How to Forage Free Food in Your Own Backyard!

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Today I'm in a random backyard in Southern France to demonstrate to YOU how to forage in your own yard (or any yard near you). I'm introducing you to plants that are growing freely and abundantly all around us. Plants that others see as weeds, but with this video you'll learn that you can eat the weeds! After learning that these plants are often more nutritious and delicious than many of the foods that you buy at the store, you may never look at a yard the same.
Your backyard is likely to be a source of nutritious, medicinal and delicious plants.
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@Robin.Greenfield 4 года назад

For foraging resources and to find a forager near you visit: www.robgreenfield.org/foraging

@posiden72_9 4 года назад

You could make this a series and do it as you travel call it forage around the word or something!!! It’s pretty fun to watch and learn

@tracysteele6698 4 года назад

Have you ever foraged in the desert? I live the high desert in Nevada, wonder what we have around here

@annawu9540 4 года назад

Check out garlic mustard, another good wild edible vegetable.

@thebotanicalfetishist 4 года назад

Rob, The plant at 5:43 is called garlic mustard. It is an edible weed that spreads like wild fire. The name comes from how it tastes. Enjoy! 😊

@Robin.Greenfield 4 года назад

Wonderful! I will be looking into this today. Thank you!

@magischepflanzen758 4 года назад

@@Robin.Greenfield That one grows everywhere in Germany, too. I love it. The roots can be used as a horse raddish substitute, the leaves are great for a salad (if cooked, they lose their taste) & the seeds are very intensely hot & mustard-like. They can be crushed & made to a paste, as a great mustard alternative.

@ashleytewksbury1751 4 года назад

Ah I was thinking that was garlic mustard! I have a ton of it in my yard, looking forward to trying it!

@MarysMakesandMends 4 года назад

Yes! I usually make a pesto sauce with garlic mustard and some walnuts, very delicious!

@baddriversofcolga 4 года назад

Yup, it's a terribly invasive species in the U.S. so the more of it that people eat the better.

@rharrington8669 4 года назад

It's amazing that there's food everywhere. We should all know how to get it

@jdbjoshua 4 года назад

Right after the dandy-lion when you were showing the sorrow you are almost stepping on the malva, the seed pods taste like okra, the leaves are great in a salad or stir fried

@leahv.2537 2 года назад

Hi Rob, thanks for pointing out that plant in the mint family. I just looked it up it's called purple deadnettle and there's a TON of it all over my yard!

@erikeparsels 4 года назад

I noticed that one of the plants you looked at that you said you wanted to learn more about looks like garlic mustard. It has sort of toothed heart-shaped leaves and sends up a stalk with little white flowers. It's a native of Europe that has naturalized widely in the US because the colonists brought it over for their kitchen gardens. I've got a ton of it growing in my back yard in western North Carolina. It's generally listed as a pot-herb.

@healingecosystems 4 года назад

Cleavers are great for making pesto - the food processor will smooth out the rough texture. Also great for tea & tincturing - helps move the lymph system along and clean the body

@epicerielegarde-manger1589 4 года назад

Really good video. We use the stingy nettle to make Quiches, you just need to quickly boil the top leaves to stopthe the sting. We can also use it to maje jam or beer 😋

@theclumsyprepper 4 года назад

The one you called cleaver (?) is called chickweed in Ireland. Makes fabulous pesto and you can also eat it raw on salads or steam it. Has to be really young though, before flowering or it gets tough.

@erwieherb3687 4 года назад

Really good video, thank you! A few more things: 1. Raw nettle is one of the best thing in the world! Just mix it with some oil and vinegar and if you toss it enough, it will break all the stinging hair and it won't sting anymore :) Also if you pick it in the sense of the hair, from stem to top, it won't sting you. 2. The plant at 5:43 is garlic mustard, it is edible, but the big ones are really bitter. It is a biennial plant and the one-year old plant is way better than the second one. You can eat the leaves, they taste (and smell) like garlic. 3. The acorn from most oaks in Europe, you need to boil it and change 5 times the water to remove the tannin (soft poison) in order to eat it. Than you can use it as a flour :) (there is an oak that makes ready-to-eat acorn but I've never seen it) 4. 14:33 You can also eat daisy, the leaves and the flower :) 5. 16:20 it is red dead-nettle, also edible, but more to use as a spice as it has a really strong taste. The flowers are a nice decoration and are a bit sweet :)

@tinwhistle4367 4 года назад

You're a star.. Am letting my field grow wild with some edible trees and bushes.. Just love the Nature so much

@planetwalker798 4 года назад

Tin Whistle me too. not servicing the lawn - letting it “rewild” ! Yes- local and given from God.

@judyevans6074 4 года назад

We have a narrow leaf variety of plantain here in the desert of central New Mexico. We use it as a tea for soothing sore throats, and I add it to my mixed greens salads. It looks identical to the variety you were checking out. When I lived in Denver, we had both the broad leaf variety near streams and other watery areas and the narrow leaf in dryer areas.

@TheNymphillon 4 года назад

Hi, Here in belgium we make soups with stinging nettles, also some mix dandelion leaves in there coffee. Thank you for all the time you spent in this great videos. Coralie

@aviah6620 4 года назад

Thanks for sharing! It is also good to mention that it’s very important to leave some of the flowers for the bees and insects. Especially it is critical in early spring. Please, don’t pick wild flowers just to smell them or put them in a vase!

@DeonBraun 4 года назад

Howzit Rob! Agree that lambsquarter is an amazing leaf plant, with a unique savoury, meaty taste. I had several plants producing regular crops in my garden this year. Greetings to you and all foragers worldwide from a locked-down South Africa!

@healingecosystems 4 года назад

Hey Rob, great content always. That second plant you refer to as sorrel is curly dock (Rumex crispus), sorrel could be a common name in some places but is very broad. Dock leaves, flower shoots, seeds and roots are used for food/medicine. Thanks and keep it coming

@astasaidak7736 4 года назад

Yes! This is exactly what I want more of! Love it! Excited to see more free edible foods! Maybe recipes with those foods would be cool too!

@noah786 4 года назад

Thanks, this is great. Looking forward to more foraging with you.

@DelphineHUGUEL 4 года назад

I live in France and know many of these plants because I played with them in my childhood, but didn't know most of these were edible ! Gonna try to identify the plants in my backyard and behind it (there's a unused communal land out there)

@bobbilynngibson302 4 года назад

Thank you........that really helps a great deal. I experience doubt and fear identifying plants. Your video helped me with confidence. Many you mentioned were ones I've been puzzling over. The wood sorrel, dandelion look a likes, nettle, plantain-i thought was a banana 🤷‍♀️. Thank you again. I've been trying to explore and I think I've found a nettle in my yard and WAS EXCITED about it. Lol! People think I'm crazy but I know it's so nutritious. But I havent been certain what the plant us. I'll go try your method. 5hank you for the resource. I'm so happy about this. I've been able to use the Mallow plant in several ways too. Roots for throat meds, leaves and little cheeseheads in salad, and I pickled a jar of cheeseheads as capers to go on my salad. Thanks for promoting.

@pointlessvideomen 4 года назад

16:23 I think thats purple deadnettle (in the mint family)!

@quiverfullmomma137 4 года назад

We love wood sorow, my kids call it snake food. Dandelion, plantain, goldenrod and nettle are my go to for so many thing. Thank you for so much info and for teaching so many to forage

@dailinh4104 4 года назад

Truly amazing what you are doing! During these times where I have more time, I'm planning to learn a thing or two from you and start my own garden :D

@wordsbymaribeja1470 4 года назад

I live in London, UK, while on my daily ration of exercise I found some wild garlic and picked a bunch, I'll go back when I finish it. There are a few spots near me that I knew wild garlic grew but this was a new area was a pleasant surprise. I really want to try dandelion but I can't find a spot where I'm confident dogs haven't cocked the leg and released themselves.

@LovingDeantheGodMachine333 4 года назад

You can always rinse it and boil it into a tea if your scared of a lil pee or poo!

@Robin.Greenfield 4 года назад

Just wash the dandelion. Nature urinates. It' s ok.

@wordsbymaribeja1470 4 года назад

@@LovingDeantheGodMachine333 I'm not confident a "rinse" will do the job 😁

@wordsbymaribeja1470 4 года назад

@@Robin.Greenfield 😂😂

@PierreMiniggio 4 года назад

Thanks a lot for this video. This is the kind of vegetation that will be around me when ever I'll get a field to settle on (I live in the south of France). So that will help me a lot :P

@CRHall-ud9mq 4 года назад

Thanks for this video Rob. Dandelion, my birth plant :-) and favourite, flowers can make dandelion honey using organic natural sugar (actually, I'm keen to also try with a healthy/healthier sugar alternative, and/or considering method is key to culinary success with any dish). Dandelion roots can make a coffee when gently roasted, and not treated, but fresh or gently dried are remarkably medicinal and protective for lymph system, liver, and water system too, said to be anti-tumour. Leaves are a great vegetable (considering everything in moderation).

@mahendran412 4 года назад

You are brilliant rob

@isabellezablocki7447 4 года назад

I am from France. I have no idea of the name for lambsquarter in French. Stinging nettle = Ortie. The yellow flowers you picked are called "Boutons d'or" (golden buttons). France countryside is so nice around Toulouse.

@MrBrotherEarth 4 года назад

The plant with the white flowers is garlic mustard. You can tell by its hot mustardy taste. It makes great pesto. The purple flowered plant is purple deadnettle, in the mint family and closely related to henbit. Most of the plants you showed grow in my area in Maryland.

@greenwoman3424 4 года назад

Rob, I thought I spied something in the mallow family as the camera went over the ground, somewhere near the first several plants you were showing. Mallow is an edible and medicinal plant as well. And cleavers(Gallium sp.) is one of my dearest herbal allies! After it gets sticky you can still harvest it and make a tea from it. It has incredible lymphatic support qualities. And you may want to look into trying the young shoots of the berry plants, outer skin peeled back, the inner is tender and can be eaten much like asparagus! Don’t you just love the adventure of discovery that plants give us!?

@Sanips 4 года назад

Good video! On 16:20 it’s Lamium purpureum, edible weed.

@sophievandenkerchove1577 4 года назад

Hi Rob! Awesome you're discovering the wild foods of Europe! You've been passing garlic mustard (with the white flower) a lot, which is a beautiful edible - I use it for making pestos. Weaner (has a yellow flower and grows in more humid places) is I think the one you have been showing and recognizing as a plant you know from Florida, which is also an edible.. The square one with purple color could be prunella vulgaris, which is an edible indeed. Stinging nettles seeds are great source of proteine too, and you can make great rope from the nettles. Another one is wild strawberry leaves, they are great for medicinal tea.. And daisies are great in salads.

@PITTMAN277 4 года назад

Im very thankful for you! May Yah bless you!

@nototrafficking 4 года назад

I love love everything about this video. Food and lots of food everywhere and it’s free! 😍😍😍

@LeavilC 4 года назад

For everyone now thinking you can forage buttercups for consumption... please dont they are poisonous. ( i know you only picked them up and smelled it, but you never know)

@juliebuhite3723 4 года назад

Good to know. Thanks!

@VampguyN85 3 года назад

Don't forget to hold a buttercup under your chin. But don't eat it.

@NormanAllan53 4 года назад

Wow ! Leaned more in minutes compared to a whole life trimming my back yard. Thanks.

@gretakittok9512 4 года назад

Thank you for this foraging video!!

@justTJRoots 4 года назад

Hey Rob, The plant with the white flowers and the nettle shaped leaves is called "Jack by hedge" or "Garlic Mustard" here in the UK. The flowers and leaves are edible and it has a spicy garlicy flavour.

@Robin.Greenfield 4 года назад

I had a feeling it was edible. I will look more into it tomorrow!

@helencorry2104 4 года назад

Yes I spotted the Jack By The Hedge too!!xx

@bobotten9085 4 года назад

Hey Rob, I'm pretty sure I saw some 𝙜𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙚𝙡𝙙𝙚𝙧 behind you as well. It's a very common weed in Europe that's used medicinally and as spinach. It tastes similar to parsley. Thanks for this video.

@hey_iam_harshita 4 года назад

I am from india i like gardening i am all time watching these plant in our field and some of them is used like a vegetable which is called in india sag o love your videoes

@BingBangBooKangarooStudios 4 года назад

Great stuff! I love bush tucker! Puha is my favourite. 😊

@shreshthmohan 4 года назад

Lamb's quarter is called Bathua in Northern India and we make delicious raita (yogurt dip) with boiled leaves of Lamb"s quarter. :)

@sueyoung2115 4 года назад

Hi Rob! Great video. These days, when everything is expensive and not always very fresh, it's worth knowing some basic weeds to forage.

@annawu9540 4 года назад

Hi Rob! Love to watch your videos. In this video I saw a lots of Garlic mustard around you, and your didn't mention. They are very good wild edible vegetable too.

@Happy-lk9yr 3 года назад

I'm in Love with plants that meet those 3 criteria: Edible,medicinal and Loved By insects,dandelion IS a good exemple 🌱💚🐝🐝🐝

@Zpayne Год назад

Love your videos and energy thank you for all the positivity and education 💚

@rhondabajan7809 4 года назад

Omg. You are so brave to touch and pick nettle with your bare hands. I pick nettle (wearing gloves 😀) from my backyard most mornings and make the most delicious tea. Thank you for this video, and especially for including nettle.

@Robin.Greenfield 4 года назад

Try just touching it with your hand a tiny bit more each day and you will get used to it. I love the tingle.

@ingeleonora-denouden6222 4 года назад

You are right, Rob. I pick stinging nettles since my youth, with bare hands, and I am used to the itchy feel of it. I like it as a vegetable, in soup or stew.

@pablodubourdieu1870 4 года назад

great video 👏👏 i live in toulouse and if you rub the lanceolate plantain leaves on your skin it removes nettle burns almost instantly, besides you can eat the raw nettle leaves by folding them so that the upper part (or there are the quills) is inside, but I advise you to eat the most haired leaves because deer and foxes urinate on those at the bottom

@oikoslove 4 года назад

Thanks you, Rob💗💗💗

@kplg6 4 года назад

Love watching your foraging videos! I feel like there's so much to learn from our surroundings! :)

@LhistoireDeWill 3 года назад

Thank you Rob! You are an inspiration!

@KAKALaundryKh 4 года назад

Good to share 👍👍🏻 I really like your vids 7 Thanks ❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏

@ianaycock1370 4 года назад

Love ya Rob, keep up the good work

@rinpuiitlau2414 4 года назад

13:41 we ate that bitter leaf 🍃 a lot, it tasted really good as a salad mixing with peanut 🥜 and red onion 🧅 with a bit salt 😋 and we believe that it’s healthy

@jimwilleford6140 4 года назад

Rinpuii Tlau Sounds delicious.

@joshuagolembiewski5383 4 года назад

Rob, you are one of my spirit animals. I love you man!

@thirdygambalan519 4 года назад

You are an inspiration, Sir!

@ASerreCoggins 4 года назад

So happy you are in France. Will go to Provence as soon as the confinement is finished. I am near Genève on the french side

@wildedibles819 4 года назад

The herb by the onion is dead nettles with purple colored leaves kinda

@tanyapineda7212 4 года назад

Pretty sure the plant with the little purple flowers @16 when you're talking about the onions is purple dead nettle. My daughter & I found some foraging dandelion the other day & started learning about it :).

@joycesumer6073 4 года назад

Hi, I'm from NE India, Shillong. We enjoy eating most of those plants you've introduced with mash potato.

@renate4198 4 года назад

Wow, great. Thanks you! Like to learn more about foraging!

@samtheoutdoor 4 года назад

Hey Rob, I the nature is reclaiming the farm chair behind ya.

@Blessing927NJ 3 года назад

Really loved watching it!

@niamtsevxeemlaujlauj5003 4 года назад

The green plant with tiny white flower is edible and nutritious and its seeds are used to make brownish noodles. The one that you discover in Netherlands is edible and it's red/orange roots are good medicine for menstruation problem for women.

@hallief9082 Год назад

The plant you saw at 16:21 was deadnettle I believe! There was so much of it on a farm I lived on, I was so enamored with it

@Happy-lk9yr 3 года назад

Young yarrow leaves are Tender and are good in a Mixed salad in spring💚🐝

@magischepflanzen758 4 года назад

I like to eat nettle raw, I just rub the leaves in between my fingers, so that the stinging hairs snap. To make a salad with it, I wash the leaves & rub them against the strainer.

@carlymaher8581 3 года назад

"If you've ever mowed your lawn and smelled onions, it's because you're mowing onions" - Rob Greenfield. lmao Idk why but everything in this video is cracking me up ;D

@GodiscomingBhappy 4 года назад

Great video. Did you just say you ate a plant that a dog peed on? I laughed a lot as usual on your videos, fun and inspirational.

@pablodubourdieu1870 4 года назад

I think that after confinement you should go to around Nogaro in the Gers in the south of france there are a lot of trees and medicinal plants that taste good

@wildedibles819 4 года назад

Your right on the plantain just like celery strings lol...I get more of these than plantago major

@bevcandelario1035 4 года назад

nice backyard 😀

@rosbegitano16 4 года назад

Thank you Rob I love all your videos!!!!

@niketouchevre 4 года назад

You can make a pesto of stinging nettle!! You should give it a try

@niketouchevre 4 года назад

Or even soup and it has many benefits

@DeterminedDIYer 4 года назад

I started a couple aeropods in my house with salad greens, and herbs. Then I planted some tomatoes and cucumbers on my deck in a raised bed. and a strawberry plant. I have a lot of those plants in my yard but I wouldn't eat them because my dogs pee and poo back there haha. Maybe the front yard though!

@MatthewSherriff85 3 года назад

I usually leave some nettle for the bees, they seem to love thie big purple flowers

@baddriversofcolga 4 года назад

16:23 That's Purple Deadnettle (Lamium purpureum). In the mint family.

@kathyhenry8932 4 года назад

Shalom ( Hello ) Rob. My name is Kathy I live in West Virginia. I too like to get out in my yard and forage. You commented in the fielded on the plant that is in the ment family that you didn't know what the name of the plant was. It has little purple or blue flowers on it and has kind of heart shape leaves or arrow shaped. It is called purple Dead Nettle. Usely when you find it growing you will some times find a plant called Hinbit growing side by side. It has a little blue flower but the leaves are not spear point shape, or arrow, or heart like leaves. They kinda look like a mitten and the st in is red. I too don't know all of the plants that we can eat out of out yards but love to get out and have a batch out fresh greens. I hope that I was of some help. Thanks for shearing and be safe. Kathy from West Virginia

@HaphazardHomestead 4 года назад

I eat quite a bit of Cleavers (Galium aparine). It's sticky from the time it's only a microgreen, even an inch high with its first set of true leaves in that distinctive whorl. I'll eat it as it gets bigger and bigger. But eventually the stems take up too much silica from the soil and there's no amount of cooking that makes it tender. But the growing tips are good even then. There's so much to eat out there, so much.

@sabineandra1710 4 года назад

Greatttt, as I live in North of Spain, the surroundings look very similar !!

@Robin.Greenfield 4 года назад

Yes, absolutely!

@juditheilebro1886 4 года назад

The one with small white flowers is garlic mustard. you can eat the whole thing, flowers, leaves, stem and roots, and it is (according to a swedish foraging site) rich in magnesium, kalcium and protein.

@Robin.Greenfield 4 года назад

I will be looking into this today. Thank you!

@tracyvernon2426 4 года назад

I'm so pleased you are doing foraging videos!! That plant you spotted earlier with the tiny white flowers is all over the uk and that one that sticks to you,has it got tiny little round things on it? We used to have a dog and he always came back covered in them lol. Can't wait for the next video :)

@Yeshuaschosen 4 года назад

Greens picked in the shade are usually less bitter . If the plant has thick dark stems you can strip off the leaves and only eat them.

@marcelobarefoot3549 4 года назад

Great class, my friend!

@bingochea05200221 3 года назад

Cleaver and mustard mostly they use for salad, watching you from taiwan and I have done subscribes

@charronfamilyconnect 4 года назад

AT 5:45 it looks like you have garlic mustard there, but I am not 100% sure. If its garlic mustard you can use it to make pestos or eat it raw. This spreads very quickly and takes over areas so you may want to harvest it completely each year to cut down on its numbers.

@treesagreen4191 4 года назад

You're right. In the UK it's also called Jack-by-the hedge. It's delicious in salads. I keep it in my garden. Both leaves and flowers are tasty.

@cupofcappuccino8139 4 года назад

This is really interesting

@dieklucero1935 4 года назад

Great video and message! Maybe for the next foraging videos you could mention common species which are poisonous if you come across them! Just to try to avoid them! 😁

@jacquec9768 4 года назад

For those first eating wild the dandelion is less bitter if eaten before flowering or if soaked over night in salt water.

@gingermarie1760 3 года назад

Thank you!

@rafflesiaarnoldiifaniguess9426 2 года назад

16:20 that is deadnettle, specifically purple deadnettle. pretty nutrient rich. good for tea and salads.

@ajaydraper8667 4 года назад

you're like a wise ol medicine man, voice of knowledge lol. thank you so much

@healingecosystems 4 года назад

That purple tinged plant growing near the onion looks like purple dead nettle (Lamium purpureum).

@oceanasistermoon5069 4 года назад

Lamb's quarter is my favorite.

@honeykai8274 4 года назад

Your personality is so adorable and cute!

@pablodubourdieu1870 4 года назад

You can also prepare the paquerettes buds with vinegar like capers

@nouseforaname182 Год назад

Next to the dandelions was a species of "mellow", related to "marshmellow" (what marshmellows originally were made of) Also from what I've read people ised to make a tea out of cleavers to cool down after a hot day. The unknown "mint" may be "catnip" (also a mint).

@zenseed75 4 года назад

I'm letting my backyard go wild during the isolation, to see what it can catch. Lol I'm mowing a path tho. 🤷‍♀️

@olderrol1968 4 года назад

Thank you

@posiden72_9 4 года назад

We have a version of that cleaver plant but it grows on the ground like a vine and sprouts white flowers the problem is it’s sticky from the moment it sprouts so idk if it’s edible but it grows super fast also some peeps are allergic to stinging nettle so be carful