I am sure you have heard but Doug from Off Grid with Doug and Stacy got hurt very badly and they need the homesteading communities help. He needs help finishing the house he is building for his mother and has a deadline. And in his latest video he mentioned that, the only person that has been helping him, his friend can no longer help him out and they are going to have to tap into their savings and hire people to help finish his mothers home. The reason why I fell in love with the homesteading community is because yall are their for one another and will always travel far and wide or at very least start a go fund me to help fellow homesteaders. So I am asking you to please gather the homesteading community and help them out. I found you through them, I found the homesteading community through them. I have seen you guys help out everyone in the homesteading community that needs help so please help.
I was watching one of my children’s soccer games, when I looked down at the ground and commented, “Oh look! Plantain!” My older daughter said, “Mom, calm down. These aren’t those kind of people.” 😂
When I was a little girl growing up in South Carolina I used to spend all my days in the 100 acre wood behind our house. Climbing trees, playing in the creek, foraging for wild food stuffs. One of which was wood sorrel. At the time I did not know what it was called, just that I liked eating it. I also ate a lot of other things, like, maybe bugs that stayed on the blackberries that I scarfed by the basket full...Hey, don't judge, I was a wild child, woodland sprite in those days. :)
Dandelion flowers are good for your soil because they replace depleted calcium and when your soil has enough they leave that area and show up in another area to repeat the process of repair.
@@donnamays24 also remember that there has to be magnesium down also to help in absorption of the calcium so make sure your fertilizer also has that and nitrogen in it. I use a mix of Epsom salt and water to spray.
"A weed is a plant whose virtue is not known" I have been really digging into foraging more now than ever with the way the world is...we need to find ways to help ourselves, not turn to a store or a doctor.💚 Been eating wood sorrel since I was a little kid and now teaching my grandson😊
Yes. Dandelion greens with butter. Stinging Nettle (with butter again haha, and garlic). Wild Violet leaves as a lettuce substitute. Lambs quarters as a good spinach substitute (including in pesto!). So much out there : )
@@the60s87 I tended to stick with the ones that are easiest to identify, when I first began using these plants. Dandelion, wild Violet, and lambs quarters are relatively easy to identify, and don't have any very similar toxic look-a-likes. Stinging Nettle, if you need to test it, will let you know that you've touched the right plant ; ) There are others that aren't too difficult, such as garlic chive and wood sorrel, as well as garlic mustard (this one has a toxic double, but the smell when you rip the leaf of garlic mustard is a clear indicator). The last few years, I've lived on a couple of acres, where there is plenty of room for wild plants to grow - and I hike the woods. I've encouraged the edible wild plants to grow within my property, but all the practice over the years has allowed me to expand out more and more each year and keep trying something new : )
I would appreciate it if you would put the names of the plants you focus on in the show notes. I do not hear well, and the spelling of the CC is not always up to snuff. Thank you.
When I was a child, I could not understand why my grandparents would work so hard to get rid of all the beautiful flowers (weeds) and keep all of the plain old looking stuff (grass) lol 🌿☘️💮🌼💮☘️🌿
Where I grew up in Michigan we called it Bedstraw (not cleavers). Supposedly it was used to stuff sacks and make a bed :-) We've lost the wisdom of generations living on the land and learning what's good to eat, and what's medicine. Time to remember and teach our kids !! Thank you
I turned my wood pellet stove on yesterday morning. NEVER had to do that before especially in NE Texas. I am saying Thank You Lord because it looks like we won't have to turn the AC on until after June 1. WOW!
I've been 'working on' learning to eat my weeds, the ONE I really like is dandelion, great substitute for slightly bitters like endive in a salad and always some around the yard.
I just recently watched a video on plantain and it's benefits, it was titled "Wild Edibles with Sergei Boutenko-Plantain-Plantago... This Plant Can Save Your Life" (and it was on a yt channel titled "Boutenko Films"). This guy wrote a book on "Foraging" (I can't remember the title of the book).
YEP! I used to eat wood sorrel all the time when I was a kid, and then I found it growing in my back yard as an adult, and I had my kids eating it too. They loved it!
We’re from Missouri as a kid we called wood sorrel “sheep shower” we’ve got it growing all over our urban homestead, Thanks for this informative video!
I also grew up calling it "sour grass." I never tried the seed pods, but we all ate the leaves. And I got a kick out of seeing Mike shoot that plantain seed head! I used to do that as a kid, too!
You look so happy together and I'm glad for you all. Later in May we usually get frosts in Somerset England. A stones throw from the famous Cheddar where their cheese originated and still make.Have a good life.
I just recently learned to identify plantain and I am finding it everywhere! My husband is getting a little annoyed with me for saying “hey, there’s plantain”. I am going to try and remember to bring out my basket and just go harvest some. I was in the garden the other day and burned myself pretty bad with a torch lighter after burn some holes in my weed fabric. I accidentally touched my inner thigh with the nozzle and the skin blistered up immediately. I grabbed some plantain and chewed on it and made a kind of poultice with it and put it on the very painful burn. The pain almost immediately went away. I continued the rest of the day with no pain. It is now healing nicely. And I also read it’s very good for bee stings too
I like plantain in use salve’s for cut and wound’s because if there is infection it won’t let the wound heal until the infection is gone. It heals from the inside out. I use it in a mix with comfrey and a few other things.
@@MikeTheFitFarmer this last year my husband cut and one time got a gouge that was 1/4 long & deep I just filled with the past I had made that fall and it healed and filled in I only applied it twice
I used to eat wood sorrow when I was a kid. Me and the other kids in the neighborhood found it and tasted the seed pods. We called them little green bananas, and thought they tasted like green apples! 😆 we ate them all the time.
That variety of plantian is good when young ans tender, but a lot of work pulling out the strings. There is a variety of plantain that grows on the coasts of Alaska called goosetongue. The leaves are narrow and more succulent. The grow at the mid tide range and so are already salted. The do not have the strings like other plantain and are good raw, cooked, canned like spinach and pickled. They don't make good saurkraut as it gets too bitter.
I grew up eating what you call wood sorrel but we call it sour grass. Also grew up eating dandelion. My family was big on foraging everything. We used plantain on cuts and stings. I didn't grow up eating it. Thanks for another great video!
The weather this year has been crazy! I am in Eastern Canada, New Brunswick, and we had snow just a few days ago!! It's as if our season has been pushed backwards by a month. I just want to plant my garden, I am so anxious! Your gardens look marvelous!! Much love to your family!
In Forest of Dean, U.K. we are getting different types of weather, often in one day. We’ve just had days of torrential non-stop rain, then one dry, hot, blue skied day, followed by more days of torrential rain. Not what we’re used to.
So glad that you mentioned the purple stems. When I was a little girl, my grandmother, who was from Poland, would have me harvest plantain. She told me to pick the ones with the purple stems. She had ulcerated legs, and she would mix the plantain in water and soak her legs in it for relief.
We have an Italian friend who says her Mother raised them on Plantain…it was their spinach. Mother was an immigrant from Italy but learned about Plantain that grows so plentiful in this area. And my own elder generation all ate spring greens and that included Dock,,plantain, wild lettuce, dandelion leaves and carpenters square…( lambs quarters)…which is plentiful,and well known. It’s said to have at least twice the iron content as our domesticated spinach.
I saw you at the homestead conference and recognized you from Justin's videos! I looked up your channel and subscribed! Glad I did! Your videos are great!
My lawn may not be picture-perfect but it is speckled with wild herbs and all the colors speak to my soul! Just yesterday I picked plantain leaves, dandelion heads, wood sorrel, Sheppard's purse, daisies, wood sorrel, marjoram, chicory, purple nettle, purslane, and red clover to dry for teas, salads, and salves. Mother Nature has so many goodies for us at hand, we just have to learn to appreciate them! P.S.: Lacey has such a beautiful glowing aura about her 🥰💖
Chickweed and lamb's quarter are the bane of most of the local gardeners here in Alaska. Both are good to eat when young, but they are a great food for our chickens and pigs. The turkeys love almost all the weeds especially fireweed. Have tried to grow variants of sorrel since it doesn't grow wild here, but not much luck. It's one of the best. Did manage to transplant lovage from the coast and it has popped back up every year for the last eight years.
I have a hard time with chickweed and lamb's quarters out here in Southern California as well. One that is showing up all over the place for me lately is Black Nightshade which is a little scary. Good luck weeding!
Hi Mike. I am just tuning in. I will continue watching to see how things go with your new baby ducks. Smile. Yes, they are cute, but I haven't had ducks in several years, so let me see how things go with you guys' new baby ducks. Thanks for sharing. God bless!
I have been making some herbal oils with plantain, getting ready for wild lettuce! Wood sorrel and milk thistle along with poke salad I have been pointing out to my little one we are adopting!! Starting with simple things easily identifiable for a 8 year old
Wood sorel is what we call hikers lemonade! It's a good little treat when you are out hiking!!! Also we jut picked plantain yesterday to make bug salve... going to add some purple dead nettle this time too... Google says its good in a bug bite salve..
My dad is a beekeeper and plantain was our go to remedy for all the bee stings we got! I've been teaching my daughter that it's good for ant bites too.
Omg you are your family are so beautiful. Live your videos and thank you for all that you do. Your homestead is beautiful. Thank you for all the info today
What you call clevers, we call sticky willy. It's fun to hear what people in other areas call things. I pull "clevers" to feed to my rabbits. As a kid growing up in Missouri I used to eat wood sorrel. We called the seed pods pickles. Good stuff.
I recently planted sorrel in my strawberry bed. I'd not been able to find any wild out here in the desert, and I've been missing it. When I was growing up, we didn't know what it was called. We called it "pickle flowers" because it tasted like pickles. I'm looking forward to having it again and teaching Micah about it.
I have used plantain in homemade relish. My sister uses it in a poultice. We have the broad leaf in Alberta Canada 🇨🇦 it likes to grow in our clay. So all down the driveway
Not sure which variety you have,, but, Tansy (Tanacetum annuum) is good for skin. The yellow flowers actually produce a blue essential oil. I use it to make facial serums. And yes! Plantain is awesome. Crushing it up for bites and wounds is called a poultice. I love to make infused oils with it for salves. For anyone who has babies, it's great for diaper rash lol
So nice to know much more about weeds - i eat dandelion leaves and flowers but I need to learn much more and it is so nice nice to see your way of living in the land and very nice to see animals that get a happy life
I found your channel through Hollar Homestead, and want you to know how much I enjoy your sharing of your knowledge of plants and other critters. Your kids are a delight!
I really enjoyed your video today and I wanted to thank you for the info on Amy's book I just went over and bought it I can't wait to get it... Y'all have a blessed day 💗🙏🏻💗
My yard has many cressy greens along with my grass. The food industry calls it water crest. Itbis a wonderful green that you wook just like other greens such as mustard and kale.
Thank you for sharing these Videos. My 3 1/2 year old was calling you the friendly farmer for a while because of your regular opening greeting. Your videos are now more requested than Cocomelon. I have never tried Woodlore but have loved learning more about plants and looking forward to more and more now that we've bought land. Looking forward to checking out the podcast Selah recommended.
It's crazy weather here too. South Alabama is in the 70-80s to 50s at night. It's crazy. Usually we are in the high 80s to mid 90s. So at times it's 20° off our normal weather.
Yes. We eat all of them in the yard and garden, but we call them sour grass. I love the pods best! They're a pop of lemon zing, evened out with the mild leaves! Yummy!
Wood sorrel seed pod tastes lemony, yum 😋! Plantain (broadleaf), chickweed, purslane, spring garlic onion are all tasty. My elementary taught identification in 4th grade. I never forgot because I knew I would always have something to eat in bad times, if necessary.
Yes, I have ate wood sorrel, I thought it had kind of a lemony flavor. I have tons of plantain too, the smaller broad leaf as well as the long narrow one that I think is called English plantain. I am from upstate NY
Mike I would love to have some of that mania from heaven too! God bless you and god bless Israel right now. Prayers for Zion! God bless you sweet people too!
Tansy is very invasive here in North Idaho zone 6a as is knapweed and burdock (cocklebur), so you really do have to be careful. Loving all you share...💚🌻🌿
Used to eat it when I was young and no houses built behind our house yet. Dont think there is anymore in the 'wild' but find them now and then in my lttle pot garden. Greetings from sunny South Africa
There is an abundance of Lance leaf Plantain on my property here in W Ga. I encourage it in the garden. I'm starting to see plantain major in a few places. White man's foot. Now I know what the name of the plant i have seen so much of this Spring. It's wood sorrel. It looked like a legume so it has achieved protected status in the garden along with the plantain. Thanks for the info. You all are awesome.
thank you for all the great knowledge of herbs. very helpful. Your children are very lucky to have parents like you to teach them all this hands on. Great job
I live in NYC. It's mid June (I'm behind on your videos). I'm shivering with a blanket on me, should be wearing a sweatshirt. The window is open and it's like 61 or so outside.
just found you'r sight. brought back so many memories, eat'in sorrel on the river bank, wait'in on the catfish to bite, or snappin turtle hunting sooo many memories. Thank you so much, you and you'r wife have a new subscriber
Gotta agree, sorrel seed pods are the best lol. Plantain’s an awesome plant too. This year I let plantain and fleabane grow in the garden and got a bunch of native herbs. Beneficial insects come around and it’s unreal how fewer pests there are! You’re living the dream man. Wife and kids on the homestead. Lord willing I’ll get there one day! Much love from Tennessee!
I used to eat that when I was a little girl I'm 56 back then we called it Yum Yums haven't heard of the name wood sorrel till now... it grows in my yard I'll have to eat it regularly now thank you!
Lacie's video on infusing oils th-cam.com/video/gIWR70D9TmQ/w-d-xo.html
yes...I so enjoy YOUR talks on herbs amd medicial plants .
I am sure you have heard but Doug from Off Grid with Doug and Stacy got hurt very badly and they need the homesteading communities help. He needs help finishing the house he is building for his mother and has a deadline. And in his latest video he mentioned that, the only person that has been helping him, his friend can no longer help him out and they are going to have to tap into their savings and hire people to help finish his mothers home. The reason why I fell in love with the homesteading community is because yall are their for one another and will always travel far and wide or at very least start a go fund me to help fellow homesteaders. So I am asking you to please gather the homesteading community and help them out. I found you through them, I found the homesteading community through them. I have seen you guys help out everyone in the homesteading community that needs help so please help.
That tansy was the plant version of Cousin It, LOL.
@@bethsheartsandgiraffes3619 what happened to them
@@the60s87 her broke alot of ribs when he fell trying to build his mom a home on his property
My grandmother told us that people starved during the Great depression while standing right on the "weeds" that could have fed them.
I was watching one of my children’s soccer games, when I looked down at the ground and commented, “Oh look! Plantain!” My older daughter said, “Mom, calm down. These aren’t those kind of people.” 😂
😂😂😂😂 We tell our kids to just be prepared to grow up weird. lol
Omg I did the same walking my dog today...plantain all over!
@@MikeTheFitFarmer ❤️
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lol..that would TOTALLY be my 2 oldest girls..
When I was a little girl growing up in South Carolina I used to spend all my days in the 100 acre wood behind our house. Climbing trees, playing in the creek, foraging for wild food stuffs. One of which was wood sorrel. At the time I did not know what it was called, just that I liked eating it. I also ate a lot of other things, like, maybe bugs that stayed on the blackberries that I scarfed by the basket full...Hey, don't judge, I was a wild child, woodland sprite in those days. :)
Would love to see a very detailed video on "weeds" with up close pictures and weather to tea or eat!!
haphazard homestead is good for that...very good :) check her out.
Yes thank you
Yes I'm all for knowing more about what nature provides in the way of edible native herbs and plants.
Dandelion flowers are good for your soil because they replace depleted calcium and when your soil has enough they leave that area and show up in another area to repeat the process of repair.
Huh, Interesting! I Learn something new every day!
My soil has been calcium depleted for 25 years and dandelion is still here! Heeeelp!!
@@gloriaiarango get a good calcium base fertilizer.
I didn’t know that! Thanks for the info🙏🏻💖
@@donnamays24 also remember that there has to be magnesium down also to help in absorption of the calcium so make sure your fertilizer also has that and nitrogen in it. I use a mix of Epsom salt and water to spray.
Thank you. I learned something. "My people perish for lack of knowledge".
Biblical knowledge!
"A weed is a plant whose virtue is not known"
I have been really digging into foraging more now than ever with the way the world is...we need to find ways to help ourselves, not turn to a store or a doctor.💚
Been eating wood sorrel since I was a little kid and now teaching my grandson😊
Yes. Dandelion greens with butter. Stinging Nettle (with butter again haha, and garlic). Wild Violet leaves as a lettuce substitute. Lambs quarters as a good spinach substitute (including in pesto!). So much out there : )
@@orionsghost9511 how can you tell if you’re getting the right plants
@@the60s87 I tended to stick with the ones that are easiest to identify, when I first began using these plants. Dandelion, wild Violet, and lambs quarters are relatively easy to identify, and don't have any very similar toxic look-a-likes. Stinging Nettle, if you need to test it, will let you know that you've touched the right plant ; )
There are others that aren't too difficult, such as garlic chive and wood sorrel, as well as garlic mustard (this one has a toxic double, but the smell when you rip the leaf of garlic mustard is a clear indicator).
The last few years, I've lived on a couple of acres, where there is plenty of room for wild plants to grow - and I hike the woods. I've encouraged the edible wild plants to grow within my property, but all the practice over the years has allowed me to expand out more and more each year and keep trying something new : )
@@orionsghost9511 thank you for taking the time to answer back
@@the60s87 You're very welcome. I hope my answer is helpful.
I would appreciate it if you would put the names of the plants you focus on in the show notes. I do not hear well, and the spelling of the CC is not always up to snuff. Thank you.
thanks for this remark, it is hard to keep running it back and forth trying to hear the name correctly
ditto, if you have the time, it would be greatly appreciated!
We should have Learned in school ,but school is centered on train us to work for others....
And to indoctrinate us into the social collective in boxes of what they believe we should be doing.
@@jeremygenslinger4874 Most important
#1. Your relationship with God
#2. Your relationship with family
#3. Your relationship with community
@@jeremygenslinger4874 whoever 'they' are
Big pharmacy lobbyists would never allow it.
When I was a child, I could not understand why my grandparents would work so hard to get rid of all the beautiful flowers (weeds) and keep all of the plain old looking stuff (grass) lol 🌿☘️💮🌼💮☘️🌿
lol, lol, but, even some of the grasses are good for you too......
Mother Nature will provide, you just need to open your eyes and your mind. So happy to find so many like minded people 💜
Where I grew up in Michigan we called it Bedstraw (not cleavers). Supposedly it was used to stuff sacks and make a bed :-) We've lost the wisdom of generations living on the land and learning what's good to eat, and what's medicine. Time to remember and teach our kids !! Thank you
I turned my wood pellet stove on yesterday morning. NEVER had to do that before especially in NE Texas. I am saying Thank You Lord because it looks like we won't have to turn the AC on until after June 1. WOW!
Weather here in Georgia has been so nice and cool except for the high humidity days, my power bill and bank are loving these days
Just wanted to say how much I thoroughly enjoy your videos. Wanted to send a BIG HUG to your Family! Much Love to you all! Blessings be!
AMEN HALLELUJAH ✝️✝️✝️🛐🛐🛐🇺🇸🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
Flowers for the beautiful ladies. LOVE and PRAYERS
I've been 'working on' learning to eat my weeds, the ONE I really like is dandelion, great substitute for slightly bitters like endive in a salad and always some around the yard.
The flowers are good for your eyes.
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Be careful not to overdo on wood sorrel. Tasty though it is, it can trigger arthritis or kidney stones because of the levels of oxalic acid.
Thanks for the info appreciate it.
TY, I didn’t know that, good thing to know
Yes, much the same caveats as regular sorrel or spinach. But it's really more of a condimentary flavor, anyway, so it's not easy to overdo.
hi guys!!!! I just saw the last video from Homestead Living and they named you!!! that was nice !
We love Kip and Carrie!!
Love these kind of videos about medicinal herbs and identification. Thank you for the video.
I absolutely loved this video! Lacey, I would love to see more of your medicinal plants and what they are good for❤️
This man is so country. It is so refreshing.
Good folks!
I just recently watched a video on plantain and it's benefits, it was titled "Wild Edibles with Sergei Boutenko-Plantain-Plantago... This Plant Can Save Your Life" (and it was on a yt channel titled "Boutenko Films"). This guy wrote a book on "Foraging" (I can't remember the title of the book).
Thanks guys! Stay beautiful! ☺️🌎♥️
YEP! I used to eat wood sorrel all the time when I was a kid, and then I found it growing in my back yard as an adult, and I had my kids eating it too. They loved it!
We called wood sorrel “sour grass.” We loved eating the seed pods because they look like little bananas.
We’re from Missouri as a kid we called wood sorrel “sheep shower” we’ve got it growing all over our urban homestead, Thanks for this informative video!
I also grew up calling it "sour grass." I never tried the seed pods, but we all ate the leaves. And I got a kick out of seeing Mike shoot that plantain seed head! I used to do that as a kid, too!
like it
it's sour!
BABY DUCKS ARE MY FAVORITES BY FAR. THEYRE ADORABLE AND FUN TO RAISE AND WATCH. I WOULD LIKE A FEW FOR EGG LAING AND FOR FAMILY PETS,
You look so happy together and I'm glad for you all. Later in May we usually get frosts in Somerset England. A stones throw from the famous Cheddar where their cheese originated and still make.Have a good life.
I just recently learned to identify plantain and I am finding it everywhere! My husband is getting a little annoyed with me for saying “hey, there’s plantain”. I am going to try and remember to bring out my basket and just go harvest some. I was in the garden the other day and burned myself pretty bad with a torch lighter after burn some holes in my weed fabric. I accidentally touched my inner thigh with the nozzle and the skin blistered up immediately. I grabbed some plantain and chewed on it and made a kind of poultice with it and put it on the very painful burn. The pain almost immediately went away. I continued the rest of the day with no pain. It is now healing nicely. And I also read it’s very good for bee stings too
That was a GREAT video friends! Thanks for sharing, excellent info too👍 -Josh
I like plantain in use salve’s for cut and wound’s because if there is infection it won’t let the wound heal until the infection is gone. It heals from the inside out. I use it in a mix with comfrey and a few other things.
Me too! ~ Lacie
@@MikeTheFitFarmer this last year my husband cut and one time got a gouge that was 1/4 long & deep I just filled with the past I had made that fall and it healed and filled in I only applied it twice
@@MikeTheFitFarmer It’s nice seeing you on the videos Lacie
You guys are the cutest family and I learned a lot! Thank you, the chickens and I are going to forage through the yard today!
I used to eat wood sorrow when I was a kid. Me and the other kids in the neighborhood found it and tasted the seed pods. We called them little green bananas, and thought they tasted like green apples! 😆 we ate them all the time.
The ducks are so cute
That variety of plantian is good when young ans tender, but a lot of work pulling out the strings. There is a variety of plantain that grows on the coasts of Alaska called goosetongue. The leaves are narrow and more succulent. The grow at the mid tide range and so are already salted. The do not have the strings like other plantain and are good raw, cooked, canned like spinach and pickled. They don't make good saurkraut as it gets too bitter.
that sounds like something i'd like to try way over here in Ontario.
O! That sounds more like what I expected to see! I never knew plantain was so wrinkly!
Dip in Thin as in runny Flour water then fry. Plantain chips Yummy
I grew up eating what you call wood sorrel but we call it sour grass. Also grew up eating dandelion. My family was big on foraging everything. We used plantain on cuts and stings. I didn't grow up eating it. Thanks for another great video!
The weather this year has been crazy! I am in Eastern Canada, New Brunswick, and we had snow just a few days ago!! It's as if our season has been pushed backwards by a month. I just want to plant my garden, I am so anxious! Your gardens look marvelous!! Much love to your family!
Oh my gosh, my mother recently said the exact same thing. I live in the middle of Germany. Wonder if it has to do with the tilting of earth axis.
In Forest of Dean, U.K. we are getting different types of weather, often in one day. We’ve just had days of torrential non-stop rain, then one dry, hot, blue skied day, followed by more days of torrential rain. Not what we’re used to.
I love learning about wild herbs. Great job.
Your family is precious!! God bless yall!!💜
Mike, it was great meeting you today at the HOA event. I look forward to watching more of your videos.
So glad that you mentioned the purple stems. When I was a little girl, my grandmother, who was from Poland, would have me harvest plantain. She told me to pick the ones with the purple stems. She had ulcerated legs, and she would mix the plantain in water and soak her legs in it for relief.
We have an Italian friend who says her Mother raised them on Plantain…it was their spinach. Mother was an immigrant from Italy but learned about Plantain that grows so plentiful in this area. And my own elder generation all ate spring greens and that included Dock,,plantain, wild lettuce, dandelion leaves and carpenters square…( lambs quarters)…which is plentiful,and well known. It’s said to have at least twice the iron content as our domesticated spinach.
All this time plantain has been the ultimate treat for my chickens when all I can be using it for myself and my family. This was fun video to watch.
Mike, your right this weather is crazy cool in the mornings! I'm in VA beach VA. And it's not normal here. Happy gardening. God bless
I saw you at the homestead conference and recognized you from Justin's videos! I looked up your channel and subscribed! Glad I did! Your videos are great!
Mike had a great time at the HOA conference. Thanks so much for looking us up!!
My lawn may not be picture-perfect but it is speckled with wild herbs and all the colors speak to my soul! Just yesterday I picked plantain leaves, dandelion heads, wood sorrel, Sheppard's purse, daisies, wood sorrel, marjoram, chicory, purple nettle, purslane, and red clover to dry for teas, salads, and salves. Mother Nature has so many goodies for us at hand, we just have to learn to appreciate them!
P.S.: Lacey has such a beautiful glowing aura about her 🥰💖
Chickweed and lamb's quarter are the bane of most of the local gardeners here in Alaska. Both are good to eat when young, but they are a great food for our chickens and pigs. The turkeys love almost all the weeds especially fireweed. Have tried to grow variants of sorrel since it doesn't grow wild here, but not much luck. It's one of the best. Did manage to transplant lovage from the coast and it has popped back up every year for the last eight years.
I have a hard time with chickweed and lamb's quarters out here in Southern California as well. One that is showing up all over the place for me lately is Black Nightshade which is a little scary. Good luck weeding!
@@zeph2076 I grew up in the southern sierras and remember nightshade being one of the plants that was considered a weed.
Hi Mike. I am just tuning in. I will continue watching to see how things go with your new baby ducks. Smile. Yes, they are cute, but I haven't had ducks in several years, so let me see how things go with you guys' new baby ducks. Thanks for sharing. God bless!
Yes, have eaten wood sorrel since childhood, we called it "sour clover", in Wisc. in the "50's
And we called it sour grass. Lol! Still do. Even though I know its wood sorrel.
I have been making some herbal oils with plantain, getting ready for wild lettuce! Wood sorrel and milk thistle along with poke salad I have been pointing out to my little one we are adopting!! Starting with simple things easily identifiable for a 8 year old
Wood sorel is what we call hikers lemonade! It's a good little treat when you are out hiking!!! Also we jut picked plantain yesterday to make bug salve... going to add some purple dead nettle this time too... Google says its good in a bug bite salve..
So good to see the fam!! I havent seen your channel in a while but you guys look so happy and heathly! God Bless!!!
I got into medicinal plants because of Lacie and will always be grateful to her💚🌱💚
What a lovely family. Just what I needed to see. Awesome.
My dad is a beekeeper and plantain was our go to remedy for all the bee stings we got! I've been teaching my daughter that it's good for ant bites too.
Omg you are your family are so beautiful. Live your videos and thank you for all that you do. Your homestead is beautiful. Thank you for all the info today
Ducklings and chicks are always so cute.
What you call clevers, we call sticky willy. It's fun to hear what people in other areas call things. I pull "clevers" to feed to my rabbits. As a kid growing up in Missouri I used to eat wood sorrel. We called the seed pods pickles. Good stuff.
I used to LOVE eating the seed pods. I didn't know what they were, I just called him fairy pickles. Much love for this video. :)
I recently planted sorrel in my strawberry bed. I'd not been able to find any wild out here in the desert, and I've been missing it. When I was growing up, we didn't know what it was called. We called it "pickle flowers" because it tasted like pickles. I'm looking forward to having it again and teaching Micah about it.
We would find it in the Olympic Rainforest in Washington state and eat it. We called it sheep showers. I have no reason why we called it that.
I have used plantain in homemade relish. My sister uses it in a poultice. We have the broad leaf in Alberta Canada 🇨🇦 it likes to grow in our clay. So all down the driveway
I have. Couple of Huckleberrie trees on the edges of the lot. The ducks and chickens love the ones that fall on the ground.
Not sure which variety you have,, but, Tansy (Tanacetum annuum) is good for skin. The yellow flowers actually produce a blue essential oil. I use it to make facial serums.
And yes! Plantain is awesome. Crushing it up for bites and wounds is called a poultice. I love to make infused oils with it for salves. For anyone who has babies, it's great for diaper rash lol
It sure is! My plantain salve gets put on everything around here.
So nice to know much more about weeds - i eat dandelion leaves and flowers but I need to learn much more and it is so nice nice to see your way of living in the land and very nice to see animals that get a happy life
Knowledge is power! Great content as usual guys! Blessings🙏🏻💖
You folks are really cool! I wish I was your neighbor! God bless!
I found your channel through Hollar Homestead, and want you to know how much I enjoy your sharing of your knowledge of plants and other critters. Your kids are a delight!
I really enjoyed your video today and I wanted to thank you for the info on Amy's book I just went over and bought it I can't wait to get it... Y'all have a blessed day 💗🙏🏻💗
My yard has many cressy greens along with my grass. The food industry calls it water crest. Itbis a wonderful green that you wook just like other greens such as mustard and kale.
I wear my hoodie all morning until the middle of June here on the high plains of CO. It snowed 6 inches here 3 days ago. Spring is crazy in CO.
Where in Colorado?
@@ddearinger8962 an hour east of Colorado Springs.
@@gingerbandy792 🙏 Definitely Sign of the times . We will be in the San Juan’s soon. 😁
Thank you for sharing these Videos. My 3 1/2 year old was calling you the friendly farmer for a while because of your regular opening greeting. Your videos are now more requested than Cocomelon.
I have never tried Woodlore but have loved learning more about plants and looking forward to more and more now that we've bought land.
Looking forward to checking out the podcast Selah recommended.
I haven't visited with you for a while your yurt looks fabulous! What a successful conversion. Good work!
have you done remodeling inside too?
It's crazy weather here too. South Alabama is in the 70-80s to 50s at night. It's crazy. Usually we are in the high 80s to mid 90s. So at times it's 20° off our normal weather.
Yes. We eat all of them in the yard and garden, but we call them sour grass. I love the pods best! They're a pop of lemon zing, evened out with the mild leaves! Yummy!
Thank you for making this video. So many people don't understand the benefits of so called weeds. 😊
thank you so much for being real. so much appreciate your down to earth life
Wood sorrel seed pod tastes lemony, yum 😋! Plantain (broadleaf), chickweed, purslane, spring garlic onion are all tasty. My elementary taught identification in 4th grade. I never forgot because I knew I would always have something to eat in bad times, if necessary.
Ducklings are so cute! I remember eating wood sorrel as a child. We loved it. Still learning on some things.
Yes, I have ate wood sorrel, I thought it had kind of a lemony flavor.
I have tons of plantain too, the smaller broad leaf as well as the long narrow one that I think is called English plantain. I am from upstate NY
Mike I would love to have some of that mania from heaven too! God bless you and god bless Israel right now. Prayers for Zion! God bless you sweet people too!
Tansy is very invasive here in North Idaho zone 6a as is knapweed and burdock (cocklebur), so you really do have to be careful. Loving all you share...💚🌻🌿
Ducklings...definitely edge out ahead on the cuteness-scale.
I just love your family and helpful hints! God bless you all!
Used to eat it when I was young and no houses built behind our house yet. Dont think there is anymore in the 'wild' but find them now and then in my lttle pot garden. Greetings from sunny South Africa
I have that all over my yard!! I like to learn about plants!!
There is an abundance of Lance leaf Plantain on my property here in W Ga. I encourage it in the garden. I'm starting to see plantain major in a few places. White man's foot. Now I know what the name of the plant i have seen so much of this Spring. It's wood sorrel. It looked like a legume so it has achieved protected status in the garden along with the plantain. Thanks for the info. You all are awesome.
Bonjour de la France c'est dommage que vous n'avez pas activer le sous-titrage . Très bonne chaîne félicitations
thank you for all the great knowledge of herbs. very helpful. Your children are very lucky to have parents like you to teach them all this hands on. Great job
Great meeting you at the homesteaders.
Love the channel💪
Your family is adorable 🌸. Love your videos. Love love love your baby ducks . Much Love from Hawaii ♥️.
I live in NYC. It's mid June (I'm behind on your videos). I'm shivering with a blanket on me, should be wearing a sweatshirt. The window is open and it's like 61 or so outside.
just found you'r sight. brought back so many memories, eat'in sorrel on the river bank, wait'in on the catfish to bite, or snappin turtle hunting sooo many memories. Thank you so much, you and you'r wife have a new subscriber
Agreed, our zone 8b wood sorrel seed pods are a great treat & excellent in salad also. Yum! 🌱😁
Gotta agree, sorrel seed pods are the best lol. Plantain’s an awesome plant too. This year I let plantain and fleabane grow in the garden and got a bunch of native herbs. Beneficial insects come around and it’s unreal how fewer pests there are!
You’re living the dream man. Wife and kids on the homestead. Lord willing I’ll get there one day! Much love from Tennessee!
I love the lance leaf plantain because It grows in such a nice bundle, and the tips are so unusual. :)
We also ate molly pops. Look them up! They have a beautiful flower before it becomes a molly pop which is about the size and shape of an egg.
I think the ducklings are cute too. It's too bad that some of them will have a date with the dinner plate, oh well.🤣🥰😇
Yeah, at least they get to have a happy, well loved life.
I used to eat that when I was a little girl I'm 56 back then we called it Yum Yums haven't heard of the name wood sorrel till now... it grows in my yard I'll have to eat it regularly now thank you!
Thanks for plant identification!
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