WILD Spinach Lambs Quarter & How to preserve it
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- Опубліковано 27 чер 2018
- In this video we harvest and dehydrate an edible weed in our garden known as Lambs Quarters.
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Jason and Lorraine. In 2016 we sold most of our belongings and left the city in southern California to start a small homestead in the mountains of North Carolina. We left the city in search for a more minimal and intentional life. We became passionate about growing our own food and knowing what exactly is in our food after I (Jason) became diagnosed with cancer. Now 8 years in remission we as a family are on a journey to live our passions.
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FYI do not wash first. The "dust" is essential earth minerals. The plant has a root system that pulls these minerals from very deep and delivers them straight to you.
OMG...I can tell you that I have harvested wild lambsquarter and domestically grown in in home gardens much of my life in Texas growing up. Just do not ever let it go to seed or your garden will be ruined. BEST green ever...BUT we didn't have time to waste pulling off leaves!! We prepared for southern style eating and ate it all. WE picked each spring after the first good rain in April and usually into May if lucky. Usually after the first flush...it tends to get tough so we gathered a few days after a good rain. All women and girls in my family got the day off from jobs or school and we all went hunting for lambsquater. We usually found it in sandy ditches on edges of wheat fields or other spring planted fields. WE snap the tall plants close to the soil...and stacked in bushel baskets till too heavy to put anymore in basket with a goal of 2-3 bushels per person. You would get 7-9 qts canned. It is very labor intensive...BUT...it is free AND my family would rather have it to any other green BECAUSE...it tasted better, had more nutrients, AND a greater yield per bushel compared to any other green. We wash it 3 times...AFTER pinching out tip of plant (bugs like to lay eggs in the tip area just before flowering/seeding)...and slap each and every plant against our palm to knock off the grit and any bugs. Then we boil it in large canning pots inside or outside...till tender enough to cut the huge pot of greens into big chunks of greens with 2 large knives crossing thru the pot. The stems and all...NOT just the leaves are consumed. THEN we proceed with canning...OR final cooking for dinner. It can also be frozen in Ziploc bags AFTER the initial tenderizing. I prefer canning so not to have waste. Some years you can can enough for 2 or 3 years and then the next year you might miss a good harvest. Keep in dark cellar...it is fine for several years easily this way. Now being super smarter than my old grandmother and mom...I thought...wait a minute...this sucks helping Mama prep a couple of bushels (after hours of picking at the crack of dawn)...then going home to prep my own couple of bushels...so I tossed a bushel in a washing machine (cleaned well of course) and ran it thru wash and rinse. Got them super clean...but a little bruised...and then boiled till tender and then canned. It was WONDERFUL not having super sore thumb and sore palm doing it my Mama Rene's way...but they wouldn't accept my method and I had to keep doing it their way when helping them. But at my own home...after already tired out helping them...I just tossed mine in washer. OF course you will have sand in the washer and some cleaning to do afterwards...but it works well. Lets just say...NOTHING else I eat is worth all the work it takes to prepare lambsquarter...and old as I am...if I see a patch...it is MINE. That's how good it is. Lambsquarter is a puny plant in the Pacific NW...so it doesn't yield much if you find it. But in the south...it is much more robust and leafy.
The "gritty" dusting on Lanbsquater leaves is the mineral salts it brings up out of the soil! This is great stuff - nutritious!
That just amazes me.....I always just thought that was a weed! Great to know this, we will be grinding up and picking our own now.....not a weed anymore when it has such an amazing purpose.
Weed is a myth. Every plant has a purpose.
I do this with winter squash too. Dry small chunks, and stick in the Vitamix. You would be surprised how much squash you can fit in a quart canning jar. Can be rehydrated for multiple uses, even desserts, and is wonderful to thicken soups, especially chili!
I remember so well pulling a lambs quarter “weeds” in moms garden as a child. I should have eaten them as a snack instead!
Great videos! I'm glad you discussed the magenta lamb's quarters. I had found one today but I thought there was something wrong with it, lol!
MORE, MORE !! Lorraine you are a wealth of information and I love it when you do these kitchen videos. I am positive you have more simple, healthy food ideas you have developed in the past few years to keep yourself, Jason and Penelope in the best of health. Thanks for sharing and I look forward to MORE!!!
So great. I found some growing wild and I was thinking of doing what you did and found your video :) Now I know it's a good idea. Thanks!
I have an abundance of this in my yard-thank you for the video!!
Now I want a dehydrator even more than I did before watching this! ~sarah
In Vermont, I have it everywhere, and it's delicious, and I prepare it like spinach. It is related to spinach, I've heard, and I believe that, as it really tastes like it. Also, if you have stinging nettles, they are primo for eating, as good or better than lambsquarters, VERY nutritious. Just wear gloves, and wash well, to get the stinging parts off. In Vermont also,we have fiddleheads, which are ostrich ferns when they first come up in spring. They are a delicacy that taste like a cross between asparagus and maybe broccolini. They're unique, and delicious, but fiddleheads are only ostrich ferns. Sometimes people try eating other types of ferns, and they're not all edible. Thank you, Lorraine, for featuring the humble and highly nutritious lambsquarters, a great wild food!🥀
Give flat bread, aka tortillas, a try substituting a bit of lambs quarter for you flour. Bright green bread, but oh the aroma and flavour!
Love your videos, Lorraine, thanks!! 👩🏻🌾👩🏻🍳🌱🌿🍀
I love eating lamb's quarter, but I've never dehydrated any. I have it growing everywhere. This is a great idea.
me quickly running into the yard in the middle of the night with a flashlight because i didnt realize i pulled such a valuable plant from my cana lilly pot. hopefully after placing it in a new pot it can come back from the horrible thing i did a few days ago
I try to encourage lambs quarter cover cropping in the garden with selective weeding. It's great in many things.
Great idea! We have so much of it everywhere this year. Thanks for the tip. Blessings...
What a great idea, I do this with kale and dandelions so now I will keep an eye out for this beneficial Weed
thank you for having us in the kitchen today
Vickie White 😊
Last year I harvested quart jars of the lambsquarter seed to make sure I could have some again this year. We live in a drought area. Already have some plants coming up.
Awesome, awesome, awesome 👏🏽 I love the simplicity of this !... thanks so much for sharing !🙂
I love learning new things. Thanks Lorraine. 💕
Thank you! I have been wanting to learn about lambs quarters. Your video is very educational and is a great introduction to the plant.
Really, really great idea. Thanks for this.
Beautiful. Great practical knowledge.Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for this tip!
Good morning Lorraine! The magenta lambs quarters are beautiful! I don't think I've ever seen any with color, just green. I going to guess the beautiful color offers you other nutritious health benefits. Thank you! ;)
Thanks for sharing this , my neighbor has lots of lambs quarters!
Thank you so much for your beautiful video
Thank you so much! I would love to know the weeds around my house and to utilize them more! I think I have this plant in my yard under our trampoline!
Excellent video. Lambs Quarter is growing wild in most of my untended garden up to 5-6 feet so far (July 5th). It grows tallest near my compost bin (50 gallon steel drum).
I harvested a bunch earlier this week and dried it out by simply leaving whole stalks on foil in the sunlight when temperatures were around 30-35°C and they were dry enough to crumble the leaves and flowers off the stem within 2 hours.
I then grinded them fine by hand to remove stems then use a coffee/herb grinder for a finer powder.
I favor the dried flowers, they resemble a micro popcorn and can be seasoned easily.
Thanks, Colleen Jones from Alberta, Canada
Nice job on this video !
We had a volunteer plant come up as a volunteer in a pot. Saved a bunch of the seeds and planted a bunch of them. Hopefully they take off. Great idea to dry and powder.
Great video!
Lorraine, this video showed up today 😊👍 I absolutely love that you made some videos! It would be GREAT if you could make some more videos, or maybe start your own channel 🙋🏻♀️🌻🌹🌷🌼🌱🌾🍃🍄🏵️💐
I have bunches growing wild all over the property. In the shade it grows to 4' high. Thank you.
you make nice videos. good info, thanks
love this thank you!
Great idea 💡👍 Thank you 🤗
Such a beautiful lady. Thank you for sharing. We love lambs quarters here too. It’s yummy in soups or added to a mixed greens blend I make now thanks to Heidi at RainCountry Homestead. I love all she does with herbs. Your purple one is BEAUTIFUL! I’ve not seen that one here. Thank you so much for sharing that Lorraine. God Bless you all ~ Lisa
Awesome!!!
great video and great advice :)
Great vid thanks! :D
I don't know if you will even see this note. You suggested we check out the Lambs Quarter vid. I enjoyed it. I really prefer to see "How To" or teaching videos. I will go checkout Sow the Land plus the words "How to". Perhaps there are other ones for me to see.
Thank you 😊
Thank you.
5:11 love the living art behind you. Now I feel bad for ripping out a bunch to plant sweet potatoes in. Thanks for the info.
Thank you for showing how turning lambs quarterbacking powders. God bless you.
Great video Lorraine! I think i may have it wild here too? coast of Cali. I'll be keeping my eyes open!
Thank you
I’ve never eaten it, but now I’ll try. We’ve only used it to rub on our bug bites for itch relief.
Ooh I have purple too
Oh I had more to say, lol. Is there any plants that are simmilar that are not safe I should watch for?
Save seeds & try growing lambs quarter in winter inside as microgreen, baby greens, in soil or kratky hydroponics (just water).
I here lambsquarter is good for adding micro nutrients to the soil like copper, zink, manganese, iron
I had no idea garlic and onions needed to cure... I'm always feeling like such a NOOB! lol! PS - Love your hattt!!!
Wonderful fyi😎
Thank you. You can hang them to dry and crunch up with hands...cheaper way...lol
I saw a youtube couple make flour out of it too.
Why not just hang the whole stalk to dry and then remove the leaves once they are air dried in the shade?
Ive been eating LQ since a kid. 60 and loving life!!
Let Food be thine medicine!! Hippocrates
What temperature did you set the dehydrator to when you were drying the lambs quarters? I hadn't thought to dry them but I have used them like spinach in cooked dishes.
MOVE IT BARBARA hahahahaha
Lorraine, you and Jason and Penelope are my favorite UA-cam family! I chopped so many lambs quarters as a kid that you could have made a silo of powder from the leaves, and never had a clue they were nutritious. Thanks for sharing and excellent video! One question, what if you don't have a dehydrador, can you just set them on a wire screen in the sun or does that fry away good qualities? Maybe I should be considering buildinbg a dehydrador for our farmstead.
a dehydrator is a wonderful help if you have a lot of things to dry. However, you will retain more nutrients of you cure the plants in a cool, dark, airy environment. It takes longer of course. It is best to store in whole form and grind a small amount as needed. Hope this helps :)
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What can you do with the flowers?
The lambs quarter in my garden has gotten really tall and looks like it's starting to go to seed. Is it too late to harvest some of it. Does it get bitter like lettuce once it bolts? I'm dying to try this. - thanks Theresa
how I so kno what u mean...the heat has indeed set in
My Lambsquarter is 4 feet tall and taking over everything except the sea of Common Mallow. It's impossible to get rid of.
What’s the temperature you use?
So ... Its been 2 years since the video. So my question is , did anyone get kidney stones? As a kid we heard it was edible. But they warned us not to eat too much or too regularly
Hello! Would you be interested in sharing or selling me some of your magenta lambs quarter seeds??? I have the green, and would like to add the purple! Thank you
Nice video except your defeiting the purpose by using electric dehydrator :)