Been half Native American ( Creek Indian ) your foraging is TRULY ON POINT you have great knowledge & great video Brother I’m TRULY enjoying watching them‼️
I am also a half Creek Native American 😁 My Native Grandmother was born in the middle 1890's. Her first cousin was the Great Native American Writer "Alexander Posey". She taught me about my culture, wildcrafting and survival. I hold those lessons dear to my heart! I passed these lessons onto my Daughters, but I sadly found only one showed any interest. But I have 3 grandson's and the two older boys (the 3rd is still a "young pup" in training), are both intrested in learning from Grandma! My family is from the Eufala area of Oklahoma, that is where my Grandma was born. But we now live close to the Miami area (across the line into Kansas). LONG LIVE THE CREEK NATION!!
Simply outstanding presentation...Absolutely the best presentation I have seen on TH-cam...your attention to such detailed photography and your clear explanations are a cut above...thank you very, very much...
My great grandmother was Bavarian, and did Kaballic herbal work. These videos, at 71, remind me so much of her teaching methods. I was the first of her great grandchildren, and she lived to 103. I have at least 32 more years! Thank you for these, especially in these times, subscribing.
Very well presented and informative video. Thanks, mate. I grew up in the Australian bush and I often saw the local native people harvesting sap fro native trees, like gum trees and wattle, but I never knew what they used it for. Possibly for other uses, too,not only as medicine or food. I also saw little native children sucking nectar out of a local Australia shrugged b called the "Bottle Brush" because it looks like a bottle cleaning brush, typically in shades of red. And once I saw such little native kids quickly scale a tall Eucalypt where they had spotted a parrot family of Crimson Rosellas nested each year. Mother parrot had just fed her babies on nectar from flowers she had gathered. So the little native kids felt entitled to also get some, as they love anything sweet. So they grabbed the baby birds, tipped them upside down with beaks open, so the nectar their mum had just fed them flowed out of their mouths and straight into the mouths of these little native kids. I couldn't believe the ease and dexterity they innocently did this in. "Hey, you! Leave them poor babies alone, they're little and hungry... " I yelled at these kids. "So are we... There's heaps more trees out there she can get food from... Grubs, worms, bull ants..." They had a point. There was any dant food in the bush, if you knew what you could or could not safely eat. They obviously instinctively knew that, if baby birds didn't die from what their mother had put into their mouths, neither would they if they took it straight out of the baby birds and put it into theirs. They seemed blissfully unaware of serious diseases that migratory birds in Australia, which can come from as far away as Siberia, in the northern hemisphere, can carry, when they come here to mate and return. These northern hemisphere ones are probably OK but there are many beautiful exptic species coming down from places like tropical areas, that could be bringing in diseases we cannot control. They don't go through Customs or respect any Covid lockdown travel restricts. They just fly in and out as they wish. And yet, despite all these potential health hazards from eating wild food and extreme wilderness survival etc, the Australian natives are the old surviving people's on earth, been around for about 70, 000 years and still here, though attempts to integrate them into white western society eg eating all our sugary, over processed foods, artificial drugs, alcohol etc kills them more than any previous very harsher life they lived, surviving by hunting and wild plant food, insects, reptiles etc they could catch, often in a very barren, hostile natural environment, with everything in nature ready to attack, eat, poison, hunt every other species in the competition for survival in a harsher environment. This sort of information you present is very useful to know because one never knows when it could come in handy. Like when those two dudes who decided to go on their last big adventure trip and died in the Canadian wilderness, after their killing spree. Had they know about extreme wilderness survival, they might have been able to enjoy their adventure trip with no need to go on a killing spree and then die of starvation themselves. I am sure there were enough beetles, insects, pine needles and Cambria, fiddlesticks ferns, Milkwood etc they could have eaten to remain alive on. A guy in Australia did this once, and remained alive a long time in the forest, just eating whatever he could forage in the wilderness, completely alone and nothing else, no outside help. It's possible. Re the clever girl Monarch Butterfly who is very fussy about her diet and very beautiful, watching her beauty and figure, by only eating Milkwood, I like the way she keeps herself safe from predators. By ingesting the plants poison which basically gives others a clear message to not mess with her. I wish we human females could find something we could eat that produces a very toxic "defence chemical" to quickly and automatically kill any rapists, murderers, domestic violence perpetrators etc on contact... (But not harm the good men...). I wonder if the lady Monarch's poison hurts male Monarch butterflies wanting to court her for her beauty? Maybe it kills them, too and, like the male spider, the male Monarch butterfly must die after mating and ends up eaten by his true lady love butterfly, so she can lay eggs etc and keep the life cycle going. Someone has to stick around to keep things going, lay the eggs, produce the next generation...
I bought some beautiful just-picked fiddleheads at a nice market. Cooked as prepared, they nevertheless made my tongue burn, and I developed little blisters on the roof of my mouth and into my throat. Not for me!
Just yesterday, March11, 2019, I harvested about a pound of wild fiddlehead from my favourite foraging spot! I steam them, rather than boiling, as I feel that process retains more of the nutrients. Thank you for a great video! Edit to add: they are delicious!
Your cattail information was fantastic. You definitely know your stuff 👍🏻 I worried for a second thinking the important details of this plant wouldn’t be shared because of the invasive plant but you did a great job at explaining 😁
I hope that you will continue to do research and increase your library of edibles and techniques for harvesting and consumption!!! I’m very interested ,and I’m impressed with how easy it is for me to understand you and glean the information from you.
"What part of the cattail is your favourite to use?" - I love the tender flower part at the top - not the part that turns brown but when past ready, it is the part that turns to fluff before the bottom section that turns brown. Boiling these tops (after removing the husk like you do corn) in water, then rolling them in butter (salt n pepper to taste) then eaten like corn (the core is too hard - like eating a stick). Taste reminds me of asparagus. When the tops have split their husks already & have started turning yellow with pollen, shake these into a container. The pollen is delish mixed with eggs. Gives them a slightly nutty flavour. The pollen can't be stored for long though, it will turn to fluff in a matter of days if not frozen to keep longer. The young new shoots that have not broke the water surface yet and still only the size of your thumb or smaller attached to the root is very good too. Great vid by the way. I like how you actually show people you are eating this stuff. It is one thing to say "this is edible" but entirely another thing to show people and actually do it.
Most important statement in this video: “Just because you read about it on line, or see some guy on TH-cam eating a wild edible does not mean you should take them for their word”. I’m sick of other you tubers touting some nonsense as definite fact.
After you cut the roots off , you should put them back in the water (replant them) most times they will grow back. I've done this several times. Also you can take the brown portion of the cattail ( with a lo n g portion of the stalk) put it in some type of flammable liquid and then use it as a torch.
Thank you for taking the time to show the difference in growth pattern of fiddle heads. I appreciate how through you are and even doing the cooking process with various suggestions. Much gratitude.
I agree! Unfortunately, there are too many "educators" who are focused on propaganda and pushing an unrealistic fantasy instead of helping children survive in any environment. How wonderful it would be if kids were taught just a few truths about the real world and how to be comfortable in the woods.
You do such an amazing job and carefully telling each characteristic and doing so easily not confusing or unfocused or too fast or anything ...great job !
How did you learn about wild edibles and such? I did learn a few thing from my grandmother but I do wish I'd gotten to spend more with her before she left us she had the kind of knowledges you display you know, the kind we all should have but have lost over the years just because no one was using these tidbits of knowledge from days gone by and so we've forgotten them completely. Well , most of us have but gratefully you have not. 😄
me myself started eating wild food ,after I died of cardiac arrest ,I don't like to take unatural drugs so I started expirementing with the simple one like the dandy lions now I wont ever go hungrey im knowlagable about this areas wild food most are in my yard I don't have to see my doctor anymore,
I was interested in witchcraft as a teen, and began learning about plants for witchy spells. This blossomed into a fierce interest in collecting and growing any food or herb I can for my family. We are having a cream of chive soup tonight from this week's forage. Love these videos!
@@Kodaiva when you have cardiac arrest you can go heart dead but your brain is still working electrical shocks can revive your heart and you'll come back from "dying"
This brought back such sweet memories of me and my daddy walking the woods picking wild onions, lettuce and him teaching me, difference between poison an edible, thank u because as I've gotten older and he passed years ago , I didn't trust my memory, so now excited, wild onions are one of my favorite veggies, they are delicious,
Cattails are wonderful! The roots can be used for flour and the yellow pollen on the spike at the top of the seed head can make a cattail flour bread look great and it is also, very healthy as the flour has a much greater amount of starch than wheat does. The seed heads can be eaten raw or boiled when they are still young and green! The stems after drying and a little straightening can be used as makeshift arrow shafts, too! Great video with tons of information! Thanks!!!
when harvesting the cambium, making a paste of dirt and moss if possible and putting it on the area of cambium taken to help try to prevent disease and bugs.
Your thorough detailed info is also diverse and delivered perfectly both visually and audibly. Great stuff man. I'm new to foraging and it's hard to find videos that are as detailed about the foraged species as your videos are. I feel so much more confident in an identification if I see it in your video not just a field guide or the inaturalist ap or something
My aunt who used to live in Minn. Gave my parents a start of ostrich Fern. We planted it on north side of our house, where the soil was usually fairly damp. The ferns spread, but no farther than the shadow of our house. I used to go out, rub off the brown papery skin, and nibble just a few, flavor was like young peas. I might go on to gather a few more to cook with other spring greens. My father taught me that black birch twigs had a pleasant flavor. The family has since sold the land where the black birch stood. He also showed me where tiny wild onions grew in spring. He told me in his childhood, wild onions were the first fresh food of spring, much anticipated after months eating foods stored for winter.
Thank you for sharing this information in a video format, it's easier to understand with visual images and you showing where you picked the stuff up. Thanks!
Fiddleheads sauteed in butter is one of my favorites! Also tea from Douglas Fir leaves. I have so many recipes for catttails but I haven't been able to use them yet! The marsh near my old place was a huge blackwater system and it made all those edible cattails poisonous, such a sad waste.
WOW very specific and thorough! I don't have common milkweed where I live but have another variety that I consume regularly and it taste like okra without mucus. I didn't know you should only eat common milkweed! I will be seeking out all your videos, Thank you!
I weave baskets out of cattail leaves, use the roots for soup, and make the seed fluffs into blowgun dart fluffs. The dart shaft is made of giant rivercane split apart and the points are fire hardend and ground down on a piece of rough sandstone. The thread for binding the fluffs is usually cotton thread but I have used sinews too. The glue for finishing the binding of the fluff is heated pine tar. It's painted on the shaft and the thread is wound onto it. But you can use hide glue as well, you just have to let it dry longer. Hide glue makes a longer lasting dart, but you're gonna lose darts when you hunt anyways. So they don't have to be perfect. Blowguns are good for hunting squirrels, doves, frogs, and partridges. If you go for larger game, you have to poison the darts but that makes it really dangerous and it's illegal. A hunting dart is 10 inches long. A hunting blowgun is 7 ft long. The dart doesn't kill the game in most cases, it just pins them so they can't get away, you still have to dispatch it yourself. You need about 12 frogs to make a meal of their meaty hind legs. If you're where there are cattails, that's also where frogs like to be. I've tried attaching strings to darts but they tend to stall the dart in the blowgun, so if a frog goes into deeper water, it's lost unfortunately. I'll have to try the cattail shoots, they sound tasty. I'm vegetarian in regards to farmed meat. But I still hunt and gather and eat insects. Locusts taste like shrimp and I really love the crunch of them. I gather locusts with a butterfly net and a basket and fry them or roast them. Japanese beetle grubs are best sauteed in butter with fresh dill and a squeeze of lemon. And I buy mealworms commercially. You just can't find enough by foraging. I'm thinking of raising them myself. I have enough stale flour to keep them happy I think. I could stand to eat a lot of those. Mealworm tacos are the bomb.
I make pine needle tea and steep it overnight. I boil the water and pour it over the cut pine needles and then cover the container. The color can get to an astounding GORGEOUS Amber color after filtering it thru a paper towel or coffee filter ... It contains a light lovely Pine flavor and reminds me of Christmas. Sometimes I add a few strands of dried Cambium. I never get bitter or cloudy tea and I never add sugar or honey. It's simply not necessary. ENJOY !!!
maybe pine is bitter and acidic cuz its meant to be a more medicinal tea? Cuz the others sound like something most would drink more often due to their flavors possibly hmmmm...
I no longer am affected by poison ivy. When I was younger I got it all the time. I used the sap from milk weed instead of calamine lotion. It is sticky but works great. I was told about this by a Native American friend.
Bruh! This was so cool! I normally don’t comment anymore, but this video and all your details were so cool I went out of my way to get on a computer. Nice job! Thanks!
for cambium, it's better to cut into the tree a small rectangle, 1-2" in width and 3-6" in length. The tree can easily heal over this wound as if it were a pruning wound, and the same tree can be collected from multiple times using this method if the areas cut are spread out from one another.
밀크위드군락이네요.처음봐요. 열매를 간장에 조려 먹을수 있군요. 겨울철 재난시 소나묶 속껍질을 식용으로 사용할수 있군요. 소나무잎으로 차를 만들수도 있고 잎위에 가을이면 다양한 콩과 밤과 대추를 넣고 만든 송편이라는 떡을 찌기도 해요. 봄에 먹을 수 있는 어린 새숭 식용 고사리도 있네요. 한국에서는 기름에 간장을 넣고 볶거나 육계장 같은 매운탕에 넣어 사용해요. 물가에 자라는 카테일,꽃꽃이용으로 도 쓰이는 식물인데 젤리가 햇빛화상이나 상처치료에 사용할 수 있군요. 줄기 속부분은 식용가능하군요. 한국에서는 소나무근처에 송이버섯이라는 비싼 식용버섯이 자라요. 그래서 해마다 봄철 한때 송이버섯채취를 하여 비싸게 팔아요. 크리스마스 트리로 사용하는 나무들도 있네요. 숲속에 자산이 엄청나네요. 부자시네요. 각종 미네랄이 들어있는 나무수액이 훌륭한 음료가 될수 있네요.
💚Brother, your content is top-notch! I'm a fellow forager with a small channel, and I genuinely look up to you. Your dedication and talent are evident, and I'm excited to see what you'll create next. Keep shining and inspiring others! 🌿
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At 43:10 that totally makes sense. I love Christmas and I have always had a real Christmas tree I try to get a different tree each year but the scandanavian citrus ! 🤔 I forget the name of it ... But we have a tree farm that grows them in Tennessee. But I love it. Now I'm curious what a tea would be like from this streem of pine tree ... I'm sure it's probably a fur ! But it can't remember the name .. this is all so cool !!! Keep up the good work , and thank you ! I'm a new subscriber.
I had a woman who was from Mongolia come and harvest mature fiddle head leaves to eat. She was so happy to find them. She said she will blanch them and eat them
i like the flower before it turns brown. and dry,-steamed and eaten from the stem also the shoot at the base of the stalk that will be next springs stalk
I hope that you do more videos excellent job. I was disturbed by the way you handled the cat Tails I wish that you would have left the roots in the water or had replanted them . Otherwise excellent job, I will vote for you to make more links ,only be more thoughtful about our Mother Earth.
Thank you for this excellent series on wild edibles. Do you mind me asking what you are using for audio (mic and software)? Your voiceover work is wonderful and the sound is crystal clear. I plan to do a series on foraging for edible desert plants.
Very kool, thank you for taking the time to show us your videos. I subscribed to you, I don't have have many on my list but your definitely one to have . Thanks again.
In asia fiddle heads are sold and prepared daily as vegetable also as asparagus substitute they dont boil just wash then fry it with potatoes ,,,, first fry potatoes in oil then put chopped garlic or powder then some dry chilli whole then chopped tomatoes then put fiddle heads and salt then fry for 5 mins more then cover it for 5 more mins the thats it ,, ( youtube got fiddlehead recipe videos as well )basically its asian asparagus
Excellent content human... This homosapien keeps impressing me with his skills and knowledge and hes not even ancient! Pinus Strobus is best for tea;) Is there any Betula papyrifera around to collect chaga?
These videos are not only for the case of you being completely lost and hungry in the woods, but also to teach you about wild plants that are usable for "normal" consumption, instead of your usual staples like lettuce or kale or whatever :)
Been half Native American ( Creek Indian ) your foraging is TRULY ON POINT you have great knowledge & great video Brother I’m TRULY enjoying watching them‼️
I am also a half Creek Native American 😁
My Native Grandmother was born in the middle 1890's.
Her first cousin was the Great Native American Writer "Alexander Posey".
She taught me about my culture, wildcrafting and survival.
I hold those lessons dear to my heart!
I passed these lessons onto my Daughters, but I sadly found only one showed any interest.
But I have 3 grandson's and the two older boys (the 3rd is still a "young pup" in training), are both intrested in learning from Grandma!
My family is from the Eufala area of Oklahoma, that is where my Grandma was born.
But we now live close to the Miami area (across the line into Kansas).
LONG LIVE THE CREEK NATION!!
(@B Light ) Hey outstanding history brother, wow, my mother side which Creek Indian were from Northeast part of Mississippi.
@@blight8619 wow what an amazing story. I really enjoy hearing stories about how people keep their culture going through generations!
I am also here in Alabama among the Creek!
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Simply outstanding presentation...Absolutely the best presentation I have seen on TH-cam...your attention to such detailed photography and your clear explanations are a cut above...thank you very, very much...
he's giving us a master class for free!
you should watch alfieaesthetics
TRULY FANTASTIC JOB YOU'RE DOING and I am SO grateful!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My great grandmother was Bavarian, and did Kaballic herbal work. These videos, at 71, remind me so much of her teaching methods. I was the first of her great grandchildren, and she lived to 103. I have at least 32 more years! Thank you for these, especially in these times, subscribing.
Very well presented and informative video. Thanks, mate. I grew up in the Australian bush and I often saw the local native people harvesting sap fro native trees, like gum trees and wattle, but I never knew what they used it for. Possibly for other uses, too,not only as medicine or food. I also saw little native children sucking nectar out of a local Australia shrugged b called the "Bottle Brush" because it looks like a bottle cleaning brush, typically in shades of red. And once I saw such little native kids quickly scale a tall Eucalypt where they had spotted a parrot family of Crimson Rosellas nested each year. Mother parrot had just fed her babies on nectar from flowers she had gathered. So the little native kids felt entitled to also get some, as they love anything sweet. So they grabbed the baby birds, tipped them upside down with beaks open, so the nectar their mum had just fed them flowed out of their mouths and straight into the mouths of these little native kids. I couldn't believe the ease and dexterity they innocently did this in. "Hey, you! Leave them poor babies alone, they're little and hungry... " I yelled at these kids. "So are we... There's heaps more trees out there she can get food from... Grubs, worms, bull ants..." They had a point. There was any dant food in the bush, if you knew what you could or could not safely eat. They obviously instinctively knew that, if baby birds didn't die from what their mother had put into their mouths, neither would they if they took it straight out of the baby birds and put it into theirs. They seemed blissfully unaware of serious diseases that migratory birds in Australia, which can come from as far away as Siberia, in the northern hemisphere, can carry, when they come here to mate and return. These northern hemisphere ones are probably OK but there are many beautiful exptic species coming down from places like tropical areas, that could be bringing in diseases we cannot control. They don't go through Customs or respect any Covid lockdown travel restricts. They just fly in and out as they wish. And yet, despite all these potential health hazards from eating wild food and extreme wilderness survival etc, the Australian natives are the old surviving people's on earth, been around for about 70, 000 years and still here, though attempts to integrate them into white western society eg eating all our sugary, over processed foods, artificial drugs, alcohol etc kills them more than any previous very harsher life they lived, surviving by hunting and wild plant food, insects, reptiles etc they could catch, often in a very barren, hostile natural environment, with everything in nature ready to attack, eat, poison, hunt every other species in the competition for survival in a harsher environment. This sort of information you present is very useful to know because one never knows when it could come in handy. Like when those two dudes who decided to go on their last big adventure trip and died in the Canadian wilderness, after their killing spree. Had they know about extreme wilderness survival, they might have been able to enjoy their adventure trip with no need to go on a killing spree and then die of starvation themselves. I am sure there were enough beetles, insects, pine needles and Cambria, fiddlesticks ferns, Milkwood etc they could have eaten to remain alive on. A guy in Australia did this once, and remained alive a long time in the forest, just eating whatever he could forage in the wilderness, completely alone and nothing else, no outside help. It's possible. Re the clever girl Monarch Butterfly who is very fussy about her diet and very beautiful, watching her beauty and figure, by only eating Milkwood, I like the way she keeps herself safe from predators. By ingesting the plants poison which basically gives others a clear message to not mess with her. I wish we human females could find something we could eat that produces a very toxic "defence chemical" to quickly and automatically kill any rapists, murderers, domestic violence perpetrators etc on contact... (But not harm the good men...). I wonder if the lady Monarch's poison hurts male Monarch butterflies wanting to court her for her beauty? Maybe it kills them, too and, like the male spider, the male Monarch butterfly must die after mating and ends up eaten by his true lady love butterfly, so she can lay eggs etc and keep the life cycle going. Someone has to stick around to keep things going, lay the eggs, produce the next generation...
Fiddle heads are amazing when first par-boiled in salt water, then pan fried with lemon zest, minced garlic, butter, salt and freshly ground pepper
Pretty sure anything is good with this preparation!
@@poopymcgee yeah okay poopy McGee....
@@fucku3460 lol and your name is any less silly than Poopy McGee?
I bought some beautiful just-picked fiddleheads at a nice market. Cooked as prepared, they nevertheless made my tongue burn, and I developed little blisters on the roof of my mouth and into my throat. Not for me!
+@@grovermartin6874 It sounds like it might have been the type of fiddle head - most are edible, but there is only one type that actually tastes good.
Just yesterday, March11, 2019, I harvested about a pound of wild fiddlehead from my favourite foraging spot! I steam them, rather than boiling, as I feel that process retains more of the nutrients. Thank you for a great video!
Edit to add: they are delicious!
Funny says one year ago when it's been two..
Your cattail information was fantastic. You definitely know your stuff 👍🏻 I worried for a second thinking the important details of this plant wouldn’t be shared because of the invasive plant but you did a great job at explaining 😁
I hope that you will continue to do research and increase your library of edibles and techniques for harvesting and consumption!!! I’m very interested ,and I’m impressed with how easy it is for me to understand you and glean the information from you.
1000% !!!!!! You make it so perfectly clear for us newbies!
"What part of the cattail is your favourite to use?" - I love the tender flower part at the top - not the part that turns brown but when past ready, it is the part that turns to fluff before the bottom section that turns brown. Boiling these tops (after removing the husk like you do corn) in water, then rolling them in butter (salt n pepper to taste) then eaten like corn (the core is too hard - like eating a stick). Taste reminds me of asparagus.
When the tops have split their husks already & have started turning yellow with pollen, shake these into a container. The pollen is delish mixed with eggs. Gives them a slightly nutty flavour. The pollen can't be stored for long though, it will turn to fluff in a matter of days if not frozen to keep longer.
The young new shoots that have not broke the water surface yet and still only the size of your thumb or smaller attached to the root is very good too.
Great vid by the way. I like how you actually show people you are eating this stuff. It is one thing to say "this is edible" but entirely another thing to show people and actually do it.
If you pull the undeveloped leaves apart at the base of a cattail there is a sticky substance that can be used for wound care
@@nicevers and extended love making
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Most important statement in this video: “Just because you read about it on line, or see some guy on TH-cam eating a wild edible does not mean you should take them for their word”. I’m sick of other you tubers touting some nonsense as definite fact.
And just because someone went to school doesn't mean they know everything about the natural cures. Like doctors, they only treat and cut you.
After you cut the roots off , you should put them back in the water (replant them) most times they will grow back.
I've done this several times.
Also you can take the brown portion of the cattail ( with a lo n g portion of the stalk) put it in some type of flammable liquid and then use it as a torch.
Thank you for taking the time to show the difference in growth pattern of fiddle heads. I appreciate how through you are and even doing the cooking process with various suggestions. Much gratitude.
This is what kids should be learning in school. Very important
I agree! Unfortunately, there are too many "educators" who are focused on propaganda and pushing an unrealistic fantasy instead of helping children survive in any environment. How wonderful it would be if kids were taught just a few truths about the real world and how to be comfortable in the woods.
Home school!!!
100 percent
You do such an amazing job and carefully telling each characteristic and doing so easily not confusing or unfocused or too fast or anything ...great job !
How did you learn about wild edibles and such? I did learn a few thing from my grandmother but I do wish I'd gotten to spend more with her before she left us she had the kind of knowledges you display you know, the kind we all should have but have lost over the years just because no one was using these tidbits of knowledge from days gone by and so we've forgotten them completely. Well , most of us have but gratefully you have not. 😄
me myself started eating wild food ,after I died of cardiac arrest ,I don't like to take unatural drugs so I started expirementing with the simple one like the dandy lions now I wont ever go hungrey im knowlagable about this areas wild food most are in my yard I don't have to see my doctor anymore,
I was interested in witchcraft as a teen, and began learning about plants for witchy spells. This blossomed into a fierce interest in collecting and growing any food or herb I can for my family. We are having a cream of chive soup tonight from this week's forage. Love these videos!
@@jamesthomas5993 you died of cardiac arrest?
@@Kodaiva he is a ghost
@@Kodaiva when you have cardiac arrest you can go heart dead but your brain is still working electrical shocks can revive your heart and you'll come back from "dying"
This brought back such sweet memories of me and my daddy walking the woods picking wild onions, lettuce and him teaching me, difference between poison an edible, thank u because as I've gotten older and he passed years ago , I didn't trust my memory, so now excited, wild onions are one of my favorite veggies, they are delicious,
Awesome information!! I will keep this knowledge for life. Thanks.
It's good to see Canadian made videos on foraging
Thank you for this
My gosh it’s you again
O great omnipotent one
How the hell did u end up here?.!?!
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Cattails are wonderful! The roots can be used for flour and the yellow pollen on the spike at the top of the seed head can make a cattail flour bread look great and it is also, very healthy as the flour has a much greater amount of starch than wheat does. The seed heads can be eaten raw or boiled when they are still young and green! The stems after drying and a little straightening can be used as makeshift arrow shafts, too!
Great video with tons of information! Thanks!!!
when harvesting the cambium, making a paste of dirt and moss if possible and putting it on the area of cambium taken to help try to prevent disease and bugs.
I'm glad to hear you talk about the different pines and how they are not all edible
Your thorough detailed info is also diverse and delivered perfectly both visually and audibly. Great stuff man. I'm new to foraging and it's hard to find videos that are as detailed about the foraged species as your videos are. I feel so much more confident in an identification if I see it in your video not just a field guide or the inaturalist ap or something
My aunt who used to live in Minn. Gave my parents a start of ostrich Fern. We planted it on north side of our house, where the soil was usually fairly damp. The ferns spread, but no farther than the shadow of our house. I used to go out, rub off the brown papery skin, and nibble just a few, flavor was like young peas. I might go on to gather a few more to cook with other spring greens.
My father taught me that black birch twigs had a pleasant flavor. The family has since sold the land where the black birch stood. He also showed me where tiny wild onions grew in spring. He told me in his childhood, wild onions were the first fresh food of spring, much anticipated after months eating foods stored for winter.
Thank you for sharing this information in a video format, it's easier to understand with visual images and you showing where you picked the stuff up. Thanks!
Great subject matter and presentation. Love all the camera angles and close ups.
Extremely well done video. Clear photos, differences, how to treat for eating
great video! so much easier to digest than a field guide. Seriously well done
Fiddleheads sauteed in butter is one of my favorites! Also tea from Douglas Fir leaves. I have so many recipes for catttails but I haven't been able to use them yet! The marsh near my old place was a huge blackwater system and it made all those edible cattails poisonous, such a sad waste.
10:08 made my mouth water, i grew up in deep country eating these mushrooms every spring
Brilliant contribution, very useful, thanks...
WOW very specific and thorough! I don't have common milkweed where I live but have another variety that I consume regularly and it taste like okra without mucus. I didn't know you should only eat common milkweed! I will be seeking out all your videos, Thank you!
I've used cattail roots for flour. Wash them, dry them overnight on low heat in oven to dry them out, then peal & grind into flour.
Indispensable information. Thank you. Looking forward to watching ALL your other videos.
the tip or bloom when still green and young when boiled add a little butter it is like corn on the cob
Which plant are u referring to ?
Great channel. I was a park ranger in my younger days and really enjoy your information
I weave baskets out of cattail leaves, use the roots for soup, and make the seed fluffs into blowgun dart fluffs. The dart shaft is made of giant rivercane split apart and the points are fire hardend and ground down on a piece of rough sandstone. The thread for binding the fluffs is usually cotton thread but I have used sinews too. The glue for finishing the binding of the fluff is heated pine tar. It's painted on the shaft and the thread is wound onto it. But you can use hide glue as well, you just have to let it dry longer. Hide glue makes a longer lasting dart, but you're gonna lose darts when you hunt anyways. So they don't have to be perfect. Blowguns are good for hunting squirrels, doves, frogs, and partridges. If you go for larger game, you have to poison the darts but that makes it really dangerous and it's illegal. A hunting dart is 10 inches long. A hunting blowgun is 7 ft long. The dart doesn't kill the game in most cases, it just pins them so they can't get away, you still have to dispatch it yourself. You need about 12 frogs to make a meal of their meaty hind legs. If you're where there are cattails, that's also where frogs like to be. I've tried attaching strings to darts but they tend to stall the dart in the blowgun, so if a frog goes into deeper water, it's lost unfortunately.
I'll have to try the cattail shoots, they sound tasty. I'm vegetarian in regards to farmed meat. But I still hunt and gather and eat insects. Locusts taste like shrimp and I really love the crunch of them. I gather locusts with a butterfly net and a basket and fry them or roast them. Japanese beetle grubs are best sauteed in butter with fresh dill and a squeeze of lemon. And I buy mealworms commercially. You just can't find enough by foraging. I'm thinking of raising them myself. I have enough stale flour to keep them happy I think. I could stand to eat a lot of those. Mealworm tacos are the bomb.
Very informative and well put together.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. I am learning so much.
Good content, good presentation. Subscribed.
What a sweet heart and smart...
Thank you
I love this plant. The flower is just so beautiful
I make pine needle tea and steep it overnight. I boil the water and pour it over the cut pine needles and then cover the container. The color can get to an astounding GORGEOUS Amber color after filtering it thru a paper towel or coffee filter ... It contains a light lovely Pine flavor and reminds me of Christmas. Sometimes I add a few strands of dried Cambium. I never get bitter or cloudy tea and I never add sugar or honey. It's simply not necessary. ENJOY !!!
Just found this...
Thank you.
I try to be self-sustaining on my property.
cambium is super epic.
I didn't know that one
More tree knowledge for us! Woot!
Thank you kindly
maybe pine is bitter and acidic cuz its meant to be a more medicinal tea?
Cuz the others sound like something most would drink more often due to their flavors
possibly
hmmmm...
I no longer am affected by poison ivy. When I was younger I got it all the time. I used the sap from milk weed instead of calamine lotion. It is sticky but works great. I was told about this by a Native American friend.
"Thanks,watching your show.I got up and made myself a cup of white spruce tea.....nothing beats mother NATURE "
Bruh! This was so cool! I normally don’t comment anymore, but this video and all your details were so cool I went out of my way to get on a computer. Nice job! Thanks!
When i was a kid I thought the milk from the milkweed plant was glue 😐 i think I touched it but thankfully nothing happened to me
Great video buddy, Very informative.. I will be researching and trying some of this myself!
for cambium, it's better to cut into the tree a small rectangle, 1-2" in width and 3-6" in length. The tree can easily heal over this wound as if it were a pruning wound, and the same tree can be collected from multiple times using this method if the areas cut are spread out from one another.
There are some toxic versions of ostrich fern that only has a golden fuzz on them instead of the brown husk.
I love America! Love this video.
I love your videos. Quick and to the point!
I feel so lucky to have found your channel…
very instructive. One more very good video. Thanks.
밀크위드군락이네요.처음봐요. 열매를 간장에 조려 먹을수 있군요. 겨울철 재난시 소나묶 속껍질을 식용으로 사용할수 있군요. 소나무잎으로 차를 만들수도 있고 잎위에 가을이면 다양한 콩과 밤과 대추를 넣고 만든 송편이라는 떡을 찌기도 해요. 봄에 먹을 수 있는 어린 새숭 식용 고사리도 있네요. 한국에서는 기름에 간장을 넣고 볶거나 육계장 같은 매운탕에 넣어 사용해요. 물가에 자라는 카테일,꽃꽃이용으로 도 쓰이는 식물인데 젤리가 햇빛화상이나 상처치료에 사용할 수 있군요. 줄기 속부분은 식용가능하군요. 한국에서는 소나무근처에 송이버섯이라는 비싼 식용버섯이 자라요. 그래서 해마다 봄철 한때 송이버섯채취를 하여 비싸게 팔아요. 크리스마스 트리로 사용하는 나무들도 있네요. 숲속에 자산이 엄청나네요. 부자시네요. 각종 미네랄이 들어있는 나무수액이 훌륭한 음료가 될수 있네요.
Love this kinda content and love your extensive knowledge!
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You're a GOOD Man. You respect Nature and teach us to do the same. I'm in your debt. Thank you.
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Thanks Outsider 👍💖
Thank you, Outsider!!
These are delightful!
This was really interesting! Thank you!
The root is my favorite part. It allows you to make a sort of bread.
At 43:10 that totally makes sense. I love Christmas and I have always had a real Christmas tree I try to get a different tree each year but the scandanavian citrus ! 🤔 I forget the name of it ... But we have a tree farm that grows them in Tennessee. But I love it. Now I'm curious what a tea would be like from this streem of pine tree ... I'm sure it's probably a fur ! But it can't remember the name .. this is all so cool !!! Keep up the good work , and thank you ! I'm a new subscriber.
Your video was amazing absolutely amazing.
Fiddlehead is the most delicious wild edible food.
I have recipes that use the fluffy part of the cattail for flour (grind it) and in place of corn like in stuffing or bread.
Thank you
I had a woman who was from Mongolia come and harvest mature fiddle head leaves to eat. She was so happy to find them. She said she will blanch them and eat them
My father taught me about cattails a while ago and the first thing I said when I saw one ... Water sausage
I felt sick once and chewed on pine needless... felt better immediately
i like the flower before it turns brown. and dry,-steamed and eaten from the stem also the shoot at the base of the stalk that will be next springs stalk
I hope that you do more videos excellent job. I was disturbed by the way you handled the cat Tails I wish that you would have left the roots in the water or had replanted them . Otherwise excellent job, I will vote for you to make more links ,only be more thoughtful about our Mother Earth.
What is the difference between cedar and juniper? Enjoying your videos. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
I love fiddlehead wine. If we all don’t turn into zombies soon, I will bring this dish to my restaurant.
Thanks so much!!🙂
Good stuff , thanks!
Ill tqry to remember this next time I'm lost in the forest. Hope I have butter and soy sauce in my backpack!
Excellent Content!!
The lead stem looked good on the first leaf he picked.
Excellent
This was such a helpful video. Thanks
Somthing I commonly used to make rope edible neat
I all of a sudden have a hankering for some sautéed fiddle heads!
while eating the pine cambium your eyes told the story of it tasting horrible raw. lol
You soft arse. You have different taste buds for a reason. Feed them all, not just that sugary part you've become addicted to
@@nyakwarObat dude its like eating pine needles
@@sjdungon lol..but good for you considering the plethora of benefits so get on with it and stop playing about
Thank you for this video. :-) your voice is very pleasant and I will learn a lot of information :-)
Thank you for this excellent series on wild edibles. Do you mind me asking what you are using for audio (mic and software)? Your voiceover work is wonderful and the sound is crystal clear. I plan to do a series on foraging for edible desert plants.
I live in New Zealand. We don't have milk weed. We have monarch butterfly's though and they eat a plant called swan plant. Just thought I'd share.
Next time try young bright green noodles You will love it
Very Good!
Very kool, thank you for taking the time to show us your videos. I subscribed to you, I don't have have many on my list but your definitely one to have . Thanks again.
In asia fiddle heads are sold and prepared daily as vegetable also as asparagus substitute they dont boil just wash then fry it with potatoes ,,,, first fry potatoes in oil then put chopped garlic or powder then some dry chilli whole then chopped tomatoes then put fiddle heads and salt then fry for 5 mins more then cover it for 5 more mins the thats it ,, ( youtube got fiddlehead recipe videos as well )basically its asian asparagus
Excellent content human... This homosapien keeps impressing me with his skills and knowledge and hes not even ancient! Pinus Strobus is best for tea;) Is there any Betula papyrifera around to collect chaga?
The seed pods remind me of little gerkin pickles. Can they be pickled in jars after boiling? Give it a try and see how they come out.
No food but I do have olive oil and salt, lol.
These videos are not only for the case of you being completely lost and hungry in the woods, but also to teach you about wild plants that are usable for "normal" consumption, instead of your usual staples like lettuce or kale or whatever :)
You can roast the cat tail flower and it is delicious like cornsilk
Well done-
Excellent I fact