Today is my 76th birthday and I can still remember my dad doing this when I was 6. I'd go for walks with him to gather the chicory. He was a Coalminer in West Virginia and couldn't really afford to by coffee so this worked out very well.
One way to grow your own chicory is to plant it together with dandelion in loamy soil in a raised bed. That way the tops,(greens/flowers), can be harvested during the Spring/Summer months, and then the roots can be harvested in the Fall when they are much bigger. The loamy soil will make this much easier. This can be done with many other wild edible root crops as well,(thistles/docks, wild onions/field garlic), in addition to “above ground” wild edibles. If someone wanted to take the time to do it, an entire “wild edible garden” could be cultivated in this way. Considering the supply-chain issues that we are only now just beginning to experience, this seems to me like a valuable resource of edible and nutritional food to learn to take advantage of, whether as a supplement, or if necessary, as the bulk of our diet.
Caution foraging from roadsides and railway property since the exhaust from traffic can settle on plants in the ditches. Some plants can absorb contaminants and others simply need to be scrubbed clean. Chicory root coffee is awesome…use it all the time. Chaga is another great option. Thanks Dave!
You should do more wild edibles videos. Im really into them right now. Seems like all the plants I learned are medicinal. I need a plant that I can sit down and eat and fill my stomach with calories.
David. Forget the Beignets! It's 6am and I'm cooking gizzards using your recipe and drinking Cafe du Monde Chicory. Hello from deep south Louisiana. Breakfast of champions. Thank you for this lesson. Art at its finest. Hard work surviving.
You know, this plant grows along my street and I always wondered what it was, and now I know! Thank you Dave! A guy in my office brought cans of coffee mixed with chicory in and I used to love it. It’s a lot smoother than plain old coffee.
I’m from CENLA (Central Louisiana)and been drinking CDM my whole life. I started adding my own chicory to it and some days just straight chicory for a few years now.
Hey Dave I'm so glad you showed people how to do this I've been doing it for years the only thing is I don't get mine off the side of the road because of oil gas and all that other running on to it but mine grows in my yard so I don't have to worry too much about that. Yes sir chicory love it. My paw paw used this all the time he introduced it to me and I fell in love with it. I kind of like bitters myself. Thanks for the video Dave I'm glad you showed people this. Have a great day and stay safe and keep your power to dry!
Thanks Dave, for the great information about Chicory. Now, where is that link for the Shovel??? Hubby wants to know more about it, and when Hubby talks, I listen. lol Another great video, and as usual we learned something about something, that we didn't know much about. Thanks!!!!
I just saw that chicory can be eat or substitute as coffee on pocket field guide couple days ago! What a perfect timing! Thank you so much for showing how to process chicory coffee.
I couldn't get a taste for chicory coffee. My grandmother drank it but my father was a dark roast black coffee guy and that's where my tastes are as well. Enjoying the content
Mr.Canterbury you are freaking amazing. I have been following you since I was a young teen. I have learned so much from you. Thank you for sharing and all the effort you put into your teachings.
Hey buddy so that is Cafe Du mon coffee and chickory you showed. It's from New Orleans. I think new orleans is the only place I've ever heard to still get coffee with chickory. Community coffee adhd chickory and cdm coffee and chickory as well as French Market coffee and chickory.. A few different brands all can be bought on they're respective websites or Amazon.
I love all of your content, literature, and products. I use my steel bottle every day all day long. Thanks for putting the effort in to educate folks like me!
Thanks David! I drink Chicory Coffee everyday: now I can be more self reliant. Chicory coffee was indeed popularized during the War of Northern Aggression when the Gulf was blockaded, prohibiting coffee imports from reaching New Orleans.
My family in France said they drank chicory coffee during WW2 since coffee was not available. Since the German army occupying the cities confiscated animals for food the people would raise and eat Guinea pigs since the Germans wouldn’t eat them!
Thank you so much!! Couldn't find on the internet how to chicory, ground it or not, and you gave me the answer. I like yours from scratch the best. And saw a cat's tail :) Have a nice day!
My father in law could taste the chicory in his coffee and the stubborn old goat would not drink it. To me, coffee is coffee. After 10 years of MRE and the terrible coffee we had in the Army, the coffee today is a delicacy.
I will be trying this, I've been wanting to try it for some time now . Thank You for the video it was very informative and interesting as always. Keep up the good work ! Appreaciate the videos and time you put into them . Have a good week.
Nice learning what chicory actually is. There's a brand of coffee sold out here (west) called "Chock Full-o-Nuts", which is a coffee/chicory mix. The "nuts" always lead me to believe it was made from nuts. Now I know. Thanks.
What I did with stinging nettle is cut it about 3" up the stem and transplanted them into a corner garden in the yard. This year they grew huge I'd guess around 4' tall in the wood chips I got from a tree service. I imagine you could do the same with pretty much anything that does not grow near you. Some things you could probably gather the seeds fairly easily. I have found in the wood chips anything is easy to pull out because it doesn't pack or dry out as soil does. There is even another corner garden I have that jewelweed (touch me nots) have taken over on their own.
Great video Dave. A big chicory fan myself. I’m in Texas so I order from Community Coffee out of Baton Rouge. I gave some to Shawn last year at your Bushcraft class. He actually featured it on one of his videos. Yes the blockade during the Civil War made coffee harder to obtain hence the addition of chicory to extend the supply. And I’ve been a honey in coffee guy for many many years. My Cajun grandma made what she called suc brulee or burnt sugar. A dark caramel flavored syrup she used for coffee, french toast, and beignets. I’ve processed a lot of sassafras roots and yaupon holly leaves into tea but never chicory. Great instructional video Dave. Have been really enjoying your camp cooking series.
If I run out of coffee, just shoot me now! When my N GA mtn. retirement house is done, I plan to grow Yaupon holly in a greenhouse so that I don't have to let you shoot me lol. Sounds like the combo of yaupon and chicory might take care of it. Yes, I'm hording coffee.
I'm in Central Indiana. I let chicory grow in a 3 foot strip on my property boundry (I'm on a corner lot). It keeps the litter out of the yard. 🤣 It takes me 1.75 hours to mow, but this year of little rain has me with the Cold Steel Weed Wacker knocking down the only thing still growing: Chicory! Since I'm not mowing I now see much of what was grass, violets, purslane, clover and dandelions is now chicory!
Thank you, Dave! I am going to try this at some point. Have seen chicory in the store with the coffees, but have never tried it. Good video and nice place you got there...
I studied oil painting with a professor (Al Pounders, known for his landscapes of Italy) for 4 of my college years at Purdue. He was also a Master Squash player and a practiced yogi. He was a wise guy, no pun intended. One day he saw my coffee and advised me to switch to chicory before the damage of coffee is irreversible. He said it hit him in his 50's.
Hi DC. This segment is something different but it's still a cooking show. Making consumable coffee from roots instead of coffee beans is a game changer mate. Perhaps you should pass the idea to Corporal Corner as he sometimes drink some real bad coffee aka Crappacinno.! Still this recipe will be going into our outback cooking book. Cheers Cobber. Cowabunga.!
If I may add, drinking this daily will make it come out of ones pores ,etc.In other words you will smell like chicory.Thx David. We drink Cafe du Monde everyday here in the Heart Of Dixie!
Good show David! Two brands of coffee with chicory that I can think of right now are Cafe du Monde (yellow can), and French Market (red can). Both are packaged in Louisiana and are typical of south Louisiana culture. Chicory is amazingly good for you, and is a rich source of Inulin, which is helpful for diabetics.
Pretty damn cool. I was always a little curious but never took the time to see how it was harvested and prepared . Always assumed it was identical to coffee. Now I know. We toured a coffee farm in Kona, HI early this year on vacation. Quite an experience in itself. If a person gets that chance to see that, I’d recommend it even if you’re not a bean fiend lol.
Loving this current series, Dave. Lots of good cooking ideas for my next trip now. As others have said below, more wild edibles would be a great continuation considering everything happening with the world at the moment. Keep up the good work 🙏🏻 god bless
Hey Dave, Those look like bypass sheers. Anvil pruners have a cuttings Blade that makes contact with the base (Anvil) instead of "bypassing" beyond it to make a sheering cut. I use both as a professional landscaper.
They used to sell a burned-grain product called Postum- same idea, probably more practical to make from stored grain supplies... I just ordered the PF spork/tongs; can't hardly wait!
I try not to pick ANYTHING on a roadside because of the amount of lead (from automobile exhaust) that is in it. I DO buy market chicory because it is not grown on roadsides but in fields planted for the purpose of selling chicory root. BTW, I LOVE CHICORY COFFEE!! In fact, I cannot have caffeine so before I discovered chicory, I had to drink decaf coffee. Now, I just drink chicory. I have not found a decaf/chicory blend on the market so far. All the market chicory coffee is caffeinated so I just buy ground chicory and make chicory coffee. And I don't add any sweetener or milk or any other additives in it... just drink it plain. Delicious!!
The real test is if it acts like coffee does on the body. Is it a "morning constitutional"? Also, I'm diggin your hat Dave. That's the style that I wear. That looks like a good one. Where can I get one of those?
Dave, I noticed in another video you referred to the shears as bypass shears but they were actually anvil shears. The shears you used in this video are bypass shears but you called them anvil shears. Just wanted to mention that you have the names reversed. Thanks for demonstrating this.
I remember when you did a video on this about, oh... I don't know, probably 9 years back. I went out about 5 years ago got me some chicory and tried it. It is pretty damn good without the caffeine though as you said lol. Definitely cool to do and learn.👊💀
Thanks for posting. My wife is Allergic to coffee but likes to drink it. We're going to try this as a substitute. And it should help her get more good fats in her diet by making something similar to bulletproof coffee. We will have to experiment with it.
Today is my 76th birthday and I can still remember my dad doing this when I was 6. I'd go for walks with him to gather the chicory. He was a Coalminer in West Virginia and couldn't really afford to by coffee so this worked out very well.
One way to grow your own chicory is to plant it together with dandelion in loamy soil in a raised bed. That way the tops,(greens/flowers), can be harvested during the Spring/Summer months, and then the roots can be harvested in the Fall when they are much bigger. The loamy soil will make this much easier. This can be done with many other wild edible root crops as well,(thistles/docks, wild onions/field garlic), in addition to “above ground” wild edibles. If someone wanted to take the time to do it, an entire “wild edible garden” could be cultivated in this way. Considering the supply-chain issues that we are only now just beginning to experience, this seems to me like a valuable resource of edible and nutritional food to learn to take advantage of, whether as a supplement, or if necessary, as the bulk of our diet.
I remember when Dave was doing videos in a tent in his back yard for 1500 people. 😃
My beard is white now, too!
Caution foraging from roadsides and railway property since the exhaust from traffic can settle on plants in the ditches. Some plants can absorb contaminants and others simply need to be scrubbed clean. Chicory root coffee is awesome…use it all the time. Chaga is another great option. Thanks Dave!
Exactly. And the only place where chicory is found where I live-you guessed it-alongside the major roadways.☹️
You should do more wild edibles videos. Im really into them right now. Seems like all the plants I learned are medicinal. I need a plant that I can sit down and eat and fill my stomach with calories.
If you prefer a less bitter flavor, do a 50/50 blend of chicory and dandelion root.
Your videos are so informing this one i have all over my land going to try it as soon i can.
David. Forget the Beignets! It's 6am and I'm cooking gizzards using your recipe and drinking Cafe du Monde Chicory. Hello from deep south Louisiana. Breakfast of champions. Thank you for this lesson. Art at its finest. Hard work surviving.
I'm in manchac Louisiana on lake maurapaus where ya at neighbor ?
Cafe du Monde is great, my favorite coffee
I've always liked the bluish flowers. My grandparents used hand dug chicory coffee and poke salet with eggs. Yum
Wild foragables, my favorite topic. Thank you! 🙂
Awesome video Dave! PLEASE: do more on Identifying, collection ,using wild edibles and medicinal plants
*David Canterbury* Bravo well done, thank-you sir for taking the time to show us. God Bless.
You know, this plant grows along my street and I always wondered what it was, and now I know! Thank you Dave!
A guy in my office brought cans of coffee mixed with chicory in and I used to love it. It’s a lot smoother than plain old coffee.
Dave what about a whole video of wild drinks? Pine tea, sumac lemonade etc.
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I’m from CENLA (Central Louisiana)and been drinking CDM my whole life. I started adding my own chicory to it and some days just straight chicory for a few years now.
I developed a taste for chicory coffee when I was working offshore. Good stuff!
Holy cow, I have this on my property and did not realize what it is!! Thanks!
Yeah that chicory grows everywhere in my area
Hey Dave I'm so glad you showed people how to do this I've been doing it for years the only thing is I don't get mine off the side of the road because of oil gas and all that other running on to it but mine grows in my yard so I don't have to worry too much about that. Yes sir chicory love it. My paw paw used this all the time he introduced it to me and I fell in love with it. I kind of like bitters myself. Thanks for the video Dave I'm glad you showed people this. Have a great day and stay safe and keep your power to dry!
Non-native plant, the Europeans introduced it. The entire plant is edible.
Great knowledge Dave on chicory, u did great on talking about it's edible and medical uses
Woodscraft skills are a long lost art especially in this tech world. Been following you a long time. Semper Fi !
Chicory was popular in the Civil War. Thank you for the video.
Awesome as always
Love the series Dave!
Thanks Dave, for the great information about Chicory.
Now, where is that link for the Shovel???
Hubby wants to know more about it, and when Hubby talks, I listen. lol
Another great video, and as usual we learned something about something, that we didn't know much about. Thanks!!!!
I just saw that chicory can be eat or substitute as coffee on pocket field guide couple days ago! What a perfect timing! Thank you so much for showing how to process chicory coffee.
I couldn't get a taste for chicory coffee. My grandmother drank it but my father was a dark roast black coffee guy and that's where my tastes are as well.
Enjoying the content
Mr.Canterbury you are freaking amazing. I have been following you since I was a young teen. I have learned so much from you. Thank you for sharing and all the effort you put into your teachings.
Hey buddy so that is Cafe Du mon coffee and chickory you showed. It's from New Orleans. I think new orleans is the only place I've ever heard to still get coffee with chickory. Community coffee adhd chickory and cdm coffee and chickory as well as French Market coffee and chickory.. A few different brands all can be bought on they're respective websites or Amazon.
I recently learned about chicory. I surely learnd more with your hard work to show us what it is and how to cook it! Thank you!
Excellent helpful video Brother!
I love your regular cooking related videos!
I love all of your content, literature, and products. I use my steel bottle every day all day long. Thanks for putting the effort in to educate folks like me!
Thank you for the good information!
Thanks David! I drink Chicory Coffee everyday: now I can be more self reliant. Chicory coffee was indeed popularized during the War of Northern Aggression when the Gulf was blockaded, prohibiting coffee imports from reaching New Orleans.
Great instructional video
You just know something about everything and you teach so well. Thank you.
My family in France said they drank chicory coffee during WW2 since coffee was not available. Since the German army occupying the cities confiscated animals for food the people would raise and eat Guinea pigs since the Germans wouldn’t eat them!
Appreciate the videos
Thank you so much!! Couldn't find on the internet how to chicory, ground it or not, and you gave me the answer. I like yours from scratch the best. And saw a cat's tail :) Have a nice day!
My father in law could taste the chicory in his coffee and the stubborn old goat would not drink it. To me, coffee is coffee. After 10 years of MRE and the terrible coffee we had in the Army, the coffee today is a delicacy.
I will be trying this, I've been wanting to try it for some time now . Thank You for the video it was very informative and interesting as always. Keep up the good work ! Appreaciate the videos and time you put into them . Have a good week.
Nice learning what chicory actually is. There's a brand of coffee sold out here (west) called "Chock Full-o-Nuts", which is a coffee/chicory mix. The "nuts" always lead me to believe it was made from nuts. Now I know. Thanks.
If I remember correctly. Chock full of nuts used to sell nuts
I think during the depression.
What I did with stinging nettle is cut it about 3" up the stem and transplanted them into a corner garden in the yard. This year they grew huge I'd guess around 4' tall in the wood chips I got from a tree service. I imagine you could do the same with pretty much anything that does not grow near you. Some things you could probably gather the seeds fairly easily. I have found in the wood chips anything is easy to pull out because it doesn't pack or dry out as soil does. There is even another corner garden I have that jewelweed (touch me nots) have taken over on their own.
Great video Dave. A big chicory fan myself. I’m in Texas so I order from Community Coffee out of Baton Rouge. I gave some to Shawn last year at your Bushcraft class. He actually featured it on one of his videos. Yes the blockade during the Civil War made coffee harder to obtain hence the addition of chicory to extend the supply. And I’ve been a honey in coffee guy for many many years. My Cajun grandma made what she called suc brulee or burnt sugar. A dark caramel flavored syrup she used for coffee, french toast, and beignets. I’ve processed a lot of sassafras roots and yaupon holly leaves into tea but never chicory. Great instructional video Dave. Have been really enjoying your camp cooking series.
If I run out of coffee, just shoot me now! When my N GA mtn. retirement house is done, I plan to grow Yaupon holly in a greenhouse so that I don't have to let you shoot me lol. Sounds like the combo of yaupon and chicory might take care of it. Yes, I'm hording coffee.
wow this grow in front of my house now you know what i am gone do today!!!
I'm in Central Indiana. I let chicory grow in a 3 foot strip on my property boundry (I'm on a corner lot). It keeps the litter out of the yard. 🤣
It takes me 1.75 hours to mow, but this year of little rain has me with the Cold Steel Weed Wacker knocking down the only thing still growing: Chicory!
Since I'm not mowing I now see much of what was grass, violets, purslane, clover and dandelions is now chicory!
I have wanted to learn this. Thank you for your video
Thank you, Dave! I am going to try this at some point. Have seen chicory in the store with the coffees, but have never tried it. Good video and nice place you got there...
I studied oil painting with a professor (Al Pounders, known for his landscapes of Italy) for 4 of my college years at Purdue. He was also a Master Squash player and a practiced yogi. He was a wise guy, no pun intended.
One day he saw my coffee and advised me to switch to chicory before the damage of coffee is irreversible. He said it hit him in his 50's.
Man we have that everywhere near the fields
Great video
Hi DC. This segment is something different but it's still a cooking show. Making consumable coffee from roots instead of coffee beans is a game changer mate. Perhaps you should pass the idea to Corporal Corner as he sometimes drink some real bad coffee aka Crappacinno.! Still this recipe will be going into our outback cooking book. Cheers Cobber. Cowabunga.!
This was excellent Dave. Loved the educational aspect of this. Gives us an idea on what to look for and how to prepare it. Thank you sir.
Just love your channel. Always love the way you explain the whole process
Excellent video Dave.Thanks very much for the informative videos excellent gear as well, Semper Fi from Indiana.
I love Chicory coffee. Some varieties of chicory have leaves that are popular in salads.
Top notch video!!!
Got to give that a try. Nice job thanks for the info
I’ve had. Chicory Coffee before and it wasn’t really my cup of tea sort of speak, thanks Dave enjoy your Summer
Good video sir. I hope you make that basket thing for the 32oz cup as well.
If I may add, drinking this daily will make it come out of ones pores ,etc.In other words you will smell like chicory.Thx David. We drink Cafe du Monde everyday here in the Heart Of Dixie!
Good show David! Two brands of coffee with chicory that I can think of right now are Cafe du Monde (yellow can), and French Market (red can). Both are packaged in Louisiana and are typical of south Louisiana culture. Chicory is amazingly good for you, and is a rich source of Inulin, which is helpful for diabetics.
Sun dried peels ■ love it; I am sure other food sources can be quickly dried in same method, thank you
Thanks for sharing Dave!
Pretty damn cool. I was always a little curious but never took the time to see how it was harvested and prepared . Always assumed it was identical to coffee. Now I know. We toured a coffee farm in Kona, HI early this year on vacation. Quite an experience in itself. If a person gets that chance to see that, I’d recommend it even if you’re not a bean fiend lol.
Great video Dave thanks for sharing
Loving this current series, Dave. Lots of good cooking ideas for my next trip now. As others have said below, more wild edibles would be a great continuation considering everything happening with the world at the moment. Keep up the good work 🙏🏻 god bless
You know it's hot when Dave actually uses a fan!
Hey Dave, Those look like bypass sheers. Anvil pruners have a cuttings Blade that makes contact with the base (Anvil) instead of "bypassing" beyond it to make a sheering cut. I use both as a professional landscaper.
thanks now I know the flowering plant I was looking at are chicory along the trail I was walking is what I thought it was here in Washington state.
I eat the greens in salad or cooked.
I noticed so much chickory this year
Ya man chicory is really good .I'll bd keeping an eye out for that basket I use a tea defuser now but I lile that system better
They used to sell a burned-grain product called Postum- same idea, probably more practical to make from stored grain supplies... I just ordered the PF spork/tongs; can't hardly wait!
Sassafras tea is good too.
Yep, good stuff.
Going to have to try this. Awesome video my friend
I dig how he uses the Old Army utensils-thought I was the only one to do that
Thanks, Dave.
I'm in shock that I didn't realize those plants were chicory (or more likely had forgotten). Maybe I'll have to try this one day!
Thanks for the video I got this growing like crazy in my field.
I try not to pick ANYTHING on a roadside because of the amount of lead (from automobile exhaust) that is in it. I DO buy market chicory because it is not grown on roadsides but in fields planted for the purpose of selling chicory root. BTW, I LOVE CHICORY COFFEE!! In fact, I cannot have caffeine so before I discovered chicory, I had to drink decaf coffee. Now, I just drink chicory. I have not found a decaf/chicory blend on the market so far. All the market chicory coffee is caffeinated so I just buy ground chicory and make chicory coffee. And I don't add any sweetener or milk or any other additives in it... just drink it plain. Delicious!!
Thanks for that
I've
been stocking up on coffee for wshtf
I NEED my coffee. I'll make sure that I stock up on that also.
Thanks for the information on chicory
The real test is if it acts like coffee does on the body. Is it a "morning constitutional"? Also, I'm diggin your hat Dave. That's the style that I wear. That looks like a good one. Where can I get one of those?
Dave, I noticed in another video you referred to the shears as bypass shears but they were actually anvil shears. The shears you used in this video are bypass shears but you called them anvil shears. Just wanted to mention that you have the names reversed. Thanks for demonstrating this.
Chicory is plentiful. I've always wanted to try roasting some myself
I remember when you did a video on this about, oh... I don't know, probably 9 years back. I went out about 5 years ago got me some chicory and tried it. It is pretty damn good without the caffeine though as you said lol. Definitely cool to do and learn.👊💀
Thanks Dave
Thanks for posting. My wife is Allergic to coffee but likes to drink it. We're going to try this as a substitute. And it should help her get more good fats in her diet by making something similar to bulletproof coffee.
We will have to experiment with it.
That is a very distinctive looking plant . Are there any " look-a-likes " we need to be aware of ?
I got a 12 acre field full of it next to my property.
Were can I get the Shovel?
I have the same honey dipper. Good stuff.
Thanks dave
We have that on every road in Indiana
Thank you.
Great video, great shovel. What is the name of it?
You done a lot of good in your vids if you have a god a hope he blessed you on jugment day.