Wild Greens: Homestead Haul 1 with dandelion, cleavers, plantain, dock, cress and rocket mustard
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- As spring progresses, wild greens get bigger, tougher, sometimes more bitter, hot, or acrid. Some of them change in their looks, too. This video shows how I forage some common spring greens as spring moves on and the plants get older. I harvest dock, dandelion, cress, cleavers, rocket or hedge mustard, plantain, and chives. If you've watched my earlier videos, you've seen all these plants, but at different stages of growth earlier in the spring.
Here are strategies I use for foraging later in the spring:
1. Go out after rains have invigorated lush new growth even on older plants.
2. Go into shaded areas where the vegetation is more delicate than out in the harsh sun.
3. Go into taller grass where the wild greens have to grow tall and fast to compete with the grass for light.
4. Go back to the same plants harvested earlier in the spring. They will have put on new, tender growth.
5. Harvest only the tender parts of the plant, which sometimes may be a different part like the flower stalks instead of the leaves.
These wild spring greens can be real food for regular people! I pick them regularly all season long. And I don't even have to plant them, them just grow on their own in my yard, but I don't cut my grass very short or very often. Do less, get more!
Dock: Rumex crispus, Family Polygonaceae (buckwheat family)
Dandelion: Taraxacum officianale, Family Asteraceae
Bittercress: Cardamine oligosperma, Family: Brassicacae.
Cleavers: Galium aparine. Family: Rubiaceae
Rocket or Hedge Mustard: Sisymbrium officinale
Plantain: Platago lanceolata Family: Plantaginaceae
Chives: Allium vinale, Family Amaryllidaceae (amyrillis family)
I have picked these greens all during the spring. Check out my earlier videos that over these wild spring greens:
Dock, wild arugula: • Garden Leftovers in th...
Cress: • Bittercress! Eat More ...
Arugula, dock, dandelions, chives: • Spring greens! Turning...
Plantain, dock, cress, cleavers, dandelion greens: • Pot likker! Featuring ...
Chives: • Foraging Wild Chives -...
Dandelion, dock, plantain: • Foraging Tips & Tricks...
Music:
"River Valley Breakdown"" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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These wild plants & herbs are medicinal! Many health plants are in our backyards!👍👍👍❤
A generation ago they were part of our diet, before supermarkets became a thing.
I’m a recent subscriber and I love your channel! My kids think I’m nuts when I start grabbing up the ‘weeds’ and eating them, lol 😂. I love to make dandelion and wild violet flower iced tea, I add in some mint too, delish.
Agreed!
We Persian have a dish like cake but made of greens ( spinach , green part of green onion , parsley cilantro , little bit of basil and tarragon and oregano , . What ever green you got at home ,shop really fine for 2 pound of green 5 eggs 1 cup walnuts salt an pepper . Grease your Teflon dish really good extra avocado oil on the bottom and bake it for 45 to hour in 400’oven check and make sure is done like a cake and let it cool a bit before cutting , we eat the koo koo with plain Greek yogurt or sour cream👍 this wild eatable weed would make good koo koo💋
Thankyou for being you, God bless you and yours
Knowledge is power mama. I've been foraging for years. It's organic , free, n healthier. What would ppl do if supermarkets couldn't open for whatever reason? I take comfort in my surroundings. A++++++++ Mama!!!!!!!!
I like how you put that, Laila Mckinney, when you say "I take comfort in my surroundings". It is a big comfort to see all the abundance around us, where ever we go. It's like having old friends around, too, as the seasons come around again, year after year. Have a great spring -- and happy foraging! :D
Thats why I'm here... In case those supermarkets one day are not closed, but worse.. cleaned out.
I loved saute' purslane so much I planted a pot of it. I tried Phlox flowers tonight and harvested my chives for tomorrow. Also, Mint was so good when I cooked it with lamb.
I've just found your channel and have been marathoning your videos since! I love your personality 👌:-)
+Mary's Test Kitchen | Vegan Cooking Thanks for the kind words and I'm glad you have enjoyed my videos! I am trying to get back to posting more videos soon...
@@HaphazardHomestead You are kinda funny too, Lady and that's Good...
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She does a great job.
Omgosh your personality has brightened my day!!!! 👏👏👏👏👍🤩
Really enjoy your videos!
Actually i came here to learn more about yellow dock. I brushed across some stinging nettles today and discovered that crushed dock leaves are so cooling! I first learned of this plant while living in Colorado and glad to see it in my new southern homestead. I've heard that where there's stinging nettles there is also dock growing close by. I found this to be true over here at least. And I wonder if the seeds can be used similar to buckwheat. I just love buckwheat soup on Ekadasis when we don't eat grain.
I just fried some nice cleavers in butter salt pepper and put on top of fried egg, yum👌
When I was little back in the early '50s I would go to the city park with my Granny and she'd harvest a lot of dandelions. She cooked them with bacon and onions. I thought they were great. Now when I think of it I hope she washed them really really good!
OMG "gosh"but that's how you do them! I've have been trying to get a recipe for a week!
Me in my yard. I love you for this video. All i see is myself lol. I know my neighbors think im crazy
Excellent finds 😃💚🌿☘
I love your videos! I learn so much from you! I just wanted to thank you for putting your videos up!
-Elizabeth from Bethlehem Pennsylvania
(PS- please consider bringing kitty inside. Outside cats live half as long as inside cats. It's dangerous for them to be outside)
Watching your videos fills my stomach everytime. Thanks. Very much
Beautiful clean edible plants .
I have watched you get your greens in a binge of videos. Thats it i am going to make a some tonight! I
I hope you enjoyed your wild greens, Meal Bla! They are such good eating! :D
I have always wanted to learn foraging.I am mad about your channel, and I thank you so much! I love new dandelion's flowers when they are new. I pick them wash, dip in egg and flour and fry in got oil, They taste a lot like mushrooms to me. But now I am going to learn other plants. Song
Amazing imfo .oral history is the only form of imfo not controled by some one with greed as a motive .our schools have become imfomercials .not based on facts .only emotions .thanx
Hi kitty!
I am enjpying how you have Clear pictures and explanations, I picked sticktight and nipplewort today and will be trying those!
You really know your plants! I'm afraid my front yard is full of Foxtails and gophers. I'm enjoying your channel!
FreidasGarden Thanks! Foxtails and gophers are a different situation, with not so easy pickins'. : ( But you've got your giant lima beans!
Thank you so much for this video. I went out to my field and picked and ate the most delicious salad which I had picked.
And thank you for showing me the lilknife which made it so much easier.
Yea great videos
Love this video a lil too much!
Liked and subscribed!
I've been watching a few of your videos... sure wish I'd found you a couple years ago. I couldn't find a thing on docks, and the people in my area regard anything they didn't plant themselves as a weed to be destroyed.
Well done!
Top right corner isn't Henbit but Dead Nettle, it's famous look alike. Also edible and delicious and good for inflammation. Henbit has droopy opposite leaves with pink/purple trumpetlike flowers that hang down. Henbit is darker green and has orchid-like flowers. Both delicious.
Good haul.
OKBushcraft Thanks! Maybe that's a nice way of saying I've got too many weeds! : )
HChrisH200 - Haphazard Homestead nah. I live on 2.5 acres. Most of it gets baled twice a year. The other part I transplant useful plants like yucca, prickly pear, dog bane etc. I'm currently looking for some river cane with good genetics.
Nice.
I learned a lot.Thank You!
Amy Hawkins Glad to hear that. You're certainly welcome. There are so many good greens out there!
what a cute Fairy Mama
Nice vid here.....thank you!
I let the Dock grow in the garden then chop and drop the leaves for mulch. The roots go deep and pull up nutrients and help open up my heavy clay soil. I have never tried cooking Dock but have eaten some fresh leaves. It does have an unusual flavor.
Kindred spirit. Subbed
I’m learning, but sometimes too slowly. A few years ago I had a large green plant that introduced itself to my planter box and by autumn had almost entirely filled the 4x4 raised bed. A friend told me it was dock. It had a large tap root when I pulled it up. I didn’t know the root was full of nutrition, but it didn’t go to waste because it ended up in my compost bin where my worm ate well. My worms always eat well...
I have been eating dandelions and dock for years and wild purslane and clover, now it's trendy, all the folks who thought I was nuts, are paying$3.99/ pound for dandelion greens. I just laugh and keep on foraging!
+hope crews There's a lot out there, just waiting for us to appreciate and use it, that's for sure! At least, if folks get used to eating dandelion greens from the store, it's a shorter step for them to shift to the ones in their yard than being afraid of a weed! Keep on foraging! : )
RIght?? I love to go to the Fresh Market or WHole Foods (where all the folks with money go to shop for overpriced trendy foods and buy "organic dandelion greens" while they probably pay stupid money to eradicate them from their property!
And the sad part is....if you see dandelions growing anywhere you don't want them to grow, like in your well-manicured lawn, don't spray them with poison, throw out a handful of lime and bonemeal and aerate the soil. The dandelions can thrive and outgrow grass in places where there is little calcium places because of their long taproots .Amend the soil, and the grass will thrive grass.
You can tell a LOT about what type of soil you have by what kind of weeds grow.
As for me, I have large pots of dandelions growing, because I like to use ALL parts of the plant. Growing them in pots makes it VERY easy to harvest the roots, which is the most medicinal part! I throw the flowers into the stock pot!
my bad, I Meant to say WATCH the hipsters and the yuppies BUY the overpriced stuff!! When are not too busy looking down their noses at me because I don't "look" "talk" like them. It's not as bad now that I don't have 4 children accompanying me, just one or two teenagers now.
Seedaholic Gardens I have a hard time to find purslane in my area and it’s one of my fewer edible plants
I feel the same whenever I see it on the shelves. 😂 Hope more people educate themselves for wild green edible. More benefits come to your way such as better health, financial support and cut all preservative and chemical which come with the process meal. Amen!
If u see some get some! I love it lol
Hi I'm Kathy from West Virginia. I just 💕 watching you in your video's.
I really like greens to eat as well 🙂.
I have this plant that is growing along my driveway.
It really looks like Colts foot but the flower head is a dark purple with a cluster of flower buds. Can you please help me to figure out what the plant is.
Like I said it really looks like Colts foot the leafs do.
Thanks from Kathy in West Virginia
very interesting
LCJ farms Thanks. You know by now that I love my greens!
YOU COULD HAVE ALSO HARVESTED THE GRASSES AS WELL FOR THEY ARE ALSO NUTRITIOUS GOOD FOR MANY DISEASES INCL. CANCER. FILIPINOS ARE NOW MARKETING IT FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES. WATCHING IN CANADA
I live in an apartment building and the grounds are in the "care" of a lawn care firm. They spray herbicide on anything that isn't lawn grass or deliberately planted perennials in defined flower beds!
This was very helpful and a great video. Thank you! Is there any recommendation for books to learn in Washington State that I could add to help me find and understand the benefits of the plans foraged. God bless
Are bittercress and hairy bittercress the same? If not, could you help me know the difference. :) Thank you for these wonderful helpful videos!
I saw a cat!
Have you ever ate the leaves from the
Emilia sonchifolia - Lilac Tasselflower?
Dock. Show me that stalk again! My neighbor has Cleavers. Never picked them to eat. How do you cook? Are they still sticky?
Thanks for sharing, I dont trust my knowledge. I'd love to learn how to gather.
5:09 I see a bunch of young purple dead nettles (they're not purple cuz they're still young)
9:40 Purple Dead Nettles. Those are good in soup and they're from the mint family
Yep, definitely purple dead nettle, not henbit.
I'm so glad somebody else said something. It was driving me nuts, as I just watched this video and was thinking "its six years old, I should correct the mistake"... nevermind, its been covered.
Very useful thank you! Wondering what plant you named next to the cleavers and dandelion at 5:28 I see it all the time, it must have a use!
+Jamie Cooling That plant has a lot of names! I learned it as henbit -- red henbit (there are other plants also known as henbit). Maybe a more commonly known name for it is deadnettle -- purple deadnettle. The precise name is it's scientific name: Lamium purpureum. It's in the Mint family (Labitae). I talk about it in some of my other videos and show how to prepare it, too. I show it up close in the 'spring greens into creamed greens' video and also show cooking it in the 'homestead haul #3'. I think it works best as in a mix of different spring greens. And because it flowers so early, the bees really benefit from it. Hope that helps!
@@HaphazardHomestead you are my hero♡
Good herd's but like to see the pictures better so I can find it in my island
yup it is
You can pretty much treat them the same way -- like any of the Brassica family, although their flavors and hotness will be different.
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It is interesting that you cut leaves outside that you did not plant. Sometimes maybe you can elaborate on each species.
And she did even get to the purple dead nettle sitting around the bowl.
Do you have a video on purslane?
You said you are in the Pacific Northwest?? You sound like you may have a wee bit of a Southern in your accent or maybe TN Valley....
are there plants that we SHOULDN'T eat or can we just grab just about anything ?
What I know of as dock leaves in the UK have leaves that are a mix of greed and reddish colour. A different plant?
You didn't pick Henbit. You picked Dead Nettle. It's also edible and delicious. They are look alikes commonly mistaken for each other. Just thought you'd want to know.
That's one of the problems in using common names, ShowUp4Life, and why I include the scientific names in the description for all my videos. Where and when I was a kid, Lamium purpureum was just "one of the henbits" in the same way that many Amaranthus species are "one of the pigweeds". For example, even a classic reference like Elias and Dykeman (1982), in their Field Guide to North American Edible Wild Plants, use "Henbit" rather than "Deadnettle" for Lamium purpureum.
As more plant information has become available on the Internet, I see more standardization for common names, and certainly, these days, it seems that more folks refer to this plant as a deadnettle. Even now, though, new differences come up. While this plant gets called "Purple Deadnettle" in many places (and I use that common name in my more recent videos just because it seems more familiar to more folks), iNaturalist calls it "Red Deadnettle". If we would call every plant by only its scientific name, we would all be better off in precision of identification. But using only scientific names creates a whole different problem, lol!
What is the difference between "Dock" & "Plantain"? They look the same - from here. 8\ : }
Oh, THANKS!
I have a huge amount of what I think is alfalfa. But I've looked every where and they all have purple flowers. Has any one heard and seen alfalfa with a yellow flower?
You might have yellow sweet clover, which isn't as good to eat as it sounds with a name like that! I don't even nibble that.
How can I prepare it! I have eaten a lot of stuff believe me y'all don't want to know I've never forage for vegetables or greens. But I want to.i know what many plants are but idk what to use them for or how to cook. But it's just like poke Sally if you don't cook it right ummm well it won't turn out well
I show how to cook these plants in this video, "Homestead Haul - 3": th-cam.com/video/tKnM5m3KxFI/w-d-xo.html
I also have a lot of other videos where you can see my use these plants and others.
Is henbit edible
Is there a way to contact you, so when I am at my mom's house I can take pictures and show you. I am afraid to do it at my apartment, as people walk dogs.
good basketful of delights. maybe after this they will spray and or mowed because i have no privacy, or raise the price in somethings and make inflations, that makes me crazy.
Can you write the names of each one?
I've started doing that on my recent videos, shirley carazo. On my older videos, I always put the common names and the scientific names for all the plants in the video description. That way, you can double-check their names, and see if you know a plant by another name.
Thank you I love your videos I have been learning a lot..
what type cress? Cardamine bulbosa maybe
We have about a dozen different Cardamine species in the Pacific Northwest, but C. bulbosa is not one of them. The ones in my videos are Cardamine oligosperma - an annual, with a taproot, and the leaves in the basal rosette are compound leaves. Cardamine bulbosa is in the Eastern US - a perennial, with a bulbous root that can even produce little tubers, and at the base the leaves are simple ovals. I updated the video description to list the species. Thanks for pointing out that I left that too vague!
camera was far enough I couldn't tell certain so went with what looked real close
and of course do didn't know where ya were
That's understandable, for sure! I do have a video that focuses on this specific plant: th-cam.com/video/dISq9K7B7Vs/w-d-xo.html with a lot more views of it. At least with the Cardimine species, there's no risk of one being dangerous to eat!
HChrisH200 - Haphazard Homestead no ate a lot of it when I spent time in the N W in 80 I wound up on Vancouver island oct 30 for a 75 days with a vary light pack came out 40 lbs. heavier with 200 lbs. jerked meat in pack
This is the sane ERISIMO?
You will never eat your garden wild greens former residents' greens without good wash- steam them. Because I had to burry my puppy under soil below tree can talk to my puppy.
Dead nettle yummy
Try promoting people harvest wild seeds to grow at anytime, indoors, over winter etc.
Pick plants easy to propagate lwith cuttings or producing tons of seeds, like purslane, amaranth, docks, lambs quarters tec.
You're eating them before you wash them there could be slugs and snails crawling over them yuck