You have a new fan. I'm on Maui currently...plandemic be damned...yucca abundant and overlooked. I'm originally from Texas and a veteran; I learned something new today.Mahalos.
Bob, Just subbed, saw that I was right, it's Texas! Made my day. So many survival/skill demo vids are from dif environments, so glad to see a Texas boy & resources in here. Love & blessings to you & keep on, do please, one foot in front of the other & giving it away, proud of you.
Another great video! I find these very relaxing to watch for some reason. 9:10 an onwards I am amused at how your little buddy leans his nose closer and closer till the end of the clip; presumably fishing for cuddles.
Waited the 1.5 months and cooked the fruit with onions and garlic and bacon. Diced it up. Pretty tasty. I skipped the stone oven though.......still amazing how much food a yucca can produce.
The insect is evidence of the symbiotic relationship yucca has with a certain moth. Yucca needs it to propagate and yucca provides home and food for moth
I love that you have that knife. With all the fancy stuff out there, you carry the knife my dad gave me as a kid and do way cooler things with it than a lot of these "survival" channels. I just found your videos today and I've been watching non-stop. Keep up the good work!
If you cut the stock of the seeds off and start to hammer the seeds pods while still on the stock and dip the enitre branch into the stream behind you , you will temporarly stun the fish for just a moment and net them easy fishermens trick
Not real sure how I missed THIS one. Glad I saw it, since it IS getting to be about that time of the year. I wonder if a fresh piece of mesquite or oak put in there on the coals, just before you capped it over, would have been a good thing. Might have given them a nice smokey flavor. Good tip about the mulberry leaves. LOL! You're hard on a good knife blade, brother!
+Edmond Dantes I encourage their propagation across the property, there are a few places that they do quite well. People do not realize that they produce these edible bounties almost yearly. Just another food producing "tree" out here.
@2-3 mins, building onto the fire pit, was that wet sand or dirt packed around the river rocks that circled the rim of the pit? Was darker than the sand, seemed to pack in place, why I asked. Guess to seal up spaces that would let air/heat flow, in order to contain steady environment for the baking process? Thanks
We try to watch all your videos and we really enjoy them. Quick question for you. We live in SW Kansas and the yucca here aren't as large as what you have down there are the blossoms and seed pods still edible or are some varieties not okay to eat?
I have lots of yuccas in my yard and they've never fruited before. Maybe it's has its flowered twice but nothing significant. Maybe because I ate the flowers!!😝
We bake acorn bread in a similar oven when we camp away for a week or two when they're in season. You seem very in tune with your environment down in southern TEXAS , Im in NE Arizona at about 8000ft alt, lots of edibles....Im a big fan of squirrel and fawn! Thanks for your ongoing input of educational lore towards saving the totally ignorant fools and idiots that our nation has become! Keep up the good work, those of us that live it understand.
You bake agave heart for 24+ hours. Yucca stem and blossoms do not contain toxins. Yuca cassava root is something very different, I think they boil those.
Love your videos. I would like to see some West Texas informational videos. I married a West Texas girl and we will be returning to Texas soon. Great stuff. Can't wait to get back and experience the Texas outdoors.
+DV11b Ill be in West Texas here in a week for a bit, Ill try to make a vid or two at that time, but I've other obligations this trip. Plan on seeing a few in the next year though. Have a few excursions in the works
+keeperofthegood I think that pickling would be the only option. The development of the seeds is incredibly isolated and will proceed even after being removed from the stalk. If you chop the stalk off when it is flowering, the pods will still develop over the course of the month, it is pretty incredible. Within a week or so the pods will be too dry, becoming brown and brittle... which allows for another survival food, which I'll be making a vid over this next month.
Great video ! Always thought yucca pods resembled okra , never tried to eat them though. I hear the yucca root is edible as well , ever try them ? Thanks for sharing !
+WH Yucca root is not edible you are thinking of yuca or cassava a very different plant. Roots contain saponins and can be used as a soap/shampoo. Ive several other yucca vids and need to put them into a playlist.
Bob Hansler Well, glad I talked you before I dug one up ! lol. Used to eat cattail roots in boyscouts many moons ago, maybe that is what I was thinking of ? Thanks Much 8)
Agave and sotol look similar, but must be baked for 27+ hours. Looking for a decent stand of cattail right now actually. Good memories, once a scout, always a scout.
Very cool. Going to have to look in to the availability of Yucca here in my desert. And yeah... I always cringe seeing the abuse you put that poor Bowie knife though. Dog a Heeler?
Wild bananas is what we called them as kids here in Arizona. The root of that same plant was also used as shampoo by Apache women. Meanwhile Apache men only joke about it.
Running to the river now, but can you elaborate? Are you suggesting putting the tin in there or stoking it, adding your material, and then cutting off most of the air... Thining about it now, you might be on to something. Another day or so and it should be dry enough for me to begin test runs. See if we are on to something here. Primitive made charcloth.
I was referencing charcoal, but cloth might be possible. Yes, primitive. I read long ago that people would go out into the woods and construct earth mounds and monitor the ventilation to produce charcoal, but I haven't tried it myself yet. A quick search, but lots of references out there: www.fao.org/docrep/x5328e/x5328e06.htm#chapter 5 earth pits for charcoal making
+Bob Hansler For something more delicate like char cloth, I suggest a clay pot, possibly while firing it. I wonder if yucca and agave type fibers would work. Dogbane or mulberry (Chinese made paper with mulberry).
great videos ! I have learned some good stuff from your channel. do you have any advice on improving upload speed to youtube ? My 5 minute vids takes 3 hours to upload. I'm new to posting.
go outside Most of this has to do with your rendering quality and format. You might look at some higher end editing software. A ten minute video takes me close to 30 minutes to upload, and I am on some slow satellite out here.
