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Forager Japan
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Follow us on hikes around Japan for new discoveries and Forage Hikes to find edible plants and learn how to prepare them
I also like vegan cooking and trying new recipes.
I also like vegan cooking and trying new recipes.
玉虫色ノ I helped a Jewel Beetle to fly and it helped me understand Japanese society
玉虫色ノ The Jewel beetle is called Tamamushi in Japan. I had never caught a live one before. I had always see its colorful wings sold in hobby shops and fortune tellers kiosks. Because its hard to define what color its shell is from any angle it is used in a Japanese expression meaning to be unclear or ambiguous where no one can understand you and this expression is often used when Japanese politicians for whatever reason make equivocal statements. They say he is using unclear Tamamushi Jewel bug expressions.
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ビーチで 山菜 Part 2 Beach Forage Hike ツルナ New Zealand Spinach スベリヒユ Purslane
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Second part ofour Beach Forage Hike Summer 2024 After visiting the Miura Buddha we made our way down to the beach in Kurihama to forage for wild edibles that grow in sandy beaches. We found New Zealand Spinach ツルナ and Purslane スベリヒユ Ill show you easy ways to prepare it for eating.
キクラゲ Wood ear mushrooms everywhere after rainy season! #shorts
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On the last days of rainy season in Japan you should go out and forage for wood ear mushrooms. One tree can have a load of sun dried clusters you can store all season. kikurage or tree jellyfish will also come out in winter season too so don’t worry!
アキグミ Comparing Summer and Fall Silverberries (Elaeagnus umbellata)
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#Elaeagnus umbellata #Japanesesilverberries #アキグミ With scarce pickings in autumn it was nice to find a variety ofJapanese silverberries gumi growing in Fall. I usually gather a lot of silverberry gumi in the summer and make juices and syrups so I wanted to compare the taste of the gummi in fall to summer. The fall gumi were smaller and had less juice and less tangy sweetness than their summer c...
イヌビワ クッキング Japanese Wild Figs How to find them and baking with them
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I made this video to help my friend find the Japanese fig trees(ficus erecta) in Japan. There are plenty of the trees growing in parks a mountain trails but not all of them produce the sweet black fig fruits. I found this out by counting 8 trees in the park but only one had the fruiting figs. The regular trees has flower blooms that were just like figs but not as fruity. I made some flower fig ...
Learning about Loquats ビワについて学ぶ Part 3 Dangers of Loquat Seeds
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#ビワ #foragerjapan #foragerjapanhikes #loquats The last part of our conversation with the farmer dealt with Loquate seeds. Ive always heard that loquat seeds were dangerous and never to eat them. Like apricot or Peach pitts. But the old farmer mentioned the health benefits he gets from drink a spirit made from rock sugar and alcohol Reference websites: Loquat seeds: benefits, properties and prec...
Learning about Loquats ビワについて学ぶ Part 2 Making Loquat Tea Forager Japan Hikes
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#ビワ #foragerjapan #foragerjapanhikes #loquats On this hike we fortunately met up with a local farmer who told us everything we needed to know about his huge loquat tree. Loquat(Eriobotrya japonica) trees grow all over Japan in city residential parks and in mountain forrests but I never knew of all the medicinal uses the trees offer until this local old expert taught us. In part 2 I try to make ...
Learning about Loquats ビワについて学ぶ Part 1 Forager Japan Hikes
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#ビワ #foragerjapan #foragerjapanhikes #loquats On this hike we fortunately met up with a local farmer who told us everything we needed to know about his huge loquat tree. Loquat(Eriobotrya japonica) trees grow all over Japan in city residential parks and in mountain forrests but I never knew of all the medicinal uses the trees offer until this local old expert taught us. Stay tuned for part 2 and 3
クサギ (clerodendrum trichotomum) Try smelling the Peanut Butter Tree!
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#クサギ #clerodendrum trichotomu #foragerjapan #peanutbuttertree Found this decorative tree in Japan that grows in all parks and gardens because of its sweet smelling pretty flowers. I was surprised to find out that the tree, known as the Harlequin Glorybower, has a more common name as the "peanut butter tree" because when you crush the leaves it smells exactly like peanut butter! Seriously! Try it!
梅酒 Japanese Plum Wine Easy-to-make
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#梅酒 #plumwine #umeshu A nice old lady in the country-side gave me a bag of unripened Japanese plums for free so I tried to make Plum Spirits or a kind of Plum Wine made by soaking the young plums in sugar and white alcohol. Its a very popular spirit in Japan and very easy to make. Now I just have to keep waiting 6 month before tasting it!
イヌビワ Japanese Wild Figs Urbanforaging for baby figs in the park
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#イヌビワ #Inubiwa #wildfigs There are a lot of Inubiwa trees in Japan but you have to find a fruiting tree that has been pollinated by bees or wasps. The turn the flowering blumes into sweet and juicy baby figs! The season is usually in late August but I found a fully ripening tree early Aug. So get out there and forage a bunch! I made delicious jam with only a small bag full. Ill definately go ou...
Wild onion ノビル and field garlic ニンニク hunt near Tsurumi River Grasslands
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#wildonions #wildgarlic #nobiru #ニンニク Hiking along the grassland of any river in Japan you can come across different wild allium or onions, chives and garlic. Very early spring yields the wild bulb onions NOBIRU with the long tasty stalks and sweet builbs that can be eaten raw. Late spring be sure to look for the garlic flowers sticking from the grass.
悲しい悲しい蝉 A Sad Cicada Story
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#ForagerJapan #ミンミンゼミ #悲しい蝉 Ran across a cicada in the morning walk to work-almost stepped on it. Sad to find out one of the cicadas wings had developed incorrectly. The cicad crawl out of the ground at night and shed their shell and wait for their outshell and wings to harden. Apparently this MinMin Sezis wings set and hardened inproperly and now the sad cicada cant fly or live out their short...
ハリギリ Eating tasty tree tops "TTT" Urban Forage
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ハリギリ Eating tasty tree tops "TTT" Urban Forage
Wow! Juneberries really do ripen exactly in June and their namesake #shorts
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Wow! Juneberries really do ripen exactly in June and their namesake #shorts
Foraging Bamboo grass shoots ササ How to cook
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Foraging Bamboo grass shoots ササ How to cook
ギンポ Catching and eating tasty Gunnels Fishing in Japan
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ギンポ Catching and eating tasty Gunnels Fishing in Japan
Foraging for Wild Wasabi わさびとわらび狩り and Bracken Fiddleheads Ferns
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Foraging for Wild Wasabi わさびとわらび狩り and Bracken Fiddleheads Ferns
バイ貝 Catching and eating Babylon Sea Snails Fishing in Japan
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バイ貝 Catching and eating Babylon Sea Snails Fishing in Japan
Fishing in Japan サーフフィッシングに挑戦 Trying Surf Fishing at Kozu Beach, Kanagawa
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Fishing in Japan サーフフィッシングに挑戦 Trying Surf Fishing at Kozu Beach, Kanagawa
Biggest Butterbur find! ふきのとう フリッター Forager Japan
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Biggest Butterbur find! ふきのとう フリッター Forager Japan
Urban Forage (ふき味噌)Spring Butterbur miso with bamboo shoots Cooking
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Urban Forage (ふき味噌)Spring Butterbur miso with bamboo shoots Cooking
菜の花 Rapeseed Blossoms Spring Forage and cooking
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菜の花 Rapeseed Blossoms Spring Forage and cooking
伝統的なハゼ釣り釣り Goby fishing using old Japanese traditional methods Fishing in Japan
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伝統的なハゼ釣り釣り Goby fishing using old Japanese traditional methods Fishing in Japan
舞岡公園 Maioka Wildlife Nature Park Tour Hunting for the Mysterious Kappa かっぱ Water Imp
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舞岡公園 Maioka Wildlife Nature Park Tour Hunting for the Mysterious Kappa かっぱ Water Imp
フキ Making Butterbur miso Grilled Riceballs UrbanForager Shorts
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フキ Making Butterbur miso Grilled Riceballs UrbanForager Shorts
ヌマチチブ釣り 佃煮 Catching small trident gobies and cooking Japanesetraditional "tsukudani"
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ヌマチチブ釣り 佃煮 Catching small trident gobies and cooking Japanesetraditional "tsukudani"
謎のあんこう Fishing in Japan Testing out a cute Anglerfish cartoon lure
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謎のあんこう Fishing in Japan Testing out a cute Anglerfish cartoon lure
The encyclopedia brought me here
It's called a predatory leech
American English in Japan? Cool, in a way. Thanks for this interesting video - I enjoyed watching it.
"your evil" 🤣
How did it turn out? I roasted some loquat seeds a few years ago and I found that they had a very strong "cherry" smell. Almost overpowering. I have some raw loquat seeds soaking in some vodka, but the effect seems minimal. I looked for this video to see if anyone was roasting them first.
I would love to purchase the sea shells after you eat the meat.
You can go to any fish shop and ask them for the extra shells. Ive gotten a bunch and lined my garden with them. They help keep snails away
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This is actually a species in the orobdella genus. Not to try and correct you just tryna say. Haemadipsa are blood suckers and orobdella are predators to earthworms
Haemadipsa are blood suckers. Are you sure it's that genus
Can it cooked on oven? Since I dont have microwave
We have these trees here in Connecticut of the US. Found about 12 trees and packed with fruit. Yeah scaly trunk too. Packed with berries is insane. Their must be a way to get the seeds out easier. I took off the skins. I wanted to make a jello with the fruits. Some reason I cannot respond to your other Kousa Dogwood video. I’ll try making this too. We also have matsutake mushrooms over here in MAINE of the USA and love those tan-capped variety here. I sauté and make crispy with coconut oil.
Do you know which parts of the Cephalotaxus harringtonia (Japanese plum yew) are edible? Some sources claim the seed is also edible while others that it's as toxic as Taxus baccata (English yew) seeds. Similar species is Cephalotaxus fortunei (Chinese plum yew).
Just the red plume part is edible. The seeds and the round cone are toxic! And you shouldnt really eat a lot of the red plumes-only a few. It tastes kind of like fruit peel
Can you eat the bud or seed raw?
Yes, the closed buds are green and taste "green" when eaten raw but if you wait for the berry on the leaf to turn dark they are rather sweet.
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Where can you find this?
I waited all year to taste a ripe berry from one of these tree in my neighborhood ever since I identified it as a kouso dogwood earlier this spring. I just ate one and I must say they are actually pretty good as far as foraged edibles go. It didn't really taste like I've read what others say, For example some say it's a bit like mango but I do not get that at all. To me the custard inside is like a poorly textured fig with some hints of dates and honey but a little more mild. I think this would make a nutritious sweetener addition to a smoothie for example. I say nutritional because you would need to use a few more that you would to get the smoothie sweet like if you used honey or dates, but I think it would be very tasty that way. I've read in baked goods also which I can see. It would be good for example as an addition to a banana bread or some sweet bread recipe. I do kinda see how you say it is low a peach. It's like a dried out peach ig. When they are gritty and less sweet
Yeah, Ive been waiting until now-late September in Japan-for the dogwod berries to ripen. Ive found its better to wait for the whole fruit to be reddish for the best tasting ones and the fruit facing the sunny side of the trees ripen the fastest. Ive been marking all the dogwood trees in my neighbourhood since the flowering season-but not all of them fruit. And I think some of the trees fruit do tend to taste different/better/worse depending on the tree and you described the taste perfectly!
@@ForagerJapan yes, and the deep dark red ones are even better than the bright red ones.
I have this tree in my backyard
A lot of people have it. It's a common suburban ornamental sold at big box stores. It's just that many don't know the berries are edible. It's the whole priority perspective thing that we lost here in the first world. We grow things that look pretty and food is an after thought because our capitalist systems and "the man" provide all the food lol. We are as they want us to be ignorant and not self reliant, aka ignorant and needy. Good luck I hope this discovery in your back yard opens up the world of foraging edibles and the importance of permaculture for food sustainability. It's all of our jobs to make sure food is growing not just commercial farmers
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That looks like Elaeagnus multiflora, not Cornus mas. Cornus mas has opposite branching. In Japan you're more likely to encounter Cornus officinalis, which can be used in the same ways as Cornus mas.
Can I use vodka with the berries
See the notes at 2:35
Sure. It works well with brandy. Any fruit works well sitting in brandy. Even cheap brandy gets better! Some people have used clear vodka but I dont drink vodka so dont know if it turned out different. Try and let me know!
Them things are creepy
How did it come out!?!?!
The video is dated Aug 31, 2021 so there may be Part II in 2 months/early November.
It turned out too sweet. I wasnt expecting the sweetness to be trapped inside the tough outer skins. I used too much rock sugar cause I thought it would be more bland cause of the dryness. Will try again. AND it didnt had a nice reddish hue like I had seen before, but more of a natural brownish yellow tint.(not an appetizing color for a cocktail!) I used the dogwood spirits mixed in a dogwood syrup-in a later video.
Some varieties of kousa dogwood have really great tasting berries. In Japan you might also have the evergreen species with even larger berries.
Yeah, I have found a few evergreen kousa in parks mainly. The berries are bigger(and have bigger seeds) and usually ripen later like in late October.
This plant isn't commonly known in the West. I'm having a hard time sourcing seeds!
These videos are great! Thanks for providing this information
I have a 50' row of these trees (bushes) by my house, I think they are quite old by the size of their trunks. They were always neatly trimmed, but for 3 years I let them grow, no trimming, and every year we get a lot of seeds, but this year is like a tsunami. They are loaded, must be millions of seeds, and the fruit is almost as big as a grape. They are about 18' high. I live in Floida. I only found out a couple months ago that the fruit is edible, and delicious. I have many seedlings now, maybe 2 or 300, all sizes from different years, I need to find a nursery to take them as I don't ever like to throw away seedlings or any plant that I propagate.
There are a lot of the old trees around the temples in Japan. That's where I usually look for them. The local monk turned me onto the fruits. "Be careful to only eat the red fruit part and NOT too many of them."
I wanna go there! Thank you 💞
I heard fuki miso from this manga called little forest, it really looks appetizing!
why did you not eat the fish
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Interesting recipe, thank you! How much of fruit amount alltogether did you use? Love
So beautiful and marvelous
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Supai demo oishi na
Beautiful. I loved the video. Very nice info. Thank you.
Just waaaaay too much work for these stinkers
hahaha true. They have pre-packaged ginko snacks and ginko nuts in cans but youd be missing out on SO much flavor and stench by not cracking your own!
@@ForagerJapan We had a grove of Gingko trees on our horse farm. I did indeed try to find ways to cook them in the days before the internet. We had nine large fruit bearing trees. I tried all sorts of home recipes for cooking them - all were a failure. That being said Gingko is my favorite tree. As a bonsai grower (dabbler) I have 5 nice specimen grown from seed that I have been ultivating for 20 plus years. I have 5 different hybrid cultivars growing in my yard (Saratoga, Weeping Wonder, Mariken, Thelma). The fruit is just too much work
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What's the last ingredient in the list? It's blocked by the black highlight.
Sorry. Do you mean the garnish? It's Myoga(Japanese ginger flowers)
Hi! Thanks for replying. No, not the garnish. What's the last ingredient for the batter. It's blocked.
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These grow in India too in the state of Himachal Pradesh.
Are the bay berries much bigger in India? The bayberries in Japan don't grow much bigger than a small cherry in size
@@ForagerJapan Well, they grow only in one province of India and are not available anywhere outside that area. I've never seen them for real but they're usually the same size as a medium sized cherry. How does it taste like ? Anything close to Mulberry?
omg i love foraging youtubers, and its always interesting to see how the wild food changes in each area. this is such a cool and informative video, i found it looking for vegan recipes, but now if i ever go to japan i can try to forage haha !! thank you 🙏🏽 💗🌸🍉
Super cool. I’m excited to explore my local parks and beaches! 💕💕💕
Also where can I find the most trustworthy information for the benefits of these plants?
Rillee, Ive used Healthline. There are a bunch of different doctors there and they reply to inquiries very quicklywww.healthline.com/nutrition/mulberry-leaf#benefits
I am so excited to watch your videos! I hope you keep them coming!!
It turned out ok. Too sweet for me. I used more milk. The dough was too thick. Might try a different recipe next time. But still tasted really good. Will be using loquats again to make another dessert dish. Thanks for video
Don’t you just love when the news decides it’s gonna change an insect species name to make it sound more deadly 🤦🏻♂️
I love how the minute the Hornet takes off towards the camera the video cuts off
Yeah, it scared the sh** out of me when it came straight at me. I couldnt go back for more footage!
Needs more evil name. Massacre Hornet Mass Casualty Hornet? Hell Hornet.
but wot is it doing to deserve and evil name? they are kinda cute LoL