Adam I began following you about a year ago and have learned so much. I've been walking this land for 60 years without much thought to what I was seeing as much as just feeling alive. I began wanting to know more about my plant friends.... not only what benefits they have for me but how I can help them. I appreciate all the knowledge you share so willingly and well. The more people learn about nature the more they are aware of their connection to the circle of life. We are all connected and we are all one. I thank you as does the Earth.
I’m really surprised that he never responded or even harded this comment because I think out of the comments that I read this probably was the most beautiful I hope you are well 🤍
@Henri Bowman you wrote a beautiful response to Know Your Land, and how you are learning of the connection we all have to one another. Thankyou for writing it, hope you are going along ok four years later...
So glad I found this one. I’m in Montreal, where milkweed was pretty much destroyed because a lot of people are allergic, but since Covid, this has appeared all over the island in huge amounts. It actually smells really nice as a flower. The flowers are mostly getting old, but I’ll certainly be on the look out for when the pods appear. I’ll have an entire island of these to myself!
As a kindergartner, 1st & 2nd grader, I picked the ripe seed pods and brought bags of them to school. They were picked up by someone, and taken to a factory somewhere. The fluffy capock inside of the seed heads was used to make life jackets for aboard Navy ships. I was able to contribute to the war effort (WWII) that way. Courtesy of Half Vast Flying
Love to see you visit New Hampshire. You were and are my number 1 go to for mushrooms and wild edibles. Been studying over the winter after seeing many mushrooms last fall including lions mane. My first harvest this spring was a great flush of Dryad's Saddle and yesterday I collected Oyster Mushrooms. Started identifying some edible plants now too. Getting into this has been daunting and a bit scary but taking notes, studying and taking baby steps is helping me build confidence. I used dome dryad's saddle on my spaghetti sauce and dried some as powder and froze the rest. Not sure what to do with oyster mushrooms but I will find out. I have not found morels yet but hoping here in central N.H. that maybe some are still out there and may be into early june. A-lot more scouting is in order. Being a turkey and deer hunter and fishermen I am in the woods a-lot anyway. Been curious about mushrooms and wild edibles my whole life so I am glad to have got the courage to find out what I have been missing.
AbsoFrickenLoutly!! I'm A HillBilly From The BlueGrass State My Self. Seen The Whole State Top To Bottom, Left To Right Even Inside Out. There Is No More Beautiful Area In KY Than The Red River Gorge Area. We Have The Only Other SandStone Arches In The US Beside The Ones In Utah. Truly Breath Taking And Awe Inspiring To See GODS Work And Appreciate His Craftsmanship Up Close, In Person. Keeps Spreading Your Wisdom On GOD Medicine Cabinet, Our eartH Mother, Our Heart. GOD Bless You And We'd Love To See Ya Here, Brother.
I made a milkweed craft in brownies as a kid and have loved them since. A few years back I realized how wonderful the flowers smell. I had some pop up by my front door and tried to spread them but it didn't work. This year I noticed I have 2 volunteers. I'm going to keep a close eye and see if I can try again.
Hi Adam, I'm so glad I happened upon this video today! I focus on milkweed this time of year and also have lots of dogbane. These are extremely valuable to my honey bees and other local pollinators, a source of a serious nectar flow. I appreciate your channel, you have a new subscriber :) Thank you! Great information!
Some year ago, I planted Butterfly weed (that belong to the milk weed family)in my garden. When they bloomed, I was thrilled to see dozens of Monarch Butterflies enjoying the flowers. A little while later, I began to see a bunch of small light green pods (decorated with with a string of tiny golden "pearls)hanging from my weeds. I had no idea what they were, so I waited to see. Lo and behold they were Monarch cocoons, and a bit later I was treated with the sight of the baby monarchs (about 50 of them) unfurling their gorgeous wings, and open them so majestically that I thought they truly deserved their royal "title." After drying themselves in the sun, they flew off to live their lives. I felt so privileged to have witnessed such a charming show. Nature is so wonderful!
Money-Steelers, that's what I grew up calling milkweed seeds as they flew through the breeze on a Summer's day. As a young child, my Mother taught us that catching a money-steeler would bring us money. Needless to say, when ever we saw one of these mysterious creations floating in the air, me and my siblings would go crazy to catch it. I caught many money-steelers as a child, but as an adult, I am still waiting for the pay off. LOL! As a teen, my Grandmother taught me to use the sap of the milkweed to get rid of warts. I am pleased to learn, that I can cook and eat the flowers and young seed pods like a vegetable. The next time I catch a money-steeler, I'll put it to good use and plant it. Thank you for the video!
I've had this huge patch of milkweed in my yard for years. I noticed that there are never any monarch larvae on any of it. This year I decided to pull it all out because it was just an eye sore & was blocking the light to some of the other plants growing with it. There were these beautiful iridescent green beetles on it & I'd never seen them before. When I looked them up I found that they were dogbane beetles. I'd never heard of dogbane before. So thanks to this pretty bug I now know that my milkweed patch was never milkweed & I don't need to feel bad about pulling the stalks out. Luckily I have other areas that actually are real milkweed. Nice, informative video, thank you!
Last year started looking around and seeing all these amazing things I never noticed really in 30+ years. Milkweed was the first to stand out. BEAUTIFUL little flowers and they smelled so strong of perfume. I tried to capture in coconut oil not knowing what I was doing. I ended up drying them and using them in resin for art and jewelry. This year, I started learning that these things I saw the art value in last year actually have a lot of health and nutrition value. You, Trilium and She of the Woods (and others) on YT are so helpful. Love your website and how amazing it is to simply learn my land. I am so blessed to have so much just an hour outside of the city. If you don't monetize your videos I am telling you now that YOU SHOULD. It is not okay if YT makes all the revenue off ads they run on your channel. You deserve those if they run them anyway. You can also just as easily post simultaneously with YT on Odyssey I think. People can get the content commercial free there. I just use a pop up blocker LOL
Everyone of your videos makes me smile! You remind me so much of myself when i was younger. 50 yrs later, i'm still obsessed with plants - particularly wild/native ones. i didn't know it was possible when younger, but you can really make a living w/ this knowledge. I have two thriving businesses utilizing native plants. The two dogbanes you mention are found across entire country - which is pretty unusual for any plant. On our land in VT/NH, they both grow and in some areas only about 20-30 ft apart. They are both excellent butterfly plants - nectar sources for a wide variety of butterflies. Thank you for all of your videos and keep up the great work you are doing!
Mr Haritan, someone your age should not know as much as you do. I imagine your home has degrees and awards everywhere you look. Thank you so much for sharing everything you have and everything you will.
Awesome, thank you for the great distinctions- I always want to be 100% certain when foraging! The most reassuring statement was that milkweed is hollow- Very helpful!
You make some of the best, most informative videos on RUclips. You're entertaining and knowledgable and you've instilled a love of nature around me and a desire to learn about it and get out there and forage. Thank you .
I remember picking the milkweed pods as a kid at my elementary school during recess. We were blessed to have many wild plants surrounding our school. Love your videos! Your personality and knowledge make for such an enjoyable learning experience!
I'm 99% sure I found SO MUCH DOGBANE. I needed the dead stems for fiber crafting. I grew milkweed in the garden for awhile. Dead milkweed is dark and silvery when its dessicated. The fibers can fade from silver to white through the winter. I was so tired when I found the dogbane patch. I thought I'd found some limestone on my walk, definately found some pitch and a small bundle of dead milkweed. But I looked up from the rocks on the ground, stopping at the end of the trail and my walk to catch my breath and check my fitbit, and lo and behold THERE IT WAS. Stems fitting the exact description I'd memorized. Auburn stems, branched, seedpods may resemble tiny milkweed. As soon as I broke one off at the base it was clear this was no piddly little milkweed. Fibers were coming off the base of the plant in long ribbons, determined to remain where they'd grown.
I have a stand of milkweed and dogbane in my orchard that I let form a border. The flowers are beautiful in both plants and look hypnotizing in the light of the sunrise. I harvest the stalks of dogbane in winter and milkweed after the frost. Milkweed has a very light fiber and dogbane is a tan fiber. I use both in basket making.
Loved the outtakes. I'd like to pick u and plant u in my garden. You have a great voice and your grammar is very good. You obviously read a lot. I'd love to see more outtakes or bloopers. I'm so happy you have found your niche. It seem like you were born to do exactly what you are doing. I hope you stay as happy as you appear! Stay pretty 😘
I live in South Western Pennsylvania, and have a dedicated area on my property for the Monarch Butterfly! Right now the Milkweed is flowering out and the scent is heavenly!
Before the farm I was a teacher. I really like the way you repeat characteristics...really effective. So glad I found you...I slice out some time everyday to watch one of your videos.
Thanks for setting me straight, Adam. I see these plants all over the place here in Northeastern, PA and have many times incorrectly ID'ed them as Milkweed when in point of fact they were Dogbane. I watch your content all the time, man. Always good info and extremely, pleasantly presented by you. Your passion for what you are doing is clearly visible and instantly felt by us. You, my friend, have "the gift of gab." I'll keep watching if you keep putting them up. Peace.
Thanks so much for the distinguishing information. Adjacent land to me has dogbane, but I thought it was milkweed. I have goats and buy hay from this property and you helped me immensely.
I just watched your video and then took the dog for a walk in a place with allot of milkweed. I harvested a few pods about 1 1/2 inches long. Stir fried with olive oil, a bit of salt and all i can say is thank you so much. I now have a new early summer vegetable favorite!
UPDATE....ate a few too many on the second try, found out they can be toxic in larger quantity, they were not kidding! No longer on favorite list. Besides that now the monarch butterflies will not see me as a food source competitor.
My grandma always told me how the milkweed helps the butterflies. So when I found some in my yard I always cut around it. Now that I'm getting into foraging I'm glad that I have a little garden spot of it! I leave a few plants alone and use a few plants for me. I have other options that the poor little butterfly doesn't have. My grandma was wise in many ways! Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I have learned A LOT from you! Samuel Thayers book has helped too.
I love the stillness of the woods. Ive always loved to woods but i really motivated myself to learn more about the woods this summer and its drawn me to venture into them even more knowing about the bounty it contains, the feeling of calm that soaks my soul and the excitement to find a specimen ive learned about in a book or online. You have helped me much, thank you so much adam your youtube channe is my favorite channel concerning this passion!
Very informative! Suggestion for future videos would be to provide the plants you are talking about side by side so that the differences can be more readily appreciated. Wholeheartedly agree with your assertions of increased happiness and well being directly proportional to the time spent outside...even if only in your own backyard. Keep up the good work.
We leave milkweed growing in our gardens and take seed pods and spread those to wild areas of the farm and lands around here had alot to spread this year .
This is a clear explanation of distinguishing between milk weed and dogbane. I see common milk weed often when out hunting upland birds and outside edges of waterfowl sloughs. I have sometimes taken a few mature pods and shared with neighbors kids who planted around the edge of yard. Monarch 🦋🦋 do show up and do what they do. Now I know how to forage some of the parts and still leave plenty for the 🦋🦋🦋. Thank you. Peace to you. John
This spring, On a lark, i decided to let the milkweed flourish in my horseradish and rhubarb beds. I'd heard it's edible and figured I'd give it a try. Missed the early shoots. Just watched your video and picked and cooked a dozen buds. Delicious. Thanks Adam.
Just watched this yesterday and learned so much! Thank you! On my one hour walk down a country road this AM, I was saw some milkweed with flower heads and picked some to stir fry for lunch. I didn’t know I could do this before the video and love learning new things. Also, I really appreciate that we are in basically the same region so a lot of what you (Adam) talk about is relevant to me as well though we are not in the same state. Thank you very much!
You are a very bright young man. I like to describe young milkweed flavor comparable to asparagus when you pick young shoots in early spring. Pods I liken to a mozzarella cheese flavor when very young. I personally enjoy eating this plant, but also agree that it should be cooked. Thanks so much for sharing your wisdom.
Cool video! Thank you for taking the time. I’ve been growing common milkweed in my butterfly feeding station but never netted the plants, so of course they’re eaten to the ground before I really get to observe them. I found something not far from me that I suspect is milkweed and does have the sap. I need to go back now and see if those stalks are hollow! Great tip!!! 👏👏👏
I watched this video yesterday and thought I would try milkweed flowers. I have several patches of milkweed in my yard so I picked a large bowl full of unopened flowers and brought them to my kitchen. Cooked them in my microwave, added salt and pepper, then threw some butter on top. They were delicious! I scanned some of your other videos and saw many of those plants in my yard. Trying dandelions next. Thank you!
The milkweed plants in my yard are just now flowering and they have a lovely scent. The bees absolutely love it, though I have never seen Monarchs here (CO). I had no idea you could eat milkweed. Every year I have such an excess of seed pods. I was thinking of taking the seeds and throwing them in the wild near lakes and fields.
Milkweed flowers smell like irises to me. Fabulous! I spread the seeds in my meadow for the butterflies, but have never considered eating them. I'll wait till there's "too many" ))).
I've been planting milkweed around my property. Once it starts to bloom, it is absolutely alive with various insects. The aroma is great at a distance, but once you get next to a large colony, I equate it as being in church with a bunch of 80 year old women, all wearing perfume in vast quantities. I am always rewarded with butterflies. And my honeybees love this stuff. So, every year my milkweed expands, as I take the seed pods, open them, and spread them around. I might have to try the flower heads though. Intriguing.
When you cover safe prepping for food, you mention sauteing the flower buds and boiling the leaves. Can I saute the leaves too? What are we doing to the glycosides that makes them safe? Is the heat breaking them down, or are they water soluble compounds that come out in boiling water? Thanks!
You’re 100% right! There is very much a correlation between the amount of time we spend in nature, to our contentment. Love your videos so much and an eternally grateful for the knowledge. Love&Light
I have always taught my kids about helping monarchs, & we are lucky to have all of the land behind our house undisturbed (old apple orchard) where milkweed grows in abundance. we have also participated in the Vermont program the helps watch & count monarch sightings.
I like to cook Milkweed flowers but a few years ago my Woodchuk neighbor ate the colony; I am nurturing a new colony still and can not yet harvest... The flowers are wonderful. Thank you for your great advice!
Thank you Adam. As always you explain things sooooo well. I came back to this several times and watched it at least 6 times to get the information in my head. Thank you. I have a large spaces where Common Milkweed grows and hope to try the taste next Spring and Summer. Thanks.
LOVE YOUR VIDEOS! One of my summer goals it to learn more about the wild plants on my land. We have milkweed- so excited that it can be eaten!!! Thanks so much for your work- every time you site a study - I think yeah take that!!!
Thank you Adam for another excellent video! May I suggest you showing us how you prepare and cook edible foraged plants, nuts and mushrooms in your own kitchen. Now that would be awesome!🌱🍄
I planted 3 milkweed 2 years ago, they have slowly grown more and the blossoms smell amazing!!! Waiting for more monarchs 😊 Now that I know what is edible I hope they multiply faster 😉
The milkweed vine called honey creeper (blooms smell exactly like honey), is a wonderful wild yard addition. Many species of bees and butterflies enjoy it, as its perfume wafts across the yard.
Thank you Adam for another informative video! I've been transplanting and blowing seeds of milkweed unsuccessfully, (I thought) until this year of rain! Yeah, finally!
Quickly becoming one of my favorite people to learn from. So many of the things you show are right in my yard and I walk past them every day, that's sad. Ive been letting the milkweed grow for my honey bees, now I'll look at it closer and see if any of it is Dogbane.
I've been watching you for a long time and I just recently made my way back up to New England and moved into Massachusetts. I'm excited to be able to identify many plants since I've returned and I'm excited to be able to rewatch a lot of your videos
First I want to say thank you for producing wonderful videos. I used to have 3 areas where it would grow in my yard but the only one that 'spread' was along some railroad ties used to hold the driveway gravel. I do not know what happened because I only collected the mature seed pods for decoration. I did save the seed and silk. One year none came up and that was the end of them. I found one plant growing next to some tree branches that were used for bird cover but that's gone now too. The last place was behind my garage and it is also gone. In these last 2 paces I found nightshade that had not been there before. Could the nightshade be a problem for milkweed?
I was taught as a child that the milky latex from the milkweed can get rid of warts. It really does seem to work. With repeated applications the wart slowly dissolves away.
Great video brother I look forward to watching more. Milkweed is everywhere in my area in RI, But now I know what dogbane looks like so I'm on a quest to find some and make cordage haha.
I was looking for information on adeniums. That took me to dogbane. That took me to milkweed. What I nice surprise to find your video. I love your passion. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
We let Milkweed grow in our yard... specifically along the side of the house solely for the Monarch Butterfly. Growing up in the 70's nary a summer day would go by without seeing Monarchs, now it seems as though you'd be lucky to see a single Monarch the whole year. When I learned that the Monarch was obligate to Milkweed I decided to not pull it as we do with other weeds during "spring clean up". Maybe one day I'll get to see some caterpillars munching on it.
Same here! Tons of milkweed too. I haven't seen monarch larvae in decades. Wear I just moved to we have few milkweed and have seen a couple monarch already 😊
Adam I began following you about a year ago and have learned so much. I've been walking this land for 60 years without much thought to what I was seeing as much as just feeling alive. I began wanting to know more about my plant friends.... not only what benefits they have for me but how I can help them. I appreciate all the knowledge you share so willingly and well. The more people learn about nature the more they are aware of their connection to the circle of life. We are all connected and we are all one. I thank you as does the Earth.
I’m really surprised that he never responded or even harded this comment because I think out of the comments that I read this probably was the most beautiful
I hope you are well 🤍
@Henri Bowman you wrote a beautiful response to Know Your Land, and how you are learning of the connection we all have to one another. Thankyou for writing it, hope you are going along ok four years later...
woops, Learn Your land i mean!
He gets paid to do videos not to comment to his patrons ( no empathy).
So glad I found this one. I’m in Montreal, where milkweed was pretty much destroyed because a lot of people are allergic, but since Covid, this has appeared all over the island in huge amounts. It actually smells really nice as a flower. The flowers are mostly getting old, but I’ll certainly be on the look out for when the pods appear. I’ll have an entire island of these to myself!
As a kindergartner, 1st & 2nd grader, I picked the ripe seed pods and brought bags of them to school. They were picked up by someone, and taken to a factory somewhere. The fluffy capock inside of the seed heads was used to make life jackets for aboard Navy ships. I was able to contribute to the war effort (WWII) that way.
Courtesy of Half Vast Flying
Brother you should come down to Kentucky and walk the woods with us. Your wisdom and respect for nature is contagious.
Hey Joe, I'd love to visit Kentucky. Perhaps one day soon I'll make my way over there!
Why do I hear banjos playing?
Stop by Madison Indiana on your way through. ✌🏼❤️
Love to see you visit New Hampshire. You were and are my number 1 go to for mushrooms and wild edibles. Been studying over the winter after seeing many mushrooms last fall including lions mane. My first harvest this spring was a great flush of Dryad's Saddle and yesterday I collected Oyster Mushrooms. Started identifying some edible plants now too. Getting into this has been daunting and a bit scary but taking notes, studying and taking baby steps is helping me build confidence. I used dome dryad's saddle on my spaghetti sauce and dried some as powder and froze the rest. Not sure what to do with oyster mushrooms but I will find out. I have not found morels yet but hoping here in central N.H. that maybe some are still out there and may be into early june. A-lot more scouting is in order. Being a turkey and deer hunter and fishermen I am in the woods a-lot anyway. Been curious about mushrooms and wild edibles my whole life so I am glad to have got the courage to find out what I have been missing.
AbsoFrickenLoutly!! I'm A HillBilly From The BlueGrass State My Self. Seen The Whole State Top To Bottom, Left To Right Even Inside Out. There Is No More Beautiful Area In KY Than The Red River Gorge Area. We Have The Only Other SandStone Arches In The US Beside The Ones In Utah. Truly Breath Taking And Awe Inspiring To See GODS Work And Appreciate His Craftsmanship Up Close, In Person. Keeps Spreading Your Wisdom On GOD Medicine Cabinet, Our eartH Mother, Our Heart. GOD Bless You And We'd Love To See Ya Here, Brother.
Milkweed flowers also have a gorgeous, sweet scent.
We sowed seeds on our land, we have a nice stand of them now. The monarchs appeared last summer.
that would be a lovely sight🦋
I made a milkweed craft in brownies as a kid and have loved them since. A few years back I realized how wonderful the flowers smell. I had some pop up by my front door and tried to spread them but it didn't work. This year I noticed I have 2 volunteers. I'm going to keep a close eye and see if I can try again.
Hi Adam, I'm so glad I happened upon this video today! I focus on milkweed this time of year and also have lots of dogbane. These are extremely valuable to my honey bees and other local pollinators, a source of a serious nectar flow. I appreciate your channel, you have a new subscriber :) Thank you! Great information!
you are such a relaxing person to listen to. I feel better just watching you enjoy teaching
Thanks, Janet!
@@LearnYourLand The part on milkweed that starts to look like brocoli do you boil those first? thanks
Some year ago, I planted Butterfly weed (that belong to the milk weed family)in my garden. When they bloomed, I was thrilled to see dozens of Monarch Butterflies enjoying the flowers. A little while later, I began to see a bunch of small light green pods (decorated with with a string of tiny golden "pearls)hanging from my weeds. I had no idea what they were, so I waited to see. Lo and behold they were Monarch cocoons, and a bit later I was treated with the sight of the baby monarchs (about 50 of them) unfurling their gorgeous wings, and open them so majestically that I thought they truly deserved their royal "title." After drying themselves in the sun, they flew off to live their lives. I felt so privileged to have witnessed such a charming show. Nature is so wonderful!
Been watching you since i started foraging 4 years ago
Thanks for this as I am learning to raise monarchs and discerning milkweed from dogbane was very helpful.
The best plant and foraging info I've seen.
Money-Steelers, that's what I grew up calling milkweed seeds as they flew through the breeze on a Summer's day. As a young child, my Mother taught us that catching a money-steeler would bring us money. Needless to say, when ever we saw one of these mysterious creations floating in the air, me and my siblings would go crazy to catch it. I caught many money-steelers as a child, but as an adult, I am still waiting for the pay off. LOL!
As a teen, my Grandmother taught me to use the sap of the milkweed to get rid of warts.
I am pleased to learn, that I can cook and eat the flowers and young seed pods like a vegetable.
The next time I catch a money-steeler, I'll put it to good use and plant it.
Thank you for the video!
Thanks for sharing your experiences, Sara!
OMgosh! Thanks for jogging a memory for me, Sara! Money-stealers!
Great story. thanks for sharing.
Excellent work! I really appreciate the time and effort explaining this subject. Thank you.
Have just watched 5 of your videos. You have such amazing knowledge and gift for sharing your passion for foraging. Thanks so much for teaching!
You're welcome, Wendy, and thanks for watching and commenting! Glad you enjoy the videos!
Great video. I own 5 acre in northern Indiana and one acre is covered with milkweed. We keep it for the Monarch.
I've had this huge patch of milkweed in my yard for years. I noticed that there are never any monarch larvae on any of it. This year I decided to pull it all out because it was just an eye sore & was blocking the light to some of the other plants growing with it. There were these beautiful iridescent green beetles on it & I'd never seen them before. When I looked them up I found that they were dogbane beetles. I'd never heard of dogbane before. So thanks to this pretty bug I now know that my milkweed patch was never milkweed & I don't need to feel bad about pulling the stalks out. Luckily I have other areas that actually are real milkweed. Nice, informative video, thank you!
I love that story!
Lol ... Sounds about right!
My understanding is that the Dogbane Leaf Beetle will sometimes eat milkweed.
Last year started looking around and seeing all these amazing things I never noticed really in 30+ years. Milkweed was the first to stand out. BEAUTIFUL little flowers and they smelled so strong of perfume. I tried to capture in coconut oil not knowing what I was doing. I ended up drying them and using them in resin for art and jewelry. This year, I started learning that these things I saw the art value in last year actually have a lot of health and nutrition value. You, Trilium and She of the Woods (and others) on YT are so helpful. Love your website and how amazing it is to simply learn my land. I am so blessed to have so much just an hour outside of the city. If you don't monetize your videos I am telling you now that YOU SHOULD. It is not okay if YT makes all the revenue off ads they run on your channel. You deserve those if they run them anyway. You can also just as easily post simultaneously with YT on Odyssey I think. People can get the content commercial free there. I just use a pop up blocker LOL
Everyone of your videos makes me smile! You remind me so much of myself when i was younger. 50 yrs later, i'm still obsessed with plants - particularly wild/native ones. i didn't know it was possible when younger, but you can really make a living w/ this knowledge. I have two thriving businesses utilizing native plants. The two dogbanes you mention are found across entire country - which is pretty unusual for any plant. On our land in VT/NH, they both grow and in some areas only about 20-30 ft apart. They are both excellent butterfly plants - nectar sources for a wide variety of butterflies. Thank you for all of your videos and keep up the great work you are doing!
Good morning, I'd be interested in learning more about your businesses.
@@northerngirlhobbies you can look us up at east bay wilds.
Mr Haritan, someone your age should not know as much as you do. I imagine your home has degrees and awards everywhere you look. Thank you so much for sharing everything you have and everything you will.
Awesome, thank you for the great distinctions- I always want to be 100% certain when foraging! The most reassuring statement was that milkweed is hollow- Very helpful!
Glad you enjoyed the video!
4 yrs ago... I love your information! And since you came up on my notices, I watch and share share share! Thank you!
Love this! I planted milkweed on my property last year for the butterflies and had no ides it was edible now it gets to be dual purpose in my yard
You make some of the best, most informative videos on RUclips. You're entertaining and knowledgable and you've instilled a love of nature around me and a desire to learn about it and get out there and forage. Thank you .
Thanks, Scott!
I remember picking the milkweed pods as a kid at my elementary school during recess. We were blessed to have many wild plants surrounding our school. Love your videos! Your personality and knowledge make for such an enjoyable learning experience!
Thank you so much for all your videos. I have learned a lot. You have a way of presenting that is easy to grasp.
John
Thanks, John! I appreciate the kind words!
I like the content of his videos. They give good info but even more I like that he seems like a positive person.
I'm 99% sure I found SO MUCH DOGBANE. I needed the dead stems for fiber crafting. I grew milkweed in the garden for awhile. Dead milkweed is dark and silvery when its dessicated. The fibers can fade from silver to white through the winter. I was so tired when I found the dogbane patch. I thought I'd found some limestone on my walk, definately found some pitch and a small bundle of dead milkweed. But I looked up from the rocks on the ground, stopping at the end of the trail and my walk to catch my breath and check my fitbit, and lo and behold THERE IT WAS. Stems fitting the exact description I'd memorized. Auburn stems, branched, seedpods may resemble tiny milkweed. As soon as I broke one off at the base it was clear this was no piddly little milkweed. Fibers were coming off the base of the plant in long ribbons, determined to remain where they'd grown.
I have a stand of milkweed and dogbane in my orchard that I let form a border. The flowers are beautiful in both plants and look hypnotizing in the light of the sunrise. I harvest the stalks of dogbane in winter and milkweed after the frost. Milkweed has a very light fiber and dogbane is a tan fiber. I use both in basket making.
Loved the outtakes. I'd like to pick u and plant u in my garden. You have a great voice and your grammar is very good. You obviously read a lot. I'd love to see more outtakes or bloopers. I'm so happy you have found your niche. It seem like you were born to do exactly what you are doing. I hope you stay as happy as you appear! Stay pretty 😘
I live in South Western Pennsylvania, and have a dedicated area on my property for the Monarch Butterfly! Right now the Milkweed is flowering out and the scent is heavenly!
Before the farm I was a teacher. I really like the way you repeat characteristics...really effective. So glad I found you...I slice out some time everyday to watch one of your videos.
Thanks for setting me straight, Adam. I see these plants all over the place here in Northeastern, PA and have many times incorrectly ID'ed them as Milkweed when in point of fact they were Dogbane. I watch your content all the time, man. Always good info and extremely, pleasantly presented by you. Your passion for what you are doing is clearly visible and instantly felt by us. You, my friend, have "the gift of gab." I'll keep watching if you keep putting them up. Peace.
Thanks so much, Jack! I really appreciate the kind words and support!
Thank me by continuing to educate me on this topic.
Thanks so much for the distinguishing information. Adjacent land to me has dogbane, but I thought it was milkweed. I have goats and buy hay from this property and you helped me immensely.
You're welcome! Glad you found this video useful!
I just watched your video and then took the dog for a walk in a place with allot of milkweed. I harvested a few pods about 1 1/2 inches long. Stir fried with olive oil, a bit of salt and all i can say is thank you so much. I now have a new early summer vegetable favorite!
UPDATE....ate a few too many on the second try, found out they can be toxic in larger quantity, they were not kidding! No longer on favorite list. Besides that now the monarch butterflies will not see me as a food source competitor.
My grandma always told me how the milkweed helps the butterflies. So when I found some in my yard I always cut around it. Now that I'm getting into foraging I'm glad that I have a little garden spot of it! I leave a few plants alone and use a few plants for me. I have other options that the poor little butterfly doesn't have. My grandma was wise in many ways! Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I have learned A LOT from you! Samuel Thayers book has helped too.
I am so glad I found your channel. I am learning so much.
I love the stillness of the woods. Ive always loved to woods but i really motivated myself to learn more about the woods this summer and its drawn me to venture into them even more knowing about the bounty it contains, the feeling of calm that soaks my soul and the excitement to find a specimen ive learned about in a book or online. You have helped me much, thank you so much adam your youtube channe is my favorite channel concerning this passion!
You're welcome! I appreciate the thoughts you share.
I cant tell you how much i love watching and learning with you thank you so much
Your videos are so informative, easy to understand and encourages wild foraging, thanks so much! Awesome job :)
Thank you, I appreciate that!
Very informative! Suggestion for future videos would be to provide the plants you are talking about side by side so that the differences can be more readily appreciated. Wholeheartedly agree with your assertions of increased happiness and well being directly proportional to the time spent outside...even if only in your own backyard. Keep up the good work.
We leave milkweed growing in our gardens and take seed pods and spread those to wild areas of the farm and lands around here had alot to spread this year .
This is a clear explanation of distinguishing between milk weed and dogbane. I see common milk weed often when out hunting upland birds and outside edges of waterfowl sloughs. I have sometimes taken a few mature pods and shared with neighbors kids who planted around the edge of yard. Monarch 🦋🦋 do show up and do what they do. Now I know how to forage some of the parts and still leave plenty for the 🦋🦋🦋. Thank you. Peace to you. John
You are a walking encyclopedia good sir. A great teacher too. Your knowledge of plants and mushrooms is very impressive. Thanks man.
This spring, On a lark, i decided to let the milkweed flourish in my horseradish and rhubarb beds.
I'd heard it's edible and figured I'd give it a try. Missed the early shoots. Just watched your video and picked and cooked a dozen buds. Delicious. Thanks Adam.
I think my learning will never end with this channel. Sooooo good!
The reason it is called "indian hemp" is because it is a good fiber plant for cordage.
Just watched this yesterday and learned so much! Thank you! On my one hour walk down a country road this AM, I was saw some milkweed with flower heads and picked some to stir fry for lunch. I didn’t know I could do this before the video and love learning new things. Also, I really appreciate that we are in basically the same region so a lot of what you (Adam) talk about is relevant to me as well though we are not in the same state. Thank you very much!
Great information! Well done video.
You are a very bright young man. I like to describe young milkweed flavor comparable to asparagus when you pick young shoots in early spring. Pods I liken to a mozzarella cheese flavor when very young. I personally enjoy eating this plant, but also agree that it should be cooked. Thanks so much for sharing your wisdom.
Hosta shoots are supposed to taste like asparagus too.
We love you Adam you are so knowledgeable thank you for teaching us about these plants.
Cool video! Thank you for taking the time. I’ve been growing common milkweed in my butterfly feeding station but never netted the plants, so of course they’re eaten to the ground before I really get to observe them. I found something not far from me that I suspect is milkweed and does have the sap. I need to go back now and see if those stalks are hollow! Great tip!!! 👏👏👏
I watched this video yesterday and thought I would try milkweed flowers. I have several patches of milkweed in my yard so I picked a large bowl full of unopened flowers and brought them to my kitchen. Cooked them in my microwave, added salt and pepper, then threw some butter on top. They were delicious! I scanned some of your other videos and saw many of those plants in my yard. Trying dandelions next. Thank you!
great to rewatch and take notes on milkweed Adam I love your videos 👍👍👍
love your detailed description on the edibles and not👍👍👍
The milkweed plants in my yard are just now flowering and they have a lovely scent. The bees absolutely love it, though I have never seen Monarchs here (CO). I had no idea you could eat milkweed.
Every year I have such an excess of seed pods. I was thinking of taking the seeds and throwing them in the wild near lakes and fields.
Milkweed flowers smell like irises to me. Fabulous! I spread the seeds in my meadow for the butterflies, but have never considered eating them. I'll wait till there's "too many" ))).
I'm going to forage for this and leave milkweed for the butterflies and replant! Thank you for this really cool channel!
I have a long history of loving milkweed and now may be adding a culinary dimension to the relationship. Thank you, Adam.
I've been planting milkweed around my property. Once it starts to bloom, it is absolutely alive with various insects. The aroma is great at a distance, but once you get next to a large colony, I equate it as being in church with a bunch of 80 year old women, all wearing perfume in vast quantities.
I am always rewarded with butterflies. And my honeybees love this stuff. So, every year my milkweed expands, as I take the seed pods, open them, and spread them around. I might have to try the flower heads though. Intriguing.
Great video! Thank you. My mom and I were trying to identify what had popped up in her garden. So much information in this video!
When you cover safe prepping for food, you mention sauteing the flower buds and boiling the leaves. Can I saute the leaves too?
What are we doing to the glycosides that makes them safe? Is the heat breaking them down, or are they water soluble compounds that come out in boiling water? Thanks!
You’re 100% right! There is very much a correlation between the amount of time we spend in nature, to our contentment. Love your videos so much and an eternally grateful for the knowledge. Love&Light
I have always taught my kids about helping monarchs, & we are lucky to have all of the land behind our house undisturbed (old apple orchard) where milkweed grows in abundance. we have also participated in the Vermont program the helps watch & count monarch sightings.
Your channel is awesome. Thanks for sharing such interesting and useful information.
I'm relatively new to your videos so I'm still catching up watching them, but I absolutely love them. I learn and appreciated so much.
I like to cook Milkweed flowers but a few years ago my Woodchuk neighbor ate the colony; I am nurturing a new colony still and can not yet harvest... The flowers are wonderful. Thank you for your great advice!
Thank you Adam. As always you explain things sooooo well. I came back to this several times and watched it at least 6 times to get the information in my head. Thank you. I have a large spaces where Common Milkweed grows and hope to try the taste next Spring and Summer. Thanks.
I love those beautiful pink flowers. I would love to have a plot of it
Recently started foraging in the Pittsburgh area, you have been extremely helpful and inspiring. Thank you.
❤️ this guys mindset and knowledge!
LOVE YOUR VIDEOS! One of my summer goals it to learn more about the wild plants on my land. We have milkweed- so excited that it can be eaten!!! Thanks so much for your work- every time you site a study - I think yeah take that!!!
Thanks for watching!
You are AWESOME!!! I absolutely love your videos, you do such a fantastic job at explaining things, always very informative!
Thank you Adam for another excellent video! May I suggest you showing us how you prepare and cook edible foraged plants, nuts and mushrooms in your own kitchen. Now that would be awesome!🌱🍄
I love you, bro. I would shake the open milkweed blossoms at dawn into a teacup to sweeten my strawberry/blackberry leaf tea!
Love that I found your channel 🥰🌿🌱
I planted 3 milkweed 2 years ago, they have slowly grown more and the blossoms smell amazing!!! Waiting for more monarchs 😊 Now that I know what is edible I hope they multiply faster 😉
Milkweed flower has the most pleasant perfume of any plant I know.
This was EXCELLENT! I'm eagerly waiting some spots detected in winter months to sprout for thorough identification. This was very helpful!
Such great videos. So much learning. I believe you.. the more time you spend in the woods, the healthier you are.
The milkweed vine called honey creeper (blooms smell exactly like honey), is a wonderful wild yard addition. Many species of bees and butterflies enjoy it, as its perfume wafts across the yard.
Excellent description of the differences - I'm ready to go compare the plants I see in our field! Thank you.
Thank you Adam for another informative video! I've been transplanting and blowing seeds of milkweed unsuccessfully, (I thought) until this year of rain! Yeah, finally!
Thank you for your videos - I just discovered you. So cute that you didn't omit the "off camera" footage lol.
Your wisdom is a blessing 🙌 thank you 😊 🙏
Really enjoy your videos. Very helpful and so much great information. Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge.
Thanks, I always enjoy your useful information
Your videos are wonderful!
I truly appreciate you. 🌻
I live in Northeastern Pennsylvania too! Absolutely beautiful place to live!
Adam you're a beautiful human being thankyoui for sharing your knowledge
I had no idea Milkweed was edible. Thank you for this interesting information.
love love love your videos - what a treasure you are, and uplifting peaceful positive person doing quality work!
Quickly becoming one of my favorite people to learn from. So many of the things you show are right in my yard and I walk past them every day, that's sad. Ive been letting the milkweed grow for my honey bees, now I'll look at it closer and see if any of it is Dogbane.
Glad I could help!
I've been watching you for a long time and I just recently made my way back up to New England and moved into Massachusetts. I'm excited to be able to identify many plants since I've returned and I'm excited to be able to rewatch a lot of your videos
First I want to say thank you for producing wonderful videos.
I used to have 3 areas where it would grow in my yard but the only one that 'spread' was along some railroad ties used to hold the driveway gravel. I do not know what happened because I only collected the mature seed pods for decoration. I did save the seed and silk. One year none came up and that was the end of them.
I found one plant growing next to some tree branches that were used for bird cover but that's gone now too. The last place was behind my garage and it is also gone. In these last 2 paces I found nightshade that had not been there before. Could the nightshade be a problem for milkweed?
I was taught as a child that the milky latex from the milkweed can get rid of warts. It really does seem to work. With repeated applications the wart slowly dissolves away.
Great video brother I look forward to watching more. Milkweed is everywhere in my area in RI, But now I know what dogbane looks like so I'm on a quest to find some and make cordage haha.
Thanks, Eric! You've got some great videos yourself. Hope to connect with you in person someday! -Adam
Likewise.
Have it in my yard in RI.. Flowers smell great. Thanks for the info
I’m in RI too , so far I haven’t found anything but I know we have so much to be foraged here .
@@Dollgrl1 at the right time of year it'll be everywhere
i used to be a truck driver and been all over the US and Pennsylvania and west Virginia were the only two places i never wanted to leave
Makes a hellava lot of sense to me. Just getting a decent amount of the plant around my place. Thanks for sharing...
You're welcome, thanks for watching!
I was looking for information on adeniums. That took me to dogbane. That took me to milkweed. What I nice surprise to find your video. I love your passion. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
We let Milkweed grow in our yard... specifically along the side of the house solely for the Monarch Butterfly. Growing up in the 70's nary a summer day would go by without seeing Monarchs, now it seems as though you'd be lucky to see a single Monarch the whole year. When I learned that the Monarch was obligate to Milkweed I decided to not pull it as we do with other weeds during "spring clean up". Maybe one day I'll get to see some caterpillars munching on it.
Same here! Tons of milkweed too. I haven't seen monarch larvae in decades. Wear I just moved to we have few milkweed and have seen a couple monarch already 😊