Wild Food Foraging- Season 1 

I like the way this is straight up and practical. No incessant talk or background music. Good teacher.

it’s 6 years old but i think i found something truly binge worthy

As a child, my grandma had us picking dandelions to cook with her turnip greens or collard and the turnips or collard greens. She said the dandelion is good for flushing the kidneys and low iron and good for ur liver. When she cooked the greens without adding other greens, it was to flush the digestive system. We actually liked it.

When we were kids my sister and I and went to the country, my dad used to show us all the plants he used to eat as a kid and it was fascinating. He found wild hazelnuts, wild fruits and some other sweet tangy leaves to eat. But the one that stuck was the pine sap gum. He used to pull pine sap that was dripping from the trees and chew it like gum. It had an intense pine taste but it was so good. But man was it sticky. We couldn't wash it off our hands and we'd be stuck like this for days. lol. Fun times. I'm totally going to share your videos with him. Thank you for making these.

The apple syrup was a new idea I hadn’t considered. I’ve made apple butter (which is essentially super thick apple sauce) but not made actual syrup. Grape leaves are very tasty in a salad or wrapped around rice or meat filling. Grapes sweeten up AFTER being hit by a frost. If you wait until night temps drop the grapes will be more tasty, often no sugar needed. My parents had a group of hawthorn bushes at the end of the garden (the house was built in 1820, so had a lot of odd things growing around) but we had NO IDEA they were edible! For those leaning toward sustainability, eco-friendly foraging, remember to thank the native plants you harvest by dispersing the seeds you don’t eat, or even as you did and transplant the roots so new plants will grow.

chicory is also used to make inulin. Inulin is taken by diabetics to lower the blood sugar. The coffe is very old. It is also used as a sweetener.

I do this here in Alaska. It is great for my Off Grid existence.

FYI, in regards to grinding roots like the dandelion and chicory, I found an old style manual coffee grinder like my grandfather would have used in an antique store for eight or ten bucks. I often use it for grinding herb(s)... and for camping when there's no electricity available.

LOVE THE WAY YOU NOT ONLY SHOW AND IDENTIFY THAT YOU ALSO SHOW HOW TO USE IT!!!! THIS MAKES YOU THE BEST

This is one of the most informative post on wild edibles I've watched thus far.....really respect your knowledge!

as a child, i walked to/from school. my friends and i always passed a corner house with a black walnut tree that had branches hanging over the edge of the walkway. we often sat at the corner and took off one shoe or boot to crack and eat walnuts until we were full lol. one of my fond childhood memories.

Also a fun fact most instant coffee has Coffee + Chicory Blend. In India we usually have Chocory blended instant coffee. so like 70% coffee 30% Chicory, and these blends vary for various target flavour profile.

When your a heavy metal fan but you have an amazing knowledge of plants

Cleaning roots are so much easier when done with a tooth brush. Get more of the grit out of the crevices and use some small pruning snips to cut the chicory roots up instead of fighting with the knife.

Okay, the rose hips. You can simply squeeze them and the goopy flesh will come out of the open part that was connected to the stem. The seeds stay inside the skin, and you suck out all the flesh goop. It's delicious, probably one of my favorite forage items all year.

I love dandelion coffee. I roast it using a recipe from Paul Tappenden one of the foragers that was a teacher to me and he roasts it until it begins to smoke. It tastes like caramel coffee it is delicious.

You should make a book with all of your wild edible recipes

After you stomp on the cork type plug, try using a few pipe clamps to press it over night. Tighten the clamps every time you remember. At the clamp stage you can use a bucket with a few dozen 1/4 inch holes fitted inside another pail. You can gain more than a bit more.

This channel should have much more views ! Such a enjoyable educational watch and learn! THANKYOU!

I love dandelions. I used to eat them out of my garden when I was a kid, but I can't do that anymore because the lawnmowers have exterminated it from the entire neighborhood because "Its a 'weed' it's 'EVIL!' And it must be destroyed!" I found dandelion wine at a bar and it cost me $7 for a 4oz. pour... ridiculous. The world was so great when I was a kid. The wine was still good though. It tasted like childhood dreams and escapism.

While you call the chicory the poor man's coffee, in new orleans it is the orleans style coffee or simply orleans coffee and will set you back almost $5/mug. Also, just like the dandelion (the two are close cousins), the greens are great as cooked greens when older and salad greens when younger. The flowers can be fried with or without being batter dipped or used in a stir-fry. And of course, there is the wine made from dandelion flowers.

26:00 The plantain can also be fried ( I like it fried with a bit of olive oil better than boiled ), it is quite good if you fry it with a bit of garlic too, mmm good stuff! Good video!

Sometimes I find myself coming back here just to rewatch these videos I really enjoyed them

Hawthorns also have thorns because they were a favorite food of Mastodons back in the ice age. The thorns made it more difficult for them to be browsed upon bu the Mastodons. Hawthorns are also related to Apples and Pears as well as rose bushes.

Thank you for enlightening an old man on the attributes of healthy living with wild edible plants. So grateful for your knowledge.🙏

So helpful to know what's growing around this planet earth. Thank you.

I recently discovered and identified garlic mustard in my garden here in the UK. I had not heard of it before. It was interesting to see your video with the garlic mustard vinaigrette. Maybe I should try it some time.

You can freeze mint leaves in I cubes for a nice effect

I know this is 8 years old, but I feel like I just binge watched your videos all in one awesome informative video!

Plantain juice can remove the sting on your skin from nettles, chew a leaf and spread it on the area that stings and burns. Wild grapes are also known as frost grapes, in the fall after the first frost they turn sweet.

Cattail root makes a good starchy binder but you can also look for wild yucca roots as well. Yucca root are also fiberous and should be pounded.

Where have you been all my life? This channel is the most practical, fun survival channel ever. Thank you. Please keep making videos. PS I’m a NH girl in a California world. So watching your videos reminds me of the homeland. 🙏🏼

I Learn so much watching your videos other videos tell you how to do something but you do it Thanks for making these videos and for not taking them down 👍🏻💕

Its adorable when he does flourishes with end product. PRESENTATION. I'm just trying to picture this outdoorsy metal guy adding a mint as a drink garnish.

That's just great video. My Grandma survived 3 major hungers in Russia and she was teaching me some. I was too young to pay an attention. Thank you for your videos!!!

Really happy to have discovered your engaging and informative channel! Thank you!

Thank you for educating people on things like this. With knowledge of wild edibles, you could feed a family.

I love this channel.... Great information on wild plants and more.

When I was in middle school, on my walks from home id pass a brush that had mint leaves growing in it. I would pluck a couple and eat them raw just to weird my friends out because they could never tell what or why I was eating them for. Took forever for them to realize it was just mint.

Wild mint is a great thing to have available to you in your yard. I love a few leaves in a cup of cold brew iced tea. Absolutely delicious. Also in this time where artificial mint flavors are as strong as they can make them its so nice to have this natural source.

These plants you show are all very common to my views when i walk in the fields and all the times i have seen them when i was a child hiking in the woods near my home. Free healthy food with no pesticides. Walking by them all these years without a clue. till now. I subscribed. Thank you

The wild grapes also make a great jelly. I use the same process to extract the juice, strain through cheesecloth and then prepare as you would any jam or jelly. The kids love it and it only takes some sugar and certo, and therefore much cheaper than buying at the store. Plus there is the pride of collecting the berries and making it all yourself.

Your videos are absolutely my favorite for learning about foraging! Your voice is calming, both you and your wife give easy instructions/suggestions with none of the annoying hype and music that many others insist on using. Thank you SO much!!!

Black walnuts are a big favorite! They make awesome oatmeal cookies and wonderful biscotti. My grandma always made chocolate cake with black walnuts on top of white frosting for my birthday. My favorite! My friend adds them to her banana bread which is great. A good Mennonite friend taught me how to make awesome dill pickles that use lots of fresh dill leaves and a grape leaf for crispness. A mulberry leaf or horseradish leaf can be substituted but grape is best

+OutsideFun1 Here's something useful you should know about black walnuts (and basically all walnuts in general): Black walnuts are allelopathic, meaning it will excrete harmful chemicals into the environment to kill off other plants living near or under the tree. The chemical is called hydrojuglone, commonly known as "juglone". Juglone, when exposed to air, becomes oxidized, and biologically activates, causing respiratory failure to most plants and shrubs. "juglone water" (aka, the outcome of walnut husks being mixed with water) not only kills plants, but also worms and small animals. If you find walnuts in a survival situation, you can use it's husks, leaves, and roots to catch not only bait worms, but also fish. *For instance* The water level of a river/lake rose above it's average height at high tide recently, and left a couple of fish stranded in puddles near the said water body. Make some "juglone water", pour it sparingly into your chosen puddle, and wait. Fish will begin to float up to the surface within 10-30 minutes. If not, they'll be 'unconcious', allowing you to grab/pick them up. *Confirmed source:* www.rogueturtle.com/articles/blackwalnut.php

Another neat walnut nugget: you can make biodegradable ink from the walnut shells. You want to do this after harvesting the edible part out. There are a bunch of videos on RU-vid that show how to make the ink.

Guys be careful with using sumac flowers with sumac-aid! Take the flower apart first before using it; it’s very common for worms to bury inside and make a mess in there. Separate the wormed up parts from the clean parts before using and don’t infuse the entire flower. Hope this helps!

With Sumac, I was taught to dry the flower heads then remove the berries from the stem and remove as much of the twigs as can be. The stem and the twigs actually contain a huge amount of tannin which will turn the drink bitter. I left the berries in the water, in the fridge overnight then strained it. Amazing. BTW I did not know that a coffee like drink can be made from dandelions! Thanks for that. I've done chicory but not dandelion....common spring and summer!

I love dandelion tea/coffee too. I've never roasted them over a campfire. I bet that would be the best tasting way to do It. My mom and daughter and I like to batter up the dandelion flowers and fry them up to eat. They taste kind of like morel mushrooms when battered and fried like that.

Your videos are very informative and verifiable. Everything that you have covered is correct. I have survived for over a year in the woods on almost everything that you have covered. I have used the pollen as a flour base from the cattail as well as the young cattail shoots as a type of corn on the cob. I appreciate that you have made this video as it helps those that may need to survive in the future.

You've put a lot of work into this video. Thank you for your selfless service to others as you open the eyes of those who have never heard of natural earth foods.

Brushing up before this Corona thing gets totally off the hook.

Thanks for doing the hard work for us to learn about these wild edibles.

The one you called plantain? We call it healing leaves in Norway :) always been told to use it when you got a burn, cut etc :)

💚 your content is a true masterpiece! Being a forager with a small channel myself, I'm in awe of your skills and the passion you bring to your work. Keep forging ahead and blazing a trail for us all! 🌿

I am loving your channel!!! My Italian grandmother used to pick the dandelions off my front lawn and make a salad from the leaves. This is a while other purpose. Very cool!!!!

You can make an amazing medicinal tea with the green hills! They are a potent parasite killer and an anti cancer tea which served cold, with a touch of sugar tastes a bit like prune juice

You're very artistic with your presentations at the end of each segment I greatly appreciate your experience and research thank you

The black water makes a good hair dye can be mixed with roasted/blackened roots, or coffee.The color lasts several months.

my grandmother was big on these. before flowering, the leaves can be fried up with a little bacon grease, leaves with some mint leaves make a nice healthy tea & leaves also make a nice addition to a salad, the leaves alone make a nice salad. the flowers can be lightly dredged in seasoned flour & deep fried. the flowers can of course be used to make wine & poor man's honey

Thank you for the subtitles :) The chicory coffee, if bake at lower temperature and avoid getting it black it will not taste so bitter. Add cardamon seeds for a different flavour to the milk free coffee for a change.

I appreciate all the thought, preparation and work that you put into this.

This is really cool. I'm prepping my garden for spring planting and just pulled all my dandelions, I wish I knew this before.

Awesome video! Love your content. Would love more foraging videos, or about rockhounding:)

Anytime you're making tea, to get the most out of its properties and taste: you should first boil the water, then let it sit 5 minutes off of the heat, then pour it over the herbs/tea bag. Also, raw mint is great for soothing an upset tummy.

Don’t throw away the dandelion leaves, wash them thoroughly and use them in a salad.

A little tip I learned years ago from a man at work who was into home remedies, when I had injured my knee and was so uncomfortable: He told me to spread some Vicks Vaporub on my knee then cover it with some wild plantain and wrap it up with my elastic bandage. I was a little dubious "cause I had never thought of Vicks for anything but my chest for a cold but was desperate so gave it a try and darn if it wasn't better than anything else I tried for pain relief! Better even than the painkillers prescribed by the doctor. I tried the ingredients separately but it only worked together. Thanks to Marcellin, those three months of recuperation were easier to bear.

Here's a helpful hint for the peppermint treats: First wet the leaves with water, then dip them in arrowroot powder. After that the egg whites will stick to them very well. Thanks for sharing all the good info!

I just love to learn about outside living and natural ways to find real remedies of plants that we all take for granted we buy things that kill off natural edible . most of which you've shown grows in and around my yard thanks now i will try these things out and send you an update of what i think of it thanks again ..

Another mint family identifier is the squared stems.

Thanks for making this one whole video, makes it more fun to watch

Great video.....Soooo much to learn and do this lifetime ❤️

I love this idea of having an interactive menu and organizing everything into a neat set-up. Big fan of your clean, thorough, and trustworthy videos. Please do follow up with a season 2 :) I'll be looking forward to it if it's happening! 😀

Gray videos you got me rooting through my backyard and staring at the sides of the roads when I go for a walk. I'm really enjoying what you've done

Why would people add a thumbs down to these informative, creative, and important, and entertaining videos...and the outsider is a brilliant and articulate gentleman..my favorite on UTube...

I watched videos like this to look for alternative food for my fish and shrimp; there is a bounty of these plants in my backyard already.

Just a heads up folks, be aware of what the wild edibles have been exposed to, watch out for pesticides, herbicides, and contaminants before eating.

im sooooo happy I found your channel. absolutely in love!!!!

I love seeing young people like you that are so aware of they're environment and how to utilize it. So cool. Cooler than the other side of the pillow.

The plant at 23.00 is fantastic and used by many Norwegians. If you have a wound that does not heal, eg many older immune defenses, roll the blade lightly between the fingers so that many cells in the leaf are pierced. Then you put the blade straight on the wound and cover with bandage. Very effective on wounds that will not heal. This plant is called groblad in Norwegian, directly translated to heal leaf.

Excellent videos, thank you for your research and explaining everything so well!

thanks for taking the time to make these videos, they're informative and interesting. I'm so far removed from nature and its killed my spirit and made me sick. I'm returning to my roots and am happy that I stumbled across your channel, please keep these up! just made some apple syrup, dandelion coffee and cedar tea... yummy!!

Picture of that wild flower brought me here but no mention of it. The rest of the videos were a complete education about foraging. Thank you for sharing.

Absolutely love your passion for nature and survival

Are u kidding me. I love this. Wow. Thanks so much. U totally changed my life, thanks brother

I've been learning and studying about foraging for a while now... Now I have been wondering abour recipes... This was exactly what I was looking for! I wonder where he originally learned this from...

I recently discovered your channel. You are very well spoken and I genuinely enjoy watching you plate the foods you create. There is art involved and it just adds to the experience. Thank you for all you do. Best vids I've found for general all area foraging.

Share these videos as much as possible while they are available. Already stores are poorly stocked and harder to get to in many places. These videos can really help in these rough times

Great video. I'm ready for a hike through our woods!

Thanks for the info - just the right mix of identification and use, with some soil types thrown in. I hope to grow many of these in my back yard and start that way toward learning some basic wilderness identification skills. Enjoyed the little artistic touches too! :D

Gotta say, some of the platting in this video is actually top notch.

Those wild grapes makes out of this world delicious grape jelly

I'm interested in this lifestyle but I fear I might eat the wrong plant.

I'm enjoying this video on wild edibles. Thank you for this God Bless you and your family

Im only 5 mins into the video and I am already blown away. Informative, streamline, to the point...very impressed, new sub from me 🤝

To things I keep in a bushcraft/ survival situation; 1 a large metal cannabis grinder from a dispensary, 2 a small French press. I typically use the grinder for making fire tinder, but chicory root and dandelion roasted up will do nicely as well. Some people will say the French press is a luxury item, I beg to differ.

I think I learned from Katrina Blair that purslane is used as a binder. Thank you for sharing your wild foraging experiences. I have just begun my self-directed education in wild foraging - and I LOVE IT!!!

this was great! I have never seen anyone make this before dandelion coffee, , I have known about it for years but have just never done it. thanks

Growing up we use to collect black walnuts when they had fallen, put them in the drive and just drive over them during the fall and winter to remove the flesh, then we pick them up in the spring and crack them open. My mother would then put them in a warm oven to dry the nuts to store them

Your warnings are the best, lol, ..... "do not eat anything outside without checking references!" .... perfect, so cool, .... because people *are* silly dumb sometimes. Love every episode, thank you!