5 Tips for Foraging Wild Edible Weeds in Your Neighborhood in the Spring
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- I've got a lot of weeds to eat here at Haphazard Homestead. But every neighborhood has weeds, too. In this video, I go foraging in my neighborhood. I picked 12 different kinds of weeds that are great to eat and made some great cooked greens with bacon and onions. Then I give 5 tips for foraging in a neighborhood.
The tips start at 13:50 in the video.
Tip 1: Learn to identify a wild variety of wild plants that are good to eat. There are so many weeds and other wild plants that are great to eat! The more plants you know well, the easier and faster it will be to find enough for a great meal.
Tip 2. Have a "Neighborhood foraging kit". A neighborhood kit doesn't have to be complicated because you are just in your neighborhood. In the spring, it's the simplest of all, because the big finds will be greens, leaves, flowers, and maybe, if you're lucky, mushrooms. My kit has a bunch of plastic bags, a couple jars, a few paper bags in case you find mushrooms, and a little knife for cutting some plants off under ground level.
Tip 3: High-grade! Make it easy on yourself and pick the plants that are easy to pick clean, in good condition, and in enough quantity and concentration to make it worth your while. It's OK to leave a lot of plants behind.
Tip 4: Be adaptable. You may be looking for one kind of plant, but find another. You may find plants in different condition than you expected. There are so many ways to use wild plants, especially wild greens. If you go with what you are finding, rather than having an inflexible agenda focused on a specific plant, then you will find more food, faster.
Tip 5: Keep it simple when cooking wild greens. Don't over-think cooking greens in the kitchen. The proportions and kinds of greens aren't that important. What is important is to separate the plants into two categories: the ones that need to be par-boiled and the ones that can be boiled just once.
Here are the plants in their order of appearance:
1. Wild Chives - Allium schoeneprasum
2. English Daisies - Bellis perennis
3. Wild field mustard flowers - Brassica rapa
4. Narrowleaf plantain - Plantago lanceolata
5. Curly Dock - Rumex crispus
6. Miner's Lettuce - Claytonia perfoliata
7. Chickweed - Stellaria media
8. Cat's-ear - Hypochaeris radicata
9. Nipplewort - Lapsana communis
10. Cleavers - Galium aparine
11. Common Sowthistle - Sonchus oleraceus
10. Dandelion leaves - Taraxacum officinale
11. Sheep sorrel - Rumex acetosella
12. Prickly Sowthistle - Sonchus asper
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Music: "Daily Beetle", "Carefree", "Fluffing a Duck", "Happy Alley" and "Casa Bossa Nova" by, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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i wish you were my grandmother so i can learn all this cool stuff.
Thanks for your nice sentiment! You can still learn all this stuff. There are so many plants to eat or use for crafts. Many of them are easy to identify. I hope some of my videos can help you out!
Wow! I never realize there was so many edible weeds. I will have to pay more attention to them next time i go out and pull weed from my garden. I now have a new profound respect for weeds. Wish they teach this in school.
Dang, you went "shopping"! 😃👍
You're my grandma imparting her wisdom to me. Thank you.
You're welcome. Thanks for the kind words!
Haphazard Homestead I've met a 40 year old grandma.. Scary..lol. I've HEARD OF 30 year old grandmas.. That's just SAD. We earn meaning to the title of grandma, some still not having grandchildren but the wisdom that only comes with time served on this planet and all of our experiences with it are a time honored Blessing. Love Your videos!😘 FRIEND!🌲🌾🌺🌿🍄🍀
Have not seen anyone do this good at showing us how to gather these green. Thank you so much!
I’m 73 . Great information on wild plants. Been a 50 year long hunter of wild ginseng. Lots of wonderful edible plants that now I can harvest and use. Thanks for great information.
best channel ever award.
Thanks so much! I'm glad you are enjoying my videos!
yes , its very good , and comprehensive.....Well phrased , and easy to watch/learn from
I wish I'd seen this video before I mowed my overgrown yard. Great video!
Haha! The music soundtrack at 2mins is hilarious!!
Wow you're awesome. I have to know my weeds. I know definitely I have dandelions... I have a lot to learn, but its a start lol!
Another great video full of handy foraging tips.
Thanks, Lonnie. These tips are different than the ones you would have for the Far North, lol! But they work for an average neighborhood here in the lower 48. There are a lot of weeds down here, too! ; )
Hi Chris,, same for northern B.C. not as many of your weeds here, but if ever travelling to the south, I will have a veritable feast:)
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I wish you had a book
Thanks for that encouragement! That's an interesting idea!
@@HaphazardHomestead Please do a book! Your approach is so different from most!
fantastic tips
Hey, good to see you here! Thanks -- and I hope you are still enjoying your wild betony tubers!
Just discovered your videos and they are more informative than I could hope for. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and keeping it straightforward and simple. I look forward to all that you are going to teach me.
I can't wait for spring, my weeds feed me spring through summer.
You ROCK, girl! Love your videos! Thank you 😁
(Love your hat too!)
I learn something new everytime.
I'm glad to hear that! Happy foraging!
Im in the uk and im so glad a lot of what you picked are in abundance here. Thank you
So many of our edible weeds came from Europe, so they probably are familiar to you. They were brought over here because they were so important as real food! Happy foraging!
Many of the wild foods were brought to this county from the UK . I live in Arkansas USA .
Love your videos. I just found your channel a few weeks ago and have watched all of your videos now. I have been doing research on edible wild plants for about 4 years now, mostly just to satisfy my curiosity but also just in case I may need to use this knowledge in a survival situation. The majority of what I have taught myself has been through books. And I have to admit that even knowing 100% that I had correctly identified certain plants, such as curly dock, I still did not have the confidence to eat more than just a simple nibble until finding your channel. The first video I watched you made the most beautiful salad just full of different kinds of flowers and seeing the beauty of that salad made me realize that this fear I had. It had to be beaten. So I am happy to say that I have made several completely wild salads and mixed green pots and I Love it! The first salad I mad had a mostly chickweed base, curly dock, narrow leaf dock, violet leaves, violets, lambs quarters and I even made some violet vinegar for my salad dressing. Loved the violet vinegar by the way, such a rich color and flavor. I cannot thank you enough for your teachings and I look forward to watching more of your videos. Thank you thank you!
Thanks for your great story! You started with the right step -- learning to identify the plants correctly! I appreciate you saying that it was a salad that helped you connect with these plants as real food. Wild salads can be so pretty, especially with flowers. And nice work in making some violet vinegar. I need more violets around me, lol! Happy foraging - and welcome to a lifetime of great eating!
Thank you! Especially appreciated that you showed how to cook the greens.
Next time someone says they are hungry 🤣 I love this, we forget that there is food EVERYWHERE.
Thanks for sharing how to forage for wild edibles. I’m too afraid of bugs, to go into a wild place to forage.
Robin D. Phillips: Bugs are high in protein and some are really delicious. I have eaten grasshopper, crickets, dragonfly, cicada, paper wasp grubs, spiders, worms, shrimp, crawdads and lobster. All bugs should be cooked to kill parasites. Tabasco sauce really enhances the flavor. You can over come your fear and eat well.
I am new to wild edibles and have watched quite a few videos now to learn more.but I must say yours by far,has to be the best for a beginner like me. It was packed with such great information as to 'how' to do it,I like the pick clean and organise concept and you even showed what to take and how to cook it-love the bacon onion idea!all of it was great.I have subscribed now and will keep learning from you.thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge with us.wish you the best with all future endeavours
#grasshopper
Just expanded my limited knowledge of edible weeds. Thank you!!!
Really really the best....Thank You
Thank you,you remember me of my favorite grandmother I love your ideas
wow that dish looked really good
Yes, indeed it was really good! Greens cook down so much, I was glad I had enough for the next day, too.
In the past all people had were books with sketches. It was hard to know how large they were in relation to other plants. Even color pics were too vague. But here it is possible to see them in relation to others, and the videos are clear.
That looks so good, i was thinking putting it over rice would be great.
Up north here am now able to get out and forage. This season is the first I have eaten wild salad greens with a few new plants thanks to you. The spruce tips add a great mild flavor to the whole salad, coltsfoot adds bulk and a few poplar leaves do too. Hope you are enjoying wild greens where ever you are!
I love foragibg "weeds" aka wild herbs! Used to put them in my morning smoothie and always felt super energized.
“Yeah I’m glad I didn’t have a salad.” You are so cool!!!! I love your videos thank you for being you and doing what you do!!! This video was so informative and inspiring. I learned a lot thank you very much.
Girl, you are the best! Thanks for sharing your excellent knowledge.
Omg, looks so delicious. Enjoying all the videos, learn't so much.. Thank you :)
You're welcome, Elly Salford! I'm glad my videos are helpful for you. It's amazing what bounty there is for us, all around, from our gardens to the wild places. Happy foraging!
Can I stay with you for a month!?
I was fascinated by watching.
We have a big park a few blocks away with 1/2 of it being a very wild space...lots and lots of great weeds and tons of nettles there!
Thank you for sharing how to cook them. For sure,il make them❤
I hope you have been enjoying your own wild greens. There are so many different ones that are good to eat, once we get to know them.
I admire your knowledge of the wild edibles, thank you for sharing
I love watching your channel while I clean my foraging harvest. You are so sweet, kind, and funny 🤣
Watching you forage makes it seems so easy. Gathering wild food was a way of life where I grew up. The wild food my family ate was limited to about 40 edibles. My elders taught us children to consider any other plants poisonous. Since then, I have probably learned to recognize an additional 50+ edibles. I am not yet ready to try them all, but I really, really, really enjoy learning and adding to my list of wild edibles.
I am currently studying winter forage and edible parts of certain trees.
Thanks for sharing.
That meal looked delicious. Thank you for your knowledge.
I h.ave a little background in foraging I learned from a book by the late Billie Joe Tatum from the Ozarks and know some things about foraging. Over the years I have gotten away from foraging and forgotten a lot but I still have her book I can use for a 'refresher' course. I have been suffering with a lot of depression lately but watching your wonderful videos are encouraging me to get outdoors and start foraging again! Doing this will get my mind off my problems and get me enthused about something again. You are so inspiring!
Looks delicious.. I'm going foraging.. wish my grandma was here.. thank you..
This was so cool ! Too bad all my neighbors keep only grass. I have to leave my neighborhood to find a spot other than my backyard. But you were very inspiring. I'll be going out to look around!
It can be a challenge to find foraging spots in some neighborhoods, for sure. But if you can put together 5 spots near you that are easy to get to, it's amazing how much you can find on a regular basis. You will have your own personal grocery store. Your backyard sounds like it will make a good place to start. Happy foraging!
I cannot say this enough...THANK YOU for showing so many great close ups...how many things in our yard are poisonous though,,,I think that is what we have become brainwashed of...my fear is that i may think something is one of the things you mentioned and pick it, but it ends up something similar but poison...if i know that not too many things are poison in my yard, it may make me feel safe to try it...so do you have a don't eat this video? lol? thanks...I am mad that we have been conditioned to not pick this stuff so we go buy crap from the store instead...I second amy hawkins on the book idea!!!
I'm glad the plants are showing up enough to be helpful in my videos. So many of our yard plants are edible -- but my own foraging creed is that I don't treat any plant as edible, unless I know that it is. I'm more concerned about plants that can be harmful before anyone even eats them - like poison ivy, poison oak, or giant hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum). And thankfully that last one is probably not in your yard!
Some of the plants that I eat grow right next to plants that would make me sick. But all I have to focus on is picking the one that is good to eat. That's why I stress picking clean so much. And trees are easy to start with, because there's not much else growing up in their leaves and flowers!
As i thought after seeing this type of video.i am so afraid that i have not even want to try.but i really want.
@@Fatima-qx6uw You can try 2 that are really easy to recognise and common in any yard where europeans ever set their foot: Dandelions and the common nettle. Dandelion fresh leaves are fine as salad and the common nettle easily substitutes spinach and can be used in soup, bread, etc. Those two are easy to recognise and easy to experiment with. Think of how easily you recognise herbs and usually wouldn't fear eating spearmint when finding it in the wild. I bet you have no problem confusing parsley with coriander even though they look the same to many. This is the same: go for common plants that are easily recognisable and common around gardens and really use your sense of smell and texture.
@@agneteht thank u so much .i will definitely try.its so interesting.
avonleanne .... I went on a guided edible weed walk in Melbourne and what I thought was seeding aniseed turned out to be a Hemlock! It is obviously better to pick while young and fresh :-)
This video was awesome, so well put together. Thank you!
You're welcome! There is a world of good eating out there. So much is right around us, in our yard and neighborhoods.
Watched again today. 😊
Have a great foraging season! :D
a great ap is: Picture This - plant identification ap - it's amazing and it has me eating wild edible salads at least once/week!
First time watching you. I am seriously impressed. You made me want to go forging😄 Your methods are impeccable. Your presentation no nonsense. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Pat from southern Indiana.
Thanks, Pat from southern Indiana! Your part of the country has so many good things to forage. I hope you find useful information in my other videos, too.
You do keep this simple! Thank you!
I'm glad I watched this. I've wanted to try picking weeds but wasn't comfortable but you make it look simple.
So happy to find your channel. Thanks a lot! 💐 😍 😁
New favorite channel! Thank you so much for all that you share with us 😌
Keep up the good work! You make me want to forage. I have depression and of course I lose interest in everything I love but you inspire me to get out there and I feel so much better whenever I do.
Thanks for your kind words, Elizabeth Hansen, and I'm sorry for your troubles. Wild plants and mushrooms are out there, waiting for us, whenever we can get out there, in whatever way we can. Gardening requires a certain level of optimism to trust in future harvests, but with foraging, nature just accepts us as we are, any time. I'm with you, in feeling better every time I get out there, no matter what else is going on.
@@HaphazardHomestead it's therapeutic really
Thanks,I am going to pick wild vegetables and cook like your way to eat.
I love your videos !! I forage all those weeds in my yard, saves me a lot of money.
Thanks, Cheyenne Hunter! I'm glad you are enjoying your weeds. They may be free, but they sure are good eating, too. Here's to saving money and eating well! :D
How i love this kind of videos i've learned what i have now in my garden
Thanks! I found your video very interesting.
This lady is one of the best if not the best in this. I leaned a loooooot from her . ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Thank you so much.
THANKS SO MUCH, I AM TRYING TO LEARN WHAT TO EAT IN MY YARD =)
You're welcome. So many of these weeds were used by the pioneers and homesteaders, as real food. A good way to start is by listing the plants that you already know how to identify, hands down, 100%. Then find out whether they are edible, and then in what way they are edible. Some have lots of different parts that are good to eat at different times of year. So then you already know a lot!
THANKS
Nice I didn't know you can eat all these edible plants💞
There is such an incredible abundance of goodness out there, Bonnie M, if you get to know the plants, one by one. I hope my videos can help.
This woman is fantastic!
Fantastic video. Bacon and onions to the greens. That looked wonderful.. and got to save the Pot Licker.. I laughed hearing that.. we use to call our sibbelings that when we were kids... you are a try joy to learn from sis.. God Bless
Glad you enjoyed my foraging video, Steven Miller. Pot Likker is really good! That's quite a nickname you had for each other! :D
I'm going to my neighborhood to check out some weeds! Lol.
I love your channels!
Those of you that need a book , your on one of the best sources of I dentification of each plant . type the name of the plant in your search engine The Internet is perfect for this or any information . Learn one plant at a time then go to the next one . The Dandelion is one of the best to learn and one of the easiest plants . learn the most helpful plants first . Purslane is the top of the ladder also and very easy to identify . But I learn more right here on
Haphazard Homestead than anywhere you may look .
pay close attention to this wonderful person she knows what she is doing . If you need to you can pause the frame to get a better look .
thanks just getting in to this subject i will subscribe and learn this winter i may be ready to go forage next spring
looks good cooked up
holly, your videos are still my favorite on youtube because of your wonderful personality and teaching style. 💛💛 hope you're doing well!!
It's interesting to see the same ones as we have in Australia and those we haven't. I hate the sticky weed though as it sticks to my dog.
Great video... thanks for sharing your knowledge.
I love your videos, they are so clear and informative for beginners :) I would love to see more videos of you taking us around with you on your foraging trips throughout the year :)
Your a real pleasure to watch.
This is very very good info. Salad shmalad...cook those buggers :) I see you used bacon...1 cowtow....2 cowtow...3 cowtow...roman salute and a bow :)
Thank you for your lessons!❤♥️😁👍always thump up!
great videos!
Thanks!
I’ve watched most of your videos and let me tell you, I’ve learned so much that I took my books and went out and got some plants. Some are acquired tastes, but it’s so satisfying to know I’m eating good! I’m waiting for my pokeweed to pop up again to try some for the first time this spring! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Thanks for your awesome video
I just love your channel, your so down to earth and straight to the point, your a great teacher on foraging..Thanks for sharing @
I’ve picked up some wild spinach that I’ve used as salad and in ramen soup
Very nice, Love Yourself! I like putting wild greens in my ramen soup, too. The greens really make it a lot better. And every package is different that way, too. Enjoy your greens! :D
Thank you good looking cooking .
Really nice fresh and green lovely and more save a dollar, but I have notice while you will harvest pick some you're always pull out them you killed the weeds 🤣
I love watching your videos, with this pandemic of COVID-19, we have been doing a lot of foraging. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Hi Holly, am enjoying reviewing your video's on harvesting wild greens.
When you said "the point is to learn a wide variety of edible weeds," something dawned on me, finally, lol. I promote people learn to eat wild greens, but for some reason I forgot to direct them to your site....I know!, I can't believe I didn't think of that earlier!!! Now that I have, I hope people start to learn from you. You are a great teacher and enjoyable to watch and listen to for both new and experienced wild greens harvesters. Not that I will ever learn the latin names but hey, I try:)
Brilliant. ... I wish I had some of that stew. 🤪
That stew from the weeds was so good, Ro Mc A! I wish you could have some, too!
I am so glad I found your channel
You're good😄👍
Love your cooking
Your videos are great. I hope you keep it up!
Thanky soso murch🙏🙏😃
I admire you so much!
We love, love, love your channel!! I shared your video's with my best friend and she loves your videos too. Thank you so much for sharing with us. Thumbs up always. God bless you
Thanks for your kind words, Saffriance! I'm glad you and your friend are enjoying my videos. I hope to have more up pretty soon! Happy foraging!
Wow, you have big, healthy weeds near you. Many of these I haven't found, yet, and others are here, but tiny.
Weeds get big here in Oregon's Willamette Valley. It's the cool, cloudy, wet springtime. The weeds love it. For other regions, areas with nutrient-rich soil and shade can be pretty good, too. But the weeds here are special -- I've harvested dandelion leaves that are 19 inches long! I felt like I caught a trophy fish, lol.
Just found your channel and found it very interesting..
Thank you so much because my Mom was doing the same and her wonderful cooking leaves us in awe, just like you😁
I am really learning from you...thsnks again ❤ all made by God.❤🙏
That really looks delicious
Thank you for this beautiful video
People need to include this in things to stock prepping.
I think your channel is so informative I always look forward to watching your videos, so I can go out and collect wild food. Just think if the plants we picked and game we took was all we could eat just think of the weight we would loss.
Thank you for the information.
Hubby and I loved your video and my mom gone for some time now would sing your praises for sure as she was a natural forager. I grew up following Wildman Steve Brill, but you are way better. I hope your videos really catch on and go viral. On a small note and certainly not my business, I found the music distracting me from your really well-organized presentation. Thanks a bunch for all those great tips on keeping organized and reminding me to make friends with the invasives running on our 5.5 acres of extremely organic growing. Sometimes they overwhelm and I should realize nature rarely conspires against us :)
Thanks for your kind words - and feedback about the music. It's nice that your mother was a forager - so you know already how great some of these weeds are. At least some of the invasive plants are good -- it helps us balance out the ones that are not, lol. With that much land, you've probably got enough good weeds for a meal or two!
I enjoy watching your videos so much. They are very clear and informative and along with my foraging books, they give me the self confidence I need to be a competent forager. Thank you! 😊❤
NIPPLEWORT!! I've spent hours and hours scouring YT, forums, facebook and Google trying to figure out what this weed is. You're the only person who has mentioned it, which is astounding considering it's so ubiquitous here in the PNW.. Is it nowhere else? Now I can put it in my dog's porridge, lol. Now I've got to figure out this one that looks so much like common mallow, but not quite. Too smooth and thin.. Thank you, thank you!
You have definitely found a Nipplewort fan, Dreamingrightnow! I eat a lot of them. They are in other parts of North America, too, but I think people don't notice them or appreciate them. We sure have a lot of them here in the PNW, for sure!