Serious question, have you thought about writing a book? Would be super handy while out in the bush to know what to look out for, and what I can/can't eat
as an old timer in Te wai Pounamu, i cant hear the cicadas any more in the bush, or the grey warbler, but i have millions of cicadas in my ears 24/7. I stay sane by remembering summer in the bush, just close the eyes and im there. my fav bush berry, if you can beat the Keru, is the fuchsia berry. And a week in the bush at Punakaiki once I made jam out of wineberries. thanks the video, but no bare feet for me!
My grandparents and mum and dad use to teach us about a lot of what you spoke of in the vid as we were growing up in the king county being maori they taught us about the rongoa (medicine) plants to use and what they were for now staying in Oz it brought back memories of my childhood appreciate the content blessing brother
Dude, where have you been, if you can please, post more often. While I cannot speak for all the other viewers, I can well imagine, that we all want to know how you and your family are doing. Absolutely love your content what ever your Vlog is about. BEST WISHES to you all.
Some fern products that have been tested are also carcinogenic. Not a problem probably for brief survival situation, but it was suggested as a contributor to the brief life expectance of pre-European NZers
@@BruceNJeffAreMyFliesNah it's not a laxative, like herbal tea is and shouldn't be drunk too much or too often. A good rule of thumb is, to drink no more than like a little whiskey shot glass full per day. (As I've been told by a rongoa māori (māori medicine) practioner who makes a lot of different varieties from different māori plant species. And yes it can be made in to salves and balms as well for the likes of rashes, burns, eczema, cuts and chaffing etc..
Really loving the local knowledge! Thank you! There’s a need for our younger generation to be taught bushcraft and basic survival skills.. important right up there with reading and writing.
I agree we need to get the men and the boys back in their element so they can show up As the whole powerful beings they are. And when it comes to the soul... All creatures came from nature and it is our natural environment for man and woman. The Earth and nature is out true home. it brings out the light of the soul.
Plantain is excellent for bites and stings. It takes the pain out of bee stings really quickly. We’re surrounded by bush here and I’m excited to see plants you’ve identified that I see everyday! This is awesome!
Bro no joke yours is the best RU-vid show of this type going I'm part Indigenous to Cairns man and yours blows every other show out of the water Way to go showing us how it's done Is there any supplements of these or are you please able to get your own made up?
It is worth noting that the brix test does not indicate starch levels, only sugar levels. Something like a palm heart, or palm frond, would be likely to contain a lot of starch which will break down into sugar when you cook it, or even when it enters your mouth and comes into contact with the amylase enxymes in your saliva.
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Brix actually indicate not only sugars, also water soluble substances.
I'm an argentinian living in New Zealand for the last 9 years. I enjoy going to the bush for survival experience (In Northland is quite easy). I believe you are one of the best wild life teachers on you tube. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
hi Pablo where about in northland do you go bush? thanks
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@@KingsCrossVIP sorry for the late answer. I live near Helena bay. Here you can go to Russell forest. For bow hunting, in the same farm I leave we have some big areas of native bush where you can find wild pigs turkeys, rabbits...
There is a difference between showing what works for the personal objective of a hunter, and being an expert on most of the topics that can be shown. Being able to hunt productively does not make an expert, & a few of the opinions presented are flawed. This is not unusual, the majority of hunting videos share that, & TV hunting ones excel (should be comedies at times).
glad the algorithm was being good to me tonight. my favourite sort of content aswell as being a chill fellow kiwi , subscribed mate looking forward to more
Kia ora I recently found your videos, and I have enjoyed each one. Your knowledge of the bush & bush medicine, rongoa is awesum. Your amazing at so young an age at starting your life experience at 16 years fresh out of school, your incredibly intelligent, well educated & well lived. Thank you so much.
Bricks level tells you about sugar content but not sure it picks up starch which is the ultimate survival energy source. Thats because most sugars are soluble so in the solution of juice you are measuring the refraction of whereas Starch raw is crystaline enzymes in your mouth and gut break Starch into sugar fo you to use. Test that by taking a dry cracker in your mouth lick the salt off then chew the cracker it tastes of not much then te chewed cracker now full of saliva hold that in your cheek or under tongue for 5 min now taste the cracker its sweeter EH! because your saliva has enzymes that convert starch to sugar.
🌴What a Great Program!!!🦖🦋🌿I just found your channel , and im gunna check out Southern Land SoloOutdoors also,,( bitchen hatchet gift Man!!),, im learning alot from you ,,and also eat and harvest wild food 🌵Cheers 2 you and All the best ,from our station 2 yours🥑Happy Hunting!! Blessings🍓Ruby -KKTVR🥥🫕🥂⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Subcribed & Stayin Tuned 4 more🌟
Amazing video bro. Stupidly, this is something I've never thought of learning about before. I now feel a lot more confident about our awesome back yard :)
Excellent video bro. Informative and down to earth. That new hand axe looks awesome. I'm amazed at some of the hand tools for bushcraft and nature survival there are available today. Thanks for the video and helping to preserve our countries natural food resource environment.🌎☀️🌧️
Interesting ...BUT.. all this stuff (except the plantain , its introduced ? ) Is pretty lightweight for nourishment & down south island not many of these are common. SO ... what about cabbage tree pith? (only the small skinny branches are best ) roots at the right time have sugary stuff. Pounded pith (washed several times!) is pretty sustaining ..cook on a hot rock .. its like cardboard but if you get hungry enough its a good standby! NZ bush is very poor for survival food SO try never to need it!
Brilliant mate, loved it. If you write a book about edibles I'd drive into town to get it and there's very little I'd ever go there for. Big thanks and best wishes.
Fellow Kiwi. The answer is, you don't need food for two weeks, people can live for between one and two months without any food at all. If you can stay dry, and have water, you can walk out of the bush ANYWHERE in New Zealand by going down hill carefully. You would be out on the shore long before you starve to death. We are no further from the sea than 150 miles ANYWHERE in the country. The only reason people die in the bush here, is because they panic and stop thinking.
If you’ve got a broken leg or something even a 50km walk through steep bush would be a real challenge. The average person would seriously struggle with a 150 mile distance to be honest, altra marathons like that cause things like hyponatremia and thats with eating food, (just not enough) doing that type of exercise on an empty stomach if your not conditioned for it could actually kill you. But i agree food is not the first thing we need, dehydration and hypothermia will kill you quicker than starvation absolutely
@@KeepingItWild Yeah, I am a long time bush walker, I know the average person would scrag themself trying to walk even 10 miles through rough bush. The point I was making is if you are dry, and lost in the bush, you would just be delaying yourself to forage. Pick a direction, blaze the trees as you go so you can keep a straightish line, and go down hill. I agree you won't walk out with a broken leg. If you have a broken leg ( which I have had once, I know what the pain builds and builds and builds up to. ) you are NOT foraging very successfully either. MAYBE if it is only fractured, and you are a dour, hardened person like a farmer, or a scrapyard worker, or a forestry worker, used to working through pain, you might hobble around looking for stuff, but you won't be turning over any rocks, you won't be climbing around in a stream bed looking for Koura or trout, you certainly won't be splitting open a mamaku. But a serious leg break, you would be dead from shock in a day if you tried to do the things you did on the video. And yeah, I am aware that a Buck Shelford would simply grit his teeth and carry on, but we are not Buck.
@@uncletiggermclaren7592 I see your point, but surely knowing food that you walk past on the way and natural antiseptics, painkillers etc is a good thing. Id rather know them than not, even if I never need to, which was the point of the video
@@KeepingItWild Probably so. I actually wasn't aware of some of the things, Interesting that the yarrow is eatable, for sure. I wonder how much more nutritious the various things would become, cooked?. The mamaku for one thing, might really benefit from a boil. For the runs, koromiko works like magic, you can just chew two of the young leaf tips.
Really excellent. Subscribed! Where are you based mate? I'm in Auckland. Interested in what you have to share about possum eating. I worry about the amount of 1080 in NZ and other poisons/Roundup etc. What's you advice on harvesting wild meat like possum and rabbit in NZ?
@@KeepingItWild the less of it there is, the more possums there are. the more possums there are, the less bush there is. it's a pretty simple equation really. what's really a shame is how hard it is to get rid of these damn possums.
you are my new favourite youtuber!. Love your content. From the plants. To the hunting. And then pro as butchering hahaha love it bro!. Glad i found ya!
Really informative video, love to have a bit more explanation on how to identify each plant cause we know nature is good at having look a likes that might not be safe. Either way saved for future use :)
I remember survival training I went through many moons ago. Difficulty was the period you were trying to survive in. Not much available in NZ especially if your trying to evade anyone during that period that was not very productive.
Thanks for the knowledge man! I already now a lot about those wild plants from Brazil, now with this video I grow my self knowledge about wild here in NZ! Keep doing this! Cheers!
Great video 😊👏 I also like to discuss wild edible plants but our wild plants here is really different. The one you've eat is like a heart of tree fern? By the way, keep safe, from Philippines
Very informative video Shay.Always learning. I like the Tawa berries and kawakawa berries but don't think to much of those caprosma berries. Lol.Cheers
I have recently seen that plantain and pasture together for grazing has reduced Nitrogen in the cows urine. Puts paid to monocropping if true. Great vid btw
Great video, just as a side note. Cabbage tree/tī kōuka Introduction The cabbage tree is one of the most distinctive trees in the New Zealand landscape, especially on farms. They grow all over the country, but prefer wet, open areas like swamps. Growing 12 to 20 metres high, cabbage trees (Cordyline australis) have long narrow leaves that may be up to a metre long. It has lovely scented flowers in early summer, which turn into bluish-white berries that birds love to eat. As the plant gets old, the stems may die but new shoots grow from any part of the trunk. The bark is thick and tough like cork, and a huge fleshy taproot anchors the tree firmly into the ground. Quick facts The trunk of the cabbage tree is so fire-resistant that early European settlers used it to make chimneys for their huts. Conveniently, too, the leaves made fine kindling. They also brewed beer from the root. Cabbage trees are one of the most widely cultivated New Zealand natives and are very popular in Europe, Britain and the U.S. In the U.K. they are known as Torquay palm. Cabbage trees are good colonising species, growing happily on bare ground or exposed places. Their strong root system helps stop soil erosion on steep slopes and because they tolerate wet soil, they are a useful species for planting along stream banks. Māori used cabbage trees as a food, fibre and medicine. The root, stem and top are all edible, a good source of starch and sugar. The fibre is separated by long cooking or by breaking up before cooking. The leaves were woven into baskets, sandals, rope, rain capes and other items and were also made into tea to cure diarrhoea and dysentery. Cabbage trees were also planted to mark trails, boundaries, urupā (cemeteries) and births, since they are generally long-lived. Above info taken from DOC (department of conservation) website
Immigrated to NZ around 5 years ago, most of these plants I've seen the birds eat but not humans! Had to chop down a very old nikau though and took the chance to make a pork rib soup with the core, was the best broth I ever had. Will definitely try out the Kawakawa fruit though, used the leaf to help a friend's centipede bite a few years ago, really got used to the smell as plenty of the bush grow wild in the garden :)
Poisonous lookalikes would be great. Maybe change the caption for the poisonous ones to red? Seeing "Buttercup" in red gives it an extra "yeah, nah" factor.
Mean my Bro good that you sharing Ancient Maori Knowledge of the Land and Bush...that u2 are most definitely Kaitiaki (Guardian) and Tangata Whenua (People of the Land) of Our Beautiful Country Aotearoa New Zealand We call home. Cher kHz Tihei Mauri Ora.
Do any of these plants require any special preparation to remove toxins? For example Bracken is eaten by many cultures, but only with special preparation to remove cancer- causing toxins. This includes boiling or soaking the plants, sometimes multiple times.
I bought David crowes book on native edible wild plants. It's a good reference. But I agree with everyone. Make your own man. Just use real pictures. In Dave's book it's all drawings so can never be too sure lol
I've never looked through one of those brix refractor thingys but damn I was disappointed when it showed a damn thermostat looking reader 😂😂 I thought it was able to see like sugar crystals in the juice or something smh 😂
Is it just the new shoots of the kiokio that are edible? Also I’ve noticed a few comprosma trees with much more fatter rounder berries, are these edible too?
Would be cool if you actually explained how you identify the different plants especially the things you call plantains that look like just generic green leaves. Seems like every part of the the colonized world has a wild plant called plantain that doesn’t look at all like the next one haha Cheers
Great video, very informative thanks! I was always told as a kid the Karamu berries were poisonous to eat but after watching this & doing a little research I now know I can eat them haha cheers
