The internet needs more people like this that actually know what they're talking about. Thumbs up. What books (or Android applications) can you recommend for learning this kind of natural medicine and nutrition?
Walter Kovacs Thank you Walter for the kind words. I have several Android devices that I carry with me as well. My favorite Android app is not what you would expect......at least until I explain it. My favorite app is "ES File Explorer". The reason that a file explorer is my favorite app is that I have a lot of books both that I have got from the web as well as scanned and OCR'ed (Optical Character Recognition (so the books text can be searched for key words)) and stored digitally on my android devices. Now when I am out at our remote cabin or when ever I'm out and about in the woods I can have an array of digitized wild plant books on me (in the android) for ID'ing and uses. I have many many books on my androids that are both my own as well as downloaded for free (I'm Cheap). I have got books from all over the web and don't remember where I got each individual book. One source (even though I have very few from this source myself) is the down load section of the forum of Bushcraft USA. If you know where and how to search you can also find many books at archive.org. Here is one of my favorite books that can be downloaded. I have this book in both hard copy as well as digital. I don't have a clue where I downloaded it but it looks like it can be downloaded at this link aknhp.uaa.alaska.edu/botany/medicinal-flora-of-the-alaska-natives/
@Far North Bushcraft And Survival Not certain about the points made but ,if anyone else needs to find out about best food for survival kit try Franaar Spies Control Formula (do a search on google ) ? Ive heard some pretty good things about it and my brother in law got great results with it.
That makes a delicious tea, and that makes a delicious tea - now I know that all I need in a winter survival situation is some biscuits 😂 - thanks for the video though!
I knew about spruce tea and the inner bark and I knew about the Swamp tea but I sure didn't know that the twigs and inner bark of a white birch were Edible. thank you once again for an amazing video Lonnie God bless you and you're wife
Great vid...I am in my kitchen in a cabin high in the Rockie Mountains of Colorado. Cooking breakfast and decided to watch something from your channel. I am cooking up a slab of bacon and eggs and sure would love to have some natural forage to top it off. The "spruce tea" is on the menue as well..the berries will be cropping soon and all the other goods stuff...Most o my live I was limited to what I learned as a half breed native. I have learned a lot from your videos that my Dad doing d not! I prefer yours from most survival channels because there was s no tactical theme l. I am old school and prefer knowlege over gadget! Well done Lonnie!
Great video! I wanted to mention the Labrador Tea looks similar to another type of plant nearby, but the one you want to drink for tea, looks and feels fuzzy under the leaves. I've read books on plants and grew up in SE Alaska, but seeing it is different than reading in a book. Thanks!
Thank you. By now you may or may not have seen my most recent video that went live last night. The link is below. Lets Make Woodland Spruce Tip Tea th-cam.com/video/ucAJBGca720/w-d-xo.html
You overlooked an important source of food in your vid. That blueish-white lacy moss around where you found the Labrador tea, once cooked, taste like mushroom and it contains protein. The tea is good for your health too.
Well my granddaddy taught me. All the trees. You named off are great tea making and if you tinker the aspen tree down you can make it more stronger to use as Advil. But also can hurt your tummy if eaten on an empty stomach
I really appreciate these types of videos, they are full of information about survival. I was wondering, do you have any tips on how to build a suitable shelter that would be great for survival in the northern Canadian wilderness in the winter? Thanks, Richard
I am in Alaska and I did a video a while back on me sleeping overnight in a bushcrafted shelter. See the link below. If you are interested in making a shelter from purchase materials, I have a video series where i show step by step on how to make a hot tent tipi, stove and stove jack. I have personally used this setup in about minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit and was very comfortable. See the link below for the hot tent tipi playlist Staying Warm over night In A Bushcrafted Shelter th-cam.com/video/P9MH2iIJOU8/w-d-xo.html Making And Using A Hot Tipi Tarp Tent th-cam.com/play/PL_fotv96EsweyRrySfWPBvI1ZgARTNFAv.html
Awesome more I want more of your videos that way I can start looking for stuff where I am right now I'm in New York state and it's September here and I have seen while I call it sour grass it looks like clover but it's not I'm not too sure what you call it but I was right in my front yard
You didn't mention the willow as a source of salicyclic acid. It's named after the genus of willow, which is Salix. Rodents are fond of willow twigs, because of this drug. I'm glad I've learned a couple of things anyway. Thank you so much for all the effort you have been putting into making the videos.
The reason I did not list willow in this video is because the inner bark of willow is not considered a food. Some species of willow are very high in salicin so willow is classified more as a medicinal rather than an edible. The other tree species I listed will typically have considerably less salicin content. A couple videos in which I mention willow or other medicinals. Wilderness First Aid Plants Part 1 of 2 th-cam.com/video/-xn5NcQObcs/w-d-xo.html Wilderness First Aid Plants Part 2 of 2 th-cam.com/video/zam3dIHQj6g/w-d-xo.html Top Two Wilderness Survival Fallacies - Plus Fungi Foraging th-cam.com/video/WulFR2UtoiI/w-d-xo.html
Okay, clear and fair enough. I've already heard you talk about chewing willow leaves to fight a headache. I am working through all your videos, and the last link is still on the list. Thank you!
You could tap a birch tree in winter if you wanted to bad enough i guess but it would do you no good to do so. The sap that flows in the trees is for providing nutrients to the leaves and during the winter there are no leaves and so therefor there is no flowing sap. In other words If you tapped the tree in the winter, there would be no sap. Here in Alaska the tree wood would be frozen as well and might be a bit difficult to drill.
Roy Alvstad All my videos are all under the same channel umbrella. So if you go to my channel home page you will have access to all my videos. This is still the same channel but at one point I finally figured out how to give the channel it's correct name instead of the channel being known by my sign in name. At that time "fresh air" was spelled "Phreshayr". Most people probably didn't even realize that that was pronounced "fresh air".
My advice is make snow shoes and walk out while you have the strength or you will starve to death. The energy you use up cant be replaced in artic enviroment.
Advice is better based on experience rather than opinion. He stated at the beginning that it was a "lost" type scenario where one would need to sustain themselves.
I am allergic asperin but I can drink chaga tea, with out any reaction. There might be some differences between natural and artificial asetylisalicylic acid. There maybe that asetylisalicylic acid is the artficial one and salicylic acid the natural one. Natural one does not have allergic effect on me. I don't know because I am not a doctor but just saying :)
Don't have 2 b in Alaska for that 2 b true. That's why all of our planing is to bug-in rather than bug-out in worst case situation. Only if everything on our place is destroyed - wild fire for ex. - would we consider leaving. Too old, too many health problems to hike very far. Especially in adverse weather. Especially summer heat/humidity in SE. Using learning here to utilize back 40, if front 40 suffers loss. Primitive "rustic" camping utilizing what remains. + Still enjoy outdoors anyway!
Basically all the trees in this video were live but they are dormant during the winter. Of course the evergreen trees retain their needles all year round.
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THANKS
The internet needs more people like this that actually know what they're talking about.
Thumbs up.
What books (or Android applications) can you recommend for learning this kind of natural medicine and nutrition?
Walter Kovacs Thank you Walter for the kind words. I have several Android devices that I carry with me as well. My favorite Android app is not what you would expect......at least until I explain it. My favorite app is "ES File Explorer". The reason that a file explorer is my favorite app is that I have a lot of books both that I have got from the web as well as scanned and OCR'ed (Optical Character Recognition (so the books text can be searched for key words)) and stored digitally on my android devices. Now when I am out at our remote cabin or when ever I'm out and about in the woods I can have an array of digitized wild plant books on me (in the android) for ID'ing and uses. I have many many books on my androids that are both my own as well as downloaded for free (I'm Cheap). I have got books from all over the web and don't remember where I got each individual book. One source (even though I have very few from this source myself) is the down load section of the forum of Bushcraft USA. If you know where and how to search you can also find many books at archive.org. Here is one of my favorite books that can be downloaded. I have this book in both hard copy as well as digital. I don't have a clue where I downloaded it but it looks like it can be downloaded at this link aknhp.uaa.alaska.edu/botany/medicinal-flora-of-the-alaska-natives/
@Far North Bushcraft And Survival Not certain about the points made but ,if anyone else needs to find out about
best food for survival kit try Franaar Spies Control Formula (do a search on google ) ? Ive heard some pretty good things about it and my brother in law got great results with it.
Your my favorite bushcraft expert!!! So much knowledge
It’ll be you that saved my son and I so thank you for your knowledge. I will teach my sons❤️❤️❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
That makes a delicious tea, and that makes a delicious tea - now I know that all I need in a winter survival situation is some biscuits 😂 - thanks for the video though!
I knew about spruce tea and the inner bark and I knew about the Swamp tea but I sure didn't know that the twigs and inner bark of a white birch were Edible. thank you once again for an amazing video Lonnie God bless you and you're wife
Great vid...I am in my kitchen in a cabin high in the Rockie Mountains of Colorado. Cooking breakfast and decided to watch something from your channel. I am cooking up a slab of bacon and eggs and sure would love to have some natural forage to top it off. The "spruce tea" is on the menue as well..the berries will be cropping soon and all the other goods stuff...Most o my live I was limited to what I learned as a half breed native. I have learned a lot from your videos that my Dad doing d not! I prefer yours from most survival channels because there was s no tactical theme l. I am old school and prefer knowlege over gadget! Well done Lonnie!
Thank you, great video, awesome 👌 job, very smart
Thanks Lonnie. This video deserves more likes, but I guess some people are just harder to satisfy than others. Stay warm.
Excellent video and thank you so much for sharing your wealth of knowledge!
Great video! I wanted to mention the Labrador Tea looks similar to another type of plant nearby, but the one you want to drink for tea, looks and feels fuzzy under the leaves. I've read books on plants and grew up in SE Alaska, but seeing it is different than reading in a book. Thanks!
The swamp tea is fuzzy underneath. Its good, but its also a sedative. Great video. I watched it before but always good to review off and on again.
Excellent video. More applicable to where I live in northeastern Ontario than most survival videos.
Thanks for posting!!!
Thank you for all of your videos!!!
I will need to try this.
Good stuff. Thanks for posting.
very cool video. great information. those teas sound delicious
Thank you. By now you may or may not have seen my most recent video that went live last night. The link is below.
Lets Make Woodland Spruce Tip Tea
th-cam.com/video/ucAJBGca720/w-d-xo.html
+Far North Bushcraft And Survival awesome! will check it out!
Far North Bushcraft And Survival
You overlooked an important source of food in your vid. That blueish-white lacy moss around where you found the Labrador tea, once cooked, taste like mushroom and it contains protein. The tea is good for your health too.
Well my granddaddy taught me. All the trees. You named off are great tea making and if you tinker the aspen tree down you can make it more stronger to use as Advil. But also can hurt your tummy if eaten on an empty stomach
Poplar bark can be dried and ground up into a kind of a famine flour
Love this guy🌺🙏🏾🕯
Title: Trees that are eatable
VictoriaGrace0 "edible"
I really appreciate these types of videos, they are full of information about survival. I was wondering, do you have any tips on how to build a suitable shelter that would be great for survival in the northern Canadian wilderness in the winter?
Thanks, Richard
I am in Alaska and I did a video a while back on me sleeping overnight in a bushcrafted shelter. See the link below. If you are interested in making a shelter from purchase materials, I have a video series where i show step by step on how to make a hot tent tipi, stove and stove jack. I have personally used this setup in about minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit and was very comfortable. See the link below for the hot tent tipi playlist
Staying Warm over night In A Bushcrafted Shelter
th-cam.com/video/P9MH2iIJOU8/w-d-xo.html
Making And Using A Hot Tipi Tarp Tent
th-cam.com/play/PL_fotv96EsweyRrySfWPBvI1ZgARTNFAv.html
Thanks for the tips, I'll be sure to try them out
thank you good to know love to go camping this might come in handy
Awesome more I want more of your videos that way I can start looking for stuff where I am right now I'm in New York state and it's September here and I have seen while I call it sour grass it looks like clover but it's not I'm not too sure what you call it but I was right in my front yard
Excellent videos!
We have chaga in N.E. Scotland too.
Chaga or horse hoof fungus grows on Beech trees too! Both great for tea and fire starting and insect repellent!
This video helped me a lot thanks
So where is the beer tree??? But seriously thanks for the info.
Plenty of delicious beer to be made in nature.
The tea info helped
Thanks you.
Clark
Anything else besides trees on the menu?
During the winter, there is virtually very little flora that is green as it is all dormant for the Winter.
Thanks!
besides tea ?
Wild Plant Foraging For Survival
th-cam.com/video/e-jkgFXBFto/w-d-xo.html
Easy Emergency Wilderness Survival Food
th-cam.com/video/cxiQRcPzO5U/w-d-xo.html
Tree Bark As Food Demonstration
th-cam.com/video/DaKVevhoNXY/w-d-xo.html
Wild Trailside Edibles
th-cam.com/video/Ipb90f04ENw/w-d-xo.html
Survival Grouse Snaring By Hand
th-cam.com/video/rFrcH3O9LXQ/w-d-xo.html
Hi Lonny! Not familiar with Chaga. Going to find your video on it. Thank you, sir!
You didn't mention the willow as a source of salicyclic acid. It's named after the genus of willow, which is Salix. Rodents are fond of willow twigs, because of this drug. I'm glad I've learned a couple of things anyway. Thank you so much for all the effort you have been putting into making the videos.
The reason I did not list willow in this video is because the inner bark of willow is not considered a food. Some species of willow are very high in salicin so willow is classified more as a medicinal rather than an edible. The other tree species I listed will typically have considerably less salicin content.
A couple videos in which I mention willow or other medicinals.
Wilderness First Aid Plants Part 1 of 2
th-cam.com/video/-xn5NcQObcs/w-d-xo.html
Wilderness First Aid Plants Part 2 of 2
th-cam.com/video/zam3dIHQj6g/w-d-xo.html
Top Two Wilderness Survival Fallacies - Plus Fungi Foraging
th-cam.com/video/WulFR2UtoiI/w-d-xo.html
Okay, clear and fair enough. I've already heard you talk about chewing willow leaves to fight a headache. I am working through all your videos, and the last link is still on the list. Thank you!
good video I live near Mt Shasta in northern, northern CA
Can you tap a birch tree in winter?
You could tap a birch tree in winter if you wanted to bad enough i guess but it would do you no good to do so. The sap that flows in the trees is for providing nutrients to the leaves and during the winter there are no leaves and so therefor there is no flowing sap. In other words If you tapped the tree in the winter, there would be no sap. Here in Alaska the tree wood would be frozen as well and might be a bit difficult to drill.
I thought I was barking up the wrong tree with this video. hehe
Waas up dawg…
Are some of your earlier videos available under the alias "fresh air", Lonnie?
Roy Alvstad All my videos are all under the same channel umbrella. So if you go to my channel home page you will have access to all my videos. This is still the same channel but at one point I finally figured out how to give the channel it's correct name instead of the channel being known by my sign in name. At that time "fresh air" was spelled "Phreshayr". Most people probably didn't even realize that that was pronounced "fresh air".
I was just talking to a young Cree girl when they were going out to collect some muskeg tea leaves should be end of this month .
My advice is make snow shoes and walk out while you have the strength or you will starve to death.
The energy you use up cant be replaced in artic enviroment.
Advice is better based on experience rather than opinion. He stated at the beginning that it was a "lost" type scenario where one would need to sustain themselves.
I am allergic asperin but I can drink chaga tea, with out any reaction. There might be some differences between natural and artificial asetylisalicylic acid. There maybe that asetylisalicylic acid is the artficial one and salicylic acid the natural one. Natural one does not have allergic effect on me. I don't know because I am not a doctor but just saying :)
I love the content man but your relaxed and slow voice wants to make me fall asleep. Still gonna sub tho.
Well thanks for the sub and for stopping by. Welcome to the channel.
There is plenty of food during the winter in the north east.... as long as you like tree and tea.... only
Reposting older vids?
Don't have 2 b in Alaska for that 2 b true. That's why all of our planing is to bug-in rather than bug-out in worst case situation. Only if everything on our place is destroyed - wild fire for ex. - would we consider leaving. Too old, too many health problems to hike very far. Especially in adverse weather. Especially summer heat/humidity in SE.
Using learning here to utilize back 40, if front 40 suffers loss. Primitive "rustic" camping utilizing what remains.
+ Still enjoy outdoors anyway!
Kinda wanted more stuff to survive off other than tea.....
I seen green if it's standing it's most likely got life in it suM
Basically all the trees in this video were live but they are dormant during the winter. Of course the evergreen trees retain their needles all year round.
Tea tea tea tea tea
I am hungry and your Tea is not going to do any good for me to survive.
Wild Edible And Medicinal Plant Uses
th-cam.com/video/3MTpB0dHRTo/w-d-xo.html
Lonnie looks like he just escaped from the mental institution!
So much TEA
lol