I loved your discussion. Id love to hear you all have a follow up with Dr. Cowan it's unfortunate he isn't more widely available online for lectures. I find him absolutely fascinating I suppose because I'm of the same hobbies and interests and learning the truth behind conventional knowledge and science, after suffering from depression etc and then studying landscape architecture, agriculture and horticultural sciences in vocational school, and working at a university agricultural research farm in northwest indiana and seeing what the comventional fertilizers did to the flavor and vitality of the produce we grew and how succeptable they became to viruses etc. it changed my life. It all comes down to our ancestors having the true knowledge that was lost down generations, once "science and experts" convinced the newer generations to abandon their traditions and history. Anyway im in South Texas. We have poor man's opium....wild lettuce/type of thistle. It's used in place of opium and narcotics for pain relief and it's not addictive. I question what it's mineral content is however, as well as the uses of its flower since it is similar to thistle. And we have prickly pear cactus all over, as not only the flower, but the fruit, and the pads of the cactus are all edible. I'm curious as to the nutritional content in the cactus. We also have millions and millions of acres of native black raspberries, which are actually a bramble, but they can survive even in the northern states during winter, as the canes die back and or fall over and root again under the leaves and spreads like crazy. The canes have popped up here locally all over, and have begun flowering. It's almost Dewberry season, and since I have 4 small children they know mommy is a crazy plant lady as they call me because I always have a shovel, bags, or buckets and pruners and gloves in my car at all times. We also have Miles and miles of wild walking onions here. I started digging the the entire plant once they produce the top bulbils, and allow them to dry until the stem dries, shrivels and i can seperate the bottom onion and then save and keep the top bulbils, hording them as I was going to just sell them on ebay. The wild onions are so delicious. Can use the both the top and bottom bulbs in salads or pickle them or use them in soup. They are delicious. A very different flavor from conventional onions that have been over bred for quantity over quality and flavor. I also dig as many of the wild "dewberries" as possible when I find abandoned farms that I know haven't been grown on in decades to ensure there is no glyphosate contamination possible. Dr cowan should look for someone in Northwest Indiana as there are hundreds of thousands of acres of wild asparagus growing all over Indiana Michigan and Illinois as well as Kentucky and and missouri. Mostly I've seen them up north in indiana. Huge thick spears as most of the roots are over 50 years old, the spears are thicker than a carrot. It'd crazy. It just ends up being shredded by tractors etc. And you should have no problem growing plantain in your area. Honestly. A weed is just a very strong strain that hasn't been destroyed by breeding and isolation. That being said the memory of their genetics from a particular area have already experienced every possible environmental situation and can tolerate them. The crazy thing is, that so many of the "weeds" we are trying to kill and pull out were intentionally and diligently brought over by the first settlers from their home countries as they were food and medicine. That being said, I think the idea that only certain plants can only be grown in certain areas doesn't actually apply. Not for any plant. At least in the plants we are speaking of. So long as you are adding rock dust for trace minerals, or seaweed....and broken down leaves for the fungal mycelium and mineral content, you should be good to go. The more minerals you add back in, the more you'll get out of your food and the healthier we will all be, most importantly, the earth.
Wow, Amber! You're really knowledgable on all of this! Thank you for sharing your wisdom here. To your first point, if you search Dr.Cowan on TH-cam, you'll find many more interviews with him, most of which include some of the basic similar info on him as well as new content. Great to hear about your native, etc. Thank you for taking the time to share.
Have only been eating the landscape for a few years and have really felt the lack of a mentor. Also the lack of organizing principles for committing the variety to memory. Have had a general sense that eating color is to eat the nutrient-rich parts of plants. But yes, if you wait till the broccoli flowers (verb, to flower) it's less edible. Surprised to hear that Goethe knew anything about plants. Goethe's stamp on philosophy is everywhere of course. Would be nice to have some first principles for thinking generally about the meaning of plants. I remember Weston Price's amazing stories and I suppose that got me into ancestral foods. Trying to stay upbeat here in Niagara seventy years after my mother was here in the fruit belt paradise before DDT, though you have to get into a certain mindset to not think about how we've ravaged the land. Was eating plantain this morning by pulling the snow off. It's everywhere. The trick is to avoid the "grapists," as I call them, spraying poisons everywhere. A few dandelions are actually flowering right now. Just heard of Dr. Cowan two days ago with an interview by Dr. Sam Bailey of New Zealand. You three together certainly seem like a wonderful concentration of knowledge. I actually have tried to eat kale as a staple and it just didn't work out. So it's good to hear Dr. Cowan's comments. I tried for years to pretend to myself that kale could be eaten regularly raw and in large amounts, but Cowan's right here. Oh, good correction on the glass jar and the miren? jar. Oh, just realized this interview was four years ago, so I'll stop talking. Anyway, thank-you for this.
Hi David! So glad you enjoyed the interview and CONGRATS to you on your success at eating only from the landscape for a few years now. WOW! That's hard to do, so all the more admirable. It sounds like your approach is intuitive and wise relative to variety of types and colors, as well as an innate sense of pondering principles. Plantain is amazing! One of our favorites next to dandelion. We have a article on it here. So glad you found some, ready and waiting, chilled by the snow! www.gardensall.com/plantago-major/ You may also enjoy: Books by Stephen Harrod Buhner: amzn.to/3JjFPYL #affiliatelink If you haven't already found Green Deane, his videos and website offer a wealth of info on foraging for edibles: www.eattheweeds.com/ He also hosts foraging events and workshops you may enjoy and his book is on his website. ALSO, this book looks really good: Edible Wild Plants: A North American Field Guide to Over 200 Natural Foods ? amzn.to/3sImkmC RE: THE BLUE JARS It's Miron Jars and here are our affiliate links for these: Dr. Cowan's website lddy.no/138i3 Amazon: currently has a Vivaplex brand version: amzn.to/32Bu52K And the Miron glass is made by a company in the Netherlands: "MIRON Violetglass is a unique biophotonic glass packaging for natural products." www.mironglass.com/ Thanks again for sharing your experience. Feel free to post again or send us an email on how it's going for you. LeAura for GardensAll.com
This is very similar to native American philosophies. Like the shapes of certain foods, correlate to what part of the body it is good for, like brain/walnut, heart/apple, beans/kidneys. Another philosophy is that you can talk to everything, that everything has spirit, and our intent also creates Spirit in objects. That animals and plants and objects can talk. Humans are the ones that choose what they want to hear and not hear. Like for example, people say their dogs are like their children,but then neuter them, feed them only dog food, chain them up, put them in cages etc but we ourselves know, we don't want to eat dog food everyday, we don't like being in cages etc, we don't pick and choose when animals are humanistic, they always are, they sense and comprehend things as intuitively as us all the time. in fact the animals are more human than their owners in terms of the treatment of the one to the other. Most people can't even treat their closest "pets," as equals, but if we can't even start off on equal grounds with nature, how could we ever understand it? Our hubris that we are the most advanced beings on earth, the only bearers of soul, that our lives matter most over everything, is what truly kills us. Because nature has all the answers. You don't have to refrigerate vegetables, even if they are cut open. If it rots, and if bugs and mold will eat it, it must be good! 😁 They certainly love it! They are nature, their existence depends soley on only doing what is necessary to their existence, they are making use of and eating the same things we do.... We call it rot, decay, and pests, but this negative correlation denies us life. Because the small creatures also like what we like, Eat what we eat, and share space with us, yet our self alienation from nature is our own betrayal against ourselves.
You have an all-encompassing and compassionate perspective on the world and all life. We can extend that compassion to those who are not as yet as connected to nature, for they also suffer in that. We're all here to learn, grow and evolve and to love and care for each other and creation... and to understand and forgive that not all are as yet in their knowing. 💜🙏🏼🌎
Hey there! This one amzn.to/3Ez1ts3 (#afflink) that's so much more than a cookbook. You can also read more (if interested) in this article on the interview: www.gardensall.com/specialty-crops/ Thanks for watching & asking!
Thank you for asking! We would love to, however we have not been actively doing interviews this year due to time constraints. However, can you search TH-cam for Dr. Thomas Cowan you will find lots more recent interviews that he’s done continuing to do. Alternately, you can also visit his website and sign up for his email newsletter where you will receive notifications of new interviews and for his own shows. Similarly, you can search for his name on your podcast app for a list of his interviews via his and others podcasts. Www.DrCowansGarden.com
I wonder what your opinions of DMSO- Dimethyl sulfoxide? I've read that we are deficiency in sulfur, not getting it from our food, due to poor soil and toxics. DMSO has little or no side effects, and does wonders for the body's immune cells.
Hi @Donna Hurd! Understood, but sorry, Dr. Cowan doesn't respond on this channel. However, you might be able to reach him via his website: www.drcowansgarden.com/pages/contact-us
Hi!thanks so much for this great interview!! I tried to find the mirroring jar - could you maybe link it here? Thank a lot, and all the best from Austria! :)
Hey Julia, Glad you enjoyed this. There's a place on-line that sells "Infinity Jars" We've not dealt with them but they pop up readily in Google. Also there's Miron Violet Glass. All the best to you over there! Cheers!
Yes, that's true, Elliott! Here's a list of 69 Edible Flowers: www.gardensall.com/edible-flowers/ So cool, and many have medicinal benefits. I just enjoyed a wonderful cup of hibiscus flowers this afternoon. It's delicious and nutritious!! www.gardensall.com/fiesta-hibiscus/ Thanks for commenting! LeAura GardensAll.com
Hi Elliott! Thanks for asking! That was a reference to Goethe, (German name pronounced as Gerta), a German writer and statesman. Here's a summary of Goethe's 'Faust' summary. www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/f/faust-parts-1-and-2/about-faust-parts-1-and-2
I think I found it! Looks like it was originally published in 1790, I think this is what you are looking for: The Metamorphosis of Plants (The MIT Press) Hardcover - September 11, 2009 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I loved your discussion. Id love to hear you all have a follow up with Dr. Cowan it's unfortunate he isn't more widely available online for lectures. I find him absolutely fascinating I suppose because I'm of the same hobbies and interests and learning the truth behind conventional knowledge and science, after suffering from depression etc and then studying landscape architecture, agriculture and horticultural sciences in vocational school, and working at a university agricultural research farm in northwest indiana and seeing what the comventional fertilizers did to the flavor and vitality of the produce we grew and how succeptable they became to viruses etc. it changed my life. It all comes down to our ancestors having the true knowledge that was lost down generations, once "science and experts" convinced the newer generations to abandon their traditions and history. Anyway im in South Texas. We have poor man's opium....wild lettuce/type of thistle. It's used in place of opium and narcotics for pain relief and it's not addictive. I question what it's mineral content is however, as well as the uses of its flower since it is similar to thistle. And we have prickly pear cactus all over, as not only the flower, but the fruit, and the pads of the cactus are all edible. I'm curious as to the nutritional content in the cactus. We also have millions and millions of acres of native black raspberries, which are actually a bramble, but they can survive even in the northern states during winter, as the canes die back and or fall over and root again under the leaves and spreads like crazy.
The canes have popped up here locally all over, and have begun flowering. It's almost Dewberry season, and since I have 4 small children they know mommy is a crazy plant lady as they call me because I always have a shovel, bags, or buckets and pruners and gloves in my car at all times. We also have Miles and miles of wild walking onions here. I started digging the the entire plant once they produce the top bulbils, and allow them to dry until the stem dries, shrivels and i can seperate the bottom onion and then save and keep the top bulbils, hording them as I was going to just sell them on ebay. The wild onions are so delicious. Can use the both the top and bottom bulbs in salads or pickle them or use them in soup. They are delicious. A very different flavor from conventional onions that have been over bred for quantity over quality and flavor. I also dig as many of the wild "dewberries" as possible when I find abandoned farms that I know haven't been grown on in decades to ensure there is no glyphosate contamination possible.
Dr cowan should look for someone in Northwest Indiana as there are hundreds of thousands of acres of wild asparagus growing all over Indiana Michigan and Illinois as well as Kentucky and and missouri. Mostly I've seen them up north in indiana. Huge thick spears as most of the roots are over 50 years old, the spears are thicker than a carrot. It'd crazy. It just ends up being shredded by tractors etc. And you should have no problem growing plantain in your area. Honestly. A weed is just a very strong strain that hasn't been destroyed by breeding and isolation. That being said the memory of their genetics from a particular area have already experienced every possible environmental situation and can tolerate them.
The crazy thing is, that so many of the "weeds" we are trying to kill and pull out were intentionally and diligently brought over by the first settlers from their home countries as they were food and medicine. That being said, I think the idea that only certain plants can only be grown in certain areas doesn't actually apply. Not for any plant. At least in the plants we are speaking of. So long as you are adding rock dust for trace minerals, or seaweed....and broken down leaves for the fungal mycelium and mineral content, you should be good to go. The more minerals you add back in, the more you'll get out of your food and the healthier we will all be, most importantly, the earth.
Wow, Amber! You're really knowledgable on all of this! Thank you for sharing your wisdom here.
To your first point, if you search Dr.Cowan on TH-cam, you'll find many more interviews with him, most of which include some of the basic similar info on him as well as new content.
Great to hear about your native, etc. Thank you for taking the time to share.
Go to subscribe star and subscribe to Tom Cowan. You can talk to him personally. Enjoy!
Have only been eating the landscape for a few years and have really felt the lack of a mentor. Also the lack of organizing principles for committing the variety to memory. Have had a general sense that eating color is to eat the nutrient-rich parts of plants. But yes, if you wait till the broccoli flowers (verb, to flower) it's less edible. Surprised to hear that Goethe knew anything about plants. Goethe's stamp on philosophy is everywhere of course. Would be nice to have some first principles for thinking generally about the meaning of plants. I remember Weston Price's amazing stories and I suppose that got me into ancestral foods. Trying to stay upbeat here in Niagara seventy years after my mother was here in the fruit belt paradise before DDT, though you have to get into a certain mindset to not think about how we've ravaged the land. Was eating plantain this morning by pulling the snow off. It's everywhere. The trick is to avoid the "grapists," as I call them, spraying poisons everywhere. A few dandelions are actually flowering right now. Just heard of Dr. Cowan two days ago with an interview by Dr. Sam Bailey of New Zealand. You three together certainly seem like a wonderful concentration of knowledge. I actually have tried to eat kale as a staple and it just didn't work out. So it's good to hear Dr. Cowan's comments. I tried for years to pretend to myself that kale could be eaten regularly raw and in large amounts, but Cowan's right here. Oh, good correction on the glass jar and the miren? jar. Oh, just realized this interview was four years ago, so I'll stop talking. Anyway, thank-you for this.
Hi David!
So glad you enjoyed the interview and CONGRATS to you on your success at eating only from the landscape for a few years now. WOW! That's hard to do, so all the more admirable.
It sounds like your approach is intuitive and wise relative to variety of types and colors, as well as an innate sense of pondering principles.
Plantain is amazing! One of our favorites next to dandelion. We have a article on it here. So glad you found some, ready and waiting, chilled by the snow!
www.gardensall.com/plantago-major/
You may also enjoy:
Books by Stephen Harrod Buhner: amzn.to/3JjFPYL #affiliatelink
If you haven't already found Green Deane, his videos and website offer a wealth of info on foraging for edibles:
www.eattheweeds.com/
He also hosts foraging events and workshops you may enjoy and his book is on his website.
ALSO, this book looks really good:
Edible Wild Plants: A North American Field Guide to Over 200 Natural Foods ?
amzn.to/3sImkmC
RE: THE BLUE JARS
It's Miron Jars and here are our affiliate links for these:
Dr. Cowan's website
lddy.no/138i3
Amazon: currently has a Vivaplex brand version:
amzn.to/32Bu52K
And the Miron glass is made by a company in the Netherlands:
"MIRON Violetglass is a unique biophotonic glass packaging for natural products."
www.mironglass.com/
Thanks again for sharing your experience. Feel free to post again or send us an email on how it's going for you.
LeAura for GardensAll.com
This is very similar to native American philosophies. Like the shapes of certain foods, correlate to what part of the body it is good for, like brain/walnut, heart/apple, beans/kidneys. Another philosophy is that you can talk to everything, that everything has spirit, and our intent also creates Spirit in objects. That animals and plants and objects can talk. Humans are the ones that choose what they want to hear and not hear. Like for example, people say their dogs are like their children,but then neuter them, feed them only dog food, chain them up, put them in cages etc but we ourselves know, we don't want to eat dog food everyday, we don't like being in cages etc, we don't pick and choose when animals are humanistic, they always are, they sense and comprehend things as intuitively as us all the time. in fact the animals are more human than their owners in terms of the treatment of the one to the other. Most people can't even treat their closest "pets," as equals, but if we can't even start off on equal grounds with nature, how could we ever understand it? Our hubris that we are the most advanced beings on earth, the only bearers of soul, that our lives matter most over everything, is what truly kills us. Because nature has all the answers. You don't have to refrigerate vegetables, even if they are cut open. If it rots, and if bugs and mold will eat it, it must be good! 😁 They certainly love it! They are nature, their existence depends soley on only doing what is necessary to their existence, they are making use of and eating the same things we do.... We call it rot, decay, and pests, but this negative correlation denies us life. Because the small creatures also like what we like, Eat what we eat, and share space with us, yet our self alienation from nature is our own betrayal against ourselves.
You have an all-encompassing and compassionate perspective on the world and all life. We can extend that compassion to those who are not as yet as connected to nature, for they also suffer in that. We're all here to learn, grow and evolve and to love and care for each other and creation... and to understand and forgive that not all are as yet in their knowing. 💜🙏🏼🌎
it was known as the "doctrine of signatures"
Which book he is talking about gardening or plants?
Hey there!
This one amzn.to/3Ez1ts3 (#afflink) that's so much more than a cookbook.
You can also read more (if interested) in this article on the interview: www.gardensall.com/specialty-crops/
Thanks for watching & asking!
Wow guys! How cool. I’m North Carolina myself. 🫶🏻
Was dr Cowan referring to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe the
Poet?
How about doing another interview with Dr. Cowan? An update.
Thank you for asking! We would love to, however we have not been actively doing interviews this year due to time constraints. However, can you search TH-cam for Dr. Thomas Cowan you will find lots more recent interviews that he’s done continuing to do.
Alternately, you can also visit his website and sign up for his email newsletter where you will receive notifications of new interviews and for his own shows. Similarly, you can search for his name on your podcast app for a list of his interviews via his and others podcasts. Www.DrCowansGarden.com
@@GardensAllSite -Thanks !
I wonder what your opinions of DMSO- Dimethyl sulfoxide? I've read that we are deficiency in sulfur, not getting it from our food, due to poor soil and toxics. DMSO has little or no side effects, and does wonders for the body's immune cells.
My question was for Dr. Thomas cowan.
Hi @Donna Hurd! Understood, but sorry, Dr. Cowan doesn't respond on this channel. However, you might be able to reach him via his website: www.drcowansgarden.com/pages/contact-us
Hi!thanks so much for this great interview!!
I tried to find the mirroring jar - could you maybe link it here?
Thank a lot, and all the best from Austria! :)
Hey Julia, Glad you enjoyed this. There's a place on-line that sells "Infinity Jars" We've not dealt with them but they pop up readily in Google. Also there's Miron Violet Glass.
All the best to you over there! Cheers!
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I didnt even know you eat chocolate buds and I grew up here in Phoenix 😆 but I guess you can eat most flowers?
Yes, that's true, Elliott! Here's a list of 69 Edible Flowers: www.gardensall.com/edible-flowers/ So cool, and many have medicinal benefits. I just enjoyed a wonderful cup of hibiscus flowers this afternoon. It's delicious and nutritious!!
www.gardensall.com/fiesta-hibiscus/
Thanks for commenting!
LeAura
GardensAll.com
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Who is Gertha? I missed the first name and can't seem to find a full name using Google.
Hi Elliott!
Thanks for asking!
That was a reference to Goethe, (German name pronounced as Gerta), a German writer and statesman. Here's a summary of Goethe's 'Faust' summary. www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/f/faust-parts-1-and-2/about-faust-parts-1-and-2
I think I found it! Looks like it was originally published in 1790, I think this is what you are looking for:
The Metamorphosis of Plants (The MIT Press) Hardcover - September 11, 2009
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Do you have the link for the miron jars
Here you go! Thanks for asking. amzn.to/3paN4rs
What was He saying about eating too much CaBBaGe (not Garbage, LoL)??
LOL Joe!