Ever tried Thistle? It's so good! Jimmy Babin shows how to harvest and prep thistles, then soak them in Gator Pickle juice. Amazing. Thistles have a mild, crunchy flavor that's good in salads and perfect for pickling.
I don't even know how I ended up in this video, but I loved it a lot haha. Thanks a lot! There are many varieties of thistles, I would guess most if not all are edible in some form or another.
Subscribed and thanks for the preparation tip. Milk Thistle is a bane to ranchers and farmers and are deadly if the spike needles are accidently mixed in with hay. Milk Thistle as a medicinal plant is extraordinary in that it produces a great amount of glutathione which is very benefitable to human health if consumed.
Deadly 0.0 Maybe I'll just do a small batch in a raised bed fenced in, close to the house and away from the livestock. Thanks for the info been looking into what to plant for medicinal value and tea the thistle idea is what brought be here in my research lol
I think thistle is beautiful ,didn't know you could eat it,a couple houses down from me there was tons of them growing last year but the power company or someone mowed it all down early this year,I had hoped to get some seed to plant at my house
Goodmorning Jimmy, my son (5 1/2 years) has been obsessed with watching your thistle hunting videos. He is a very picky eater but your videos have him wanting to try thistles! We are also in Louisiana, is there a way that I can pay you for him and I to come on a thistle hunt tour so to speak? He would love absolutely love it
Hello, what about the flowers... You pick them and dry them and make some infusion tea? Just a youngster here, only know learning that many greens around us if picked correctly is great for health
Hi! Great video, just what I was looking for. Thank you so much! Question! When is the plant ready to cut down/dig up for use? When its barley beginning to flower can we use it at any stage? Thanks again!
I thought it was a datura, but it's a thistle patch I have found, biggest I've ever seen. They flower and die and then the next year a perfect circle of shoots forms around the old stem.... it just rained and they all fell over and the center part is this Rune-like circular hole... weirdest thing I've ever seen. Never seen them so old in the wild, I think they get mowed or burned a lot, this patch is in a city park. I smoke the leaves sometimes.
This is different thistle than we have in California. I know you can eat ours. Does look similar but not the same. I've heard of people eating the buds when they are very young. Before they're all thistlely
That is a spinier species of thistle than the similar looking one I allow to grow in my yard in California for the same reason, that the inside of the flowers has a small artichoke heart and the inside of the stem is edible. I live in a place where organic grocery stores sell dandelion leaves in bunches for several dollars as a leaf vegetable and people think I am the weirdest hippie for eating things like thistles. You probably don't know this but some Native American tribes didn't die of dehydration because they squeezed thistles to extract the juice for drinking water like you see people doing to cacti in cartoons. Also, people in Iceland might have failed to starve after a volcano killed all vegetation on their entire island because they had a thistle species they could grow there. What species is your thistle, I would like some seeds so I can shock people by eating them, since its many times spinier than the ones I shock people by eating they should be many times more shocked.
@@creativecajuncooking Thats cool, you don't have any idea what its called even a common name? Where do you live, I'll look up what thistles grow there. I have several species of thistles that I grow for eating and some have long histories of being used for food so I was curious about that one.
Hi, can this be done with Canada Thistle? Can one use other types of pickles such as dill pickles or would you recommend a particular flavour? Thanks for sharing.😊
Awesome video Im scared to eat thistle because the entire plant looks so fierce with all the sharp needles 😂it looks poisonous. I will try one bite If I don’t die I will take two bites a week later
Got the amazing surprise of just One of these growing tall and strong where Id had pumpkins growing. I think it is beautiful. Ive never seen one before in all the places Ive lived, so its a lovely surprise. Hope to use my courage soon (if I can) to use some of it. My first thought was to help it generate more by letting it do its thing. Then what next. Thanks for your video to do something with it.
Do you know anything about Italian Thistle also known as Plumeless Thistle I've been looking around for more information for the Medicinal use for it and let me tell you 😢there is nobody on here RU-vid , TikTok or anyone that I follow on social media has done a video on it .Please if you do know of this plant can you please give me some insight on the health properties it has or maybe bless us a video about it . Thank you ahead and God Bless your hesrt
I never really like the americans Mr Babin. I think they are rude and harsh. But i have always been a fan of huck and tom and their adventures. Somehow watching this vid brings back the memories of why i love them so much as a kid. People can be rugged and warm hearted at the same time and good people exist everywhere. I've already subscribed and cant wait to watch the rest of your contents. Thank you sir and I wish you all the best.
I have a huge beautiful, healthy Bull Thistle. I’m wondering if it is safe to use the leaves with thistles on them to make tincture and tea. I’m not ready to use stalk yet, but would like to make something with the leaves, without having to strip the thistles off. Thanks for video!
@@creativecajuncooking Looks different, but now this makes me wonder the culinary &/or medicinal uses, cuz I got lots of those dang things I can't seem to get rid of. So it'd be nice not to want to be rid of it. Thanks for replying.
Might get more subscribers if you weren't taking about living in the wilderness while having a big house behind you and a asphalt road behind you in the next shot.
