Sweetgrass Harvesting|Identification|Learning|Braiding 

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Thanks for sharing. I have always burned sweet grass because of my Native American heritage. I never knew about the 7 strands. But I was told that if you smell it from out of no where, your ancestors spirits are watching over you. So beautiful.

Thank you so much for taking the time to show us this

Thank you from the bottom of my heart ❤ 30 years ago, 20 years ago, I'd searched for I formation and could never find it.

thank you for this video. Please make more!

Much love and thanks for showing the people.

Thank you so much, dear sister. I loved this. When I smell sweetgrass, my eyes well up with tears. I guess the connection to it with my grandmothers must be coming through lol. I teared up watching you braid the grass hahaha that was so beautiful!!!! The 7 strands the mind body spirit being locked together, everything! I was reminded of some hair teachings as I was watching you braid. The ends of our hair are our elders and they need the most care they hold the wisdom of our hair's journey which is the shaft of the hair. The ends are the oldest part of the hair and need so much tender care so they dont break or split I was always taught to wet condition and seal my ends to keep them strong. Honor them as you would honor your elders whove endured the colonial period. In your care how would you honor them. Treat your ends in this good way. The roots are their beginnings those are like our children that we must care sacredly for. Their care predicts the condition of the hairs journey through life. Less repair when nurtured from the root. The roots are also our elders, our bloodline, our ancestors story's. Nourish the blood then you nourish the scalp.

Thank you. I was gifted many sweetfrass braids recently, and I'm very grateful for the knowledge and signifigance you shared about them. I'm looking forward to making my own sweetgraas braids here in Alberta once the season arrives. Hiy hiy.

Awesome, thanks for the meaning of seven strands.

Thankyou, I have seen the sweet grass...but now I know that it is sweet grass. Thanks again for these good videos... Much appreciated.

Lost art that we need to hold onto. Thank you for sharing. May God bless you in everything you do!

❤️ Thankyou. My journey has brought me into a loving group of like minded men. We attend a healing circle once a week, and this week we will be taking part in a sweat lodge. I am embracing everything being taught to us, because I have always had a strong connection to nature. I am so grateful for this video and many others. I’ve begun collecting the items necessary to do my own smudging, prayers, and ceremony. I have much to learn, but I’m am so comforted to have my journey bring me to this point. I feel as though I’ve been lost since childhood, but now I’m home.❤️

Thank you. I am going to use your video to introduce the book, Braiding Sweetgrass to my HS Junior English Class.

Thank you, Jen and Alex, for sharing this important practice in a respectful way. I wanted to comment to ask, wouldn't using scissors be less likely to cause trauma to the roots that are not taken? Thank you for reminding us, as well as showing those that are learning about this, the importance of first, respecting the medicine by leaving a gift of tobacco. I can not comment without also thanking your Aunt Patty for giving you a gift that you continue to share with others. The family photo you've shared means so much to you, I'm certain. The two of you have done such a wonderful job framing this tradition of restorative balance, and honoring the secrets the Creator teaches in very leaf, and every rock. Stay close. Stay safe. Stay healthy. Stay warm.

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💜👏🏼 Thank you

Thank you for the very nice video and the reminder why we keep our hair long, though I had to cut mine off in grief and illness this last year your video took some of that grief and being in the wilderness is curing the illness. Much love and many blessings and healing for all of us is what I pray. ❤️

thank you, a friend from Canada brang me a few sweet grass roots in a case and they survived and go beautyful in my garden here in europe, realy a sacred plant. a gift from mother earth.

I am Blackfoot/Blood from my great great grandmother. My great grandmother, who i met once, but only briefly, was the first of my ancestors to marry outside of her 1st Nation heritage, but only after her first husband was killed. She married a French man, who gladly helped her raise her children as his own. I met my Great Grandmother is Missouri for just a few minutes when I was jyst 3 or 4 years old. She was nice to me, but my father became angry and started disrespecting her, and he soon decided my only visit her was over, because he would leave me and my mom behind and drive back to New York without us. True story. I still remember. The little green drum she had was just a cheap toy, but she said it was a gift from one of her children, and that she was an Indian, and therefore it WAS an Indian drum! She let me play it, and said I did good. Years later, after my mom died in December of 2015, I asked her sister about the drum, and if anyone knew where it was, and she said it was probably thrown out ,because it was a cheap, junky, child's toy that "wasn't even a real Indian drum." Sound familiar to ANY one else? I still remember, though, so that is what matters.

THank you for sharing your beautiful tradition.

Thanks for sharing! I grow it in raised beds in Montana from purchased plants, and I’ve never seen it growing in the wild. So this was fun to watch! Also I dry mine, then wet it when I get ready to braid. Thanks!

Thank you for sharing knowledge

Thank you🙏

This was such a gift. Thank you for your wisdoms and teachings. Hiy Hiy.

You're very lovely to watch and to listen to. Your voice is so soothing and your smile is so genuine and beautiful and you're very informative. I'm excited to go and see if I can find any sweet grass here in Singapore

So interesting! I’ve never seen how or why it was harvested 💕 thank you for sharing

Thank you - miketc

Hey, just wondering what state you are in? I'm in Michigan and have found Sweetgrass in one place. It was magical. I have always smelled the grass wherever I'm at just being hopeful. I gathered some root and left some. Also, have you had any luck planting the seed? What advice can you give on that? Wondering if I do have seeds this year, should they wait until next spring to plant or this fall? Thank you. Love the information and you're really calming.

beautifull

I didn't know that you collect the grass near people...I guess that's how Canadian natives do it. Apaches go to scared area to gather medicine

Mvto!(Thank you in Mvskoke) Sweet grass isn't a traditional Mvskoke medicine because it didn't grow in our original area. I found out about it when I was researching the Blackfoot, one of my other tribes.

I loved watching your video. Your voice is so calming. Why did you soak it in the pool?

well done

Thank you! Chi migwetch

Great video, thank you very much ! I planted for the 1st time this past spring an it grew great ! A question, I've heard after harvest, you should let it dry..an then soak it before braiding..then let it dry again an braid. Do you soak yours before braiding, or braid after harvest. Thank you. Buck

So I think I found sweet grass. Seed stalks look like it, grass blade is flat and when rubbed downward toward the roots it’s very rigid..but it doesn’t have a strong sweet smell? Does it smell differently during middle of summer? Does it matter what time of season to harvest it? Thank you so much for this video!

A question: Does sweet grass begin to lose its scent late in its season? I have found what I am almost certain is a patch of sweet grass, but is nearly September. I brought one stem home in order to make the identification. Everything says that it is sweet grass except that the vanilla scent is not as I would expect it to be. Now that I know where it is located, I will watch the patch next spring and early summer. If it is as I suspect, I will harvest in the traditional manner at the appropriate time.

I always believed that it was not right to purchase sweetgrass, and yet it's being sold on amazon and everywhere.

Great risings Jenny!!! It is so late in the season but I am wondering if you have any sweetgrass available for wholesale purchasing. Last year you told me to message you this year in early spring but so much was going on I totally forgot, may you forgive me. If you have any available for purchasing please let me know . Warmest regards ❤ BJ

Is the seed you showed, true sweetgrass.? I just learned about the prevalence of european vanilla grass, that is often used and mistaken for sweetgrass. I want to go looking for seed tops, but don't want to propagate an introduced species. If it is true sweetgrass, that image of the seed heads is very helpful. Thank-you.

I thought your not supposed to sell sweet grass and sage. Aren't you supposed to just share it with other's?

Are you Native or First Nation, since you’re Canadian?

Great Risings! Do you all have any sweetgrass seeds available for purchasing or sweetgrass for wholesale purchasing ?

Miguech

Hi! Do you have any sweetgrass seeds that eye can purchase?