I think your videos should be part of Zimbabwean school curriculum😊. Wonderful informative educational videos. I grew up in Zimbabwe and I didn’t know some of the indigenous plants you talked about in some of your videos. Now leaving in America 🇺🇸 I’m going to teach my kids about these plants through RU-vid channels like yours. Thank you very much.
Nice lecture! Thanks for sharing. True, many indignious species are very potential for food, beverage, medicine, nutritional supliments etc. In Kenya there is a simular potential and over the last 10 years I have seen a big change in the interest. Espessially with trees as KEFRI (Kenya Forest Reserch Instiute) have been doing reserch and promote indignious species of late.
Minor correction, the Americans (not just USA Americans) nixtamalize corn/maize with ash or alkali to dissolve the pericarp which improves the nutrition and changes the texture. That's hominy in English. Tapioca is made from cassava. Anyway loved the talk! Always excited to hear about indigenous crops and wild fruit and trees!
very important lecture for Zimbabwe. I have shared similar thoughts with friends and i argued that "maize the the number one reason why the majority of Zimbabwean ie rural folk remains poor. They engage in a year in year out in a loss making enterprise " yes true that there was no diabetes and other chronic diseases until the advent of exotic foods. thank you so much i will follow you at your website
Very inspiring. Thank you, Gus. Feel like there must be a glossy cookbook in someone’s head which incorporates indigenous ingredients into visually stunning and easy to cook food. Maybe it already exists.
I was in zim a few weeks ago and all I ate was traditional food . gavas in Harare has pursued a progressively African menu and I think they have done well , they have managed to survive the test of time , and I think they will be successful wherever they replicate that model , same as vic falls restaurants are doing in Harare , Harare restaurants can do in vic falls
I used to buy sticks made with Baobab and ginger in Burkina; one of my favorite snacks ever. It must've been made with the residue from baobab juice; incredibly healthy flavor - I wish we had it in Scandinavia.
Gus. Was this in Harare? When can we organise you to come to bulawayo? I am so passionate about this too!! Healthy indigenous cheaper foods easily grown!!! So many are struggling and becoming homeless thinking city is the life!!! I have watched all your videos!! No till is my passion! I could go on and on!!! Oh and I can't believe how easily millet and sorghum grow!!! As well as amaranth!!
Hey Gus. Thanks for this. I totally think the same. I thought I knew medivinal plants until I met you. Could you pls tell me what plant is used for tingling at the bottom of the feet and candida. Also if the same plants you list are in East Africa. If they are aretheir names the same? Thanks
Compelling statistics, very interesting. Was it an all-white audience? (That's all I can see in the video.) How many of them are subsistence farmers?Are you just preaching to the converted?
This videos only serves to show how colonisation destroyed Zimbabweans' way of life. It's a lesson to Zimbabweans, just go back to the ways of your ancestors,in every way
