Want to start foraging? Here is my foraging resource guide to help you get started: robgreenfield.org/foraging Here is my Find a Forager page to find a forager to learn from in your area: robgreenfield.org/findaforager
Surprised you didn't cover purslane the most nutritious with ALA/EPA Omega 3 which is hard to get from the SAD diet. Nice video I kept wood sorrel in my potted plants thinking they are clovers fixing nitrogen. But no sorrel use nitrogen.
Rob.. a favorite treat of mine is to take a bunch or the dandelion flowers, brush it off with a pastry brush, then poke it down into a jar of raw honey. Let sit for a couple weeks. You can eat these alone of put them on other dishes/salads as a condiment.
Warning: there's a plant called "mountain death-camas" that looks a lot like wild onions, but is quite poisonous (hence the name). Make sure you pick the right plant!
I was wondering how you tell the difference when he was talking about wild onions and garlic. Do either of those plants smell like onions enough that they confuse you? Because there's many allium bulbs that have been domesticated that are poison so it doesn't surprise me that there are things in the family that are poison
Notes: ***Only Eat What You Know*** Stinging Nettle- 1:50 You can roll it up and eat it raw, in a tea or sautéed Plantain: 2:59 both food and medicine. Chew it up to make a pulsus and apply to area. Dandelion: 4:06 Every part is edible. Root can be used to make coffee substitute when roasted. Wild Mint: 5:00 Many varieties and found in different locations. Wood Sorrel: 5:50 Often mistaken for clover. Lemon/tart flavor. Watercress 7:00 Found by fresh water. Strong flavor add to salads sauté or eat raw. Wild Brassica 7:50 Buds, flowers, seed pods and leaves are edible. Wild Onion/Ramps/Wild Leeks: 9:03 Seeds, leaves, bulbs are all edible. Blackberry/Raspberry 10:09 Can eat the berries and the leaves make a good tea. Apples: 11:45
My grandmother was Cherokee. She never actually taught me to forage, but I would see her occasionally chew on a wall plant. She kind of didn't do lunch. So I learned on her Farm to eat pawpaws, crabapples, walnuts, wood sorrel, dandelions and blackberries, raspberries, and mulberries. Then my mom would send me to her sister's house in the city and she would catch me eating acorns and other such things and just freaked out lol. Once her mother-in-law caught her spanking me for eating blackberries that's a lady had planted herself LOL. by the way I mentioned eating raw acorns don't eat too many Raw where they will make you very sick LOL if you boil them, dry them and grind them up and had a little to your pancake batter it's yummy though. I wish Grandma had taught me formally and more. She died when I was young. And she taught my mom's son but Mom couldn't remember and now she's gone too.
Wow I remember 8 years ago, when I was 17 y/o and interview to be you and your sister's roommate. So much has changed for you in a decade, its great to see you thriving! Growing fast like this beautiful plants
Great video! Be careful not to mistake wild onion for lily of the valley, an extremly poisonous plant! They look very alike, especially without the blossoms! They look a bit like wild garlic, which tastes awesome!
Thanks for sharing! I've been living in rural Japan for over a year now and have been surprised to see fruit growing wild during my walks to and from work. I occasionally harvest some fruit on my way home. It's wonderful to be able to tell what time of the year it is just by seeing what's growing by the side of the road!
Try to eat the youngest ferns’ leaves it can be eaten too. It’s delicious. You can steam and mix with salad dressing, or sautéed in cooking oil with garlic, soy sauce and onion with pork meat or shrimp. Or even without.
When i was young i knew a lot of edible weeds, i went to the field to get greens for our chickens. Here, i am in America, i found there are so many varieties there, look so similar...we had some wild blue berries Even in Fl, when we were hiking in Suwannee rive State Park. Foraging is fun.💜
Loving it,our parents used to take us blackberry picking as children.I've also spotted quite a few elderberry bushes in the local park which i will be picking the berries off later on :)
rec. watching the ALONE series on the history channel $ 500,000 winners purse. There was a women on the channel I was rooting for that was on season 3? and she was a biologist- her foraging knowledge played well in her survival.
I really loved how encouraging you were. I've been thinking about learning how to forage, and I was pretty nervous about it. This was exactly what I needed to hear!
Hickory nuts were a staple in my home growing up...if you were watching tv, then you sat at the corner table & picked the nuts from the hulls. My mom used them when baking Christmas cookies.
Broad Leaf Plantain has adapted in my area to grow it's leaves much closer to the ground to evade destruction by lawn mowers. It's most common use has been making poultice with honey and aloe to alleviate bee stings. Didn't know you could eat it. :) Thanks!
I like that... by Robin Greenfield: Start in your own backyard... Dandelions, Nettles, Wood Sorrels, And The Clovers... In Video Duration 12:47 - 13:31.
In my area there are crabapple, apple, and peach trees that are completely abandoned. There is also a filbert tree that I collect nuts from. Stinging Nettle is probably my favorite. Most consider it a weed, but it's quite awesome -- and good for making cordage or even textiles (if you have the time)
Great video! I appreciate you sharing this knowledge. One recommendation would be to show a close-up picture of all the plants you cover along with the name on the picture. There were a few of the plants there was no close up of. Thank you again! Keep up the great work.
Thank you for making the videos that you make! I'm a beginner and I'm taking notes. Can't believe we've just been walking through food this whole time! Definitely not going to touch what I'm not sure about. Also gonna definitely wash my greens before I eat them hahaha I'm too paranoid about poop particles
I live in Madison Wisconsin and I have been walking around trying to find wild edibles. And I have a book but it's kinda old and so I research online. I'm a prepper and I am trying to learn this stuff so that I can survive in the wild living off the land.
12:30, I remember when I was teaching up at Fordham College Rose Hill campus. Tons of apple trees with apples going to waste. Used to take home a bagful, but it really depressed me. I mean, all those hungry students who could've been fed...
Crab Apples are also easy to find and pick. If you boil them into a jelly and add to taste; sugar. You will find a free source of jam....well minus the sugar.
This guy is my hero!! How synchronistic that his name is Greenfield. I just started foraging and am amazed how much is edible/medicinal. My dream is to also live sustainably off-grid with a bike as transport; I have already started designing my tiny house with a lot of brainstorming help from Rob. PS: I'm from Wisconsin too and could totally hear his accent when he says "Grocery Store". Hahaha
I remember as a child at church we would eat berries that grew on the side and other plants from the floor lol until they told us to stop cuz bums pee there 🥲 no one even thought us to do it we just tried it and they were good 😂 Thank you for making this video
Where i'm from, Wild garlic is a protected species because we forage to much of it. Make sure the plants you collect are not endangered/ you dont take too much of it
I wasn't sure about giving him a like because I would have appreciated a slower close ups , but he redeemed his self after telling me he's from Wisconsin. Fond du lacians might be a bunch of drunken bar brawler, but we're loyal ones😂
Foraging wild plants and foraging wild animals are a great choice. All are free, free veggies and free meat. Too much plants increase my sugar. Plants use sunlight and chlorophyll to create sugar from the nutrients and water in the soil to create energy for the plant. Sugar is the main cause of heart disease fat isn’t. I use both plants and animals.
I’m pretty sure that they’re blackberries. I’m growing some in my garden and have raspberries right next to it and the leaves look similar to blackberries.
This video would be more helpful if it included closeup of the plants' key features so we could tell what they look like! Watercress just looks like the back of a stump covered in sorrel, from what I can tell!
Hey me and my kids are moonseed today. It’s confirmed. My kids ate more. They didn’t eat the seeds though. They started acting weird and so I realized the fruit was not wild grapes at that point. Took them to ER. Still waiting the response form poison control. What do you think we should do? They seem fine now, about 4.5 hours later
I’ve tried and tried but I can never find much of anything! The hardest part is knowing where I can even forage without having to pay a lot of money to someone for a permit or something. Any tips on that?
Hii, I want to do this sooo bad, but I don’t know where to start. How do you find the places to forage? I live in a city in Canada and have no idea how to find these areas
I do forage but mostly mushrooms in season. A note of caution should be added: don't forage in areas where the landscape is maintained by professional services using pesticides and fertilizers. Also, avoid foraging near areas of heavy traffic including trails where people walk their pets.
@@nic.k_o You study and learn the basic tests (Spore test, etc.) and never eat a mushroom you aren't sure is edible. And, never eat raw mushrooms. Most of the easy to identify edibles are safe and require a little investigation to become familiar with. Learn the mushrooms that will kill you especially Aminita Phalloides & Aminita Virosa there are others to learn too. Then start with oyster mushrooms, Shaggy Manes and Slippery Jacks (Suillus & Boletes). Find a mushroom club near you and learn. Good Luck and if you are not certain DO NOT EAT.
@@nic.k_o quick word of advice on identifying shrooms or any other plant or fungus. Learn the ones that will harm u first. Easier that way. Also don’t mess with lbm’s little brown mushrooms, there all poisonous.
@@nic.k_o quick word of advice on identifying shrooms or any other plant or fungus. Learn the ones that will harm u first. Easier that way. Also don’t mess with lbm’s little brown mushrooms, there all poisonous.
Many many many edible plants have a poisonous look alike. I wish when he was talking about wild onions he would have mentioned that they have a poisonous look alike. If it smells like an onion and it taste like an onion it's an onion. If it doesn't it's poisonous.
@@78_mary31 never eat anything that you're not sure of. An easy plant to start with that everyone can recognize is dandelions. There's no look alike, and every part of the plant is edible do mature plants the leaves my taste. slightly bitter. it's very nutritional and has medicinal benefits. Wild Onion is easy to spot, there is a Dudley look alike. But there's an easy way to tell. And that is just smell it. If it's small sulfurous like onion or garlic then it's onion if not then it isn't. They grow right next to each other so test each shoot. Clover is easy to recognize. Plantain if you know it. I'm not sure where is your location but Papa's are pretty easy to recognize and crab apples. And black walnuts. if you know what wood sorrel is it's edible. Acorns are edible if they are prepared properly. You'll find a video how to bleach the tannins out of them dry dry them out then and grind them up like a flour, I love to replace a little flower with a Acorn flour in pancakes. when you begin getting two things you don't know, you might get help at the local University or Community College to identify plants. Some may even offer a course. You can take survival courses, You can go with someone who Gathers. it is possible to learn from a book, but as Chris learned in Into the Wild that can be very dangerous. so don't eat anything you dont know
@@carolmoore1038 damn thank you so much usually while watching discovery I wonder if people had the knowledge to know if each plant was edible or not it would be much easier to live in the wild
Be very careful when harvesting wild onions. Death camas look scarily similar to them, and you don't want to eat those. Wild onions smell like onions and have more roundly curved leaves, while death camas don't smell like onions and have more sharply curved leaves.
Several of these things you point out have dangerous, similar plants, often in the same family. Foraging for beginners should never be seperate from the identification factor. Knowing what NOT to eat is far more important.
@@twitch.tvmorkani3142 that is exactly what the title is, and it doesn't mention identification. It's a list of ideas for things somebody can look into if they don't know where to start
? I wouldn't go off of just this video even if he had closeups. Everyone still needs to look up pictures and info or even take a foraging course maybe...
These plants really are for beginners. But if you want to forage, you HAVE to research and research. To know the plants each day a little bit more. Watch many videos, read books, go outside. Don't rely only on this video. There are many videos about foraging in general, identification, and there are a lot of videos that talk about just one plant at a time. Always learn each day to be sure that what you're foraging it's edible.
Great video! Back in early April during the worst of the CV Lockdown, I ran out of fresh vegetables but was able to forage dandelions and chickweed growing in my tiny backyard.
We had Hard Times once and took the foraging. My adult children came to check up on us and wouldn't touch the food LOL my one son's girlfriend had a salad with us and she said it was quite yummy I told her she's going to die now LOL Anyway the point is that we didn't miss a Beat nutrition-wise. And saved a ton of money. And I didn't have to ask my children to make sacrifices for us.
