I know you are talking about wild edibles but the horse chestnuts can be used for shampoo, dish soap, and laundry soap. I quarter them and chop in my vitamix and then put a handful in a quart jar with hot water to make soap. It works really well and it is free soap! I learned this at the Permaculture Convergence this year and happened to find 2 trees close to my grand daughters doctor appointment. I just takes about an hour to pick up enough for me to clean everything in my house for a year, including me!
Thanks, Darcy. This is exactly the kind of thing I'm here to look for. Wild edibles and medicinal and practical uses for weeds and plants. Thanks so much for your contribution oh, I'm going to look into it.
This class should be given to all high schools and colleges. I am so glad this is on RU-vid. It is truly sad that most houses in the USA are so very often sprayed with toxic chemicals to kill dandelions and wild plantains, etc. Many beneficial pollinators like bees are dying in alarming numbers since the past decades. When there is no bee, human will be in big trouble.
You are so right and it is truly sad that children are not taught this we should always keep our heritage and learn the ways of the land. Everything on this planet has a purpose and to kill off that purpose is an awful thing. We need to plant more milkweed for the monarchs butterflies and we definitely need more wildflowers for the bees. All this summer 2021 I have not seen one bee. 😔
I have a lot of borage in my garden, it self seeds and spreads everywhere so I gather seeds from it and other flowers and drive down dirt roads or areas where spray won’t reach and throw out seed. As long as it’s not a harmful invasive plant we should all be doing it. Bees LOVE borage !!! Hyssop, calendula, echinacea, rudbeckia, Shasta/wild daisy, milkweed, Lilly’s…….let’s replant the ditches now that they are cutting back on poisoning them 🥰
My great grandmother would make a dandelion salad! She was from the mountains outside winchester, va. She would saute dandelions and then make a "dressing" of apple cider vinegar and sugar (she would heat this up to combine, a hot dressing) and add chopped egg whites to the finished dish. It was so wonderful, I will be making it this spring. Her name was Maime Every (maiden name Boyce).
You pick the leaves and prince them real good and cut them in about 1 1/2 size in a bowl and take 3 strips pl a of bacon and cut into small pieces and fry them in a small amount of bacon grease and chop some onion add to the bowl and when the bacon is doen pore bacon and grease over the greens stir add dash salt&pepper and garlic powder stir again and add vinegar and serve !!!
That sounds good! We learned so much from our grandmothers! My granny took me in the woods to show me all the edibles that are available, way back in 1958! I remember them still!
My great grandmother made a similar dish but would add hot bacon grease to the dressing of apple cider vinegar and a little sugar....soooo delicious! I miss the good ole home cooked meals and sides of the wise ole timers.😒
cheesedick: if your eating a bowl of greens the addition of a little animal fat will only help the nutrition content. Dont be such a judgemental vegan nazi.
I am 50, My husband is 52 and my son is 20, we started a plant based since 2015 DUE TO SEVERED AND DEADLY ILLNESSES plus insane pains!!! and since then I threw away all vitamins and supplements, we have no need of any pharma, treatments or even any over the counter stuff. Recently started foraging beside of healthy plant base lifestyle due to getting shingles, the first plant I identify when I got the singles, was the plant that save me from pain and itching!!! It was pennyworth!!! Since then started identifying 1 to 2 plants a day plus adding them to our daily foods since I found they were all magically healing plants!!!! Just had as brunch like a pound of mixed "weeds" or better said: EDIBLE WILD PLANTS! Even with a healthy plant based lifestyle I still had rheumatoid, arthritis, and myalgia but thanks to the shingles (few months ago) started eating my front and back yard "edible" plants and BINGO! Rheumatoid, neuralgia, and arthritis IS GONE!!! in only 2 months of eating green plants almost daily!!! Learning about mushroom and trees, and collecting samples, seeds and propagating the medicinal ones in our yard. I found only 1 wild lettuce in the forest, brought the seeds and now we have like 10 amazing wild lettuce plants, which we eat their leaves almost daily in soups, sauteed, sandwishes along with like 10 more plants LOL I learned recently to never eat them all at once and to try little by little but got carried over and luckily instead of getting sick eating these real mecicines, we got stronger and healthier. I am 50 and have zero pains, zero illnesses, I can run, I can jump, I play a lot with our 6 dogs everyday, life is amazing when HEALTHY, nothing matters more than HEALTH and I consider myself the wealthiest human ever at my age! HEALTH IS WEATLH. Been several months that I stopped buying greens, salads, condiments and even some veggies as we have massive amounts of FREE real foods at home!!! Thank you for your TEACHINGS AND WISDOM!!! Wish ALL HUMANS BE HEALTHY too!
I'm just seeing this now... I can say, people like you are a gift to humanity. We need more. Your test was eye opening on how indoctrinated we are, and how little we know about what keeps us alive.
The purple flower you mentioned is in the mustard family is actually Moonwort, it is also known as silverbloom. The roots are edible and so are the young leaves before they flower.
That was simply inspiring. I was shown this link on RU-vid because I had been looking at dandelion coffee, and fully intended to fast forward this video to the dandelion part. Well after 1 hour 34 minutes I'm hooked on foraging greens rather than buying supermarket ones. As a bonus the best part is the vast majority of these plants are common in England. You have caused my hunter gatherer juices to flow. Thank you.
Plantains seed stocks are PERFECT for making veggie burgers. There was a bunch of plantains growing my backyard so I harvested them and made veggie burgers with the seeds and used the greens as well in the burgers, and again as lettuce. You just need a binder, which it provides some of, but add an egg or chia as well into your food processor or blender, and you got a burger patty that you can shape into a small bowl and then cook (either in the microwave or in the oven). I also mixed in mustard bits and other wild edible into these patties.
This video took me back as a child, my mom and dad could go out in the yard and pick greens several times during the summer and mom would incorporate the greens in are meals. This is an important channel thanks guys. God Bless
As of the end of the end of the month I will have no where to live. And has always been my dream to live among the cows and chickens, and around good people who appreciate all the wonderful things God has given us. It's so refreshing to watch your videos and see all the wonderful activity on your spread... I could almost smell the fresh mowed grass. God has blessed you richly!!!
Just read your post / txt , hope and pray that things are alot better for you now, i am going to be remembering you in my prayers as i pray for many as well as all my heavenly brothers and sisters around the world, and often with another lady that lives many miles away from me, but in the same state.Father God where ever she is right now send people Into her life to bless encourage and lift her up.Send people that will truly bless her , and minister true Godly love to her heard, .ind and soirit, be with her wherever she is and put a headgear of protection around her send your Angel's to watch over her, Father send and over flowing of the Holy Spirit to her to protect, lead and guide her in Jesus's Holy,Powerful and Mighty name.
Hi Sergei we actually went to high school together and although I didn’t know you I do remember seeing your face around so it’s super cool to see you on RU-vid now, and nice to hear your story too
Little by little I'm gaining confidence in some of these weeds. Just created small patch of Purslane from random volunteers in my back yard. I have Common Mallow everywhere. This is the best I've seen on the topic. WELL DONE!
Loved this video. We just moved out to the country last year and so many of these plants are on our property…. it makes me feel better to know that some of the “weeds” in my garden are actual plants I can put in my salad :-)
I am from Tacoma and I found this to be incredibly informing. The identifying features were demonstrated in a much easier way to understand. Thank you!
@@BoutenkoFilms From Whidbey Is/Everett love the RU-vid had to share the URL link and will be getting the book. I wish everything could be taught the way you did: outdoors, hands-on, using all the senses, great descriptions, examples of uses. The information's retained. Schools should incorporate this style of learning in everyway possible, for most subjects. I think kids might be more interested in learning, have more innovative ideas AND be more environmentally conscience... Thank you, I will be getting my grandkids out for some "picnic" FUN!
Thank you for your kindness by teaching us, I do learned many Wild Edible Green. This is will save us a lot of money by using Wild Green Vegetables. Thanks God for His providing all thses delicious food and thanks to you for helping us to learn, great job 👌 👍
Ok, Sergei, I’m calling you the reincarnated Euell Gibbons ( Stalking the Wild Asparagus-66?)… informative, easy and sincere! Great effort! Don Hall,N.D. Kentucky
Great video Sergei. I just received your book today. Thanks for all the info! In this video, around 43:00, you mention that you respect the roots of the plants. In 2011, my mom moved and I took small sections (about 2”) of lilac and yucca, and I planted those root sections in her new yard. Both of the roots have grown into full plants...and the yucca actually grew into 5 separate plants from just that one piece of root. So I’d invite you to experiment with roots. Still harvest them, but replant small sections that can grow a new plant, or multiple plants to replace/replenish what you have utilized. I hope this helps. I’m quite new to foraging, and have enjoyed learning from you. Thanks again!!!
I like how you put the time for each plant and topic in your video description. It is amazing how much great food is out there, just waiting for us to get to know the plants around us. Between weeds and trees, there's enough for a meal almost anywhere in the springtime. Here's to a great season of foraging for everyone -- there's plenty of weeds to go around! :D
my 3 year old granddaughter was picking what she called "juicy greens" from her moms flower garden, and she invited me to come and snack on them. while i pretended to eat mine, i niticed that she was actually eating hers. I told her she must not eat them because they could make her sick. Then i went home and looked the creeping bell flower up on my computer. it said all parts were edible and high in vitamin c. I wonder if we are more intuitive when we are young when it comes to recognizing edible wild plants.
I was thinking the same thing. I've been wanting to get into foraging, but have been so afraid of misidentifying something and poisoning myself. But watching this video made me realize I used to eat many of these plants as a kid just off of pure instinct, like dandelion, clover, sorrel, daisy, conifer buds, and the maple 'helicopters'. No one ever told me they were safe to eat or what the names of them were, I just ate them. Up until last week I didn't know the names of red clover or yellow sorrel, but I've picked and eaten them every time I've seen them outdoors for years based on memories of sitting in the grass eating them as a child. Something about the sour tanginess of sorrel that I absolutely love and crave.
That’s adorable! I smile to this day thinking of how my now grown daughter told me - when she was very little - that she liked to eat “the hot grass”. What??!! Then she let me know about the CHIVES in the yard!!
Yep going back 7 generations edible and medicinal plants have been passed down through the generations.....My 3 year old Grandson, has his own garden and also loves to pick wild greens for tea ...Yes tea... And to put on his salads He says it's way better for you than Candy Grandma!!! Hahahaha !!! Although If he gets a sweet treat .....he will forget about his plants for the moment. Hahahah!!....I have also made him homemade sweet treats and lemon drops...... Oh I have shown him already to mix warm honey and apple cider vinegar ...the two compliment one each other very well, and a herbs, edibles we have all gathered It is a great way to preserve your herbs , it is wonderful as a salad dressing....hahahhah!!! I love when my Son and My Grandson and myself all go to the bush together.....Also mushrooms/ fungi , are a wonderful way to explore especially Morels in the spring and Puff balls in the fall ! More Power!!!!
@@theresak.7475 Ha Ha hot grass… I used to eat that stuff as well. Of course I used to make mud pies as well and no one would even try one ha ha…. Funny story thanks.
Wow 😳 thank you so much for all your knowledge on plants. I'm going to share this with my grand kids so they learn. I may just buy your books too so they can follow along with your videos as you speak about plants. Its nice to see how you litteraly just walk around the parks and find nutritional foods we would never think to eat. And plants that can be very helpful if injured or sick. I watched this whole video and you are so interesting and kind and really put value to every answer weather right or wrong of the people you encourage and that is so important. I'm so gonna show my kids and grand kids your videos. Thank you so much. I'm gonna try to buy your books if I can, I'm on a fixed income. So I will have to save. But I want to really thank you because I so injured this video that I thought I was with the group. Lol 😆
LOVE!! You are absolutely correct in that our brain makes "files' of everything from smell to taste to texture, to all of the senses in many different ways. What's great is that much of this information is stored, independently, in many parts of the brain. So, Say you smell something you can't put your finger on. The brain will start to compute, searching all "files", to give the most likely answer. However, it's the higher brain that determines if the result is correct, and that's the hard bit that no one can figure out about how the brain does that. It's often told that we use 10% of our brain, and that's a lie. We use 100% of our brain, but science can only determine what 10% of it does. Say, take the experience of a banana. The taste goes into one spot in our brain, the texture into another, mouth feel into another, color into another, smell into another as well. Thus "Banana" doesn't live in our brain as a singular memory in any single place. To come to the determination that what you're seeing is a "banana" means that the computer of our brain links whatever stimulus that is first introduced has access to every other sense to identify what you're looking at is a banana ... the shape, color, smell, taste, and whatever else. ALL of these different senses from the taste to the color to the mechanical opening of the fruit require instantaneous recognition of all of the different aspects that tell us that what we're looking at is a "banana" and not a plantain, which is completely different. Looks like a banana, but if you've never had the experience of a Plantain vs a Banana, you wouldn't know the difference based on shape or color or whatever. They're Completely different, as it is. The brain is a complex organism with the ability to process information we don't consciously have access to. However the more simplistic calculations allow us to identify a Banana from a Cow. The process by which this happens is absolutely astounding ... trillions of calculations a second ... wow. It happens in a fraction of a second because our brain works that fast. "Banana" is something we've all experienced here in the US. Plantain not so much. Thus, we here in the US, would be inclined to treat a plantain as a banana, which it isn't.
Hi! i'm 15 years old, and i find plants very interesting. I wish to live to survive one day, maybe i could survive in a forest alone, or something interesting! And this video is helping me, thank you (:
I was raised in the woods in the mountains of KY, and eating the berries, weeds of the hills i learned that if you smelled cucumber it meant a snake was around. (stay away). this is what my Cherokee family taught me. I learn to pick Poke, other greens to eat.. tea, . I could write a long letter hear but I wont., If you ever meet an true old timer ''Kentuckian'' ask her to make you some ''blackberry dumplings''(Not cobbler) completely different....All the best. stay safe. 2020.
Do not eat the pokeberry berries, but the young leaves and greens are okay to eat! Young leaves and stems when properly cooked are edible and provide a good source of protein, fat and carbohydrate. www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/phytolacca_americana.shtml#:~:text=The%20berries%20are%20especially%20poisonous,%2C%20poke%20salad%2C%20and%20pokeberry.
Dawn Thompson Hello, I cannot remember my age, but I was n grade school when my grandmother took leaves from a Polk as big as me, she cooked up as spinach. I read an article on the berries, a remedy for an ailment I cannot remember, dry berries, swallow 3 a day for a month, then 1 a month for a year, I did the one month, I have even swallowed fresh berries, I had no ill effects. I read that juice use to be made from berries, that only 1 known case of a child died (I believe age 7) due to the broken seeds of the berries that passed through the strainer. When Polk started growing n my yard years ago, I only remembered eating it as a child, nothing else, so I searched for information, I read that the plant was poisonous, don’t eat, or, u can only eat from those no bigger than, I think 7”, ( not much to get from that size to make a pot of greens to feed a family, but a bigger plant, bigger leaves would) or don’t eat those with red stalks, red on the underside of leaves, most of my plants have red, also to boil n several changes of water, a man of around 60 said he ate it his whole life with only 1 change of water, (his words make me think of people back n the day who had limited water) I could not remember if the plant I ate as a child had red on it or not, (I don’t understand why most of my plants have red stalks and red underneath leaves) not to eat leaves when the berries start to form, I had a lot of doubt and fear, but wanted to eat this free food, I could not ask my grandmother questions cause she has passed, I could not take what all those people said to be true, cause the plant we ate from was n feet, not inches. I’m 59 now, and have eaten only from solid green plants (which don’t give me much) or eat after berries form, I think next year, I’ll sample the plants with red, (the least that will happen from sampling will be minor) I’m into dehydrating now, and what few plants I have with no red, won’t give me anything to dehydrate to eat n the winter months. I love Polk, it’s delicious! U have a wonderful day
I can’t believe I just watched a video for 1hour 34 min and 49 seconds 😳…………captivating and great !!!!! Thank you ! I made a “weed” salad for a potluck at work several years ago and people were holding up leaves and asking “what’s this”? Everybody loved it !!!
Awesome, awesome!!! I love foraging in my yard but I want to expand to more plants, this helps. You answered your own question about why we need supplements-- because we eat a small variety of commercially grown hybrids designed to look good thereby sacrificing nutrients, and grown in nutirient- depleted soils. So awesome to know we should be eating hundreds of varieties of plants! I will try...
Thanks a million for this valuable info and all the effort you put into sharing this content!! Such a wealth of knowledge. My walks with my daughter will be a lot more interesting from now on. Cheers mate!
Love this I have in both my backyard and side yard almost all the plants you mentioned in the video. Some I knew some I didn't. I was so happy to find out that I wasn't crazy when I was looking at some of the plants while saying to myself the look similar but can't be the same something is off do I use it or not. This video help me know there are all edible, now get recipes & start eating. Nice to hear you inform people that broadleaf plantain is not the same a the banana species PS on the government website it's has info on dandelion root research that indicates in trials of dandelion root tea testing it was shrinking certain cancer tumors. Just amazing. I have a few family members and friends that have different types of cancers and two of them doctors told them to drink dandelion root tea daily. PS: Love that you mentioned that the Boardleaf Plantain plant is different than the banana fruit specie named "Plantain" aka Musa. Again thanks .
wow! I learned so much! Totally picking up your book and some of those other ones you mentioned. Great for our homeschool nature study. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
l LOVED the story about how the antioxidants in your system was off the charts! Wild plants are superfoods cuz humans have bred a lot of the plants we eat for taste and bred a lot of the beneficial qualities out of them. Now think about how many more diseases we have than our ancestors did.
Check out Eathing/ grounding ( going barefoot out side) many, many video on you tube .God made us from the earth, the earths frequencies and our are to be the same, all the electronics, power poles and cell towers all cell phones and all the other is keeping our frequencies off, blocks alot of healing in itself , eating better and grounding you can not go wrong, many, many people have been healed of all kinds of things, each one I listen to and read the comments I have learned of more )( other kinds of healings ) God bless you , you will be glad you checked it out then share with others God' s very best to you.
One of those videos that you start and say, 1.5 hrs oh geez I might just browse through and fast forward. Then 1.5 hours later you wished it was 15 hours long. Great edit. Amazing content , well put together. Thank you.
Greetings from Massachusetts; many of the plants you featured grow here too. I believe the unidentified mustard @1:07:37 is common name: Honesty, scientific name: Lunaria annua or other spp.-the seedpods gave it away. When i make pine needle tea, I don't boil in real hard & I cover the pot to prevent volatile Vitamin C from escaping.
I eat dandellions flower, leaves and roots. I love the roots. I dried them, cut it in pieces and chew on them. Some are biiter than otherss but I love the taste. I eat wild violets, flower and leaves. My kids favorite is the wood sorrel.
Amazing vid!! Love the BlackBerry leaf info and the grass info is amazing! I can pick blackberry wild eat them on the cliff walk from Bray Wicklow Ireland to Greystones if it re opens after lockdown. Narrow path. People come from both directions so they closed it!! I knew plantain and dandelion. Sad we know no leaves tho we did them in primary 4-12 age school. Ireland. I forgot them!! This is lovely vid!!! Thank u tons !!
this is the second time I run into your vidios by accident. liked every bit of it. thank you very much for your kind sharing of information the best part about it in my opinion is a young person sharing his experiences hopefully reaching our young generations. it is importent the young to know. you do have a wounderful comunication skills thank you for taking your time to share it.
22:36 "grass will sustain you" especially the meristematic bits. I'm absolutely blessed by your studies, book and the info you teach Very valuable information and hope to meet you someday when I'm traveling that way. Thanks for your work, love your wild edibles book!
