I love this people because they are sharing adventures of their lives and thats the fun part of it for people who are not able to hike because they do live in urban areas
Homemade jams and preserves are the best. My wife was a Navy brat and had no idea how it was done, so I showed her. She doesn't eat much in way as jams until she tasted what could be done. Well now I can't keep the stuff around anymore. She pounds it. DARN!!
Fireweed grows well up here in Alaska. People make it into Salad, syrup, honey, tea, jelly and jam. Also Fireweed blooms from the bottom up. A rule of thumb in Alaska is that snow will come 6 weeks after the fireweed blooms to the top and goes to seed.
Please remind your viewers not to take it all, especially when harvesting roots. If you treat your favorite foraging spots like a perennial garden they will be enjoyable for many years.
I am from the Philippines I'm so proud of you guys... Here majority of the youth is not interested on that way. I am one of the hiking addict . I love your videos...
The fire weed, my grandma always makes tea out of leaves (Oregon). I don't know the process of it. But she gave me already a jar of dry ready tea. Loved it. I believe its pretty famous in Russia to make tea out of it. They call it "Ivan tea"
You two are the sweetest couple! The chemistry you share is so lovely! And you both seem like such genuinely nice decent people. New subscriber here, blown away by your content and craving some of the preserves you are making! And thank you picking up the rubbish of selfish people! If only more people would, or better yet if only no one littered! I try to clean up the local beaches and bush whenever I can too!
I've watched a lot of off grid setup videos and some other channels that seem liked they were about imparting knowledge and the vicarious experiences of what starting from the ground up is. Your videos are just so easily digestible. They're informative. They're quarky. The music is neat but doesn't add much other that covering what would be just no sound in the background of your narrations. Which i enjoy. Keep up the good work. Looks like i have about a years worth of videos to catch up on :D
Instant subscription! Thanks for this inspiring information! My family and I are in the process of converting a retired school bus into a tiny home on wheels. One of the things we want to get into is wild food foraging around the country!
Fireweed is because of the color the leaves turn in the fall... beautiful red and orange. The flowers make amazing ice cream too. Have crazy amounts in my home state Alaska! They are the first way we learn how fast winter is coming. After the flowers turn into white fluff it is about 6-8 weeks before snow!
On that second shot of the mushrooms, I spied some wintergreen leaves all around it! The leaves are quite bitter in the winter months, but minty all year. Sometimes they grow red berries on them that are edible and quite tasty.
7.24 : pick the flower. boil water ( 100 gram flower in 1 litre water) , then some honey and some lemondrops. Great drink. The stem on the plant: like asbargus, but use when the plant is young.
Plant the berry seeds around your property. We brought back just a couple raspberries from a hike and now we have plants growing here and there. Black berries and black caps all over the place.
Great to know you can forage plenty of different types of berries..!! Free, versatile, and PROFITABLE as well.. Time well spent if you are quick and don't eat them all..!! That ice cream sounds GOOOOOD... A great addition to the crops you two will be growing.. I also noticed the pistol on Jesse's hip.. Would you mind sharing your pistol and load out for hiking.. Just cause.. No particular reason why, just a gun guy here..
I see the value of hiking for food but it's cheaper and uses far less energy to have a tray (or logs) of mushroom spores. You'll have far less need for meat with mushrooms bulking out things which is cost effective by saving hunting supplies. Plus... it's healthier and kind of fun having a tiny little mushroom farm. Just a thought from a fellow homesteader in wales, UK. Keep up the good work!
Those Thimble Berries look great! I have never seen those before. My first thought was of a fruit dip that I like to make. You take 1 8-oz package of cream cheese (softened) and 1 jar of marshmallow cream and stir up smoothly. My first thought when I saw those berries on here was to make that fruit dip, put it in a pastry bag, and squirt/fill up the hole in those berries with it. Now I need to find some of those berries. Thanks for showing them in this video.
Great vid! Thanks for picking up other "stupid" people's litter. I do it all the time in Colo. when hiking or at a campground. On another note, I just learned that if I watch an advertisement on your Channel, or click on other ads, you do better. Hope everyone listened to what I just said. Love your channel as always. Michael
Video 5.23 : the white mushr. on the old trea : very nice to burn if you have mosquito's. Just dry them, an snipp off a small bit, fire,and use the smoke :-) New shoots on pinetreas = great tea if you're cold or have fever
That aluminum isn't garbage, collect the cans and smash them down to save space. After a year of stashing, take them to your nearby recycling center and enjoy the fruits of your garbage collecting labor! Love the videos!
I would love to try that kind of life one day. I am from Africa currently living in Norway, I used to be self-sufficient when I was young with my parents in east central Africa. Would love to try that kind of life homesteading... It's awesome way of life
nice to see you guys out in the forest , great info and beautiful area , I also enjoy that ye look for interesting camera angles like the from inside the bucket shot ! another top post .
John Brown If you're red/green colorblind, you should get those new corrective glasses that fix it before you look too much into foraging. There's a lot of edible AND poisonous plants that have purple hues, streaks, & spots, not to mention the berries, flowers, etc. Look into the glasses!
When Thimble Berries are ripe you can EASILY pull them off...not ripe you can't. Got an idea to make turning your ice-cream maker easier....remove handle..replace with a sprocket...add chain...attach to a salvaged bike...and pedal. Just a thought.... Love ALL your videos
We were out on a scout hike and a friend is a mushroom hunter. We found a cauliflower mushroom that we diced up into rice pilaf and it was fabulous. Good call to leave the mushrooms be. It has taken my friend years to get to be 80% sure of what he finds in our area alone.
Just subscribed to your channel, I love it. I watched three videos and am hooked. haha. love the outdoors, reminded me of back home in Puerto Rico where I used to pick berries, awww sweet memories,, I wish I could do what you are doing now. building your own home and everything you both do...
Been watching you two for some time and must have missed this vid. I think it is one of my favorites.. cause.. I like doing everything you did in this one.. well cept I am in Minnesota.
Another things with raspberries is there are a couple varieties including black raspberries and the lesser known Wine Berries. Wine Berries are a darker red than regular raspberries. Also Golden Raspberries (I've never seen any but they are highly sought after) and many more depending on location. Right now is peak season and like Thimble they have a very short picking cycle. Some have every ripping so they will ripen twice, once in the spring and once in the fall. others will ripen in the summer usually mid July around here in Maryland. The best berries will come right off the flowers and wont stain you at all. I'm noticing some of them staining your fingers.
Another great video. Foraging is something often forgotten, so nice to see you doing a video on it. American Homestead also recently did a foraging episode. So maybe the concept is catching on and gaining some exposure. Glad you brought up other plants besides the berries, since there is much more than just berries to forage for. While this video focused on berries it was nice to see you acknowledged that there was a lot of other forage potential. On mushroom picking, yes be cautious with picking mushrooms. I would in fact suggest you find someone knowledgeable in mushrooms to mentor you a bit to help show you the do's and don'ts. So many edible mushrooms have poisonous look a likes that often grow right next to the edible ones. So you positively identify one or two, think the entire patch is safe end up picking them all and mix poisonous mushrooms in with edible. Eeep, not good. A good mentor can really give you the confidence to identify mushrooms properly. While you didn't reaslly feature it in this video, I noticed you did have a berry scoop. Those are so helpful for berry collection of some varieties, really letting you gather a lot with a lot less picking of each berry. Though they tend not to work well for multi berries a lot of single berries it does work well with. The huckleberries in my area are bright red, I had forgotten that there were purple ones so nice to see another variety. Huckleberries are my favorite berry, when I worked trail maintenance, I plotted out all the good huckleberry patches and watched for them to ripen so I could go harvest. And yes they are valuable in barter or even cash. Not sure if you have them in your area but in the Cascades there is a white berry up in the alpine areas, and grows singly one per plant, the plants being a low ground cover. We had always called them snow berries but seems there is another white berry called snow berry so that might not be the right name. However the white berries I am talking about are amazing tasting, and worth a lot more than huckleberries due to being so small producing of berries that harvesting them takes a lot of effort.
most species of Rubus sweeten dramatically as they ripen. one of the key identifiers is color, a raspberry darkens as it ripens, peaking at a bright red, and as it grows towards burgandy does it over ripen. the other that can be more useful, is the size of the drupelets or the little bumps. in many species they swell noticably larger than their immature neighbors. Hope this helps you guys.
The jams and jellies look good. The best edibles though are the ice creams you made. That took me back 50 years to the cookouts we had and they always ended with homemade ice cream. You should try peanut butter some time. Really yummy. I'm sure your neighbors are appreciative of your random acts of kindness. A little goes a long way. Can't wait for the build. I'm confident it will be fantastic. Stay healthy, especially Jesse and his back. I feel his pain. Bulging disc L4-L5. Ouch! 🤘
Because they are so thin thimble berries are great for dehydrating. Sometimes they are dry right on the bush. They can be quickly added to cereal for a burst of flavor in mid winter. No extra energy needed for preservation and storage. Try to find a habitat for them in your woods. The roots can be transplanted in the winter. I have a nice row started along the edge of my food forest.
USGS archives numerous maps of BLM, and USFS areas mostly in 7.5 topographic. (But have many others) These include trails,and roads, and if comparing older maps to the most current, you will often find trails that still exist, but have fallen off in use. Also the USFS MVUM (motor vehichal use maps) are of particular use, since if you have a decent 4x4 of the high clearance type, like a jeep - you can get much further than one can hike. This later map type is used by loggers for wood cutting, which I have also noted that you do. They typically leave (although they are supposed to clean up) a lot of dead cut wood that one can just load up for fire wood. "It's your your forest - if it's dead on the ground - it's yours for the taking." - nameless forest ranger.... But also if you want to cut your own, the MVUM can get you to good places to harvest wood with a wood cutting permit.
Great video and message. Yes, PACK IT OUT!!!! Idaho has to be one of the best states for natural berries. Great idea on making the ice cream and sharing with your neighbors. IMO that is a lost thing in suburbia. Out in the country, rural, people still tend to be friendly. Keep up the great work!
+canesrock82 People are very friendly and neighborly here... we try to be great neighbors as well. I agree, that is a big thing that's been lost in Suburbia.
I am catching up on your old videos now that I've found your awesome channel!!! You guys make this seem more real and more do-able for me. Thank you. This may be a repeat question-- Do you think about over-harvesting of wild edibles? I've heard rules like "you only take one of every five," and similar. Since I don't wild harvest (YET), I wonder how this fits into a sustainable/off-grid system for you guys?
when the chap found the wild rasp berries, it looked like there was St John's wort growing just behind him (the yellow flower , hypericum perforatum) a great anti depressant
I live in the French mountains and to stop people getting sick ... if you collect mushrooms the local pharmacy will check them out for you so you are sure they are safe to eat. They are amazing if you find them!
ahhh, foraging is a fun thing for me. this should be an interesting vid! those thimble berries look a bit like salmon berries. most rubus are my fave's. sorta surprised you guys didn't see any blackberries, like the ones that are rampant in WA also thanks for doing the right thing. I personally appreciate it.
I just noticed that when you found the wild red raspberries, there was a patch of St. John's Wort behind you, the blooms are very medicinal, I'd grab some if you hike back through!
+Lunayah Moonbeams Oh cool! I'll check it out! I'm sure the book I have barely scratches the surface of what's available... doesn't even include a single mushroom!
Fireweed Jelly Gather all the fire weed you can get. Rinse the flower stalks and the boil leaves, flowers and all. Note do this outside because it stinks. Then strain. Take: 2 3/4 cup of the fireweed juice 1/4 cups lemon juice 1 box sure Jell Bring to boil And add 4 1/2 cups sugar Boil hard for 1 minute Skim foam and can for 10 minutes Note to prevent foam add 1 tsp. Butter at the beginning to prevent the foaming. To can go by the sure jell box for berries
wow!!! its so cool watching you guys, your like modern day pioneers!...and I feel deprived, I've never eaten a huckleberry in my life! much less had huckleberry ice cream!
Going to the forest is great, but I teach other that there are edibles are the big city you could find and do the same with. There wild blackberries, grapes, lemons, apples, and all kind of things to eat as we walk down the streets. Urban edibles walk are great because you can get people off the couch, and let them learn something as they walk. Love the video, thanks
+Red-Head-Ranch Awesome and you're totally right! Food isn't ONLY in the forest but within a few miles from moth anyone's home, if not right outside their front door!
really enjoyed your foraging video.glad you found people that are willing to share their fruits. so many people would rather let it rot than share. where do you two live? i'm to old for foraging but i do love topreserve foods again, really enjoyed it. keep us posted. thanks
I personally find hiking (or just walking around the block) to be extremely boring. However, foraging for free food gives one a valid excuse to do so. Still, I'm definitely more of an indoor person than an outdoor person.
"Or be seeing dancing pink elephants" HAHA, I love you guys! The forest looks amazing and so does the food!! It must be such an amazing feeling to go out and connect with nature, walk around and get food all at once! I was wondering if there are any dangerous animals out there though and if so, how do you protect yourself?
Jessie had a pistol on his side. Bears are visiting those same berry patches to bulk up for winter. There are also cougar, wolves, wolverines, linx, and other animals in the ID area they live in. Really the only animal I really worry about out in the PNW bush is cougars. Bears I respect and am cautious about but they are relatively understandable and really surprising them tends to be how most bad encounters happen, wolves rarely want to confront humans and are not likely to attack, wolverines while dangerous rarely will get near humans either. Cougars however will stalk humans and they are stealthy and quiet, thankfully they don't normally attack humans, but their instincts can be triggered into attacking accidentally. Like running, with most cats if you run they just can't help but to pursue. Like a mouse with a house cat.
+The Ineffable Homestead thank you! i didn't notice the pistol on Jesse. it sounds scary to encouter one of them, on the other hand it's so cool there are so many wild animals in the area. I live in the Netherlands and there are no wild animals. A while back a few wolves came back - some people just wanted them killed which is such a shame :/
Romany Yes I would rather have to be cautious of predators in the area rather than have none in the area. They are an important part of the ecosystem. the return of the wolves to Yellowstone park is a good example of how predators have a big effect on the eco system. With wolves returned the elk don't kill the river trees, which stabilize the bank and draw beaver in. One species returning had a dramatic effect on Yellowstone ecosystem.
they love wet areas, like near small streams, or near culverts. My parents land is next to a small 1/4 acre wetland, where a lot of fiddle head ferns grow, and a few patches of thimble berries grow too.
wow like this video thanks for the info i must be like u because when i see trash at this park me and my dog go to i pick up the trash i find lay around i think it makes the park look ugly so i try to clean it up makes me feel better that the park is not so ugly anymore
i love picking edible fruits , used to make wines and jams , chutney.. and litter . well enough said , my pet gripe ... take it with you dont drop it .... great video ..cheers from uk
I think thats how humans ever first knew wgat to eat , by just watching what animals eat. I love the wayu guys actually use the resources available to u. Plus its a healthy way of living. Where are u guys at? Alaska?
Are there no mosquitoes or ticks or berries with thorns in your area? I live in Europe, but I never go into the woods without covering arms and legs fully. Otherwise you get eaten alive by the insects and scratched bloody by the plants. ;-) But I like what you're doing, I used to love to go foraging, even for medicinal plants and I learned a lot about them from my mom and we also knew almost all the mushrooms. That was before my mom died and I wasn't longer able to walk, sigh. I do miss it.
Thank you so much for showing us some good information I will show this to my husband I would love to walk in the Woods ( we live in the Country but I have chronic pain every day so I can't do that anymore) I miss it so much.now I read a lot. " I get books at the thrift store for 0.9cents to .29cents Books that range from 5.00$ to 39$ and up and holidays is half off days " But anyway sorry got carried away again You are so right about it being currency.a lot of people in the bigger City's don't understand that. It's good to have money of course but knowing how to survive without it is priceless 😊👏😊👍😊👏😊👍😊👏😊👍
Hey there, one idea is you can start useing the geocaching g system but instead, use it to track your foraging spots. You can track your spot up to 20ft depending on the gps unit. that way you can always go back to your spot and know exactly what it is and when to pick them
I have a raspberries that I planted and its two summers old. Annoyingly birds ate them before they got ripe. Hopefully I can get the pruning process down so I can have enough for birds and myself!
I love thimbleberries. They taste like what a raspberry wants to taste like when it grows up. The only way I could see someone not liking thimbleberry is if it was a different variety that is not very flavorful that I've heard exists. The thimbleberry that grows here in Utah has white flowers and is really tasty. I've heard the pink flowered varieties aren't that flavorful.
Nice to see you take a day off and do what your dreams are about....well done
I love this people because they are sharing adventures of their lives and thats the fun part of it for people who are not able to hike because they do live in urban areas
Homemade jams and preserves are the best. My wife was a Navy brat and had no idea how it was done, so I showed her. She doesn't eat much in way as jams until she tasted what could be done. Well now I can't keep the stuff around anymore. She pounds it. DARN!!
Fireweed grows well up here in Alaska. People make it into Salad, syrup, honey, tea, jelly and jam. Also Fireweed blooms from the bottom up. A rule of thumb in Alaska is that snow will come 6 weeks after the fireweed blooms to the top and goes to seed.
I love that you explore and find wild food on your hikes. And. to pick up litter and keep this world clean is soo amazing!! I always do this too!
Please remind your viewers not to take it all, especially when harvesting roots. If you treat your favorite foraging spots like a perennial garden they will be enjoyable for many years.
We sell the cans we pick up while hiking or just going for a walk. Win/win.
I love you guys for picking up the garbage and all that you do. Learning a ton! Thank you
the foraging thing is extremely valuable for you guys to video ongoing! Thankyou very much!
Can anyone else taste those gorgeous looking huckleberries just looking at them?
Isn't that a wonderful way to spend the day.
I am from the Philippines I'm so proud of you guys... Here majority of the youth is not interested on that way. I am one of the hiking addict . I love your videos...
The fire weed, my grandma always makes tea out of leaves (Oregon). I don't know the process of it. But she gave me already a jar of dry ready tea. Loved it. I believe its pretty famous in Russia to make tea out of it. They call it "Ivan tea"
this is what America should be all about.
you guys seem like q great couple
thanks for sharing
feel free to store your ice cream with me. it may be a little emptier when you come back.
Jay Groom oo
Can't wait to see how you preserve your loot! Love this video and the whole idea behind being self sufficient anywhere :)
You two are the sweetest couple! The chemistry you share is so lovely! And you both seem like such genuinely nice decent people. New subscriber here, blown away by your content and craving some of the preserves you are making!
And thank you picking up the rubbish of selfish people! If only more people would, or better yet if only no one littered! I try to clean up the local beaches and bush whenever I can too!
I am enjoying these videos so much. if I were 20's to 30's again, I would be in North Carolina doing what you are doing!
I've watched a lot of off grid setup videos and some other channels that seem liked they were about imparting knowledge and the vicarious experiences of what starting from the ground up is. Your videos are just so easily digestible. They're informative. They're quarky. The music is neat but doesn't add much other that covering what would be just no sound in the background of your narrations. Which i enjoy. Keep up the good work. Looks like i have about a years worth of videos to catch up on :D
mead is honey only, add fruit it becomes cidral. have fun and use a slow cool ferment yeast.
Tim
Instant subscription! Thanks for this inspiring information!
My family and I are in the process of converting a retired school bus into a tiny home on wheels. One of the things we want to get into is wild food foraging around the country!
Fireweed is because of the color the leaves turn in the fall... beautiful red and orange. The flowers make amazing ice cream too. Have crazy amounts in my home state Alaska! They are the first way we learn how fast winter is coming. After the flowers turn into white fluff it is about 6-8 weeks before snow!
I just read your article in Mother Earth News. Great break down on the expense. So miss the huckleberry since I moved south.
Thanks. I never knew fireweed was good for anything but attractive flowers.
+Brenda Pettus I also learned yesterday that you can make jelly out of the petals! Or even ice cream!!
Wow!
On that second shot of the mushrooms, I spied some wintergreen leaves all around it! The leaves are quite bitter in the winter months, but minty all year. Sometimes they grow red berries on them that are edible and quite tasty.
7.24 : pick the flower. boil water ( 100 gram flower in 1 litre water) , then some honey and some lemondrops. Great drink. The stem on the plant: like asbargus, but use when the plant is young.
Plant the berry seeds around your property. We brought back just a couple raspberries from a hike and now we have plants growing here and there. Black berries and black caps all over the place.
Great to know you can forage plenty of different types of berries..!! Free, versatile, and PROFITABLE as well.. Time well spent if you are quick and don't eat them all..!! That ice cream sounds GOOOOOD... A great addition to the crops you two will be growing.. I also noticed the pistol on Jesse's hip.. Would you mind sharing your pistol and load out for hiking.. Just cause.. No particular reason why, just a gun guy here..
I see the value of hiking for food but it's cheaper and uses far less energy to have a tray (or logs) of mushroom spores. You'll have far less need for meat with mushrooms bulking out things which is cost effective by saving hunting supplies. Plus... it's healthier and kind of fun having a tiny little mushroom farm. Just a thought from a fellow homesteader in wales, UK. Keep up the good work!
..u will help the planet for picking the garbage. I salute to both of u (:
Those Thimble Berries look great! I have never seen those before. My first thought was of a fruit dip that I like to make. You take 1 8-oz package of cream cheese (softened) and 1 jar of marshmallow cream and stir up smoothly. My first thought when I saw those berries on here was to make that fruit dip, put it in a pastry bag, and squirt/fill up the hole in those berries with it. Now I need to find some of those berries. Thanks for showing them in this video.
Great video! Gathering all those different maps is an excellent idea!
you two seem very good together. I think that is what will make you lifestyle work. great videos.
Great way to make a day hike productive and fun.
huge thumb up for picking up other people's rubbish!!!!
Great vid! Thanks for picking up other "stupid" people's litter. I do it all the time in Colo. when hiking or at a campground. On another note, I just learned that if I watch an advertisement on your Channel, or click on other ads, you do better. Hope everyone listened to what I just said. Love your channel as always. Michael
One of my favorite videos yet! Keep the good stuff coming!
Man, we have missed so much of your early vlog. Love t.these!
Take a consumptive activity like hiking and turn it into a productive activity like eating wild edibles... Got it!!
Video 5.23 : the white mushr. on the old trea : very nice to burn if you have mosquito's. Just dry them, an snipp off a small bit, fire,and use the smoke :-) New shoots on pinetreas = great tea if you're cold or have fever
That aluminum isn't garbage, collect the cans and smash them down to save space. After a year of stashing, take them to your nearby recycling center and enjoy the fruits of your garbage collecting labor! Love the videos!
You guys make a great team . Thank you for the videos. Keep up the good work !!!
I would love to try that kind of life one day. I am from Africa currently living in Norway, I used to be self-sufficient when I was young with my parents in east central Africa. Would love to try that kind of life homesteading... It's awesome way of life
nice to see you guys out in the forest , great info and beautiful area , I also enjoy that ye look for interesting camera angles like the from inside the bucket shot ! another top post .
Great videos! Could you please make a video of Poisonous plants not to eat. I'm red/green colorblind and don't wanna die.
John Brown
If you're red/green colorblind, you should get those new corrective glasses that fix it before you look too much into foraging. There's a lot of edible AND poisonous plants that have purple hues, streaks, & spots, not to mention the berries, flowers, etc. Look into the glasses!
"The most outfitted people who don't do anything out doors, ever"
I laughed at that because it is sooo true!
I am in a different country with different berries, but wild foraging is nice wherever you are 😄
When Thimble Berries are ripe you can EASILY pull them off...not ripe you can't.
Got an idea to make turning your ice-cream maker easier....remove handle..replace with a sprocket...add chain...attach to a salvaged bike...and pedal. Just a thought.... Love ALL your videos
We were out on a scout hike and a friend is a mushroom hunter. We found a cauliflower mushroom that we diced up into rice pilaf and it was fabulous. Good call to leave the mushrooms be. It has taken my friend years to get to be 80% sure of what he finds in our area alone.
Just subscribed to your channel, I love it. I watched three videos and am hooked. haha. love the outdoors, reminded me of back home in Puerto Rico where I used to pick berries, awww sweet memories,, I wish I could do what you are doing now. building your own home and everything you both do...
Been watching you two for some time and must have missed this vid. I think it is one of my favorites.. cause.. I like doing everything you did in this one.. well cept I am in Minnesota.
Another things with raspberries is there are a couple varieties including black raspberries and the lesser known Wine Berries. Wine Berries are a darker red than regular raspberries. Also Golden Raspberries (I've never seen any but they are highly sought after) and many more depending on location. Right now is peak season and like Thimble they have a very short picking cycle.
Some have every ripping so they will ripen twice, once in the spring and once in the fall. others will ripen in the summer usually mid July around here in Maryland.
The best berries will come right off the flowers and wont stain you at all. I'm noticing some of them staining your fingers.
Huckleberries are red in the Seattle area. We have several bushes are the cabin. Yum!
Got my Mother Earth News today. Looking good!
i absolutely love you guys... so very inspiring and such good energy. Thank you for your time shared!!!!!
Fireweed tea is delicious! You can use the leaves fresh or dry. As is sweet goldenrod if you have that in your area. Great video!
Hey, you can make alcohol stoves out of cans you pick up. You can use them when hiking/camping and you can sell/give them away too.
Another great video. Foraging is something often forgotten, so nice to see you doing a video on it. American Homestead also recently did a foraging episode. So maybe the concept is catching on and gaining some exposure. Glad you brought up other plants besides the berries, since there is much more than just berries to forage for. While this video focused on berries it was nice to see you acknowledged that there was a lot of other forage potential.
On mushroom picking, yes be cautious with picking mushrooms. I would in fact suggest you find someone knowledgeable in mushrooms to mentor you a bit to help show you the do's and don'ts. So many edible mushrooms have poisonous look a likes that often grow right next to the edible ones. So you positively identify one or two, think the entire patch is safe end up picking them all and mix poisonous mushrooms in with edible. Eeep, not good. A good mentor can really give you the confidence to identify mushrooms properly.
While you didn't reaslly feature it in this video, I noticed you did have a berry scoop. Those are so helpful for berry collection of some varieties, really letting you gather a lot with a lot less picking of each berry. Though they tend not to work well for multi berries a lot of single berries it does work well with.
The huckleberries in my area are bright red, I had forgotten that there were purple ones so nice to see another variety. Huckleberries are my favorite berry, when I worked trail maintenance, I plotted out all the good huckleberry patches and watched for them to ripen so I could go harvest. And yes they are valuable in barter or even cash.
Not sure if you have them in your area but in the Cascades there is a white berry up in the alpine areas, and grows singly one per plant, the plants being a low ground cover. We had always called them snow berries but seems there is another white berry called snow berry so that might not be the right name. However the white berries I am talking about are amazing tasting, and worth a lot more than huckleberries due to being so small producing of berries that harvesting them takes a lot of effort.
I've been learning about this topic as much as I can. Thank you for sharing
most species of Rubus sweeten dramatically as they ripen. one of the key identifiers is color, a raspberry darkens as it ripens, peaking at a bright red, and as it grows towards burgandy does it over ripen. the other that can be more useful, is the size of the drupelets or the little bumps. in many species they swell noticably larger than their immature neighbors. Hope this helps you guys.
The jams and jellies look good. The best edibles though are the ice creams you made. That took me back 50 years to the cookouts we had and they always ended with homemade ice cream. You should try peanut butter some time. Really yummy. I'm sure your neighbors are appreciative of your random acts of kindness. A little goes a long way. Can't wait for the build. I'm confident it will be fantastic. Stay healthy, especially Jesse and his back. I feel his pain. Bulging disc L4-L5. Ouch! 🤘
Very sweet. Berry nice suggestion on collecting maps.
I enjoy walking in the woods. Now I have a new activity looking for food.
Because they are so thin thimble berries are great for dehydrating. Sometimes they are dry right on the bush. They can be quickly added to cereal for a burst of flavor in mid winter. No extra energy needed for preservation and storage. Try to find a habitat for them in your woods. The roots can be transplanted in the winter. I have a nice row started along the edge of my food forest.
Wow what a great with full of yummy berries i wish someday i can hike with you to you a very great country
USGS archives numerous maps of BLM, and USFS areas mostly in 7.5 topographic. (But have many others) These include trails,and roads, and if comparing older maps to the most current, you will often find trails that still exist, but have fallen off in use. Also the USFS MVUM (motor vehichal use maps) are of particular use, since if you have a decent 4x4 of the high clearance type, like a jeep - you can get much further than one can hike. This later map type is used by loggers for wood cutting, which I have also noted that you do. They typically leave (although they are supposed to clean up) a lot of dead cut wood that one can just load up for fire wood. "It's your your forest - if it's dead on the ground - it's yours for the taking." - nameless forest ranger.... But also if you want to cut your own, the MVUM can get you to good places to harvest wood with a wood cutting permit.
Great video! My wife and I just bought some land and the first thing I thought was I need to plant some blueberries in the treee!
Great video and message. Yes, PACK IT OUT!!!! Idaho has to be one of the best states for natural berries. Great idea on making the ice cream and sharing with your neighbors. IMO that is a lost thing in suburbia. Out in the country, rural, people still tend to be friendly. Keep up the great work!
+canesrock82 People are very friendly and neighborly here... we try to be great neighbors as well. I agree, that is a big thing that's been lost in Suburbia.
I grew up in s.oregon. We would pick bucket loads of huckleberry up by prospect and diamond lake area,had to follow the mouth and bucket rules too.😊😊
I am catching up on your old videos now that I've found your awesome channel!!! You guys make this seem more real and more do-able for me. Thank you. This may be a repeat question-- Do you think about over-harvesting of wild edibles? I've heard rules like "you only take one of every five," and similar. Since I don't wild harvest (YET), I wonder how this fits into a sustainable/off-grid system for you guys?
Great video and information! Love your videos!
when the chap found the wild rasp berries, it looked like there was St John's wort growing just behind him (the yellow flower , hypericum perforatum) a great anti depressant
I live in the French mountains and to stop people getting sick ... if you collect mushrooms the local pharmacy will check them out for you so you are sure they are safe to eat. They are amazing if you find them!
ahhh, foraging is a fun thing for me. this should be an interesting vid! those thimble berries look a bit like salmon berries. most rubus are my fave's. sorta surprised you guys didn't see any blackberries, like the ones that are rampant in WA also thanks for doing the right thing. I personally appreciate it.
I just noticed that when you found the wild red raspberries, there was a patch of St. John's Wort behind you, the blooms are very medicinal, I'd grab some if you hike back through!
+Lunayah Moonbeams Oh cool! I'll check it out! I'm sure the book I have barely scratches the surface of what's available... doesn't even include a single mushroom!
Fireweed Jelly
Gather all the fire weed you can get. Rinse the flower stalks and the boil leaves, flowers and all. Note do this outside because it stinks. Then strain.
Take:
2 3/4 cup of the fireweed juice
1/4 cups lemon juice
1 box sure Jell
Bring to boil
And add 4 1/2 cups sugar
Boil hard for 1 minute
Skim foam and can for 10 minutes
Note to prevent foam add 1 tsp. Butter at the beginning to prevent the foaming.
To can go by the sure jell box for berries
Ha ha, anything with that much sugar in it probably tastes good! Marmalade is best!
wow!!! its so cool watching you guys, your like modern day pioneers!...and I feel deprived, I've never eaten a huckleberry in my life! much less had huckleberry ice cream!
Going to the forest is great, but I teach other that there are edibles are the big city you could find and do the same with. There wild blackberries, grapes, lemons, apples, and all kind of things to eat as we walk down the streets. Urban edibles walk are great because you can get people off the couch, and let them learn something as they walk. Love the video, thanks
+Red-Head-Ranch Awesome and you're totally right! Food isn't ONLY in the forest but within a few miles from moth anyone's home, if not right outside their front door!
really enjoyed your foraging video.glad you found people that are willing to share their fruits. so many people would rather let it rot than share. where do you two live? i'm to old for foraging but i do love topreserve foods
again, really enjoyed it. keep us posted. thanks
great video guys... loved it... also handgun looked nice...
I personally find hiking (or just walking around the block) to be extremely boring. However, foraging for free food gives one a valid excuse to do so. Still, I'm definitely more of an indoor person than an outdoor person.
looks great! I also love berry picking season.
Love this video! You seem to have a new format and it's really fun to watch 😊
"Or be seeing dancing pink elephants" HAHA, I love you guys!
The forest looks amazing and so does the food!! It must be such an amazing feeling to go out and connect with nature, walk around and get food all at once!
I was wondering if there are any dangerous animals out there though and if so, how do you protect yourself?
Jessie had a pistol on his side. Bears are visiting those same berry patches to bulk up for winter.
There are also cougar, wolves, wolverines, linx, and other animals in the ID area they live in.
Really the only animal I really worry about out in the PNW bush is cougars. Bears I respect and am cautious about but they are relatively understandable and really surprising them tends to be how most bad encounters happen, wolves rarely want to confront humans and are not likely to attack, wolverines while dangerous rarely will get near humans either. Cougars however will stalk humans and they are stealthy and quiet, thankfully they don't normally attack humans, but their instincts can be triggered into attacking accidentally. Like running, with most cats if you run they just can't help but to pursue. Like a mouse with a house cat.
+The Ineffable Homestead thank you! i didn't notice the pistol on Jesse.
it sounds scary to encouter one of them, on the other hand it's so cool there are so many wild animals in the area. I live in the Netherlands and there are no wild animals. A while back a few wolves came back - some people just wanted them killed which is such a shame :/
Romany Yes I would rather have to be cautious of predators in the area rather than have none in the area. They are an important part of the ecosystem. the return of the wolves to Yellowstone park is a good example of how predators have a big effect on the eco system. With wolves returned the elk don't kill the river trees, which stabilize the bank and draw beaver in. One species returning had a dramatic effect on Yellowstone ecosystem.
Love thimble berries. I called them fuzz-berries as a child, since they are a bit fuzzy compared to a raspberry or blackberry
they love wet areas, like near small streams, or near culverts. My parents land is next to a small 1/4 acre wetland, where a lot of fiddle head ferns grow, and a few patches of thimble berries grow too.
To me it is huge that you pick up garbage dropped by others & the solar is a great ecological idea..😄
wow like this video thanks for the info i must be like u because when i see trash at this park me and my dog go to i pick up the trash i find lay around i think it makes the park look ugly so i try to clean it up makes me feel better that the park is not so ugly anymore
If you have the right climate, try growing shiitake mushrooms. At a good farmer's market, they sell for upwards of $10 per pound.
i love picking edible fruits , used to make wines and jams , chutney.. and litter . well enough said , my pet gripe ... take it with you dont drop it .... great video ..cheers from uk
Wow awesome I love eat that too when go hiking very good video.
Entertaining and informative. Thanks guys!!!
I think thats how humans ever first knew wgat to eat , by just watching what animals eat. I love the wayu guys actually use the resources available to u. Plus its a healthy way of living.
Where are u guys at? Alaska?
Are there no mosquitoes or ticks or berries with thorns in your area? I live in Europe, but I never go into the woods without covering arms and legs fully. Otherwise you get eaten alive by the insects and scratched bloody by the plants. ;-)
But I like what you're doing, I used to love to go foraging, even for medicinal plants and I learned a lot about them from my mom and we also knew almost all the mushrooms. That was before my mom died and I wasn't longer able to walk, sigh. I do miss it.
Thank you so much for showing us some good information
I will show this to my husband
I would love to walk in the Woods ( we live in the Country but I have chronic pain every day so I can't do that anymore)
I miss it so much.now I read a lot. " I get books at the thrift store for 0.9cents to .29cents
Books that range from 5.00$ to 39$ and up and holidays is half off days "
But anyway sorry got carried away again
You are so right about it being currency.a lot of people in the bigger City's don't understand that.
It's good to have money of course but knowing how to survive without it is priceless
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This is such a cool vid! I learned some new things too! TFS!
Hey there, one idea is you can start useing the geocaching g system but instead, use it to track your foraging spots. You can track your spot up to 20ft depending on the gps unit. that way you can always go back to your spot and know exactly what it is and when to pick them
I have a raspberries that I planted and its two summers old. Annoyingly birds ate them before they got ripe. Hopefully I can get the pruning process down so I can have enough for birds and myself!
Great video! Its very inspirational to see your ideas!
I love thimbleberries. They taste like what a raspberry wants to taste like when it grows up. The only way I could see someone not liking thimbleberry is if it was a different variety that is not very flavorful that I've heard exists. The thimbleberry that grows here in Utah has white flowers and is really tasty. I've heard the pink flowered varieties aren't that flavorful.
We get lots of wild plums here in France!!
I had to share hoping that the family can go foraging soon..