Grow Your Own Food And Medicine From This One Amazing Tree - Elderflowers & Elderberries
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2024
- Today we'll be exploring elderberries and going over how you can grow your own medicine and food from this cold hardy, medicinal plant.
I'll be sharing how to grow and propagate elderberries in your own garden, orchard or food forest.
We'll cover how to harvest and safely use both elderflower and elderberries and look at some of the proven medicinal uses for the flowers and berries. These trees also have other interesting uses too, like using the wood to make flutes or whistles.
I grow the European Elder (Sambucus nigra ssp. nigra), but we’ll also briefly talk about some of the other different types of elderberries, like American black elder (Sambucus nigra ssp. canadensis), Blue elderberry also know as Mexican Elderberry (Sambucus nigra ssp. cerulea) and Red elderberry (Sambucus racemosa).
There's been a lot of studies on elderberries' antiviral and flu-fighting abilities which we'll talk about, and these have traditionally been used to treat many different ailments and disease. They have a very long history in many cultures and are widely known for their health benefits. I hope you enjoy it and learn something new.
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0:00 Intro
0:30 Different types of elder
1:18 Growing Elderberries
1:50 How To Grow From Cuttings
3:47 Harvesting & Drying Elderflowers
4:50 Toxicity
5:22 Medicinal use for flowers
6:25 Harvesting Elderberries Safely
8:14 Making antiviral medicine
9:46 Elderberries as food
10:43 Tasting Elderberry medicine and food
12:08 Other interesting uses for the plants
Some of the studies referenced in the video:
Golnoosh Torabian, Peter Valtchev, Qayyum Adil, Fariba Dehghani,
Anti-influenza activity of elderberry (Sambucus nigra), Journal of Functional Foods, Volume 54, 2019
Tiralongo, Evelin, Shirley S. Wee, and Rodney A. Lea. "Elderberry supplementation reduces cold duration and symptoms in air-travellers: A randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trial." Nutrients 8.4 (2016):182
Christiane Schön, Yvonne Mödinger, Franziska Krüger, Cornelia Doebis, Ivo Pischel & Bernd Bonnländer (2021) A new high-quality elderberry plant extract exerts antiviral and immunomodulatory effects invitro and exvivo, Food and Agricultural Immunology, 32:1, 650-662, DOI: 10.1080/09540105.2021.1978941
Wieland LS, Piechotta V, Feinberg T, Ludeman E, Hutton B, Kanji S, Seely D, Garritty C. Elderberry for prevention and treatment of viral respiratory illnesses: a systematic review. BMC Complement Med Ther. 2021 Apr 7;21(1):112. doi: 10.1186/s12906-021-03283-5. PMID: 33827515; PMCID: PMC8026097
Hawkins J, Baker C, Cherry L, Dunne E. Black elderberry (Sambucus nigra) supplementation effectively treats upper respiratory symptoms: A meta-analysis of randomized, controlled clinical trials. Complement Ther Med. 2019 Feb;42:361-365. doi: 10.1016/j.ctim.2018.12.004. Epub 2018 Dec 18. PMID: 30670267
Ulbricht, Catherine, et al. "An evidence-based systematic review of elderberry and elderflower (Sambucus nigra) by the Natural Standard Research Collaboration." Journal of dietary supplements 11.1 (2014): 80-120
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Growing up in Romania we always made syrup, tea, and a huge summer favorite, elbderflower infused lemonade, which is left to naturally ferment for a bit. The elder flower lemonade is like a natural fizzy drink, super refreshing. It was so popular in the Balkans that Fanta produced their own version of Elderflower Lemonade.
That’s cool. The lemonade sounds delicious!
I absolutely love elderberry lemonade too!
do you have the recipe?
Can you use elderberries for smoothies?
My ancestry is Romanian, and I dislike normal lemonade, I only like elderberry 😍
Where I live in germany there's so many wild elderberry bushes in the forests, the smell of the flowers always brings back memories of playing in the forest when I was still a kid😃 love your videos, so interesting and informative
That’s so cool that you can forage for them there! Cheers 😁
@@TheKiwiGrower Another German here: Since elderberries grow here in wild hegdes it is not very common to plant them in gardens. Though people use the flowers and berries here. The flowers are often made into syrup used to flavor fuzzy drinks or popular "Hugo" cocktail with sparkling wine. The berries are made into jelly or into a warm soup with sweet semolina dumplings floating in it.
My grandma used to dip the flowers in a kind of thick pancake batter (without baking powder) and fry them in a pan. That recipe is one of my favourite childhood memories! It tastes great, but is obviously very filling. It's a really popular way to eat them here in Germany.
@@mermer6160 I've never eaten it so far. But to form the pancake you have to leave the stems on the flower. By making syrup I've noticed it's better to get rid of most of the stems: they bring a bitter note.
I remember, the old man in Bavaria, when I was a child, tipped their hats to the Elderberry, as it is said, from the roots to the leaves it is healing.
I live in Denmark where elderberry is a huge part of the culture. Every summer people go out elderflower-picking, and they grow absolutely everywhere (roadsides, parks, forests, etc.).
Nowadays people mostly use the flowers to make elderflower cordial, which is just the flavour of summer to me. I feel like the berries are more used by people in the countryside and older generation. Mostly we make a warm berry soup, which is really nice if you like that very distinct elderberry taste.
I have hade elderflower fritters, but honestly it mostly tastes of fried batter 😆
I'd love to learn how to make an elderberry cordial 😋
Hi Kalem!
Elderberry is such an amazing plant! That beautiful scent of its flowers remind me of a hot Polish summer. In my homecountry we use it a lot. My mum always have some dried flowers stored in paper bags to use it as a medicinal tea for the flu and colds [most of the time she mixes it with dried linden (Tilia) flowers and wild primrose (Primula officinalis or elatior) flowers]. Nature is the best source of medicines. We also use fresh flowers to make this absolutely delicious slightly fizzy cordial which is a must on a hot summer day, can be also used as a base for a cocktail. I think one of your viewers from Romania mentioned it aswell. I will add the recipe at the end of my comment, you should really try it, you'll love it! 🙂 Those fritters you mentioned are actually very, very tasty, you should try it yourself, just dip the flowers in a pancake batter, put them on a frying pan, cut all the stems with scissors (they can give you a REALLY bad diarhorrea😂) sprinkle them with a bit of a sugar powder and taa daa you got yourself a light, healthy and tasty summer meal. I used to always pick my elderberry flowers and fruits in mountain forests of southern Poland where Im from but at the moment I live in Ireland so I get those from a local woodland park, where they grow in abundance. I get strange looks sometimes though from the people passing by😂 Just wanted to mention that from what I know it is good to boil your elderberry fruits with no lid on as some cyanid compounds can evaporate then from your syrup. Also it is a good idea to press your fruits through a sieve if you are making a jam, that way you remove all the seeds which contain the most of the cyanide. I would love to be able to plant at least one elderberry bush in my garden but I dont have enough space, I squeezed as many plants in it as I possibly could but elderberry is quite big. Maybe someday when I buy more land. You are lucky to have so much space which you use so efficiently. At the end of my looong comment😄 just want to say that you are doing an amazing job with your videos and passion for plants, animals and nature. Im a regular viewer and I share your videos with friends. Also you are a man of so many talents, you can built a house, establish a farm and bake tiny tarts aaand you look like a male model. Your wife is a lucky, lucky lady🙂 all the best! PS: New Zealand is such an amazing place, so exotic and unique, especially for someone coming from Europe, hopefully I'll be able to visit your country someday. For now Im gonna keep watching your videos and listen to Kimbra 😉
•●Elderberry flower cordial●•
40 elderberry flowers (clean but prefferably not washed as by washing you remove all the elderberry pollen)
2kg of sugar (I use around 1,5kg, Im sure it can be substituted with honey aswell)
2 big organic lemons
1 organic orange
2 organic mandarins
2 packets of citric acid powder (20gram each) it works as a natural, safe preservative.
2litres of boiled, cold water
Place elderberry flowers on a white paper sheet in a bright place for around 10 minutes, that way you'll make sure all the little critters will safely leave and wont end up in your cordial :) Wash and chop all the citrus fruits with skins on, use a big (around 6litres) preferably glass or stoneware container (you shouldnt use any metal containers or utensils with this cordial). Add all your ingredients in layers: flowers with stems cut off, sugar, citruses, citric acid, repeat until you use all the ingredients. Then use a big wooden spoon or wooden potato masher to press all of it from the top until you see citruses juice coming through. Cover your container with linen or cotton cloth and leave for 48 hours stirring all the ingredients around every 4 hours or so. After 48 hours add 2 liters of cold water and leave for another 48 hours, dont forget about stirring. After 48 hours sieve your liquid through a sieve and a gauze. Pour your cordial into sterilised bottles or jars and store in a fridge. After some time natural CO2 will appear so your cordial would get that nice fizziness. Enjoy with cold soda water and ice 🙂
Great work - I've saved your recipe!
I wonder if you could grow a compact variety in a large pot. If you keep it pruned, optimise the potting mix, nutrients, seaweed solution and water, it might work.
@@franceslock1662 thats a very good idea worth of trying! Thanks Frances :) I know there are different cultivars of Elderberry which have a different growing habits but not sure if they have the same medicinal properites as an original one so your advice is the best option for compact gardeners like me ;)
You're starting to make me want to become a gardener... It's quite impressive what you can grow if you take properly care of it in the right conditions
This one is particularly easy to grow too. They can thrive in less than ideal conditions :)
@@TheKiwiGrower yep, we have a few wild bushes locally which seems to do well on their own!
Elderberries are honestly so easy to grow. Planted one of these same dark coloured varieties in a pretty poor draining area and it has gone gangbusters with very little maintenance.
I made a syrup with own harvested elderberries from the forest 2 years ago and it tasted very good! In my region in Austria there are also plantations of elderberries for the use of especially the fruits 💚👋
Awesome, that’s cool that you can forage for them there!
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I didn't know there were so many things Elderberry can be used for. Thanks Kalem another great video. I think maybe you should apply for Masterchef NZ😂
Haha cheers Mark!
so he gardens, farms, cleans, teas, bakes, etc…. I aspire to be a man like this.
Great video, but surprised you missed one.
Sambucus gaudichaudiana, or the Australian native Elderberry. It's meant to have all the properties of its northern cousins but lacks the bad parts in the berries. So you can eat them to your heart's content. I have a few, they grow to 1.5m and do well in temperate places.
Wow, that’s First Nations medicine. What a fabulous project to do with children. I wonder where I could source seeds. I notice some First Nations cultural centres have plantings of bushes and trees with berries in their gardens. On the guided tour they didn’t go near them or tell us what they were.
Checked it out, they’re white berries, it’s a compact shrub, it can be purchased from a nursery in Victoria. I wonder if the medicinal properties are comparable. Thank you for your comment.
Do you think they could be shipped to the US? Or are they considered an invasive species? Customs is always finnicky with plants i hear.
Hi, I'm really excited to see you cultivate a plant native to my area as well! Here they are pretty much ubiquitous and grow everywhere on the edges of woods and along paths in the forest. It's really quite a beautiful sight in may when the elderflowers are in bloom. I've been drinking diluted elderflower infused sirup for pretty much my entire life and can really recommend it. It's made by soaking freshly harvested elderflowers overnight in water, then adding sugar and heating slightly to make it into a sirup. It turns a nice yellow colour and always tastes like early summer :)
Cheers from Germany, love your Channel
Thanks for info! I’m definitely keen to try out the syrup next year. Must be amazing walking through the forest during that time. The smell would be intense
I have a path through the woods where they grow for hundreds of feet and seeing them in bloom in spring is one of my favorite things.
As someone who's foraged elderberries since I was young I love this! Some breweries I've lived near even add the flowers to their ciders
That’s awesome, so many cool uses!
that sounds like it would make an amazing cider!
@@lilmissjoodypoody they are some of my favorites!
One thing i will definitely miss when i leave NZ is Pie . LOL
A few years ago I made a "champagne" wine from the Elder and produced about 4.5 litres @ 14% alcohol. A few fuzzy nights for a while 🤣😂
Yep, elderflower fritters are the best, slightly sweet batter and shallow fry. Really fragrant and tasty.
Plus elderflower sparkling wine, yum.
Thank you for the great information.
The cold is the cure and elderberry supports the body to detoxify.
It’s amazing how widespread elderberries are. I live in northern Minnesota (zone 3) and they grow wild all over the place. God has blessed us with this tree!
Mn here. My woods have thousands of of them growing..... unfortunately the red variety. I have the black variety planted in my berry patch and will be propagating them for planting around the property.
speaking of not growing them in a hot dry location. We grow them in Las Vegas, US - a very hot very dry climate. The plants flower and produce fruit in the spring. Then the heat of the summer burns off the foliage, but in the late summer they will re-leaf, bloom and fruit again before winter. We love this plant!
Hi, in Czech Republic we cook sirup for regular drinking out of the flowers. Just mix the sirup with water and you have tasty flavoured glass of water.
Sounds yum, will have to try that out. Cheers!
Living in California's mountain's, elder grows wild. Made jam and loved the tartness on everything! Put it on steaks and even chicken and of course toast and pancakes love it.
Sounds great! The jam would be soo good!
Also there was wild choke cherries and I made jam from that too, both grow wild in abundance all over the mountain but you have beat the bears to get them lol. Thanks for replying peace out brother.
Elderberries grow wild here in Oregon so it's nice to see other people try them. I usually make a cordial with honey and drink it when I feel a cold coming on. The cordial also goes great in seltzer water for a cocktail.
Awesome, sounds good. It’s cool that you can forage for them!
Is it like the elderberry syrup then add the seltzer water?
@@patroot2536 yeah just add to your level of flavor. Maybe add some lime juice or garnish if you want.
@@tylerjones1574 thank you
You are an all rounder! Very rare in these days of left ear specialists and right ear specialists.
Simply brilliant!
I love elderberries, they grow wild in our hedgerows and every year we used to gather bucketfuls of the berries. Now we have our own elderberry trees to harvest from. Lovely video!
Awesome, such a great plant to have. Thanks Liz :)
Is fine to use elderberries for smoothies? Like mix milk in it?
Fantastic educational video!
Great video, thank you 😊
Love the additional info.
Highly informative, as well as interesting! 👍💯
Elderflower wine is my favourite wine of all, to me it's the true taste of summer. I have never eaten the elderberries, but I have used them as a bait additive for freshwater fishing with great success.
Nice, thanks!
Great! Thanks
Great info
Thank You!
I love that tea pot. Thanks for more information on elderberries
This is amazing.
Very helpful video! Thank you for sharing your recipes with us. 👍🏻
Educational and I love knowledge. Thanks for sharing.
Not only is he smart, well-spoken and obviously hard-working, but a total hunk with that New-Zealander/Aussie charm. Keep up the good work, gorgeous! 😀
I just recently discovered your channel and thanks to you it’s given me the motivation to start my garden up again ❤️
Thank you buff Fitz
Here in slovenia the batter covered and fried flowers used to be quite a popular food in the past, I haven't seen it outside my grandmas house though. It's really good, an interesting taste that I just can't really put into words. What is more popular nowadays is to make a syrup for diluting out of the flowers, almost every (rural) household makes their own lol.
Oddly, I have never tasted the fruit of them I think, which is weird since they grow everywhere here.
You are so easy to listen to. No puffed up filler! Thanks
I’m so impressed with the looks of the tart you made. Beautifully perfect!
informative as always
The videos are so full of knowledge and facts and you deliver the message really well 🤙🤙🌱
Awesome always 👏
Can’t wait to grow. great info and video
Awesome! You’re so inspiring. I live in an apartment but I am dreaming of having a garden in my future yard❤️
This episode was entertaining and informative. Loved to Harry Potter reference.
My mother use to make alsorts of wine and elderberry was one of them. She also use to make elderflower champagne which was lovely. Happy memories.
I love this video, keep inspiring
Beautiful harbal plant 🌷💕🌷
Your videos are sooo good now bro, keep up the good work. Love seeing the growth and progress ! How exciting
Love this channel, keeps inspiring me to get in the garden
Cheers! 🌳 🌱
The Elder wand is the most useful posibility! :) Thank you for the beautiful video! :)
When I was a child, I often had warm soup with apple wedges, it was really good.
Gracias
Wooow the desert at the end 😍
Beautiful sharing knowledge
Loved this video! Now I’m highly considering getting an elder berry tree!
Great video
Enjoying cold, organic elderberry syrup right now. Truly an amazing plant. I also like that you appear to be doing a great job researching.
You are a very clever, multi talented young man. I really enjoy your videos. All the best.
Thank you for your vdo,I like it.
So interesting! Thanks for all the info. :)
No worries, cheers for watching :)
Always interesting Kalem! Thanks mate!!
Cheers mate!
Thanks for the tip about pulling the berries off frozen! That will come in handy.
I made elderberry wine with red elderberries. It was pretty good chilled. Never had any negative effects.
You're very talented and Good person
My friends make elderberry champagne from the flowers. They've given me cuttings so I can't wait to try it next year
I love this channel been binging for a few weeks now really informative and really satisfying w/all the cooking and preps!
Thabk u^^
Thanks for the support, glad you’ve been enjoying it! 😁
This is such a good video! The tart looks amazing.
Me and my mom have always made juice out of the flowers and it turns amazing too
Keep up the good work!
thanks friend for all the information you are my inspiration to make my garden
I'm inspired. I will definitely keep a lookout during my explorations.
A fellow kiwi to follow for gardening. How awesome!
Wow that tart Pie looks awesome yummy. Great job, thanks for sharing
I think that Elderberry Flower Fritters are one of my most favorite childhood memories! I have an old Swiss recipe that I’ll send to you.
Kalem, you're a wonderful human being.
Nice
That was such an interesting video. Man you are so talented. Thank you.
They grow all over in Florida! Love them. A friend's husband would make poultice of the leaves to treat his hemorrhoids. Claimed it works great! *just putting that out there in case someone needs it. Happy to find your channel. Great stuff!
Wow , very beautiful video my friend👍🤗
Thank you so much. I have a self seeded one which I have been neglecting ( not intentionally!) , not any more. Will get right on to it and plant it in a proper spot,Thank you
I came for the growing info but really loved the cooking segment too, thank you! :D
Cheers John, glad you enjoyed it!
My Grandfather had a Elderberry tree growing on the curb/berm/sidewalk of his property in the South Island. He use to make Elderberry Wine and it was a "blow your mind experience" drinking it LOL
i love your videos so much omg
Thanks!
Thank you so much! That's so kind of you ❤
It's nice to see you using the bottle gourd that you made
It grows everywhere in Sweden we use the flowers for lemonade it's probably the most popular lemonade here.
And the Berries we salt like capers for food :)
This is very interesting and I am encouraged to plant elderberries now 🙏 thankyou xx
Just watched a few videos and have subscribed! Clearly put in loads of effort both into your plants but also your content. No wasted time here. Also, thanks for going out of your way and citing some research articles you spoke about. So important to be able to view sources!
Thanks heaps and welcome to the channel! Glad you're enjoying them. More coming soon :)
Very interesting. Now I have to go out and find one in the spring to prop
Good luck with it!
loved this video. As a german living in New Zealand i cannot wait to grow them in my garden :)
I love foraging the flowers and making fresh tea from them in summer, it's so tasty 😌☕. I didn't know I had to remove the stems though 😳.
Very informative video, especially the part where you cooked up some of the berries to show what can be made from the harvest.
Cheers Toby, glad you enjoyed it
They grow in the UK like weeds!
I like to harvest the flowers in a local park here, I collect 20 heads and add 4.5 litres of hot water, lemon, lime, around 700g sugar and maybe a pinch of yeast if it's not fermenting after a day or so. Leave for a few days loosely covered, then bottle in plastic bottles or strong glass flip top bottles. Wait two weeks maybe and you've got elderflower champagne. It's gorgeous, sparkling and light, tastes like lychee!
I also made an elderberry and blackberry wine in 2010 which actually tasted like a really good red, it was unreal!
When I've done the syrup before, I've used sugar and boiled it up with it which made more of a syrup than what you ended up with.
I've also done pies and crumbles with them but bulked out with blackberries or apples. Both brilliant!
Great video, I enjoyed this and didn't know about the ease of propagation, I better go find a stick to get me started, I've always wanted it in my garden!
thank you for the tutorial, very useful for me, thank you bro
No worries :)
Love your video coz I love gardening too
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