wild foods on a walkabout and other stuff / early march 2024
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- i videoed a walk around a low land trail and i wanted to show you what i see and what's going through my mind.
#adventure #exploring #hiking #outdoors #wildfood #foraging #bushcraft
Nice....lots of wild garlic down here in Devon now
Sounds nice, I should imagine wild garlic is a dream to work with in the kitchen to make food taste good and wholesome 😋
Eat your greens! Cool video. Pretty much the same plants here in my corner of the woods (central France)
That's interesting to know, and thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed 💯 👍
Very interesting Andy 😊
Thanks Julie 👍
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Mike 👍
Hi Andy, it’s Lisa here not Ivan. I liked this one, just a nice walk in the woods. 😊I’m chuffed that you added “horse parsley”
Jack by the hedge has lots of common names, although I’ve always called it Jack by the hedge or onion weed. The ivy is common ivy not like the American ground ivy. It is toxic but not deadly to healthy adults. Interestingly it’s a winter flowering and the bees love it. Sadly if they are flying back to the hive and the temperature drops down it freezes in their crops and kills them. Also the honey from ivy doesn’t spin out and is really solid and granular. The other thing about common ivy is that, yes you can use it as a poor substitute for string but it makes great Christmas garlands and wreathes. You have to watch the older thicker ivy that’s well established as it has little hair/spines on the clinging side, which can irritate exposed skin.
Does that creeping Charlie have little purple flowers? I possibly know it as ail foot. I didn’t know that you could eat it.
Also the male fern are known as male ferns because of their roots, they’re shaped like men, sort of like mandrake, you’re not allowed to dig them up though.
You can also make strawberry leaf tea.
Young leaves of brambles are the best time to harvest and dry them for the future, they have lots of iron in them and don’t make a bad tea if you mix it with ordinary tea. Or you can chew and keep a bramble leaf in your cheek, sort of slow release iron medicine. Bramble briars make better string 😊
Thanks for that Lisa. Nice bit of extra information there to learn. I've learned from foraging books that ground ivy and creeping Charlie is the same, and yes, it has purple flowers. It's known for its tea from the fresh leaf. I understand that if you can sniff it, you can brew it up for tea. That's why I never mentioned the strawberry leaf tea. The Americans have the same names for different plants and can get confusing with conversation. Anyway, I'm really glad you liked this one. I'm planning on doing others when the season changes, and I'd really like you to come along. We'll have to get together whenever you think the time is right. 🙂 oh yes, ale hoof. I've seen that as ground ivy. Used to improve the flavour of beer. And the beer was gill ale. Just looked it up.
Ha, there’s me thinking that it was ail as in ailments 😂 It’s got quite a pungent smell, sort of minty but not like water mint. The stem isn’t round like Jack by the hedge its a bit kind of square, you’ll know what I mean when you look at it.
I’d love to go for a bumble and see what we can find.
There is not many videos I watch all the way through without skipping loads ,put watch this one all the way through really enjoyed it .Simple done very interesting nicely done
Thanks Lee, some things are best kept simple. It's difficult enough just to learn it all, let alone the technical stuff. If disaster struck, nobody really knows who would come to the forefront and get through it all. I've seen this for real. Intelligence is great, positively is great, but who's got the inner drive to keep going? You can never tell who it's going to be is the right answer, so I'm never dazzled by any fancy talk. Anyway, thanks for the compliment, and I hope you enjoyed it and found it relaxing 👍
They say it’s the quiet ones, you got to watch out for, Only joking, been interested in foraging for many years. Even now there’s things where I’m not sure ,so in doubt leave it out .life in general is a battle. I’ve learnt to keep my ego to 0 and just try my best at things and keep going. my passion since I was about 16 is Bushcraft, fantastic hobby never stop learning ,such a huge wide expense of knowledge which makes it exciting I think
@@leeroberts6809 yer, life, people, and this world is really interesting. Even the bad bits in the end. It's good to learn something new.
Great idea for a vid. Taking people along and pointing out things, You're way more knowledgeable than I am. I can identify most of the major trees where I live, but i should really make it a point and put some effort into learning plants, shrubs, etc. As always, thanks for taking us along.
By the way, how did you learn? Did people teach you, or did you just take a book out on your walks and learn over time?
I didn't learn anything like this in the army. That's combat survival. After the army, I did a civilian wilderness survival course run by a military man of 27 years of service, including SAS. I got selected to instruct if I wanted to, so I did for 10 years. In that time, the best information was other instructors and foraging books, including a couple of survival books. To gather information, you need to buy a good foraging book, a good survival book, maybe 2 of each, and follow people that forage on Instagram, Facebook, TH-cam, anything like that, so the information comes to you. Cross referencing with the books helps to learn it, and learning can go on for years and years. Hope this helps 🤟💯
@@Andy-walkaboutnutty If definitely helps! Great advice and info.
12:46 Yep, clearly garlic mustard.
Correct. However, I wanted to highlight again the importance of the 100% rule, and dogs could pee by there.
19:29 Nope, that's also garlic mustard, not ground ivy.
It's ground ivy. It smelt like a green vegetable smell, and it's next to a public path. It's really best to sniff first because you just don't know what's been on it.
@@Andy-walkaboutnutty It's quite clearly garlic mustard (alliaria petiolata). They look similar to the untrained eye, but ground ivy (glechoma hederacea) has more sturdy, slightly shiny leaves with crenate rather than sinuate margins. Besides, ground ivy has a very distinct smell, perhaps even more so than garlic mustard. Certainly not just 'green vegetable'.
0:50 English ivy =/= poison ivy. Yanking out poison ivy like that wouldn't be a good idea.
Why?
@@Andy-walkaboutnutty Because it irritates your skin rather intensely. You can get huge blisters from handling poison ivy. But it doesn't grow in the UK as far as I know.
@bladdnun3016 thanks for the concern bladdnun, it's something I never do. It was for the video only. Luckily, I got away with it 👍