I made confrey tea to consume after surgery. The Hospital does not allow herbal remedies, so we pretended it was coffee. I drank a full thermos right after esophageal surgery. I was told 5 days hospitalization post surgery. My healing was so remarkable, I was released in 24 hours!
I so hate how Big Pharma has purposely and for many decade that herbs and other natural remedies are harmful and you need to trust only us. Thank you for sharing!
Last year I identified some comfrey that was growing just to the west of the house. This year I thought I found more. I thought cool. Then I saw that the deer were not chomping on the new that I found. Let it all grow. Did you know that comfrey and foxglove have a similar appearance in early growth? Check the leaves. Foxglove (toxic) leaf edges are serrated. Comfrey leaf edges are smooth. Careful out there folks, you don't want to make a tea out of the wrong plant! 62 and still learnin'.
I broke BOTH ankles (crazy huh!?) stepping off patio into a soft spot (snapped outer strap RT ankle) then because it was out did a windmill twist fall and fractured the Left ankle and Mets. Freaked out on shear panic energy I crossed the yard and gathered an armload of comfrey! I sat and dosed Arnica like a mad woman while chopping comfrey fine for packing the ankles after X-RAY showed no displaced bones. Was walking painfree and blew Drs minds 3 weeks later at 1st Orthopedist check out! Yay, comfrey!
If you use comfrey on a wound, be sure to wait until the wound closes. The comfrey causes such fast healing, that it can cause the skin to heal over before the inner part of the wound has healed, and you could end up with a pocket of pus sealed in. I split my face open across the bridge of my nose. I had to get stitches, but as soon as the skin closed, I started applying a comfrey poultice every night. It healed up so nicely hardly there is really hardly any scar at all. My chickens love fresh comfrey, while my goats prefer it dried, unless they are not feeling good, and then they'll eat it fresh.
I did that! Used the comfrey straight after the stitches were out, 4 hours later - the wound had closed...with a small pus pocket! I opened it with a needle, drained it - no issue now but right you are, best to wait!
I grew up eating fresh comfrey as a kid. I'd eat just fresh leaves. As an adult I make it regularly. I blend fresh leaves in the blender with orange juice and bottled peaches. Within a week my face will looks younger and pains in my knee went away. My body better. My father probly ate more. Comfrey than any living person I'm aware of. He literally lived off it. He lived until 90. Completely coherent until the end.
Good video. I bought comfrey from you last year and it’s doing well at my place in San Antonio. I would recommend that you ask people who bought it from you to share a 10 second video of how they are using it. Maybe you could compile the videos into one longer video. I think it might be good for your business.
I have well over 200 massive comfrey 5-6 diameter. It has turned marginal dirt into rich soil in the last 10 years. I give a softball sized comfrey root to each customer that buys berry bushes from me.
@@PermaPasturesFarm21, hello my friend & teacher, can you tell us when your comfrey will be available ? WE want to support your family with much needed monies, but if it will be available before July , ur the one I would support, otherwise let us know details, this time maybe we should look elsewhere presently.
Here's another recipe for quick comfrey tea fertilizer that a farmer gave me: Cut up enough comfrey to 3/4 fill a ninja 12 - 16 oz. oz container and add water. Don't pack it too tight . Turn on the blender until it's cut up real fine. Do that process three times. Take your three containers of comfrey and put it in 15 gallons of non chlorinated water . Stir the solution once a day for three days. Mix it up to 50/50 with water and fertilize your plants. I use Bocking 14 Russian Comfrey, it's NPK is 1.8-.5-7.9. Simple and effective. Good luck.
Comfrey is my favorite herb. I make many teas with comfrey and other herbs and have for years. I have stopped major bleeding using comfrey and repaired broken bones including my foot. I love my comfrey! I was surprised seeing y’all hadn’t tried it in teas until the video. It’s an amazing herb.
We have comfrey allover our farm: in the permaculture orchard, in the hoop house, in our row crop field, in our small vineyard, in our young food forest. We use it for "chop'n'drop" mulch, in our JADAM barrel, around our walnut trees. The chickens ADORE the flowers, it's a great delicacy to them. During the winter I will crumble some in the chicken feed, along with dried oregano, thyme, yarrow... I dry the leaves, and infuse avocado oil to use in salves and soaps. Just this evening I made a dry poultice for Mr Rosehaven's sprained finger...after a few hours, could bend his finger without pain.
Ya'll ain't hit on my favorite use of comfrey. Weed suppression around fruit trees. I stomp it down *after* it stops blooming. It grows again from the crown. When that new growth stops blooming, stomp it down again in a different direction. Lather, rinse, repeat. After the fall/winter, all weeds are suppressed where the comfrey was laying.
Oh I had to laugh when your beautiful dog came racing over & sat using their tail as a broom, just brilliant as you just kept talking & explaining without missing a beat. I am going to put a tub of comfrey in as what you were explaining makes great sense to me. What an amazing channel & I am so glad if follow you. Cheers Denise- Australia
Comfrey has been a fantastic discovery for me on the farm. No one can have enough of it. I’m still learning more and more about it. If only we could grow it faster. 😉
I was just the other day, asking my wife how we were supposed to use the comfrey. So I thank you for the info here! Very informative. She started using the comfrey on the basis it supposed to help with my arthritis. So I guess that's the tea end of this. Thank you.
Great informative content ..I put mine in frig like u stated ! But want to plant . I havent been well - with several health issues - but i still get up and go in our Garden & plant ! Water etc. Thank you Mr .billy & William an also beautiful Mrs Michelle . God bless you Mrs Josette Tharp Texas
Yay! I can’t wait for mine to grow!! I’m heading to the festival next weekend and I’m so excited! I’m also really bummed that I couldn’t get off work Friday to make the butchering workshop! This week I’ll put in 70hrs but I’m packing up my car and leaving from work to make that 10 hour drive!
My first few 18 day piles were done in 60 days. Tomorrow is comfrey division day. I’m finally going to do it so I can cover all of my plantings. Going to make comfrey tea too. I forgot the last thing I was gonna say.
Hey Billy just saw you posted this video I'm working the homestead right now but definitely going to watch this once the sun goes down. By the way I planted your comfrey here in Northwest Florida and it is doing great thank you for your tips via email.
I really enjoy your wisdom and love of the land. I love your You Tubes. My small farm is such a gift from God. I try to enlighten folks with good living and a love of Liberty and Freedom coupled with organic living, May many blessings come to you all. Rough and Ready California
My friend gave me a plant of Comfrey a few years ago. I have it everywhere. She visited the other day and was concerned that I have so much! One reason I love it is the bees that it attracts to my garden. I am working on a food forest while on the other half of the property my husband is doing his conventional thing. He just has not found the blessings of Comfrey yet. Thank you for your instructions.
I took my knife and cut some comfrey down into the root on the edge of a woodland and replanted it in my garden last year. Now it's taking over! Bees have had their fill of the flowers and it's leaning over the lawn and smothering surrounding plants so I'm going to chop lots back and shred it into my potato bags.
I bought 10 comfrey cutting in late October 2022. It is December 4, 2022 and I have nine of the cuttings that have come up and they are beautiful. One came up a couple of weeks ago and within these past few days they all started coming up. I had previously bought from another source and only half of them came up and none of them ended up surviving. The ones I bought from Perma Pastures as very hardy. I can't wait till they grow larger so I can plant them all around my garden.
Awesome video. Was wondering Michelle if you can add more water to the 3 day bucket to draw out more of the nutrients in order to get the most use of the comfy leaves? Thanks for sharing and looking forward to more teaching on this subject 😀 👍. Oh and great to see you Michelle on the videos!!!
Here's another recipe for quick comfrey tea fertilizer: Cut up enough comfrey to 3/4 fill a ninja 12 - 16 oz. oz container and add water. Don't pack it too tight . Turn on the blender until it's cut up real fine. Do that process three times. Take your three containers of comfrey and put it in 15 gallons of non chlorinated water . Stir the solution once a day for three days. Mix it up to 50/50 with water and fertilize your plants. I use Bocking 14 Russian Comfrey, it's NPK is 1.8-.5-7.9. Simple and effective. Good luck.
I love comfrey. I've grown it for years and treated my kids and animals with it for years. The tea isn't bad. It tastes a bit like grass. I mix it with mint for my kids to drink
I LOVE comfrey!! Incredible medicinal properties. I used it to heal an internal fistula.I drink it in tea everyday. I would LOVE to learn how to grow it. Just found your channel...good stuff!
I steep my tea 12 hours plus, not longer than 24, using dried leaves. I also put Nettle and Holy Basil in there with it. Tastes minty. Check out the book Lost Book of Herbal remedies by Nicole Apelian. I think you would love it.
Great info as always. Thanks guys! (I think I’m in love with the world’s greatest Pyrenees. Those eyes… I can tell he is very connected and dedicated to Billy.)
My comfrey arrived on Thursday, thank you. I wasn't sure I was ever going to have any, especially when this spring I finally got one tiny plant to grow, and our little cat, who likes her leafy greens, ate it.
Just ordered 10 comfrey roots from you. I put a comfrey plant by each of my fruit trees and cut the plants each year during the summer and use the leaves & stalks for my mulch in the garden beds along with cut up leaves and grass clippings. Going to make comfrey tea this spring to use as fertilizer in my garden beds and to fertilize fruit trees, berries and perennial flowers/ bushes
Just planted 28 of the 50 I purchased from you. We planted them in our apple guilds and we also planted sweet potatoes there based on another of your videos.
For what it’s worth, years ago I read that there was (or is ?) a monastery in Europe that had (has ?) a particular strain of comfrey which is safe for human consumption because it lacks whatever it is that causes humans to react badly to its ingestion. If someone were able to locate and propagate that variety, it would be a great blessing.
You two are one savvy, smart & gorgeous couple no wonder William is such a well rounded, handsome guy. You just converted me, I am getting some comfrey asap. I want to figure out how to get it from your stash, but how does it stay fresh, or is it dried? i noticed the woman below my comment said that you sell roots!! that sounds very appealing to me. OK, I 'm ready to ask you to get some off to my little backyard in Brooklyn NYC, cause this is where I am at this point.
We know Beautiful Mrs Michelle !!! Your an amazing women & Mother ! We know better there wasnt no bleach ..lol..thats just Mr. Billy making us laugh .....Great memories of our Children when they were small ...big hugs Josette . Watched again & again . Im gonna research how to plant or could yall show in a video how to plant Horizontally ???? I can do research tho ...
Take a quart jar, fill about half full of comfrey leaves, pour boiling water over it to the top. Cap, leave all day or night. It tastes okay to me and I don't add honey to it. It did feel better when I drank it. I must get into the habit of drinking all my herbal teas and infusions on a regular basis. I do feel much better when I do. BTW, I love you porch and the view!!
For ten years doctors had me in a cocktail of prescription meds for nerve pain. I switched to kratom and thc and honestly I haven’t felt this good in years. The side effects alone from prescription meds were devastating
I’ve tried the meds they give for the nerve damage and related pain I’m in. I can’t tolerate those medications. I’m in a lot of pain but I know what you mean about the side effects
Just harvested 90% of my comfrey. I’ve transplanted root sections all over and still have about 1-200 left over. I’m going to plant a comfrey patch to generate enough for everything else I want to try with comfrey as this video suggested. I also used the leaves in mulch rings and some in a bucket of water to make comfrey tea for the garden. Wish I had a website to sell some root cuttings. Trouble is I have common comfrey, Bocking 4 and 14, can’t tell them apart. Oh well…
@@brachashighhopeshomestead226 Bocking 14 (I’m not sure about 4)-named after a town in the UK where it was developed, I believe, is the less invasive form of comfrey-the kind you want. It is propagated by root cuttings. If you get regular comfrey via seed propagation, I’m told it can be wildly aggressive. I just started growing comfrey so am no expert, but this is what I’ve read online from several sources.
@@gogr2409 Are there any issues with it being wildly aggressive? Except for people who want it to grow in only one specific place... is there anything else bad about it? I would love comfrey to take over my yard.
@@briedubbels8690 I don’t think there is anything bad about it. Only if you want to devote an area to some other plants and it becomes invasive. I am aiming for a big comfrey area in my garden
Alright 👍... I was a wondering what I was going to do with the comfrey leaves I cut yesterday 😅 Making tea as I post this. Do you mind sharing the title of the book about things to do with comfrey? Thank you 😊 once again for a great video & your great timing.
We have so much of that here on my property. Stuff is hard to kill and will grow where ever I drop it… we have tried pulling it to no avail just keeps growing I think it’s been here for a lifetime. After seeing your video I’m going to use it instead of fighting it.
Hey! Did you dry the comfrey before you made the tea or did you use fresh leaves? If you dry the leaves then make tea out of that, you get more flavor. If you used fresh leaves, you're getting more of a comfrey broth than a tea.
Thank you the great info about Comfrey! I had no idea how many things it could be used for! I will be sure to buy a book about all of its uses so I can maximize the benefits from it, when it matures! Would love to see more videos when you have time to make them!
I did received my order of comfrey. I just wanted to make sure what kind of soil to plant in. Can I start in pots and then transplant? Thank you God bless!
Thank you for the Comfrey root cuttings. Two have came up so far. I am going to try it as tobacco. I have severe asthma so I’m wanting to know the health benefits of comfrey when targeted at my lungs. Thank you for the Comfrey and information!
TFS l missed out on the comfrey, so l bought some seeds. Hoping to catch up on your videos and get to digging. I’m hoping to plant it around my small lake. Any thoughts on that? Started my raised beds and my little brooders are fat hens now. I’m making my own chicken feed and hope to see more videos on that. Poor things are cooped up but hopefully the dog pen will be finished soon. I adopted my grandkids very old bird dogs and pound dog. They “really” love my chickens. 😱 My girls (hens) are making compost for me and got my first coop cleaning into a bin and Checking out your 18 day composts. I appreciate you all! Wish l had you for neighbors. 👋
Billy I didn't know you sell confrey I REMEBER couple years ago u told holler where to buy I saw you went over help him and u brought conference help him with his trees I would like to buy confrey from you. Also do you sell mullen . Love all your volgs Learn lots from all your family volgs Thanks for all knowledge. How would I pay n do u have list I could see. I am senior don't know much bout computors. Thanks
Off topic but I have serious tick problem on my property. I was told to plant rosemary.. can I just spread rosemary seeds in my grass and just mow it? Trying to avoid using poisons due to having dogs. Thanks for the awesome content! So many peppers I know have seed vaults and think that they will just plant a garden of things get bad. I failed gardening for good number of years just doing it as hobby.
I’m not sure about ticks and rosemary but if you plan to grow rosemary and you live in an area where it gets cold, be sure to get cold hardy rosemary because some types cannot survive cold weather. I’ve tried to overwinter rosemary in Oklahoma City area (zone 7) and have never had any live through our winters. I doesn’t stay cold for long but it can get really cold for short snaps, we get ice storms, and it can be very dry in fall/winter. I purchased some cold hardy variety from a place that specializes in high country desert plants and am hoping they thrive here with minimal care. My plan is to propagate from the plants I purchased to make more “bushes” later. Rosemary is quite easy to propagate. Just cut a piece a few inches long, stick in water, change water every 2-3 days and roots will grow rather quickly.
I made confrey tea to consume after surgery. The Hospital does not allow herbal remedies, so we pretended it was coffee. I drank a full thermos right after esophageal surgery. I was told 5 days hospitalization post surgery. My healing was so remarkable, I was released in 24 hours!
I so hate how Big Pharma has purposely and for many decade that herbs and other natural remedies are harmful and you need to trust only us. Thank you for sharing!
Praise God for your recovery.
Last year I identified some comfrey that was growing just to the west of the house. This year I thought I found more. I thought cool. Then I saw that the deer were not chomping on the new that I found. Let it all grow. Did you know that comfrey and foxglove have a similar appearance in early growth? Check the leaves. Foxglove (toxic) leaf edges are serrated. Comfrey leaf edges are smooth. Careful out there folks, you don't want to make a tea out of the wrong plant! 62 and still learnin'.
You make a great point my friend
Fox glove will kill ya dead
I'm 68 and we never stop learning.
I broke BOTH ankles (crazy huh!?) stepping off patio into a soft spot (snapped outer strap RT ankle) then because it was out did a windmill twist fall and fractured the Left ankle and Mets. Freaked out on shear panic energy I crossed the yard and gathered an armload of comfrey! I sat and dosed Arnica like a mad woman while chopping comfrey fine for packing the ankles after X-RAY showed no displaced bones. Was walking painfree and blew Drs minds 3 weeks later at 1st Orthopedist check out! Yay, comfrey!
If you use comfrey on a wound, be sure to wait until the wound closes. The comfrey causes such fast healing, that it can cause the skin to heal over before the inner part of the wound has healed, and you could end up with a pocket of pus sealed in. I split my face open across the bridge of my nose. I had to get stitches, but as soon as the skin closed, I started applying a comfrey poultice every night. It healed up so nicely hardly there is really hardly any scar at all.
My chickens love fresh comfrey, while my goats prefer it dried, unless they are not feeling good, and then they'll eat it fresh.
Great information there my friend
What kind of Comfrey do you have? True Comfrey, Bocking 4 or Bocking 14?
I did that! Used the comfrey straight after the stitches were out, 4 hours later - the wound had closed...with a small pus pocket! I opened it with a needle, drained it - no issue now but right you are, best to wait!
I grew up eating fresh comfrey as a kid. I'd eat just fresh leaves.
As an adult I make it regularly. I blend fresh leaves in the blender with orange juice and bottled peaches. Within a week my face will looks younger and pains in my knee went away. My body better.
My father probly ate more. Comfrey than any living person I'm aware of. He literally lived off it. He lived until 90. Completely coherent until the end.
How to make poultice?
Good video. I bought comfrey from you last year and it’s doing well at my place in San Antonio. I would recommend that you ask people who bought it from you to share a 10 second video of how they are using it. Maybe you could compile the videos into one longer video. I think it might be good for your business.
Now that is a fantastic idea my friend!
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 What state are you guys located in?
@@johnconnor3426 North Carolina to my knowledge.
absolutely!!!
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 do you sell comfrey seed? Where?
I have well over 200 massive comfrey 5-6 diameter. It has turned marginal dirt into rich soil in the last 10 years. I give a softball sized comfrey root to each customer that buys berry bushes from me.
You are definitely giving the gift that keeps on giving Steve!
Where can I purchase some comfrey starts?
@@sherriwiley4618 Billy sells them
@@stevehall9256 his store shows to be out of stock unfortunately
@@PermaPasturesFarm21, hello my friend & teacher, can you tell us when your comfrey will be available ? WE want to support your family with much needed monies, but if it will be available before July , ur the one I would support, otherwise let us know details, this time maybe we should look elsewhere presently.
Here's another recipe for quick comfrey tea fertilizer that a farmer gave me: Cut up enough comfrey to 3/4 fill a ninja 12 - 16 oz. oz container and add water. Don't pack it too tight . Turn on the blender until it's cut up real fine. Do that process three times. Take your three containers of comfrey and put it in 15 gallons of non chlorinated water . Stir the solution once a day for three days. Mix it up to 50/50 with water and fertilize your plants. I use Bocking 14 Russian Comfrey, it's NPK is 1.8-.5-7.9. Simple and effective. Good luck.
I bought comfrey twice. It is all growing like a gangbusters! We are excited about all the uses. Thank you for doing this
Thank you so much for your business my friend!
Love the banter. Raising children is the absolute best.
Comfrey is my favorite herb. I make many teas with comfrey and other herbs and have for years. I have stopped major bleeding using comfrey and repaired broken bones including my foot. I love my comfrey! I was surprised seeing y’all hadn’t tried it in teas until the video. It’s an amazing herb.
We’ve used it in every application I can think of except for drinking it
We have comfrey allover our farm: in the permaculture orchard, in the hoop house, in our row crop field, in our small vineyard, in our young food forest.
We use it for "chop'n'drop" mulch, in our JADAM barrel, around our walnut trees.
The chickens ADORE the flowers, it's a great delicacy to them. During the winter I will crumble some in the chicken feed, along with dried oregano, thyme, yarrow...
I dry the leaves, and infuse avocado oil to use in salves and soaps. Just this evening I made a dry poultice for Mr Rosehaven's sprained finger...after a few hours, could bend his finger without pain.
our herbal plants are amazing! truly a gift from God. keep those Comfrey videos coming!
You got it my friend
I'm excited! I just noticed that the comfrey roots I bought from you is now sprouting here in the Nevada desert. Thanks, brother.
Ya'll ain't hit on my favorite use of comfrey. Weed suppression around fruit trees. I stomp it down *after* it stops blooming. It grows again from the crown. When that new growth stops blooming, stomp it down again in a different direction. Lather, rinse, repeat. After the fall/winter, all weeds are suppressed where the comfrey was laying.
Oh I had to laugh when your beautiful dog came racing over & sat using their tail as a broom, just brilliant as you just kept talking & explaining without missing a beat. I am going to put a tub of comfrey in as what you were explaining makes great sense to me.
What an amazing channel & I am so glad if follow you. Cheers Denise- Australia
Comfrey has been a fantastic discovery for me on the farm. No one can have enough of it. I’m still learning more and more about it. If only we could grow it faster. 😉
I was just the other day, asking my wife how we were supposed to use the comfrey. So I thank you for the info here! Very informative. She started using the comfrey on the basis it supposed to help with my arthritis. So I guess that's the tea end of this. Thank you.
I wonder if topical usage would help as well!
Great informative content ..I put mine in frig like u stated !
But want to plant .
I havent been well - with several health issues - but i still get up and go in our Garden & plant ! Water etc.
Thank you Mr .billy & William an also beautiful Mrs Michelle .
God bless you
Mrs Josette Tharp
Texas
Get well soon my friend! Thanks so much for your purchase!
Hey Billy, I love the T-shirt you are wearing in this video, it's awesome.🧡🧡🧡🧡
Thanks for the video! Seeing how you use it in action definitely helps me with how I can use it on my property! Blessings!
Stay tuned! We have a bunch more uses coming.
I just ordered your comfrey. Looking forward to learning more about it.
Stay tuned!
We have an African Gray that we rescued and one of the medications given to her was knitbone (comfrey powder). It helped her amazingly.
Yay! I can’t wait for mine to grow!! I’m heading to the festival next weekend and I’m so excited! I’m also really bummed that I couldn’t get off work Friday to make the butchering workshop! This week I’ll put in 70hrs but I’m packing up my car and leaving from work to make that 10 hour drive!
Awesome! Look forward to meeting you!
I'm thinking about doing the same!
My first few 18 day piles were done in 60 days.
Tomorrow is comfrey division day. I’m finally going to do it so I can cover all of my plantings. Going to make comfrey tea too.
I forgot the last thing I was gonna say.
It’s all good buddy. You’re doing great!
Thank y’all so much! Blessings
Thank you and blessings to you and yours!
Loving the shirt👍
Hey Billy just saw you posted this video I'm working the homestead right now but definitely going to watch this once the sun goes down. By the way I planted your comfrey here in Northwest Florida and it is doing great thank you for your tips via email.
Thank you so much for your business my friend! I’m so pleased that it’s working out
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 thank you. We are too!
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 Billy u are so nice to reply personally, u r for real, I feel the support from your family.
I’m in northwest Florida, Pensacola area! Glad to hear it grows well, I’d like to try some
@Alex Burdsall i dont have any for sale but thr stuff perma pastures farm grows well here.
Please do a series on the uses
Y’all are amazing thanks so much for sharing
I really enjoy your wisdom and love of the land. I love your You Tubes. My small farm is such a gift from God. I try to enlighten folks with good living and a love of Liberty and Freedom coupled with organic living, May many blessings come to you all. Rough and Ready California
My friend gave me a plant of Comfrey a few years ago. I have it everywhere. She visited the other day and was concerned that I have so much! One reason I love it is the bees that it attracts to my garden. I am working on a food forest while on the other half of the property my husband is doing his conventional thing. He just has not found the blessings of Comfrey yet. Thank you for your instructions.
We both here drink different teas so now I’ll be trying the comfrey tea for us.
I think I’m going to be drinking it more often myself.
How do yall prepare?
I took my knife and cut some comfrey down into the root on the edge of a woodland and replanted it in my garden last year. Now it's taking over! Bees have had their fill of the flowers and it's leaning over the lawn and smothering surrounding plants so I'm going to chop lots back and shred it into my potato bags.
I bought 10 comfrey cutting in late October 2022. It is December 4, 2022 and I have nine of the cuttings that have come up and they are beautiful. One came up a couple of weeks ago and within these past few days they all started coming up. I had previously bought from another source and only half of them came up and none of them ended up surviving. The ones I bought from Perma Pastures as very hardy. I can't wait till they grow larger so I can plant them all around my garden.
Awesome video. Was wondering Michelle if you can add more water to the 3 day bucket to draw out more of the nutrients in order to get the most use of the comfy leaves? Thanks for sharing and looking forward to more teaching on this subject 😀 👍. Oh and great to see you Michelle on the videos!!!
Here's another recipe for quick comfrey tea fertilizer: Cut up enough comfrey to 3/4 fill a ninja 12 - 16 oz. oz container and add water. Don't pack it too tight . Turn on the blender until it's cut up real fine. Do that process three times. Take your three containers of comfrey and put it in 15 gallons of non chlorinated water . Stir the solution once a day for three days. Mix it up to 50/50 with water and fertilize your plants. I use Bocking 14 Russian Comfrey, it's NPK is 1.8-.5-7.9. Simple and effective. Good luck.
Love watching your videos!
Thank you so much Valerie
I like those flower boxes on your porch!
Awesome video and good information! I just started growing comfrey a few weeks ago and can't wait to use it in my garden. Thanks for sharing 👍
I think you’re going to be very pleased with it
I love comfrey. I've grown it for years and treated my kids and animals with it for years. The tea isn't bad. It tastes a bit like grass. I mix it with mint for my kids to drink
Homestead Honey sounds better than the Permaculture Princess!! you guys rock!
I LOVE comfrey!! Incredible medicinal properties. I used it to heal an internal fistula.I drink it in tea everyday. I would LOVE to learn how to grow it. Just found your channel...good stuff!
I steep my tea 12 hours plus, not longer than 24, using dried leaves. I also put Nettle and Holy Basil in there with it. Tastes minty. Check out the book Lost Book of Herbal remedies by Nicole Apelian. I think you would love it.
A friend called to ask how to heal an internal wound from surgically removing a fistula. Did u heal via comfrey tea or poultice?
@@mydreamhorse12 Hey there! I just wanted to make sure my reply got to you but I did not see that it did not please let me know
This was a nice video. You all are very loving.
I like to see you all together
Great info as always. Thanks guys! (I think I’m in love with the world’s greatest Pyrenees. Those eyes… I can tell he is very connected and dedicated to Billy.)
I love y'alls videos. So jam packed full of information. Thank you.
My comfrey arrived on Thursday, thank you.
I wasn't sure I was ever going to have any, especially when this spring I finally got one tiny plant to grow, and our little cat, who likes her leafy greens, ate it.
Thank you so much for your business! That’s a new one on me… Cats eating comfrey. Who knew!
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 Escarole is her favorite!
Just ordered 10 comfrey roots from you. I put a comfrey plant by each of my fruit trees and cut the plants each year during the summer and use the leaves & stalks for my mulch in the garden beds along with cut up leaves and grass clippings. Going to make comfrey tea this spring to use as fertilizer in my garden beds and to fertilize fruit trees, berries and perennial flowers/ bushes
I sure wish I had some today. My left foot is broken. I ordered seeds today. I will have it from now on. Thanks.
Another great video, had me laughing at the bleach comment. Looking forward to more comfrey videos.
Thank you so much my friend
We bought some comfrey & so far all the roots we planted have come up! Thank you!
That’s awesome! Thank you so much!
Awesome family farm ✌🏽
Thank you so very much my
I wanted to order more comfrey but decided I better go ahead and get what I can and get it planted. The time to plant is now. Can’t wait to get it!!
Gotta say that I LOVE the t-shirt.
I use the dried root powered in my formulas typically or boiled root and let it steep as bath or tea
Sounds like a wonderful idea
Just planted 28 of the 50 I purchased from you. We planted them in our apple guilds and we also planted sweet potatoes there based on another of your videos.
I made comfrey tee I put mint in it I thought it was good. It helped me with a lot of health problems.
For what it’s worth, years ago I read that there was (or is ?) a monastery in Europe that had (has ?) a particular strain of comfrey which is safe for human consumption because it lacks whatever it is that causes humans to react badly to its ingestion. If someone were able to locate and propagate that variety, it would be a great blessing.
We will have to look into it.
That's very interesting
I believe it is a Russian comfrey
I just ordered my roots today from you guys.
We are going to homesteaders of America conference in Frontroyal VA. In October. Wife and I hope to see you all there🍄🌈😃🤙
I’m not sure I’ll be making that one my friend.
You two are one savvy, smart & gorgeous couple no wonder William is such a well rounded, handsome guy. You just converted me, I am getting some comfrey asap. I want to figure out how to get it from your stash, but how does it stay fresh, or is it dried? i noticed the woman below my comment said that you sell roots!! that sounds very appealing to me. OK, I 'm ready to ask you to get some off to my little backyard in Brooklyn NYC, cause this is where I am at this point.
We know Beautiful Mrs Michelle !!! Your an amazing women & Mother ! We know better there wasnt no bleach ..lol..thats just Mr. Billy making us laugh .....Great memories of our Children when they were small ...big hugs
Josette .
Watched again & again .
Im gonna research how to plant or could yall show in a video how to plant Horizontally ????
I can do research tho ...
Thank you. Do you have book recommendations. I love books, especially on these subjects.
I would suggest yarrow for open bleeding wounds and bruises. Comfrey salve is permeable to the skin and I’ve used it for a broken bone.
Take a quart jar, fill about half full of comfrey leaves, pour boiling water over it to the top. Cap, leave all day or night. It tastes okay to me and I don't add honey to it. It did feel better when I drank it. I must get into the habit of drinking all my herbal teas and infusions on a regular basis. I do feel much better when I do. BTW, I love you porch and the view!!
Thanks yall, the comfrey yall sent me just came in the mail. I hope to get it in the ground today
For ten years doctors had me in a cocktail of prescription meds for nerve pain. I switched to kratom and thc and honestly I haven’t felt this good in years. The side effects alone from prescription meds were devastating
I’ve tried the meds they give for the nerve damage and related pain I’m in. I can’t tolerate those medications. I’m in a lot of pain but I know what you mean about the side effects
Where do some people get kratom? I had never heard about it before but just googled it and it sounds pretty interesting.
@@gogr2409 I just ordered from pure leaf. Good stuff
@@gardenstatesowandsew I use B1, B6, B12 and alpha lipoic acid for nerve pain. Life changing! No nasty side effects from Pharma.
Just harvested 90% of my comfrey. I’ve transplanted root sections all over and still have about 1-200 left over. I’m going to plant a comfrey patch to generate enough for everything else I want to try with comfrey as this video suggested. I also used the leaves in mulch rings and some in a bucket of water to make comfrey tea for the garden.
Wish I had a website to sell some root cuttings. Trouble is I have common comfrey, Bocking 4 and 14, can’t tell them apart. Oh well…
what is Bocking 4 & 14 mean, RR? ty
@@brachashighhopeshomestead226 Bocking 14 (I’m not sure about 4)-named after a town in the UK where it was developed, I believe, is the less invasive form of comfrey-the kind you want. It is propagated by root cuttings. If you get regular comfrey via seed propagation, I’m told it can be wildly aggressive. I just started growing comfrey so am no expert, but this is what I’ve read online from several sources.
@@gogr2409 Are there any issues with it being wildly aggressive? Except for people who want it to grow in only one specific place... is there anything else bad about it? I would love comfrey to take over my yard.
@@briedubbels8690 I don’t think there is anything bad about it. Only if you want to devote an area to some other plants and it becomes invasive. I am aiming for a big comfrey area in my garden
I would love to have this on the homestead...live in Texas Panhandle...very dry and hot in the summer and very cold and windy in the winter. 😬
Mix lemon balm or mint with the Comfrey tea and it's delicious
We call it consuelda in Puerto Rico. Im not sure how to get it here in Fl.
Very useful plant. I love your channel! Blessings 🙌
Thank you so much Linette!
Will comfrey help me catch steps on line dancing 💃 or Chicago stepping..swing?
I can’t wait till things are normal cause “I’m coming out”. Like Diana
I’m not sure helps with coordination my friend.
Alright 👍... I was a wondering what I was going to do with the comfrey leaves I cut yesterday 😅 Making tea as I post this. Do you mind sharing the title of the book about things to do with comfrey? Thank you 😊 once again for a great video & your great timing.
I have my comfrey growing.
That’s what I’m talking about
Can you like those books on uses for comfrey?
We will link them in the next video.
We have so much of that here on my property. Stuff is hard to kill and will grow where ever I drop it… we have tried pulling it to no avail just keeps growing I think it’s been here for a lifetime. After seeing your video I’m going to use it instead of fighting it.
What a sweet puppy
Hey! Did you dry the comfrey before you made the tea or did you use fresh leaves? If you dry the leaves then make tea out of that, you get more flavor. If you used fresh leaves, you're getting more of a comfrey broth than a tea.
We did them fresh. Thank you for the tip
Thanks for letting us know about the comfrey. My wife is probably going to add it to her arsenal of natural healing.
I bet borage leaf would make that taste much better!!!
Adding mint to your comfrey when you make tea sweetens it quite a bit.
Keep the comfrey videos a coming!!!
On the tea, what do you use the leftover plant material for? Is that something that you can use as a top dressing for the garden also?
Yes indeed! We typically dump it on the Garden
Great videol. Love the T-shirt.
Could you share the names of the books you have on comfrey? Thank you.
Awesome video guys!! Thanks for yet another very informative video. I learn something new every time. 👍🏻😇🙏🏻🙌🏻❤️☀️☀️
Thank you the great info about Comfrey! I had no idea how many things it could be used for! I will be sure to buy a book about all of its uses so I can maximize the benefits from it, when it matures! Would love to see more videos when you have time to make them!
We will definitely get it done
"Awake but not Woke" 👍
I did received my order of comfrey. I just wanted to make sure what kind of soil to plant in. Can I start in pots and then transplant? Thank you God bless!
Thank you for the Comfrey root cuttings. Two have came up so far. I am going to try it as tobacco. I have severe asthma so I’m wanting to know the health benefits of comfrey when targeted at my lungs. Thank you for the Comfrey and information!
TFS l missed out on the comfrey, so l bought some seeds. Hoping to catch up on your videos and get to digging. I’m hoping to plant it around my small lake. Any thoughts on that? Started my raised beds and my little brooders are fat hens now. I’m making my own chicken feed and hope to see more videos on that. Poor things are cooped up but hopefully the dog pen will be finished soon. I adopted my grandkids very old bird dogs and pound dog. They “really” love my chickens. 😱 My girls (hens) are making compost for me and got my first coop cleaning into a bin and Checking out your 18 day composts. I appreciate you all! Wish l had you for neighbors. 👋
Billy I didn't know you sell confrey
I REMEBER couple years ago u told holler where to buy
I saw you went over help him and u brought conference help him with his trees
I would like to buy confrey from you.
Also do you sell mullen .
Love all your volgs
Learn lots from all your family volgs
Thanks for all knowledge.
How would I pay n do u have list I could see.
I am senior don't know much bout computors.
Thanks
Off topic but I have serious tick problem on my property. I was told to plant rosemary.. can I just spread rosemary seeds in my grass and just mow it? Trying to avoid using poisons due to having dogs.
Thanks for the awesome content! So many peppers I know have seed vaults and think that they will just plant a garden of things get bad. I failed gardening for good number of years just doing it as hobby.
Guinea hens or chickens help
I’m not sure about ticks and rosemary but if you plan to grow rosemary and you live in an area where it gets cold, be sure to get cold hardy rosemary because some types cannot survive cold weather. I’ve tried to overwinter rosemary in Oklahoma City area (zone 7) and have never had any live through our winters. I doesn’t stay cold for long but it can get really cold for short snaps, we get ice storms, and it can be very dry in fall/winter. I purchased some cold hardy variety from a place that specializes in high country desert plants and am hoping they thrive here with minimal care. My plan is to propagate from the plants I purchased to make more “bushes” later. Rosemary is quite easy to propagate. Just cut a piece a few inches long, stick in water, change water every 2-3 days and roots will grow rather quickly.
@@christinatucker6153 good info thank u
What is the best type of soil to grow comfrey in raised bed?
When is the right time of year to divide and plant comfrey plants?
What are the names of the books on Comfrey?
Would the health benefits be intensified by muddling the Comfrey first?
Not sure. We will have to look into it.
I love the "Awake but not WOKE" shirt..
Oh crap! I didn’t realize the bone sauce would keep deer from my property. Oops. All good Billy.
Ha ha
When will y'all have comfrey back in stock ?
Could you tell us which books you have on comfrey
You have a farm in Texas!? Central Texas here. Great video content.