a condiment.
Why can't you cover your legs and top of your feet?
Someday iwant to be your personal assistant because iwant to be like you sir rob
Bob; A Bro Showed an awesome Way too Cook almost Anything on RUclips having Within A Green BellPepper Hollowed Out.. Smart Hu?
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Warning: there's a plant called "mountain death-camas" that looks a lot like wild onions, but is quite poisonous (hence the name). Make sure you pick the right plant!
@Tuff 2: electric Boogaloo Crows poison is another that is deadly and looks like onion and grows next to it. Not quite as deadly as Death Camas.
I was wondering how you tell the difference when he was talking about wild onions and garlic. Do either of those plants smell like onions enough that they confuse you? Because there's many allium bulbs that have been domesticated that are poison so it doesn't surprise me that there are things in the family that are poison
Thank you for the warning!
Thank you. I was going to add this comment, but you already did!
how can we tell the difference?
Notes:
***Only Eat What You Know***
Stinging Nettle- 1:50 You can roll it up and eat it raw, in a tea or sautéed
Plantain: 2:59 both food and medicine. Chew it up to make a pulsus and apply to area.
Dandelion: 4:06 Every part is edible. Root can be used to make coffee substitute when roasted.
Wild Mint: 5:00 Many varieties and found in different locations.
Wood Sorrel: 5:50 Often mistaken for clover. Lemon/tart flavor.
Watercress 7:00 Found by fresh water. Strong flavor add to salads sauté or eat raw.
Wild Brassica 7:50 Buds, flowers, seed pods and leaves are edible.
Wild Onion/Ramps/Wild Leeks: 9:03 Seeds, leaves, bulbs are all edible.
Blackberry/Raspberry 10:09 Can eat the berries and the leaves make a good tea.
Apples: 11:45
Thank you very much. This comment should be pinned ❤️
Food theory RUclips channel: *eats a tree*
You are an amazing soul. Thank you.
Bless you sister!
Idk why but I thought you were going to say
Stinging nettle, you can roll it up and smoke it lol
I just "found" sorrel growing in my garden. For years I just thought it was a weed. Thank you for the education.
Great Erik!
probably clover, sorrels only grow in forests
@@MostIntelligentMan nah I saw some wood sorrels growing in my garden hehe
@@MostIntelligentMan not true, wood sorrells grow just about anywhere
My grandmother was Cherokee. She never actually taught me to forage, but I would see her occasionally chew on a wall plant. She kind of didn't do lunch. So I learned on her Farm to eat pawpaws, crabapples, walnuts, wood sorrel, dandelions and blackberries, raspberries, and mulberries. Then my mom would send me to her sister's house in the city and she would catch me eating acorns and other such things and just freaked out lol. Once her mother-in-law caught her spanking me for eating blackberries that's a lady had planted herself LOL. by the way I mentioned eating raw acorns don't eat too many Raw where they will make you very sick LOL if you boil them, dry them and grind them up and had a little to your pancake batter it's yummy though. I wish Grandma had taught me formally and more. She died when I was young. And she taught my mom's son but Mom couldn't remember and now she's gone too.
Wow I remember 8 years ago, when I was 17 y/o and interview to be you and your sister's roommate. So much has changed for you in a decade, its great to see you thriving! Growing fast like this beautiful plants
the earth is enough for a mans needs but not for a mans greed
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Very true
I almost tried to start a philosophy debate here lol
Good job!
or woman's
Great video! Be careful not to mistake wild onion for lily of the valley, an extremly poisonous plant! They look very alike, especially without the blossoms! They look a bit like wild garlic, which tastes awesome!
Just smell them, the fragrance of onions is impossible not to recognize.
Thanks for sharing! I've been living in rural Japan for over a year now and have been surprised to see fruit growing wild during my walks to and from work. I occasionally harvest some fruit on my way home. It's wonderful to be able to tell what time of the year it is just by seeing what's growing by the side of the road!
We used to hunt for “lemongrass” as kids! We didn’t know it was edible, we just figured it out the old fashioned way lol
The dandelion, clover and mint has become a few of my favorite foraging plants in my back yard!!! Ty for sharing
Thanks from Ukraine. Your pronunciation is very easy to understand.
Try to eat the youngest ferns’ leaves it can be eaten too. It’s delicious. You can steam and mix with salad dressing, or sautéed in cooking oil with garlic, soy sauce and onion with pork meat or shrimp. Or even without.
When i was young i knew a lot of edible weeds, i went to the field to get greens for our chickens. Here, i am in America, i found there are so many varieties there, look so similar...we had some wild blue berries Even in Fl, when we were hiking in Suwannee rive State Park. Foraging is fun.💜
I really loved how encouraging you were. I've been thinking about learning how to forage, and I was pretty nervous about it. This was exactly what I needed to hear!
You know I realized that if someone was stranded or lost somewhere in the wilderness, this could be great for
survival tips.
rec. watching the ALONE series on the history channel $ 500,000 winners purse. There was a women on the channel I was rooting for that was on season 3? and she was a biologist- her foraging knowledge played well in her survival.
yes thatsy
Hickory nuts were a staple in my home growing up...if you were watching tv, then you sat at the corner table & picked the nuts from the hulls. My mom used them when baking Christmas cookies.
Broad Leaf Plantain has adapted in my area to grow it's leaves much closer to the ground to evade destruction by lawn mowers. It's most common use has been making poultice with honey and aloe to alleviate bee stings. Didn't know you could eat it. :) Thanks!
love that you are barefooting/grounding!
I like that... by Robin Greenfield: Start in your own backyard... Dandelions, Nettles, Wood Sorrels, And The Clovers... In Video Duration 12:47 - 13:31.
In my area there are crabapple, apple, and peach trees that are completely abandoned. There is also a filbert tree that I collect nuts from. Stinging Nettle is probably my favorite. Most consider it a weed, but it's quite awesome -- and good for making cordage or even textiles (if you have the time)
I will named my first sim after you Rob ever since the Sims 4 Eco Lifestyle dlc came out
So much goodness in them thar woods!
I like the one new plant per week idea… super smart
Great video! I appreciate you sharing this knowledge. One recommendation would be to show a close-up picture of all the plants you cover along with the name on the picture. There were a few of the plants there was no close up of. Thank you again! Keep up the great work.
Thank you for making the videos that you make! I'm a beginner and I'm taking notes. Can't believe we've just been walking through food this whole time! Definitely not going to touch what I'm not sure about. Also gonna definitely wash my greens before I eat them hahaha I'm too paranoid about poop particles
Now time to begin my life as a wild person. Surviving on mint leaves, stinging nettle, and onion petals.
Fiddlehead, chantrelle, blueberry, wild raspberry wild strawberry, lobster mushroom, apples. Will try some greens now thnx!
I live in Madison Wisconsin and I have been walking around trying to find wild edibles. And I have a book but it's kinda old and so I research online. I'm a prepper and I am trying to learn this stuff so that I can survive in the wild living off the land.
This will be good because I'm always hungry. Yum yum yum!!
Amazing video! Thank you for what you do! :D
Just found your channel and thank you! I love foraging!
Hey Wisconsin🐬. Thank u4 sharing, I am so gr8ful 4 the opportunity 2 be growing healthy foods🌀
12:30, I remember when I was teaching up at Fordham College Rose Hill campus. Tons of apple trees with apples going to waste. Used to take home a bagful, but it really depressed me. I mean, all those hungry students who could've been fed...
Thank you young man...very nice information
6:30 when I was a kid I used to sit around and just eat a ton of these for no reason
Thanks for sharing this!
Thank you. I enjoyed that.
Good stuff Robin, Didn't hear 1 cicada only thousands in my head,
Crab Apples are also easy to find and pick. If you boil them into a jelly and add to taste; sugar. You will find a free source of jam....well minus the sugar.
This is fantastic
Thank you!
My grandmother, born in 1900, would send me out regularly to gather watercress, ramp, poke, and rhubarb
Thank you very much.
Awesome video. Thanks! 😀
I remember as a child at church we would eat berries that grew on the side and other plants from the floor lol until they told us to stop cuz bums pee there 🥲 no one even thought us to do it we just tried it and they were good 😂
Thank you for making this video
I love this video. Them you so much. I subscribed because I really enjoyed it.
This guy is my hero!! How synchronistic that his name is Greenfield. I just started foraging and am amazed how much is edible/medicinal. My dream is to also live sustainably off-grid with a bike as transport; I have already started designing my tiny house with a lot of brainstorming help from Rob. PS: I'm from Wisconsin too and could totally hear his accent when he says "Grocery Store". Hahaha
Very nice "Trailside snack"
I love Woods❤❤❤❤❤❤
I wasn't sure about giving him a like because I would have appreciated a slower close ups , but he redeemed his self after telling me he's from Wisconsin. Fond du lacians might be a bunch of drunken bar brawler, but we're loyal ones😂
Subscribed after that intro!
Rob Greenfield for President
Foraging wild plants and foraging wild animals are a great choice. All are free, free veggies and free meat. Too much plants increase my sugar. Plants use sunlight and chlorophyll to create sugar from the nutrients and water in the soil to create energy for the plant. Sugar is the main cause of heart disease fat isn’t. I use both plants and animals.
Great video mate!
We have a lot of narrow leaf plantain here in n.e. Alabama...
I'm pretty sure that's raspberry because of the white stem but I could be wrong
Should include where you're at in the description . All areas around the world . And somebody might not get confused or something in another country .
Nice.
I find there is nor much foods to forage in the uk,liked your video explained well ,just need a more close up of some of the plants ect..
My bet is raspberry, the stems are super light n the leaves look fuller
New Subscriber. Keep the videos coming
I’m pretty sure that they’re blackberries. I’m growing some in my garden and have raspberries right next to it and the leaves look similar to blackberries.
Still consider to wash them thoroughly as dogs could have peed on them *aspecially in case it's near of streets :) Great video , thanks
Just here in case the world ends and I have to survive off of that.
so I look out my window, and here's this guy nibbling on my shrubbery..lol
I wish Rob would come to my house to teach me about edible weeds.
Try cutting watercress to propagate or harvest & spread seeds! Why must we depend on what nature provides naturally!
What kind of trailer do you have for your bike? I like the size
You didn't show close up of nettle. We have both plantains broad and nartow leaf, in Virginia. I use both plantains.
This video would be more helpful if it included closeup of the plants' key features so we could tell what they look like! Watercress just looks like the back of a stump covered in sorrel, from what I can tell!
If I met this guy and started a conversation with him and he waved his hands and arms around like this, I would leave.
I grew up eating all of these
Happy forging 😍 lovely video.you are Rock not Rob 😍😛
Hey me and my kids are moonseed today. It’s confirmed. My kids ate more. They didn’t eat the seeds though. They started acting weird and so I realized the fruit was not wild grapes at that point. Took them to ER. Still waiting the response form poison control. What do you think we should do? They seem fine now, about 4.5 hours later
I’ve tried and tried but I can never find much of anything! The hardest part is knowing where I can even forage without having to pay a lot of money to someone for a permit or something. Any tips on that?
Hii, I want to do this sooo bad, but I don’t know where to start.
How do you find the places to forage? I live in a city in Canada and have no idea how to find these areas
So a lot of the plants he mentions... are Spring and into Summer. Does any one know Fall plants or winter time??? Besides Apples in Fall
I've never seen wood sorrel taller that 6 inches
All of that grows in the Bronx
Mmmm food
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Seen a guy with no shoes and knew I should listen to what he has to say about plants
I do forage but mostly mushrooms in season. A note of caution should be added: don't forage in areas where the landscape is maintained by professional services using pesticides and fertilizers. Also, avoid foraging near areas of heavy traffic including trails where people walk their pets.
How do you know if a mushroom is poisonous or not?
@@nic.k_o You study and learn the basic tests (Spore test, etc.) and never eat a mushroom you aren't sure is edible. And, never eat raw mushrooms. Most of the easy to identify edibles are safe and require a little investigation to become familiar with. Learn the mushrooms that will kill you especially Aminita Phalloides & Aminita Virosa there are others to learn too. Then start with oyster mushrooms, Shaggy Manes and Slippery Jacks (Suillus & Boletes). Find a mushroom club near you and learn. Good Luck and if you are not certain DO NOT EAT.
@@Atlanticmoonsnail Nice! Thank you for the tips.
@@nic.k_o quick word of advice on identifying shrooms or any other plant or fungus. Learn the ones that will harm u first. Easier that way. Also don’t mess with lbm’s little brown mushrooms, there all poisonous.
@@nic.k_o quick word of advice on identifying shrooms or any other plant or fungus. Learn the ones that will harm u first. Easier that way. Also don’t mess with lbm’s little brown mushrooms, there all poisonous.
Everyone remember if your not sure, don’t eat it.
Many many many edible plants have a poisonous look alike. I wish when he was talking about wild onions he would have mentioned that they have a poisonous look alike. If it smells like an onion and it taste like an onion it's an onion. If it doesn't it's poisonous.
even when I know some plants but in the wild everything looks the same how do u differentiate tbh
@@78_mary31 never eat anything that you're not sure of. An easy plant to start with that everyone can recognize is dandelions. There's no look alike, and every part of the plant is edible do mature plants the leaves my taste. slightly bitter. it's very nutritional and has medicinal benefits. Wild Onion is easy to spot, there is a Dudley look alike. But there's an easy way to tell. And that is just smell it. If it's small sulfurous like onion or garlic then it's onion if not then it isn't. They grow right next to each other so test each shoot. Clover is easy to recognize. Plantain if you know it. I'm not sure where is your location but Papa's are pretty easy to recognize and crab apples. And black walnuts. if you know what wood sorrel is it's edible. Acorns are edible if they are prepared properly. You'll find a video how to bleach the tannins out of them dry dry them out then and grind them up like a flour, I love to replace a little flower with a Acorn flour in pancakes. when you begin getting two things you don't know, you might get help at the local University or Community College to identify plants. Some may even offer a course. You can take survival courses, You can go with someone who Gathers. it is possible to learn from a book, but as Chris learned in Into the Wild that can be very dangerous. so don't eat anything you dont know
@@carolmoore1038 damn thank you so much usually while watching discovery I wonder if people had the knowledge to know if each plant was edible or not it would be much easier to live in the wild
Made this mistake at a strip bar once.
Be very careful when harvesting wild onions. Death camas look scarily similar to them, and you don't want to eat those. Wild onions smell like onions and have more roundly curved leaves, while death camas don't smell like onions and have more sharply curved leaves.
Agreed extremely important!
I'll stick to planting onions.
My friend has made stinging nettle pesto and it was AMAZING!!!
Several of these things you point out have dangerous, similar plants, often in the same family. Foraging for beginners should never be seperate from the identification factor. Knowing what NOT to eat is far more important.
Agreed thank you!!!
He says at the beginning that he wasnt getting into the identification. Theres thousands of references online anyone can reference.
@@twitch.tvmorkani3142 that is exactly what the title is, and it doesn't mention identification. It's a list of ideas for things somebody can look into if they don't know where to start
? I wouldn't go off of just this video even if he had closeups. Everyone still needs to look up pictures and info or even take a foraging course maybe...
These plants really are for beginners. But if you want to forage, you HAVE to research and research. To know the plants each day a little bit more. Watch many videos, read books, go outside. Don't rely only on this video. There are many videos about foraging in general, identification, and there are a lot of videos that talk about just one plant at a time. Always learn each day to be sure that what you're foraging it's edible.
Rob, all the plants you shared to us , we saw it as weeds here in the philippines 😭 I didn't know that it could be use in salad
Talaga?
Great video! Back in early April during the worst of the CV Lockdown, I ran out of fresh vegetables but was able to forage dandelions and chickweed growing in my tiny backyard.
Whoa! You go Steve!
We had Hard Times once and took the foraging. My adult children came to check up on us and wouldn't touch the food LOL my one son's girlfriend had a salad with us and she said it was quite yummy I told her she's going to die now LOL Anyway the point is that we didn't miss a Beat nutrition-wise. And saved a ton of money. And I didn't have to ask my children to make sacrifices for us.
You can eat chickweed??? I didn't know that
.we have a ton of it growing in our yard
I love when chickweed comes in spring. I like to make dandelion and chick weed pesto.
Stinging nettles are my favourite, very rich in iron. Just boil some water and put them in for 30 seconds, after that they won't sting any longer. When I was in Italy, I used to cook "risotto alle ortiche" (ortiche = stinging nettles) which is a traditional delicious dish in the mountains in Italy. Rob, alternatively, if you are still foraging, eat them as spinach, they are absolutely delicious! 🤗💖😁
Great info! I have been eating them most days for the last couple months! I make tea, soup, pesto, and boil and then lightly sauté them with olive oil.
Sending love!
I'm from Italy and I use them to cook risotto, gnocchi and other recipes.
stinging nettle is unsafe for pregnant women fyi can possibly cause abortion particularly in large quantity
Don't the needles still have sharp spines? Does boiling them soften the sharp parts?
@@thesanfranciscoseahorse473 No spines. It's more like short hairs that have an irritant on them. If you lightly brush the plant, you feel it sting for a few minutes, but you grab it hard and nothing happens. When you're eating them you don't really notice it at all.
In Finland we call wood sorrel "fox's bread". I used to eat it all the time when I was younger.
I just made a comment elsewhere about forging as a child and how am I native Grandmother Had taught me things but my mother's sister didn't understand. She would spank me LOL wood sorrel was my favorite
There's a guy in my village that makes syrup from nettle.
Wow! Have you tried it?
Let's all take a second to reflect on the apparent origins of the name: Dandelion.
I've heard many tales of how the vibrant, yellow flower with sharply serrated leaves was originally named "Dents de Lion", meaning "Lion's Teeth". Given the flower's mane-like appearance and the toothy nature of it's leaves, this would make a lot of sense.
Ironically however, the French have their own name for the plant: "Pissenlit", which comes from the yellow streaks that pale children like to smear on each other's arms while chiding, "You pissed the bed, pissed the bed".
Just a little fun fact, and back to episode.....
Yep we used to call the dandelion pee the beds, put under your chin and if it glowed means you peed the bed, , , , I was about 6yrs old, honest, I want to make dandelion coffee, but finding an area where dogs dont walk is about as rare as rocking horse doo doo around here in the uk, hull
To dear Rob's parents! Thank you for creating this person and bringing him into this world! He is a true gem!
A slow burn, genre-defining, ethically sourced gemerald.
Yes❤
the earth provides us with all we need
And sadly corporations like MONSANTO kill it all & convince the sheeple that weeds are useless & troublesome when this couldn't be further from the truth. So everyone be sure that where you forage it hasn't been sprayed by the local council with glyphosates but hasn't died off yet.
I like your icon.
@@newsviewstoday5689 Thats right and keep signing petitions that favor the banning of glyphosphates, everywhere.
...no one will ever be hungry once they've mastered the art of foraging...thank you for sharing...
I learned to fish but this must be my next to learn.
I don't know about that...if EVERYONE was foraging I don't think there is enough land to support that.
I grew up hungry... knowledge is power....
Educate plz
WRONG
@No name plants are full of nutrients
One of my favorites and easy to find is lambsquarters or goosefoot or as I call it wild spinach. I am blessed to have an acre full! I steam and jar over 200 pints a year!. Sauteed with EVOO and fresh ramps and wild garlic, it is a great side with my annual venison harvest, It seems every time I forage I discover a new addition to my knowlwdge. Here in NY state I have recently come upon a large patch of wild asparagus!!! The crown jewel of foraging!!! What most people don't realize is that all these wild foods are pesticide free and nutritionally more potent than their store counterparts!!! Love to forage!! Saves money too as a pound an 8 oz bag of fresh spinach costs around 3 dollars.
I love putting lambs quarters into scrambled eggs, it tastes just like spinach!! So delicious
Oh! Watching you wander around, plucking and chewing all manner of botanica, reminds me of my childhood in South San Francisco, CA. I learned purely through childlore about plants were edible. Kids are willing to try so much. To eat weird things. Especially things that grow wild. There was a hanging blossom we'd pluck, pick off the petals, and suck out what we believed to be nectar. There was sour grass, dunno what it was called. Did have a bloom but I don't believe it was dandelion. Long, dark green, sturdy stem we'd pick, pop off the flower, and chew on the grass, puckering our cheeks. Millennials had Sour Patch Kids. We had grass in the side yard.
I am growing broad leaf plantain (Plantago major) in a pot here in my home in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I found it growing by the roadside, I picked it and planted in a pot. There are more of them in the mountains in Malaysia, I found them growing wild abundantly in Cameron Highlands which is Malaysia's premier mountain resort. The leaves have anti-nicotine substances, so for people trying to quit smoking, I was told from what I read that chewing the leaves can kill nicotine craving..in US they have commercially manufactured anti-nicotine pills from this plant..
The person that told you about plantain being anti-nicotine was absolutely correct.