Today Nick introduces us to some weeds in our garden that we should be eating instead of weeding. He makes a wild edible salad that's great for the summertime - no cooking necessary.
Video more relevant than ever, given the loss of crops all over the world, which will lead to spikes in food prices and even food shortages. There is food all around us! I also noticed prickly (wild) lettuce and amaranth (I think you couldn't remember what it was @ 4:44, but I might be wrong).
My theory is that's nipplewort. I'm not sure if it's the same thing. I noticed someone else in comments called it amaranth too. Too bad he didn't show it better. He needs somebody else on camera duty, lol.
I love the critter footage in the intro. Purslane - I put it in my smoothies, soups and sauces. This year I'm freezing it. and i'm letting it grow in my community garden patch to act as living mulch. Goosefoot - I once mistook the seeds on it for wild quinoa and was very happy. then someone bust my bubble. Wood-sorrel - one of the first wild edibles I ever learned, as a young child. I loved the sharp lemony flavor. If I ever get hungry tending the community garden I take advantage of the delicious zing of this plant for a nice treat.
This stuff is fabulous. My husband and I had it years ago in Napa at a nice resturant and then I discovered it was growing like crazy in my yard. I make all sorts of tasty dishes with. It is indeed considered a power food.
4:44 I think that one is nipplewort. I've had it in my backyard for years, trying to figure out what it was. It looks quite a bit like lamb's quarters, at least in the younger stages. I searched so many images on Google and couldn't find it, but finally did on Haphazard Homestead. I'm wondering if it's little known, because I've gone through a lot of YT vids about backyard greens and couldn't find it. I agree that purselane is treasure, but the stems really add some nice texture in the salad too. I've been making my own dog food for a while and through in some dandelion greens and flowers for their nutritional and fiber values. My dogs are quite elderly but are very healthy. Thanks for the video.
I love to stir fry lamb's quarter with oil and garlic. I learned the hard way to never cook wood sorrel, it browns when heated, plus it's so good any way, it doesn't need to be cooked.
I have purslane, goosefoot/lambs-quarters (I have the violet one), chickweed, amaranth, woodsorrel, dandelion and a few others which I cherish in my garden and even freeze when I harvest a good flush of them. I enjoy making pickled purslane too. My salad with weeds has a grated carrot, chopped onion, garlic, olive oil, soy sauce and balsamic vinegar in it and if I have some arugula leaves available, that too. It's delicious! Otherwise I usually cook some of these with onion and potato, salt and pepper and butter and serve it as a side dish or as a main on top of polenta. Useful stuff!
Plantain grows around my mother's house as well. And dandelions are ubiquitous my mother grew up eating them as a child and when they're young they're very tasty.
Wood sorrel is all over the place. The sweet taste is crazy. I have some fresh dandelion growing. Hopefully I can harvest it before it becomes too bitter.
portulak,melde,sauerklee,kresse,breitwegerich,löwenzahn its name in german^^.This beautiful wild-green (weeds) is also available in Germany but only a few people know it to eat. :-) I send many greetings from berlin.
I have been eating chickweed dandelion wood sorrell pricly lettuce scaly hawkbit pennsylvania everlast bristley oxtongue mallow field marigold and a tiny bit of london rocket..its hot! All growing in my garden
My side yard is filled with chickweed. Today was the first time eating it. I made pesto. It turned out amazing. So tomorrow im making a shit load more and am going to freeze it for future use.
I'm salivating. It's winter now so I can't get them. I have all of them. only no sure about the pepper grass as I couldn't really see what they look like. Never sprayed my yard. Weed killers are actually killing the whole planet, along with animal agriculture.
Purselane is bred for a much larger size by Mexicans and is a common vegetable in Mexican food.It's really delicious, healthy and drought tolorant,which is perfect for the drier parts of Mexico and now the USA.
Extremely jealous of anyone with wood sorrel in their garden, I haven't manage to find it in the wild except on a foraging course, will have to keep an eye out.
purslane grows everywhere I've always had it moved to a new place out of necessity and I can't find any! I'm going crazy the stuff that they sell at the nurseries is a hybrid and it is tall and cumbersome and it takes up a huge amount of space and doesn't grow like it's wild beginner. going crazy trying to find some and Transplant it!
...its just a sample salad guys. its not like he was picking for dinner, and you could all see that there was definitely enough for a more substantial picking.
A couple of years ago I started to know those plants and found out that I have them in my yard. Except for the pepperweed. I might have it I just don't know whick one is. The one that was close to the lambsquarter. Looks to me that is amaranto. Our favorite is wood sorrow. I have plenty in my yard. Also there is another one that looks like wood sorrow but the leaves are dark , but they have the same type of leaves and tastes the same.
wood sorrel is what we call pickle grass because it tastes like pickles - especially the flowers and pods. "an explosion of taste" doesnt tell us what it tastes like. Thanks for not giving us a close up on the pepper grass - I have no idea what you picked. The fuzzy picture of it at the end gives me an idea but there are a couple of plants that look like that... Thanks for the other info tho
Frank Burns LMAO! No you won't the ones he showed are so distinctive looking that you'll get the right thing and if you don't get the right thing it will just taste like crap. But you can pick enough of some of them to actually have cooked greens. These are common things that pretty much grow in everybody's yard.
I like purslane and I love that hint of lemony sour. Where does it grow? When I was a child we had Sorrel soup. I can't stand up very long or walk very far so I need easy places to find these wild edibles. That Sorrel Grows All Around my mother's house and all my little friends houses when I was a kid we used to pick it and eat it as it was and we called it Tutti Frutti! :-) I can go to my mother's house and get some. It grows around the foundations. All of our mothers thought we were going to die! Haha
WTH?? He could use the entire plant and he's snipping off one or two leaves from each plant. Dude, throw them in your freaking blender for the greatest green smoothie of your life! (Add orange juice and banana for increased yumminess)
4:43 That plant next to the Lambs Quarters with holes in the leaves looks like nightshade. The insect holes give it away. It's black berries are delicious, taste like very sweet tomatoes. Don't eat the green berries, supposed to be very bad for you.
Tiny little salad what the hell?! And it seemed like he didn't even bothered to wash them Well I guess he can't wash them Otherwise they will all run down with the water and he'll have nothing left! 😁
Good vid and good information, but only one thing I found a but humorous. You pronounced the words wrong.🤣 K not ch Chenopodium, chemistry Chelate ( ˈkēlāt )
U focused on every plant but the pepper grass, which u didn’t even show, u picked something, but who knows what it was. The plant u said was a lookalike to lambs quarters, it was no where near a lookalike. I don’t know what state u live n, but out of all the years I’ve harvested dandelions and out of all the videos showing dandelion, urs is the only one that does not have a lions tooth.
@@Crawkid As I understand it, only the triangular "lions tooth" is the dandelion (thus the name), but there are at least two others that have the same flower and have different leaf shapes, but that are also edible.
This video could be highly dangerous since it encourages people to use garden plants as medicine. Someone could mistakenly identify toxic plants as the ones shown in the video and end up poisoning themselves......
I know! RUclips's a hellhole! They show gardening videos where people dig holes in the ground to plant trees. Imagine if someone tried that in their back yard, and then fell in - they might never get out! And what about those knitting videos, with those long, pointy needles flicking about all willy-nilly? The horrors that could ensue if anyone ran off and tried that on their own! It's chilling!
It honestly should be the responsibility of the viewer to look up each plant he pointed out, learn about it, and practice the identification and foraging on their own.
Video more relevant than ever, given the loss of crops all over the world, which will lead to spikes in food prices and even food shortages. There is food all around us!
I also noticed prickly (wild) lettuce and amaranth (I think you couldn't remember what it was @ 4:44, but I might be wrong).
My theory is that's nipplewort. I'm not sure if it's the same thing. I noticed someone else in comments called it amaranth too. Too bad he didn't show it better. He needs somebody else on camera duty, lol.
This is excellent. You've given great visual clarity to something which a lot of people talk about. Thanks so much.
I love the critter footage in the intro.
Purslane - I put it in my smoothies, soups and sauces. This year I'm freezing it. and i'm letting it grow in my community garden patch to act as living mulch.
Goosefoot - I once mistook the seeds on it for wild quinoa and was very happy. then someone bust my bubble.
Wood-sorrel - one of the first wild edibles I ever learned, as a young child. I loved the sharp lemony flavor. If I ever get hungry tending the community garden I take advantage of the delicious zing of this plant for a nice treat.
This stuff is fabulous. My husband and I had it years ago in Napa at a nice resturant and then I discovered it was growing like crazy in my yard. I make all sorts of tasty dishes with. It is indeed considered a power food.
I've never seen such a small salad!
4:44 I think that one is nipplewort. I've had it in my backyard for years, trying to figure out what it was. It looks quite a bit like lamb's quarters, at least in the younger stages. I searched so many images on Google and couldn't find it, but finally did on Haphazard Homestead. I'm wondering if it's little known, because I've gone through a lot of YT vids about backyard greens and couldn't find it. I agree that purselane is treasure, but the stems really add some nice texture in the salad too. I've been making my own dog food for a while and through in some dandelion greens and flowers for their nutritional and fiber values. My dogs are quite elderly but are very healthy. Thanks for the video.
I love to stir fry lamb's quarter with oil and garlic. I learned the hard way to never cook wood sorrel, it browns when heated, plus it's so good any way, it doesn't need to be cooked.
Thank you for sharing your recipe I am growing lambs quarter And Pursland in pots
I have purslane, goosefoot/lambs-quarters (I have the violet one), chickweed, amaranth, woodsorrel, dandelion and a few others which I cherish in my garden and even freeze when I harvest a good flush of them. I enjoy making pickled purslane too. My salad with weeds has a grated carrot, chopped onion, garlic, olive oil, soy sauce and balsamic vinegar in it and if I have some arugula leaves available, that too. It's delicious! Otherwise I usually cook some of these with onion and potato, salt and pepper and butter and serve it as a side dish or as a main on top of polenta. Useful stuff!
Mmm im for sure going to be making some delicous salads!! Thanks!
Plantain grows around my mother's house as well. And dandelions are ubiquitous my mother grew up eating them as a child and when they're young they're very tasty.
Wood sorrel is all over the place. The sweet taste is crazy. I have some fresh dandelion growing. Hopefully I can harvest it before it becomes too bitter.
I would definitely eat the weeds in my yard if I knew they were good to eat. Thx for sharing!
So, you mean, you will definitely eat the weeds..... because now you know! 😉
portulak,melde,sauerklee,kresse,breitwegerich,löwenzahn its name in german^^.This beautiful wild-green (weeds) is also available in Germany but only a few people know it to eat. :-) I send many greetings from berlin.
I have been eating chickweed dandelion wood sorrell pricly lettuce scaly hawkbit pennsylvania everlast bristley oxtongue mallow field marigold and a tiny bit of london rocket..its hot! All growing in my garden
Going to look for these in my yard. Good video.
My side yard is filled with chickweed. Today was the first time eating it. I made pesto. It turned out amazing. So tomorrow im making a shit load more and am going to freeze it for future use.
if i die you are accountable lol!! this is great love this video
I grew up in Jordan and we called it Sheppards bread...
I'm salivating. It's winter now so I can't get them. I have all of them. only no sure about the pepper grass as I couldn't really see what they look like.
Never sprayed my yard. Weed killers are actually killing the whole planet, along with animal agriculture.
Purselane is bred for a much larger size by Mexicans and is a common vegetable in Mexican food.It's really delicious, healthy and drought tolorant,which is perfect for the drier parts of Mexico and now the USA.
That's a fun fact I didn't know. Sadly, I spent years pulling them out before I began to learn about working with nature instead of against her.
modern day hero, I love this guy!
eating instead of weeding thanks dude :)
I can’t believe how small is you dish ? Is so small you can’t even pick for even one salad 😊
To be a purslane farmer. Grows like a weed, is succulent, makes a great ground cover, and has a high price.
Extremely jealous of anyone with wood sorrel in their garden, I haven't manage to find it in the wild except on a foraging course, will have to keep an eye out.
if you walk around the outside of your house, you might find some growing by the base..
Many folks do not know this and will not try this even if you show them. Many weeds actually are in European markets at a premium price.
Most of these "weeds" were brought here by Europeans to cultivate, generations ago.
Growing up in Michigan the wood sorrel was called Sour Banana. We would pick & eat the seed pods or "bananas".
Worlds smallest salad 😂
Thinking the same. lol
I had wild boar grilled on a campfire recently. It was amazing. Also it would be awesome if you could do wild mushroom cooking videos.
Great video, thanks fellas
My mom use to tell us "don't mow your lawn eat it" and she would have us pick stuff to add to the salads.
I think that's the coolest video I've ever seen
Uh. The snakes got me. Lol. Love the video
I tried and now I am growing all those plants indoor too.
Tasty “teeny” salad 😂
purslane grows everywhere I've always had it moved to a new place out of necessity and I can't find any! I'm going crazy the stuff that they sell at the nurseries is a hybrid and it is tall and cumbersome and it takes up a huge amount of space and doesn't grow like it's wild beginner. going crazy trying to find some and Transplant it!
maybe mark off a small bed, till it, and don't do anything else to it. Purslane tends to grow there for me.
thanks for the idea
Aheathy salad until I smother it with blue cheese dressing.
Great video!!! We're always hunting for wild edibles
...its just a sample salad guys. its not like he was picking for dinner, and you could all see that there was definitely enough for a more substantial picking.
Great informative video! Thanks
Is that salad for a tiny little doll sized person?
Hahaha Big guy !
Wild edibles have more nutrition than the domesticated cultivars.
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2:34 Scissors!!! My go to foraging tool. Big bowl, scissors, and off into the yard and around the house. Shoes optional.
I pick all this Dandelion n purslane n put with my cooking chicken hhhhh it's so delicious
Thak you great video
A couple of years ago I started to know those plants and found out that I have them in my yard. Except for the pepperweed. I might have it I just don't know whick one is. The one that was close to the lambsquarter. Looks to me that is amaranto. Our favorite is wood sorrow. I have plenty in my yard. Also there is another one that looks like wood sorrow but the leaves are dark , but they have the same type of leaves and tastes the same.
what if your lawn was only treated with lime? are the wild edibles OK to consume?
wood sorrel is what we call pickle grass because it tastes like pickles - especially the flowers and pods. "an explosion of taste" doesnt tell us what it tastes like. Thanks for not giving us a close up on the pepper grass - I have no idea what you picked. The fuzzy picture of it at the end gives me an idea but there are a couple of plants that look like that... Thanks for the other info tho
You could have provided a kinder critique (thanks for not giving us....). Let's see how you can do making a video.
That's the tiniest salad ever lol
Looks delicious 😋
That all plants can find easily in my country Nepal. My country is rich in such a those kinds of hubs.
Tiniest salad ever lol
I gave a thumb up after the 5 second :)
where can I get the Plantin weeds? or how can I grow them if I have the seed in my land?
info is great but you should be explaining each plant one by one. this will make us easier to understand.
thunder mans
Awesome stuff mate 👍
I'm afraid I'll misidentify one of these and end up eating its evil, poisonous twin.
Frank Burns LMAO! No you won't the ones he showed are so distinctive looking that you'll get the right thing and if you don't get the right thing it will just taste like crap. But you can pick enough of some of them to actually have cooked greens. These are common things that pretty much grow in everybody's yard.
That's my problem too. I need to know for sure so I don't get sick.
I like purslane and I love that hint of lemony sour. Where does it grow? When I was a child we had Sorrel soup. I can't stand up very long or walk very far so I need easy places to find these wild edibles. That Sorrel Grows All Around my mother's house and all my little friends houses when I was a kid we used to pick it and eat it as it was and we called it Tutti Frutti! :-) I can go to my mother's house and get some. It grows around the foundations. All of our mothers thought we were going to die! Haha
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purslane will sprout up in damp weedy places, in places where there has been recent plowing/disturbances, and sometimes in the cracks of sidewalks.
Sorrel soup is so good.That plant spreads like a weed but it's still expensive.
Im looking forward to my purslane coming in.
WTH?? He could use the entire plant and he's snipping off one or two leaves from each plant. Dude, throw them in your freaking blender for the greatest green smoothie of your life! (Add orange juice and banana for increased yumminess)
well the thing is that yes the stems are edible, but they're also kind of woody...
Crawkid blender takes care of that in most cases. Would be fine with chenopodium and purslane
4:43 That plant next to the Lambs Quarters with holes in the leaves looks like nightshade. The insect holes give it away. It's black berries are delicious, taste like very sweet tomatoes. Don't eat the green berries, supposed to be very bad for you.
4:46 I belive its Quinoa grass look like and its good too
Yes, lambs quarters is just wild quinoa.. :)
Nice video!
Cool intro and I'm so subbed
Thank you
Are there not two types of Purslane one good one not? one bleeds a milky substances. other has plump like leaf and other flat leaves?
I've never heard that. I wonder if you're describing an entirely different species.
Tiny little salad
what the hell?!
And it seemed like he didn't even bothered to wash them
Well I guess he can't wash them
Otherwise they will all run down with the water and he'll have nothing left! 😁
Thanks so much
Lol everyone is talking about how small the bowl is. For me it was so small that I didn’t even noticed until he put that bowl on the ground.
Does anyone know a guide I can download that doesn't cost so much? I'm a poor forager.. 😏☝️
Do snails cause contaminants on plants weeds
Nah.
I just read that wood sorrel would make you sick.
Oh oh, there was some spurge growing near the dandelion.
Yep. That salad is way too small.
I heard the Indians used would eat poison ivy leaf to never get poison ivy again. Thoughts?
Looks like you planted it there...
Good vid and good information, but only one thing I found a but humorous.
You pronounced the words wrong.🤣 K not ch
Chenopodium, chemistry
Chelate ( ˈkēlāt )
Wait, "chelate" is pronounced with a "k"? I guess it's one of those words we read more than we say..
Thanks
You need a bigger bowl..
That other plant looks nothing like lambs quarters.. Use small leaves in salads and cook the bigger ones and stems..
OMG. .all of the plants are in our Country. .We eat usually. But not like U. .Thanks I got idea
spanish needles are good to
Is moss roses are edible???? Thank you
If you really wanted to know you'd google it instead of posting on a channel where your question won't be answered.
cheezhead Z I have search everywhere even I google it there is no answer only purslane has an edible benefit
You needed a bigger bowl
Why is your salad of such liliputian size!?
The look alike is pigweed totally edible also.
You're the third person who says it's amaranth.. Have you seen nipplewort and do you know if it's the same thing? That's what it looked like to me.
Didn't get a good pic of pepper grass..
Kind sir, it looks tasty. how do you recommend preparing wild deer that may be heavily bruised on one side?
ajent oj lol
Roadkill. Lol.
Cook it in molly water
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U focused on every plant but the pepper grass, which u didn’t even show, u picked something, but who knows what it was. The plant u said was a lookalike to lambs quarters, it was no where near a lookalike. I don’t know what state u live n, but out of all the years I’ve harvested dandelions and out of all the videos showing dandelion, urs is the only one that does not have a lions tooth.
I have a comment about the shape of dandelion. See, I live in Michigan, and we actually have two different types of dandelion leaves
@@Crawkid As I understand it, only the triangular "lions tooth" is the dandelion (thus the name), but there are at least two others that have the same flower and have different leaf shapes, but that are also edible.
Need a bigger bowl.. looks like he will eat a giant steak with that so what's the point
I mean, this is TX isn't it? They just discovered fresh greens, lol.
I don't believe is for salad .
I believe he gonna bring to the microscope to double check.
that does not look like dandelion dandelion has like spear or Arrow looking shaped leaves
Its a very small bowl are you feeding a mouse?🙄
Not a very informative video you didn't show plant close ups.
1 Peter 1:6 In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials.
Please show closer look so that no one could misidentified
Try washing before eating....😟😒
This video could be highly dangerous since it encourages people to use
garden plants as medicine. Someone could mistakenly identify toxic
plants as the ones shown in the video and end up poisoning
themselves......
I know! RUclips's a hellhole! They show gardening videos where people dig holes in the ground to plant trees. Imagine if someone tried that in their back yard, and then fell in - they might never get out! And what about those knitting videos, with those long, pointy needles flicking about all willy-nilly? The horrors that could ensue if anyone ran off and tried that on their own! It's chilling!
It honestly should be the responsibility of the viewer to look up each plant he pointed out, learn about it, and practice the identification and foraging on their own.
@@arogue469 Right?
Very scared 😱 danger as people eats Doritos ,margarines, donuts and sodas . We don’t even know what is in this kind of food and still eating .