You can save some (or a lot) of the seeds from lambs quarters, and use them for growing tender young micro greens especially in winter. It makes a fantastic in pesto. I practically live on pesto. I am close to being a "vegetabletarian" -- but in kind of a keto diet lifestyle style. What I do is add half a can of sardines to my pesto. Tastes great and gives me choline, Vitamin B12, Omega 3, and a lot more that vegans don't usually get and they need, AND it is inexpensive. (The humble shall inherit the world) Exposing mushrooms to UV light makes them incredibly high in Vitamin D. The seeds from several other wild plants like nettle also make wonderful micro greens, also goji (you can just plant the goji berry and several goji transplant able plants will pop up from it, and even chia makes a wonderful micro green. I mostly live on leafy greens and cabbage family vegetables. The Lord does provide. Years ago I was involved in the "World Hunger Crisis" through my church, and I learned about a thing they called "leaf protein". As an example, the big bags of kale and collard that you buy in grocery stores have enough protein to live on. There is more digestible protein in that one pound bag of kale than in a steak. But nobody can eat a whole bag of it for a single meal in a single sitting -- way too much fiber. But if you juice it, put the juice in a pan with a little water, and bring it to a slow boil, it will settle out into curds and whey. If you strain and wash the curds, they are pure concentrated protein. You can cook with it like hamburger, for instance, put it in spaghetti sauce, or whatever. Green leaf protein in less complex and easier to digest. I think the best plant for this is moringa, (but also industrial hemp if you are in a state that will issue you a permit to legally grow it). Nettle would be good, as well a goji leaf -- even mile a minute vine in the South, where it is wild and growing out of control. But you can't do it with everything -- comfrey, for instance, won't work. Thanks. I have been enjoying your presentations a lot. God bless you.
This is exactly the kind of video that I was looking for. Where you tell about the plant and close up of the plant and every part of it and tell which parts of the plant are edible and which are not, tell about its nutrition component and also it's look alike, and showed with beautiful pictures the recipes in which it can be used. Perfect! Bravo! Wonderful work! I appreciate it 👏👏👏👏
I have both the white and the purple lamb's quarters growing in my garden. The purple is absolutely beautiful & I've let one go to seed so that we can have more of them. I am from South Africa and we enjoy it traditionally chopped & cooked with onion and potato, butter, salt and pepper and enjoy it as a side vegetable or as a vegetarian main dish served with pap (which is like polenta). It also makes a rich delicious sauce cooked slowly with tomato, plenty of garlic and then a handful of basil tossed in at the last moment which is very tasty on pasta. My favourite harvested weeds are amaranth (which we call marog), purslane, chickweed, lamb's quarters and dandelion. We allow certain wild foods to grow in our gardens and even cultivate them somewhat because they are a year round free food source and delicious too. Wild masoba/umsobo/nastergal/black nightshade berries provide fruit for the most delicious jam! Most people really miss out on some of the best foods by not learning to identify and eat the good weeds in their gardens. They're gifts. I harvest them, cutting off the roots, wash them thouroughly and drain them a bit. Then they're tossed in plastic bags and frozen to use later in the year for an out-of-season-treat. After the rains I harvest lots of these from my garden beds. Along with amaranth, they make good companion plants to tomatoes, peppers, onions, beans, mint and basil. It's a gardener's friend, a living mulch and a valuable veggie. Thank you for the scriptural reminder too.
My wild Lambsquarters grows to 7 feet tall. Some grow less, but it is not unusual for it to be tall. I just run my hand down the branch and harvest/strip leaves off. Not all, but most. And they REGROW! So, Even when the seeds are making at the top, there are still plenty of leaves on the lower branches. I stir it the way it is in a pot with butter only and the water just from washing. As soon as it wilts nicely, I consider it done. Then I serve it as spinach with any meal. We love it!
Wow!!! I've been yanking this stuff out of my garden beds as a weed for decades!! I had no idea! We don't use weed killers or pesticides, so it's edible the whole time. Glad I've always lost the battle. Thank you, so much!!
I"m glad you discovered lambs quarter! It's real food for regular people. It's a better green than many that people grow in their gardens. I think it's worth letting go to seed, because then it is free food year after year. That's easier than gardening! The flowerbuds are great, too. The little seeds are black and it is good to rinse them, just like you would Quinoa. They are related to quinoa, so it makes sense to handle them the same. I like to toast the seeds in the pan before I cook them. It gives them a great flavor. But it's the leaves that are the best! Easily in my top 5 favorite wild greens. And it's enjoyed even by people that don't typically like wild greens. Enjoy your lambs quarter!
I agree with what you're saying about letting it go to seed - to a degree. Be careful! There are so many seeds that lambsquarters can become a nuisance. In our town we have a voluntary, free seed exchange at a gardening store. I am going to save some of this seed and donate them.
Wow never knew that you could eat the seeds as well as the flower buds but I will do now.. My mum fed it to us I'm now in my 60s i still like it but cannot find enough same as dandelion which i like raw and the roots.. we were brought up on watercress which grows in abundance here and a plant what we call Puha but is commonly known as wild lettuce (im Maori hence the name Puha)😊
I would like to know how to make sure that I am getting the correct, safe and edible plants for food and medicine. Thank you, Jesus, for your many blessings!!
This stuff grew like crazy in back of our barns. My little brother and I had to chop arm loads for the pigs every evening. I wish I could go back to those simpler times. Thanks for your great video!
Lambs Quarters grew volunteerly where I grew up. When I was very little I can remember my parents driving out of town, didn't have to go far, and would pick them from the road side. My Mom side to pick the top leaves, par boil them, then cook them like other greens.
Lamb's quarter - younger spinach-tasting cousin to other amaranth. Good alongside pigweed (wild amaranth, purple amaranth, red amaranth, ....). Lightly steam, lightly boil, wok fry the leaves - and any oxalis toxicity will depart (like steamed, boiled, fried stinging nettles and its formic acid). Having these plants for your foraging goats, sheep, pigs, and rabbits (and cows and horses) will keep them fat and happy.
I have these plants growing wild all over and my horses and chickens will NOT touch it.....maybe it’s NOT Lambs Quarters...? Anyone else have horses that will eat this plant! Thank you!
Thats so funny because l thought you were talking about meat and then l couldnt believe my eyes. The idea of starting a Bartering day is exactly what l'd love to do, l really appreciate you sharing this today, God bless and keep you inspired.
Hi Christa, I so enjoy your videos. You are always so informative. Yes!! “Pig Weed”!! I have heard of that. I like the name Lamb’s Quarters better. 😀 I am so happy to learn about the benefits of this. And yes, I think cooking this is the best way to go. The Weston A Price Foundation talks about the problems of over consumption of oxalate. I gather it can cause kidney stones. But the good news is that yes, cooking does neutralize a lot it and then we can enjoy the cooked greens and benefit from all the vitamins it contains. I’m so happy you shared about keeping this plant under control. Container gardening for it is such a good idea. As always, thank you SO much for all this wonderful information. God bless you too! Love, Mary ❤️😘❤️
My mom used to send us out the pick it and then she would boil it. Tasted like spinach. I also like to eat it raw when I'm out in the garden. I have also fed it to the chickens when it does start to take over. The chickens love it and the yolks of the eggs turn a bright orange, so then you can get the benefit of it that way also.
I planted maybe 6 plants in my 10' X 20' raised bed garden and in the late fall I spread the seeds. The entire raised bed was covered in delicious lamb's quarter this spring. Drying and preserving the extra. Wonderful in fresh salads, and steamed with butter and lemon juice
This grows in half my unkept garden (with absolutely terrible soil). Since learning what it is I've dried it out quickly in sunlight with foil and salad bowls. My favorite part are the flower clusters, once dried they resemble a micro popcorn. One of God's miraculous plants that may become popular again with the food shortages coming.
Awesome vid. Thanks for sharing! I eat a lot of this stuff and grow it as well. Something I have done when harvesting from my own garden and in the wild is I just keep pinching off the young shoots. This will cause the plant to branch out new shoots (usually 2) and keeps on doing this. You can and up being able to harvest all season. Once it is near end of season (I live in a cold climate so 6+ months of no harvesting much of anything) I'll let it go to seed then I harvest the seeds to broadcast elsewhere. It also freezes well. I just stuff it raw in ziploc bags or re-usable bags (yes I reuse ziploc bags), then squeeze all the air out I can (you can also vacuum pack em) and freeze. You can also blanch, drain and freeze them that way but not really needed. It does shrink like spinach though so if you blanch them you can get more in a bag/jar/whatever-you-freeze-em-in.
You are awesome! Thanks for sharing! Nice clear video. I guess instead of getting angry at these plants and composting them, they will move to the kitchen ! This was the best video so thorough .... And yes the Son is alive and well.., i saw him when he healed my leg after being crippled for 11 long and painful years with crutches and/or cane. And now i walk and run! Thank you Beautiful Sister!
They are from quinoa family and grows abundantly in India. We use it in a variety of preparations. Fry them, cook them with pulses, make paratha, make omlete or scrambled eggs with it! It's very tasty. I am hearing first time that it is called lamb's quarter!
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Thanks for sharing Christa. I loved your video, very informative. I used to pull these plants in my garden, I just know it now that they're edible. I learned a lot from your videos.
The strangest thing about lambs quarter is that at the end of its season the leaves change shape to an elongated leaf with a small side protrusion. I believe that they are not good to eat at this stage which is just about to go to seed. I always left a plant or 2 to go to seed but you need a place that is out of your yard because they get huge if you have good soil. If you like spinach , you will love lambs quarter. Also, a side note: Pig weed is not the same as lambs quarter but is edible in its entirety as long as its not too tough to chew.
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It was a prolific weed on the farm in Maine where I grew up in the 1960s. But my mother would send us kids (8 of us) out to pick it when they were only 5-6 inches tall, and she would cook it like spinach.
That powdery stuff is high in protein. It has a full flavor but doesn't have that green-like flavor that are in most green plants. Really really tasty.
When you pinch off the tender part hack the main stem down to around 6 inches. It will form a really tender bush and lots of delicate parts. That keeps it from going to seed.Put the Black seeds in your bisquits .Yum
Had some this year that I left alone. They were in a sun blasted spot, received no care. They grew 6 feet tall and 4 feet diamer. Now that's a vigorous plant full of vitality! Yes I do eat it occasionally.
My father called it horse-weed.. He said because horses are partial to it but humans can't eat it.. As an adult I found out that humans do eat it.. It is now one of my favorite greens along with poke and dock.. I've seen it grow 6-7 ft tall.. I like it on sandwiches in place of lettuce and it's great in omelets..
We mexicans call them " quelites". Cook any kind of beans, add some olive oil, no frying, tear a bunch of quelites and add them to the just cooked hot bowl of beans, some pico de gallo or green chopped onions. Mmm delicious. Blessings!!!
Your dad got it mixed up-there IS a horseweed, but it has a single stock with long, narrow leaves from bottom to top that ends in a fountain of tiny yellow flowers along soft stems that hang over. Pretty sure you cannot eat it.
My mom used to cook those when I was very young. I don’t remember what all she put in them but, they were good. They grew wild in northeastern New Mexico as free food.
My mother called them quelites (keh lee taze), Spanish for weeds. She would sautee them in bacon fat and serve as side dish, like wilted spinach. I think the turpentine smelling weed that grows wild is called epazote, used as a herb for Mexican beans.
Absolutely so blessed by your beautiful spirit and all of your sharing, the word and the food. This video was so helpful. Thank you. May this kindness be abundantly multiplied unto you. 💖🙏
I grew up on this stuff!! I loved it, we just called it spinach or pigweed. Its good saute'd in butter, or with bacon grease and onion! I have a ton taking over my garden over 6' tall! Free food!!
Thank you for your videos, love and caring much appreciated. God bless you! Many people do not know what the word "bless or blessing " means so here it is, to be " happy" that's it . Spread love were ever you may go!
Thanks so much. When I was a kid I had a summer job pulling that and mustard from the potato fields. Easy work with lots of friends walking the fields, great pay!
Wish I had known this growing up. We had this stubbornly growing in our yard. We pulled and pulled this out to no avail. Had we known it was healthy to eat that would have been useful.
Thanks so much for this video. It's the most informative one I have seen on Lambs Quarter. I thought that this might be what's growing in my garden but wasn't sure. Now I know it is and we can eat it! God bless
Lamb's Quarters or Pig Weed or Goose Foot, is Chenopodium Albicans, a leaf potherb that tastes like spinach when boiled and contains more vitamin C than spinach or violet leaves. The top spray of leaves has a white powdery coating and thus Albicans, meaning white. Very tasty with butter or cream sauce.
Is spinach known for high vitamin C content? I thought it was known for its Iron values... Cayenne Pepper is said to have a very high amount of Vitamin C more than Oranges. I wonder how LQ compares to Oranges?
Thank you so much for sharing this. I have been trying to get some in my garden and FINALLY this season I have two plants. I’ve already harvested some and added them to a vegetable beef soup as well as salads. Adding to soup there honestly isn’t a ton of flavor BUT you know you’re getting those wonderful nutrients. To me that’s what’s so important. Plus for those with small children or grandkids in my case they never even notice! Such a beautiful gift from above. In fact I’ve really started to recognize all of God’s abundance since becoming a “mini prepper.” If we pay attention we’ll see he really did provide all we need! God Bless you. Have a wonderful week. ~Lisa
Tom Catt Hello Tom! Maybe u can help me, lambs quarters pop up as single plants throughout my yard, several years it’s been like this, I want them to grow n one big area, any idea how to accomplish this? I look for them in spring, they grow in the grass, it’s a chore to mow, especially when they get big. Thank u
I live in NWArkansas at the crossroads of all seasons. Many things here wild including these. I transplanted some into my garden and the came up the next year in a wide band! It's not invasive but does grow without assistance. Tastes wonderful! The pigweed amaranth grows crazy here too, but they thorns and seed tastes on top. They say the Indians collected it for grain. My brothers cows love the tops.
love your videos! your such a beautiful soul. i never knew what this was i thought it was just a weed that grows all along my fence line unfortunately i wouldnt eat it because my frnce line neighbors a large cornfrild and i see them spray for bugs all the time. so my solution was to raise all my own veggies and herbs in a large green house but its awesome to know that little plant is not just a weed.. keep up the great work and God Bless!
I was raised up on lambsquarters you put a little chopped bacon on it and it's better than any spinach you can buy in fact my grandmother claims that it has more vitamins more properties for your body to benefit from than any spinach she was Cherokee just in case you didn't know you can can this you will take down as if you was going to cook it just to the point where it's wilted then you take it after you washed it you cook it just like if you was going to eat it not fully cooked just wilted and you stuff it down and to your canning jars and you strain your broth that you steamed it in or cooked it in you can put onions in it Grandma used to put wild onions just a few a pinch of salt pressured in a canner 4 hour and a half and 10 lb of pressure wonderful for during the winter time and you don't have no greens I am a subscriber I love your head shows me and my wife do both I passed these things onto my children your friend from the Ozarks
Lambs Quarters grows as a weed all over my place. Any bare patch in my garden is covered with it. I have to weed it all out at least weekly. But I do leave quite a bit in areas where it won't smother out my other plants.
Thanks once again of sharing your ideas and be a blessing to everyone! I am really blessed because this is my first time to know about this edible plant. I’m subscribing and sharing your videos because I really love plants. I also love your bible reading before the end of your videos! God Bless and keep it up and always be a blessing to everyone.
Thanks for All this wonderful information. I tried moringa a few years ago but I didn’t like the fast so I stopped taking it. I’m going start taking it again and hopefully I could get rid of chronic pain. Ive got a few wild edibles growing in the garden. Enjoying them a lot. Wishing you God’s bountiful blessings today and always.
Lambs quarter pops up in early spring all over our garden, so it becomes our first "vegetable" to harvest. I usually use it two ways: in green smoothies (with frozen fruit, protein powder, and milk of choice in a Vitamix), and in scrambled eggs. For the scrambled eggs, first I saute finely chopped fresh garlic and onion in butter or bacon grease. Add the lambs quarter when onion and garlic are soft and continue sauteeing another minute or two, until the lambs quarter is wilted. I often also add some diced, store bought cactus pads, or "napoles" - less than $4 for a big jar from Walmart. Sometimes I add a little cooked bacon. Finally add beaten eggs and scramble all together, and serve with a little salsa. I've heard that the white powdery substance on the leaves is mineral salts and good for you.
I’ve been wanting to explore this plant more. Really appreciate your video, but especially your scripture at the end. That certainly prompted a subscribe from me. Thanks and God Bless!
i love lambs quarters, i pick it when it’s very small ,maybe 5” tall, i then wash off the dirt, cut off the root, then take them in the pan and cook it just like fresh spinach ,since it is related . i also weed the garden and any LQs we find goes to the chickens,they love it. we also have Purselane in our garden they’re good for us as well as the chickens .
I have lambsquarters (white goosefoot) that will grow to over six feet all in my garden. I let it go to seed anywhere it is not competing with the garden veggies. in the garden veggies I just pull it up and leave in in the garden to feed the soil. At the end of the season what I let grow tall, I put into my compost bin and it then grows in there the next year as well. You mention it is also know as pigweed but what I know as pigweed (Amaranth) is much different than lambsquarters. Redroot pigweed is what grows in my area.
I received my order of Lamb's Quarter seeds from Baker Creek Seeds already this year. I am looking forward to growing them in one of my large pots and see what I can cook up! Takes all the guess work out of foraging for them.
I love the video! One thing though. That powder coat on it is a mineral salt, cause like you said, it is like comfry and draws lots of minerals from deep down. So if you are drying it out to make flour, dont let it dry too long. Many of the minerals it accumulated will be lost that way. Also have you had any experience with Good King Henry? I have wanted to grow it for awhile,but havent had the room. It sounds a lot like Lambsquarter, and has the same uses. It used to be a widely used garden plant in Europe. Thanks for the video =) Hope all is well for you, and we get to see more great videos from you. Shalom
These are so yummy, before they bloom. I usually eat the young leaves raw, right away, and I always thought that tastes like spinach plus egg, only even better. Now you got me waiting for spring so I will find them again in the wild... Yearn... Months to go 🤤
I have to say this plant grown far taller that 2-3'. Last year I discovered this plant, because I was intrigued by the young growth that was purple, and then would turn green as it got bigger. I fed a lot of leaves to the chickens and I had a lot, too. The leaves get to about 4-5" wide! I let it grow freely and reached a massive 10ft tall!!! After it died in winter and cut it down, the base of the stem was 2" in diameter. This year, I see seedlings almost EVERYWHERE! What fell in nearby pots, I will let it grow, and the rest will get mowed.
I love my Lambs Quarter garden. Started off with a couple plants that sprouted up out of nowhere..I knew immediately what I had. Let them intentionally go to seed, collected them and spread out in the garden. A few years later, now I have a Lambs quarter forest..lol. I prepare just like spinach and it's amazing...makes the darkest green and great tasting"pot liquor" that is just as tasty as well!
nothern Chihuahua and southern New Mexico we call them quelites we stir sauteed with pinto beans, onions with a nice slice of azadero cheese and a corn tortilla
Have been eat eating this since before memory's begin, In the same family is a plant known around the world as Fat Hen. Great cooked with all meat, casseroles and soups, enjoy
I'm lucky that lambs quarters grows all over the yard - particularly at the forest / lawn border. I'd never really need to plant a patch - there's plenty for foraging already. I snack on it now and then, but have never actually made a meal with it. Maybe I should!
So, it's been a couple days since I first saw your video. I went out and collected some lambs quarters and had them with dinner last night. I wanted to share my very simple recipe to thank you for your inspiration: 1. Sauté slices of summer squash and zucchini in a touch of oil until they are cooked to your liking. 2. Turn off the heat, add raw lambs quarters, add salt & pepper to taste, stir lightly. Cover. 3. In about 30 seconds the lambs quarters should be wilted, and you're ready to serve. I had mine with a splash of balsamic vinegar. Very good.
You can save some (or a lot) of the seeds from lambs quarters, and use them for growing tender young micro greens especially in winter. It makes a fantastic in pesto. I practically live on pesto. I am close to being a "vegetabletarian" -- but in kind of a keto diet lifestyle style. What I do is add half a can of sardines to my pesto. Tastes great and gives me choline, Vitamin B12, Omega 3, and a lot more that vegans don't usually get and they need, AND it is inexpensive. (The humble shall inherit the world) Exposing mushrooms to UV light makes them incredibly high in Vitamin D. The seeds from several other wild plants like nettle also make wonderful micro greens, also goji (you can just plant the goji berry and several goji transplant able plants will pop up from it, and even chia makes a wonderful micro green. I mostly live on leafy greens and cabbage family vegetables. The Lord does provide. Years ago I was involved in the "World Hunger Crisis" through my church, and I learned about a thing they called "leaf protein". As an example, the big bags of kale and collard that you buy in grocery stores have enough protein to live on. There is more digestible protein in that one pound bag of kale than in a steak. But nobody can eat a whole bag of it for a single meal in a single sitting -- way too much fiber. But if you juice it, put the juice in a pan with a little water, and bring it to a slow boil, it will settle out into curds and whey. If you strain and wash the curds, they are pure concentrated protein. You can cook with it like hamburger, for instance, put it in spaghetti sauce, or whatever. Green leaf protein in less complex and easier to digest. I think the best plant for this is moringa, (but also industrial hemp if you are in a state that will issue you a permit to legally grow it). Nettle would be good, as well a goji leaf -- even mile a minute vine in the South, where it is wild and growing out of control. But you can't do it with everything -- comfrey, for instance, won't work. Thanks. I have been enjoying your presentations a lot. God bless you.
What is mile a minute vine? I live in the South and never heard of this name? Thanks!!
@@Angel283 is that possibly kudzu vine? In curious too.
Colin Kelly I checked and nothing on your channel.. thanks for sharing this. If live to try and make protein curds.
Thank you. I have goji berry bush. Whats the benefits from it and how to use it?
@@andyandroid2155 leaves are edible and nutritious…
This is exactly the kind of video that I was looking for. Where you tell about the plant and close up of the plant and every part of it and tell which parts of the plant are edible and which are not, tell about its nutrition component and also it's look alike, and showed with beautiful pictures the recipes in which it can be used. Perfect! Bravo! Wonderful work! I appreciate it 👏👏👏👏
I have both the white and the purple lamb's quarters growing in my garden. The purple is absolutely beautiful & I've let one go to seed so that we can have more of them. I am from South Africa and we enjoy it traditionally chopped & cooked with onion and potato, butter, salt and pepper and enjoy it as a side vegetable or as a vegetarian main dish served with pap (which is like polenta). It also makes a rich delicious sauce cooked slowly with tomato, plenty of garlic and then a handful of basil tossed in at the last moment which is very tasty on pasta. My favourite harvested weeds are amaranth (which we call marog), purslane, chickweed, lamb's quarters and dandelion. We allow certain wild foods to grow in our gardens and even cultivate them somewhat because they are a year round free food source and delicious too. Wild masoba/umsobo/nastergal/black nightshade berries provide fruit for the most delicious jam! Most people really miss out on some of the best foods by not learning to identify and eat the good weeds in their gardens. They're gifts. I harvest them, cutting off the roots, wash them thouroughly and drain them a bit. Then they're tossed in plastic bags and frozen to use later in the year for an out-of-season-treat. After the rains I harvest lots of these from my garden beds. Along with amaranth, they make good companion plants to tomatoes, peppers, onions, beans, mint and basil. It's a gardener's friend, a living mulch and a valuable veggie. Thank you for the scriptural reminder too.
Isn't nightshade poisonous?
My wild Lambsquarters grows to 7 feet tall. Some grow less, but it is not unusual for it to be tall. I just run my hand down the branch and harvest/strip leaves off. Not all, but most. And they REGROW! So, Even when the seeds are making at the top, there are still plenty of leaves on the lower branches. I stir it the way it is in a pot with butter only and the water just from washing. As soon as it wilts nicely, I consider it done. Then I serve it as spinach with any meal. We love it!
Wow!!! I've been yanking this stuff out of my garden beds as a weed for decades!! I had no idea! We don't use weed killers or pesticides, so it's edible the whole time. Glad I've always lost the battle. Thank you, so much!!
Haha. And to think, you could have been snacking on it all that time. I hope you love it, Mark. Thanks for the comment!
Mark T. We have some underneath our steps. I had no idea either. Lambs quarters reminds me of Jesus & being the lamb of God. I just found her channel.
You can grind the seeds and use it, like flour, to make bread with.
How long does it take to collect that many seeds? I want to try it.
Soak and dry them first to remove saponins
My mother who grew up in a family of 15 kids in the 1940's said this was one of their main staples on the farm in western Kansas.
That's great! I will have to ask my Grandma if she did too. Thank you for sharing the memory!
I bet all your family is way healthier than today's population. Sad.
I"m glad you discovered lambs quarter! It's real food for regular people. It's a better green than many that people grow in their gardens. I think it's worth letting go to seed, because then it is free food year after year. That's easier than gardening! The flowerbuds are great, too. The little seeds are black and it is good to rinse them, just like you would Quinoa. They are related to quinoa, so it makes sense to handle them the same. I like to toast the seeds in the pan before I cook them. It gives them a great flavor. But it's the leaves that are the best! Easily in my top 5 favorite wild greens. And it's enjoyed even by people that don't typically like wild greens. Enjoy your lambs quarter!
I agree with what you're saying about letting it go to seed - to a degree. Be careful! There are so many seeds that lambsquarters can become a nuisance. In our town we have a voluntary, free seed exchange at a gardening store. I am going to save some of this seed and donate them.
Wow never knew that you could eat the seeds as well as the flower buds but I will do now.. My mum fed it to us I'm now in my 60s i still like it but cannot find enough same as dandelion which i like raw and the roots.. we were brought up on watercress which grows in abundance here and a plant what we call Puha but is commonly known as wild lettuce (im Maori hence the name Puha)😊
@@patricialloyd866 what do you do with wild lettuce? Is that the medicinal kind? I have a hard time finding good info with how to use it.
I would like to know how to make sure that I am getting the correct, safe and edible plants for food and medicine.
Thank you, Jesus, for your many blessings!!
@@patricialloyd866 in in my 60s also and getting back into this. I love it.
This stuff grew like crazy in back of our barns. My little brother and I had to chop arm loads for the pigs every evening. I wish I could go back to those simpler times. Thanks for your great video!
Lambs Quarters grew volunteerly where I grew up. When I was very little I can remember my parents driving out of town, didn't have to go far, and would pick them from the road side. My Mom side to pick the top leaves, par boil them, then cook them like other greens.
Lamb's quarter - younger spinach-tasting cousin to other amaranth. Good alongside pigweed (wild amaranth, purple amaranth, red amaranth, ....). Lightly steam, lightly boil, wok fry the leaves - and any oxalis toxicity will depart (like steamed, boiled, fried stinging nettles and its formic acid). Having these plants for your foraging goats, sheep, pigs, and rabbits (and cows and horses) will keep them fat and happy.
I have these plants growing wild all over and my horses and chickens will NOT touch it.....maybe it’s NOT Lambs Quarters...? Anyone else have horses that will eat this plant! Thank you!
Thats so funny because l thought you were talking about meat and then l couldnt believe my eyes. The idea of starting a Bartering day is exactly what l'd love to do, l really appreciate you sharing this today, God bless and keep you inspired.
Hi Christa, I so enjoy your videos. You are always so informative. Yes!! “Pig Weed”!! I have heard of that. I like the name Lamb’s Quarters better. 😀 I am so happy to learn about the benefits of this. And yes, I think cooking this is the best way to go. The Weston A Price Foundation talks about the problems of over consumption of oxalate. I gather it can cause kidney stones. But the good news is that yes, cooking does neutralize a lot it and then we can enjoy the cooked greens and benefit from all the vitamins it contains. I’m so happy you shared about keeping this plant under control. Container gardening for it is such a good idea. As always, thank you SO much for all this wonderful information. God bless you too! Love, Mary ❤️😘❤️
My mom used to send us out the pick it and then she would boil it. Tasted like spinach. I also like to eat it raw when I'm out in the garden. I have also fed it to the chickens when it does start to take over. The chickens love it and the yolks of the eggs turn a bright orange, so then you can get the benefit of it that way also.
I planted maybe 6 plants in my 10' X 20' raised bed garden and in the late fall I spread the seeds. The entire raised bed was covered in delicious lamb's quarter this spring. Drying and preserving the extra. Wonderful in fresh salads, and steamed with butter and lemon juice
This grows in half my unkept garden (with absolutely terrible soil). Since learning what it is I've dried it out quickly in sunlight with foil and salad bowls.
My favorite part are the flower clusters, once dried they resemble a micro popcorn.
One of God's miraculous plants that may become popular again with the food shortages coming.
Awesome vid. Thanks for sharing! I eat a lot of this stuff and grow it as well. Something I have done when harvesting from my own garden and in the wild is I just keep pinching off the young shoots. This will cause the plant to branch out new shoots (usually 2) and keeps on doing this. You can and up being able to harvest all season. Once it is near end of season (I live in a cold climate so 6+ months of no harvesting much of anything) I'll let it go to seed then I harvest the seeds to broadcast elsewhere.
It also freezes well. I just stuff it raw in ziploc bags or re-usable bags (yes I reuse ziploc bags), then squeeze all the air out I can (you can also vacuum pack em) and freeze. You can also blanch, drain and freeze them that way but not really needed. It does shrink like spinach though so if you blanch them you can get more in a bag/jar/whatever-you-freeze-em-in.
Good information thank you finally more people who reuse zip lock bags we are far and few in between I don't like throwing my money away either
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In South Africa my mother language it is called hondepisbossie
Yummy!
I love it, have it growing wild in my yard. SO thankful for it. Thank you for this video.
You are awesome! Thanks for sharing! Nice clear video. I guess instead of getting angry at these plants and composting them, they will move to the kitchen ! This was the best video so thorough .... And yes the Son is alive and well.., i saw him when he healed my leg after being crippled for 11 long and painful years with crutches and/or cane. And now i walk and run! Thank you Beautiful Sister!
They are from quinoa family and grows abundantly in India. We use it in a variety of preparations. Fry them, cook them with pulses, make paratha, make omlete or scrambled eggs with it! It's very tasty.
I am hearing first time that it is called lamb's quarter!
What is it called in India ?
Bathu or Bathua
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the powder is minerals. Don't wash it too much. I use is in the spinach dip instead of spinach. YUM
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Thanks for your good words. I find this so interesting all the weeds that are edible. Awesome thanks so much for the great tutorial.
Thanks for sharing Christa. I loved your video, very informative. I used to pull these plants in my garden, I just know it now that they're edible. I learned a lot from your videos.
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This video is the very best video regarding Lambs Quarters on the internet! Thank you!👍❣️
The strangest thing about lambs quarter is that at the end of its season the leaves change shape to an elongated leaf with a small side protrusion. I believe that they are not good to eat at this stage which is just about to go to seed. I always left a plant or 2 to go to seed but you need a place that is out of your yard because they get huge if you have good soil. If you like spinach , you will love lambs quarter.
Also, a side note: Pig weed is not the same as lambs quarter but is edible in its entirety as long as its not too tough to chew.
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It was a prolific weed on the farm in Maine where I grew up in the 1960s. But my mother would send us kids (8 of us) out to pick it when they were only 5-6 inches tall, and she would cook it like spinach.
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That powdery stuff is high in protein. It has a full flavor but doesn't have that green-like flavor that are in most green plants. Really really tasty.
I am glad you like it too, Evelyn!
When you pinch off the tender part hack the main stem down to around 6 inches. It will form a really tender bush and lots of delicate parts. That keeps it from going to seed.Put the Black seeds in your bisquits .Yum
Had some this year that I left alone. They were in a sun blasted spot, received no care. They grew 6 feet tall and 4 feet diamer. Now that's a vigorous plant full of vitality! Yes I do eat it occasionally.
My father called it horse-weed.. He said because horses are partial to it but humans can't eat it.. As an adult I found out that humans do eat it.. It is now one of my favorite greens along with poke and dock.. I've seen it grow 6-7 ft tall.. I like it on sandwiches in place of lettuce and it's great in omelets..
Horseweed is a whole different plant that does not even look like lambs quarter.
Some info on the horseweed: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erigeron_canadensis
We mexicans call them " quelites". Cook any kind of beans, add some olive oil, no frying, tear a bunch of quelites and add them to the just cooked hot bowl of beans, some pico de gallo or green chopped onions. Mmm delicious. Blessings!!!
Your dad got it mixed up-there IS a horseweed, but it has a single stock with long, narrow leaves from bottom to top that ends in a fountain of tiny yellow flowers along soft stems that hang over. Pretty sure you cannot eat it.
Funny I just had baked beans and lamb quarters yesterday ,,,you are a kick, love your subject matter keep it up girl
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Thank you for being such a lovely child of God. Always with such interesting and educational info.
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My mom used to cook those when I was very young. I don’t remember what all she put in them but, they were good. They grew wild in northeastern New Mexico as free food.
My mother called them quelites (keh lee taze), Spanish for weeds. She would sautee them in bacon fat and serve as side dish, like wilted spinach. I think the turpentine smelling weed that grows wild is called epazote, used as a herb for Mexican beans.
Interesting! Thank you for sharing, Xavier!
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I have been finding these in my garden - as weeds for years. I don't remember anyone saying this is edible. Fantastic to know.
I grew up on this stuff!! I loved it, we just called it spinach or pigweed. Its good saute'd in butter, or with bacon grease and onion! I have a ton taking over my garden over 6' tall! Free food!!
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Thanks so much. When I was a kid I had a summer job pulling that and mustard from the potato fields. Easy work with lots of friends walking the fields, great pay!
We eat the stems quite often, just have to get them when they're bendy and soft. We probably eat close to our weight in these every year.
Thank you.
Wish I had known this growing up. We had this stubbornly growing in our yard. We pulled and pulled this out to no avail. Had we known it was healthy to eat that would have been useful.
Thanks so much for this video. It's the most informative one I have seen on Lambs Quarter. I thought that this might be what's growing in my garden but wasn't sure. Now I know it is and we can eat it! God bless
Lamb's Quarters or Pig Weed or Goose Foot, is Chenopodium Albicans, a leaf potherb that tastes like spinach when boiled and contains more vitamin C than spinach or violet leaves. The top spray of leaves has a white powdery coating and thus Albicans, meaning white. Very tasty with butter or cream sauce.
rstevewarmorycom Hello! Cream sauce sounds tasty! Would u mind telling me how to make it? Much appreciated. Thank u
Is spinach known for high vitamin C content? I thought it was known for its Iron values... Cayenne Pepper is said to have a very high amount of Vitamin C more than Oranges. I wonder how LQ compares to Oranges?
Thank you so much for sharing this. I have been trying to get some in my garden and FINALLY this season I have two plants. I’ve already harvested some and added them to a vegetable beef soup as well as salads. Adding to soup there honestly isn’t a ton of flavor BUT you know you’re getting those wonderful nutrients. To me that’s what’s so important. Plus for those with small children or grandkids in my case they never even notice! Such a beautiful gift from above. In fact I’ve really started to recognize all of God’s abundance since becoming a “mini prepper.” If we pay attention we’ll see he really did provide all we need! God Bless you. Have a wonderful week. ~Lisa
Carefully clip off de young leaves and don't pull de plant,, let it go 2 seed = more next time..🚲..
Tom Catt Hello Tom! Maybe u can help me, lambs quarters pop up as single plants throughout my yard, several years it’s been like this, I want them to grow n one big area, any idea how to accomplish this? I look for them in spring, they grow in the grass, it’s a chore to mow, especially when they get big. Thank u
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I live in NWArkansas at the crossroads of all seasons. Many things here wild including these. I transplanted some into my garden and the came up the next year in a wide band! It's not invasive but does grow without assistance. Tastes wonderful! The pigweed amaranth grows crazy here too, but they thorns and seed tastes on top. They say the Indians collected it for grain. My brothers cows love the tops.
Thanks for teaching me so many things!
love your videos! your such a beautiful soul. i never knew what this was i thought it was just a weed that grows all along my fence line unfortunately i wouldnt eat it because my frnce line neighbors a large cornfrild and i see them spray for bugs all the time. so my solution was to raise all my own veggies and herbs in a large green house but its awesome to know that little plant is not just a weed.. keep up the great work and God Bless!
I was raised up on lambsquarters you put a little chopped bacon on it and it's better than any spinach you can buy in fact my grandmother claims that it has more vitamins more properties for your body to benefit from than any spinach she was Cherokee just in case you didn't know you can can this you will take down as if you was going to cook it just to the point where it's wilted then you take it after you washed it you cook it just like if you was going to eat it not fully cooked just wilted and you stuff it down and to your canning jars and you strain your broth that you steamed it in or cooked it in you can put onions in it Grandma used to put wild onions just a few a pinch of salt pressured in a canner 4 hour and a half and 10 lb of pressure wonderful for during the winter time and you don't have no greens I am a subscriber I love your head shows me and my wife do both I passed these things onto my children your friend from the Ozarks
Darren Hoffman. I was just wondering if I could can these like other greens, and right away I found your comment. Thanks for the info!
Excellent information! Thank you!👍❣️
Thanks! will be in my garden next year!
That's wonderful, Magdalena!
Thanks for your information ! We located on the East side of Memphis.
The chickens love it too.
God bless you my sister
They make great sprouts indoors during winter. Or summer🐏
You eat these as sprouts? What about microgreens? Have you ate them as microgreens??
Lambs Quarters grows as a weed all over my place. Any bare patch in my garden is covered with it. I have to weed it all out at least weekly. But I do leave quite a bit in areas where it won't smother out my other plants.
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I am really blessed because this is my first time to know about this edible plant.
I’m subscribing and sharing your videos because I really love plants.
I also love your bible reading before the end of your videos! God Bless and keep it up and always be a blessing to everyone.
Thanx woman and bless you to.
Thanks for All this wonderful information. I tried moringa a few years ago but I didn’t like the fast so I stopped taking it. I’m going start taking it again and hopefully I could get rid of chronic pain. Ive got a few wild edibles growing in the garden. Enjoying them a lot. Wishing you God’s bountiful blessings today and always.
Lambs quarter pops up in early spring all over our garden, so it becomes our first "vegetable" to harvest. I usually use it two ways: in green smoothies (with frozen fruit, protein powder, and milk of choice in a Vitamix), and in scrambled eggs. For the scrambled eggs, first I saute finely chopped fresh garlic and onion in butter or bacon grease. Add the lambs quarter when onion and garlic are soft and continue sauteeing another minute or two, until the lambs quarter is wilted. I often also add some diced, store bought cactus pads, or "napoles" - less than $4 for a big jar from Walmart. Sometimes I add a little cooked bacon. Finally add beaten eggs and scramble all together, and serve with a little salsa. I've heard that the white powdery substance on the leaves is mineral salts and good for you.
I’ve been wanting to explore this plant more. Really appreciate your video, but especially your scripture at the end. That certainly prompted a subscribe from me. Thanks and God Bless!
This is pretty much one of the best weeds we have growing in our yard! Just finished eating about a cup of it as I was working outside
i love lambs quarters, i pick it when it’s very small ,maybe 5” tall, i then wash off the dirt, cut off the root, then take them in the pan and cook it just like fresh spinach ,since it is related . i also weed the garden and any LQs we find goes to the chickens,they love it. we also have Purselane in our garden they’re good for us as well as the chickens .
I have lambsquarters (white goosefoot) that will grow to over six feet all in my garden.
I let it go to seed anywhere it is not competing with the garden veggies.
in the garden veggies I just pull it up and leave in in the garden to feed the soil.
At the end of the season what I let grow tall, I put into my compost bin and it then grows in there the next year as well.
You mention it is also know as pigweed but what I know as pigweed (Amaranth) is much different than lambsquarters.
Redroot pigweed is what grows in my area.
I received my order of Lamb's Quarter seeds from Baker Creek Seeds already this year. I am looking forward to growing them in one of my large pots and see what I can cook up! Takes all the guess work out of foraging for them.
I love the video! One thing though. That powder coat on it is a mineral salt, cause like you said, it is like comfry and draws lots of minerals from deep down. So if you are drying it out to make flour, dont let it dry too long. Many of the minerals it accumulated will be lost that way. Also have you had any experience with Good King Henry? I have wanted to grow it for awhile,but havent had the room. It sounds a lot like Lambsquarter, and has the same uses. It used to be a widely used garden plant in Europe. Thanks for the video =) Hope all is well for you, and we get to see more great videos from you. Shalom
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I purchased some Lamb's Quarters seeds this year and while try to grow in 5 gallon Buckets.
great video,,,,i will try this plant,
These are so yummy, before they bloom. I usually eat the young leaves raw, right away, and I always thought that tastes like spinach plus egg, only even better. Now you got me waiting for spring so I will find them again in the wild... Yearn... Months to go 🤤
Thank you for the encouraging WORD.
I really appreciate the idea of the barter system! Would be really interesting! God bless you mightily.
I have to say this plant grown far taller that 2-3'. Last year I discovered this plant, because I was intrigued by the young growth that was purple, and then would turn green as it got bigger. I fed a lot of leaves to the chickens and I had a lot, too. The leaves get to about 4-5" wide!
I let it grow freely and reached a massive 10ft tall!!!
After it died in winter and cut it down, the base of the stem was 2" in diameter.
This year, I see seedlings almost EVERYWHERE! What fell in nearby pots, I will let it grow, and the rest will get mowed.
Haha same here. I let one grow and it was massive!
I can’t even grow tomatoes, maybe I should switch to weeds: lambs quarters, purslane, amaranth, dandelions…
Excellent reading of the Bible. Thanks for sharing.
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I love my Lambs Quarter garden. Started off with a couple plants that sprouted up out of nowhere..I knew immediately what I had. Let them intentionally go to seed, collected them and spread out in the garden. A few years later, now I have a Lambs quarter forest..lol. I prepare just like spinach and it's amazing...makes the darkest green and great tasting"pot liquor" that is just as tasty as well!
what is pot liquor?
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Great info. Thanks. It is heavy with Chesed from the Tree of Life. So, indeed, it is a concentrator and very prolific.
nothern Chihuahua and southern New Mexico we call them quelites we stir sauteed with pinto beans, onions with a nice slice of azadero cheese and a corn tortilla
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Thankyou dear, you are a blessing. Lots of that Fat Hen grows around here , I didnt know you could eat it . God bless. K
Korean uses them for banchan. Yummy in egg drop soup too.
Great idea! LOVE egg drop soup
We ate this when I was young, about 50 years ago, also sheep sorrell, mullen tea, and sassafras tea, also sumac "lemonade"
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Have been eat eating this since before memory's begin, In the same family is a plant known around the world as Fat Hen. Great cooked with all meat, casseroles and soups, enjoy
Thanks for sharing, Dread Brown!
Thank you I don't think you could make a bad video as long as you read his word I will always watch you thank you and may GOD bless you always :)
It was cultivated in the middle north america for at least 6000. A bag of seed was found in a cave in kentycky
I'm lucky that lambs quarters grows all over the yard - particularly at the forest / lawn border. I'd never really need to plant a patch - there's plenty for foraging already. I snack on it now and then, but have never actually made a meal with it. Maybe I should!
So, it's been a couple days since I first saw your video. I went out and collected some lambs quarters and had them with dinner last night. I wanted to share my very simple recipe to thank you for your inspiration:
1. Sauté slices of summer squash and zucchini in a touch of oil until they are cooked to your liking.
2. Turn off the heat, add raw lambs quarters, add salt & pepper to taste, stir lightly. Cover.
3. In about 30 seconds the lambs quarters should be wilted, and you're ready to serve.
I had mine with a splash of balsamic vinegar. Very good.
Oak Knob Farm Hello! Thank u for sharing ur recipe, it sounds delicious! I’m not a great cook and look for simple dishes. Thank u
Yes, that's super food and natural grow. We do have in Southeast Asia. Also we do have the red or bloody color too.