The Yodeling Forager: Your guide to finding, identifying, harvesting, cleaning, cooking, and preserving wild edible plants and mushrooms in the Great Lakes area. With some occasional yodeling. Check out willforageforfood.com for classes, seasonal harvest reminders, recipes, foraging tips, and more.
As others have said, this was very helpful, especially the side-by-side comparisons. I have a few of these unexpectedly growing in my yard this year and even though I'm pretty clueless about plants, I was pretty sure it wasn't rhubarb. My confusion was made worse by the fact that they are growing near an area of elephant ear/colocasia plants, which also have large leaves on large stalks/petioles attached to single rosettes. This video--along with the fact that the plants have small burrs--helped me determine it is in fact burdock.
Is there a difference between harvesting them brown and harvesting them green and then letting them go brown??? Won't they end up with the same integrity either way? I've got harvested brown ones...I imagine they're more brittle than green ones would end up??
also rhubarb is a poisonous plant the stem can be eaten the leaves and roots will kill you if you eat it if the stem does not fold you have rhubarb toss it do not eat it.
i am super sensitive to stings thank you for this close up identifying video. . i was looking at the wrong plant in my ysrd thunking it was nettle. it is very pricky thistle i think.
May I ask why you yodel when harvesting, please? I have never harvested the roots, but I very much enjoy the early-mid spring male pollen spikes boiled and dipped in salted butter. They taste much like corn and are delicious! Blessings.
Omg! Is that you singing? I absolutely love it! This video was awesome and last weekend’s foraging event was like going to the Disney World of foragers. 🤟
I agree the intro was jarring but the video was very informative, thank you. I live in wisconsin and I LOVE RHUBARB but inly recently found out about burdock. We call it elephant ear, so I never knew it was edible burdock honestly.
Hi and thank you! We really need more videos in foraging with critical food infrastructure under attack in America. it’s 2023 and we are at war people. Wake up! I’m in ag zone 5-6. Where are you. PS we make your elder flower milkweed flower cordial every spring. The first was to alcoholic for us but we got it down now. Really look forward to that treat. Celtic dandelion wine too. Ever try that? Will share recipe if you want. Peace
Thank you. I'm trying to harvest some burdock root, but I know that rhubarb leaves are poisonous and I didn't want to confuse them. Your explanation clearly differentiates burdock from those others and I feel I can make my first attempt.
Would you do a video on harvesting mulberries and making wine? I always eat them off the tree...but I get grossed out by them when I harvest a bowl full and see all the spiders, etc...
