There's a lot of good food to eat out there, for sure! And in the spring, changes are happening so fast, every day offers a different mix. The Curly Dock (Rumex crispus) is one of my favorites all through the early summer even with larger leaves, as long as they are tender and in good shape. Wild food is real food. Happy foraging!
Ohmygosh thank you, beautiful human! A perfect blend in this video of education, beauty, and tranquility. I have an unfortunate anxiety disorder. Imagining myself at that organic farm fills me with peace. And Kenton, my goodness his energy is soothing. I'd love to be out there, foraging greens and floral edibles, making soup to have with rustic bread from a clay oven, having a tasty, nutritious salad bejeweled with violet and dandelion. I've long loved purple and yellow growing together. Thank you muchly for this, Rob. Love and light to you! ❤️ ☮️
My husband loves spring.. I helped in the garden this spring .. we have so many good things and love learning about new plants and forging.. This is great Rob! So thank you!
You can make "frittelle" as well with dandelion flowers. Place wet dandelion flowers in flour with a little salt, coat them and fried them. Simply delicious!
One of the best videos out there, learned so much. Would be so kewl if you could interview Kenton Whitman. Now I'm off to make dandelion honey non-dairy butter.
I learned new plants. 🌿🌿🍀🍀 I love foraging I spent last year for a chain for the first time oh, and he's right you cannot get the most you cannot get this in grocery stores. The wild flavors are absolutely awesome you cannot get this anywhere but the wild then it is excellent eating
When I first watched this I was only able to watch halfways ... it inspired me so very much, I just had to go find me some wild edibles ! I made my own 'horta' , enjoyed it.
Now THAT is the ultimate goal of a video like this -- if we can get you to leave the computer and head outside, our job is done! Thanks for sharing that, Inge! =) Kenton
:) Here in Estonia in springtime, we always harvest tons of young ''Ground Elder'' to make kinda anything from it from pesto to pancakes! Rob, You have been actually kinda inspiration for our group to start a UA-cam channel about sustainability in the city environment, man, I really believe there needs to be more doers like you on UA-cam! (Jiri)
Hello fellow Estonian! We got a plot of land in our community garden which also has a ton of ground elder growing on it. We put it everywhere from smoothies to soups, omelettes (vegan in our case), stir fries, pastas, savory muffins.. everyplace you would usually use greens.
I roll a sheet of nettle between my fingers and eat it raw, or put it in the smoothie with the other green plants. You can also just roll the leaves over with a kitchen roll and the needles are gone. They are best raw. Thanks for this post I wish everyone a great day
A good thing to note is that Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale), Gill Over The Ground (Glechoma hederacea), and Watercress (Nasturtium officinale) are all non-native/invasive species in the U.S. so the more you can gather the better.
In the last couple of days I just harvested 10 pounds of fiddleheads! They are an awesome find in my area of the country at this time of year! Now I have veggies for the next month! By next week, I should have a motherlode of wild asparagus ready to harvest. I harvested 50 pounds of asparagus last year with 3 cuttings in my not so secret spot otherwise, I would have 100's of pounds to myself if I didnt have a half a dozen competitors, but oh well, there is plenty to go around. I also look forward to harvesting garbage bags full of stinging nettle leaves on some land that has about an acre of them.
My kids took me foraging at the river for Mother's Day ❤ Was the best day of the year so far! I think I surprised them on how much FOOD I can identify lol 😊
My friends in Italy used to forage unbelievably tasty mushrooms which are healthy, delicious and nutritious. In Thailand I ate mushroom skewers which resembled meat in terms of texture and taste.
What an inspiring and beautiful video. I have been wanting to go foraging close to my house but would have no idea what to forage. We live by a creek in Texas but I fear now that an apartment complex will now take it’s place. I’m so upset. They are already building a small strip of stores as you enter my subdivision. Still inspired to go foraging while I can. 🌱🦋🌱💜🌱🦋💜
Hey Rob, and Kinton, I am from greece and I was so surprised when Kinton mentioned horta! We eat then all year round but they absolutely thrive in spring. In the first days of May here you can also find lots of figs to make fig candy and now young walnuts that are starting to form are the best choice for an aromatic sweet.
Great video, some new plants for me, though I won’t find all in Valencia, Spain 😉 it would be useful to have the Latin names, but I understand you’re catering to a mainly North American audience. Looking up Spring Beauty now! Thank you to all involved 🙏🌱🌱🌱
Good material in this video. Not everything applies in my Deep South location in central Mississippi but the principle of foraging work anywhere once you learn what native edibles are there for the taking. So study what is available in your area. Then learn ways to prepare the items you forage. If you are interested in foraging, I have a video on the cooking section of my channel showing how I make a Smilax and Wild Garlic omelet. YES, you can eat foraged foods for breakfast! As stated, foraged foods have both appealing and not so appealing characteristics. They are usually very nutritious, healthy, plentiful, and FREE. But they may also be bitter, sticky or slimy, or have flavors you just don't like. Start small and add a few foraged items to a normal salad, for example, until you develop a taste and tolerance in your body for consuming them. If your body rejects some foraged item, simply don't eat it. Everyone cannot eat or will not like the same things. But trust me here, adding a few ripe blackberries picked in the woods to your plate will make you want to go pick more! So will picking up nuts in the fall or picking edible mushrooms when in season. For me, the very first wild edible I ever learned to eat was beggar's lice. They are tiny seeds inside that are hard to get to but they taste great. Sprinkle them in your salads! You don't even have to pick them.....they will just stick to your clothes as you walk through them! Know your foraged items before you eat them and stay safe.
I don't think we have most of these where I live in California, but we do have various docks, dandelion, miners lettuce, wild radish... Etc. Every region will have different types. BUT, some like dock are nearly everywhere in the world. A lot of wild edibles in the USA are imported from Europe by settlers or natural spread from ancient times.
I'm not sure! I think it likes moving water, so maybe a tank with a filter of some kind? It does grow aggressively, so it might be possible. If you try this, please let me know if it works. So good to see you here my friend!!! =)
@@ReWildUniversity I have to get the fishtank, water filter, and some watercress but I will be trying this possibly next year. I'm move next year so I can get more projects done there. I will for sure let you know how it turns out.
I have wanted to learn what plants are in my area to forage. I think it is awesome that you could eat off that land like this. I had one concern. There have been reports of chronic wasting disease in the deer population around here. I believe that deer get this disease when they eat greens that have been drooled on by an infected deer. I'd this something you would be concerned about? What do you do to protect yourself from tainted foraged food?
Sean, that's a great question. We have CWD in our area as well, and as you note, there is some evidence that it can spread deer-to-deer via saliva. However, at this point the evidence is pointing toward CWD not being spread to humans. Granted, at some point it may cross the species-to-species barrier and affect us, but until that mutation happens in the disease organism, we're probably safe eating deer or even deer drool =) For me, when assessing dangers, I try to look at it from the point of view of numbers. There are tons of foragers out there, and none have contracted CDW from foraging that we know of. However, grocery store purchased food sickens many people every year. I hesitate to think what stories some of our grocery store food could tell us about its long journey from field to factory to truck to grocery store, being subjected to spraying, touched by countless people, gassed for preservation, coated in wax or plastics, etc. To say nothing of the environmental costs of transporting much of our food. So I suppose when I compare foraged food, it seems incredibly clean in comparison. Finally, anecdotally I know many, many foragers, some of whom eat foraged food every day that it's in season (including our family), and they're all in robust health. I'm super excited about your interest in foraging, and I hope this can lay to rest some of your concerns. As you begin foraging, you're going to open up a world of super-healthful foods, and flavors that you just can't get anywhere else. Enjoy! =) Kenton
Hello Rob, thanks for opening your life and sharing things with us. How would someone like me go about getting a less expensive tinyhouse if I don't know the 1st thing about building.
It's so funny, David, but we just spent the last seven months in Hawai'i, thinking we'd have a much easier time foraging there. But the abundance up here is incredible!!!
I'm so glad you posted this- this is exactly what I have recently become I tweeted in! Any recommendations for other sources? Especially around Vermont or the SF bay area?
For Vermont, check out Samuel Thayer's books. Green Deane at Eat the Weeds is based in Florida, I believe, but his website has tons of plants, plenty of which you'll find in the SF Bay area. =)
Hey man if I was to buy some land in Texas in the near future would you help me build a tiny house on the property and maybe and extra living space for guests
Subscribe to Kenton's channel for more great videos like this: ua-cam.com/users/ReWildUniversity
That dude looks like a person that u randomly meet in forest and offer you a sidequest to collect some plants 😁
You have to be a gamer to understand your message ... and here I am. 😉😁🤗💖
i love how he just keeps snacking on haha
The way he talks about the dishes he makes with these foods makes my mouth water...
The nature in the background is audibly alive! A good sign! :)
two of the best people on the internet collaborating...thank you for all both of you do!
Wow, thanks for the compliment!!
There's a lot of good food to eat out there, for sure! And in the spring, changes are happening so fast, every day offers a different mix. The Curly Dock (Rumex crispus) is one of my favorites all through the early summer even with larger leaves, as long as they are tender and in good shape. Wild food is real food. Happy foraging!
So true! There are different plants popping up day by day -- it feels like spring is a continuous spread of green bounty! =)
2 of my favorite channels, on a crossover! Both of you guys radiate the same energy
Miles, so cool to see you here! I remember first meeting Rob and just being so amazed at his positivity. He brings smiles just with his presence! =)
Ohmygosh thank you, beautiful human! A perfect blend in this video of education, beauty, and tranquility. I have an unfortunate anxiety disorder. Imagining myself at that organic farm fills me with peace. And Kenton, my goodness his energy is soothing. I'd love to be out there, foraging greens and floral edibles, making soup to have with rustic bread from a clay oven, having a tasty, nutritious salad bejeweled with violet and dandelion. I've long loved purple and yellow growing together. Thank you muchly for this, Rob. Love and light to you! ❤️ ☮️
great video! Learned something new and my blood pressure lowered listening to this dudes voice.
My husband loves spring.. I helped in the garden this spring .. we have so many good things and love learning about new plants and forging.. This is great Rob! So thank you!
that guy is a future Rob Greenfield
That's quite a compliment!! =)
Everyone should check out Kenton's channel from the link above! I've been watching his videos for about two years and each video is full of wisdom!!!
Thanks Isaac!!
Awesome! Awesome! Awesome! Thank you.
You can make "frittelle" as well with dandelion flowers. Place wet dandelion flowers in flour with a little salt, coat them and fried them. Simply delicious!
One of the best videos out there, learned so much. Would be so kewl if you could interview Kenton Whitman. Now I'm off to make dandelion honey non-dairy butter.
That dandelion butter sounds so good! We just made some a few days ago . . . delicious!!!
I learned new plants. 🌿🌿🍀🍀 I love foraging I spent last year for a chain for the first time oh, and he's right you cannot get the most you cannot get this in grocery stores. The wild flavors are absolutely awesome you cannot get this anywhere but the wild then it is excellent eating
I’m in NC….retired Marine…survival skills but now want to learn wild edibles
Thanks for the channel
Kenton is the man!
=)
What a beautiful man!
When I first watched this I was only able to watch halfways ... it inspired me so very much, I just had to go find me some wild edibles ! I made my own 'horta' , enjoyed it.
Now THAT is the ultimate goal of a video like this -- if we can get you to leave the computer and head outside, our job is done! Thanks for sharing that, Inge! =) Kenton
:) Here in Estonia in springtime, we always harvest tons of young ''Ground Elder'' to make kinda anything from it from pesto to pancakes! Rob, You have been actually kinda inspiration for our group to start a UA-cam channel about sustainability in the city environment, man, I really believe there needs to be more doers like you on UA-cam! (Jiri)
pesto from elder sounds interesting! Good tip!
Hello fellow Estonian! We got a plot of land in our community garden which also has a ton of ground elder growing on it. We put it everywhere from smoothies to soups, omelettes (vegan in our case), stir fries, pastas, savory muffins.. everyplace you would usually use greens.
I know that plant, it grows here too (in the Netherlands ), we call it zevenblad (seven-leaf)
Thank you Rob & Kenton!
Our pleasure!!
I roll a sheet of nettle between my fingers and eat it raw, or put it in the smoothie with the other green plants. You can also just roll the leaves over with a kitchen roll and the needles are gone. They are best raw. Thanks for this post I wish everyone a great day
Such a delicious way to have it, Sabine!!
Horta is a side dish that we LOVE here in Greece.
A good thing to note is that Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale), Gill Over The Ground (Glechoma hederacea), and Watercress (Nasturtium officinale) are all non-native/invasive species in the U.S. so the more you can gather the better.
YES. We can "weed" those plants as we eat them! =)
Oh man, I LOVE watercress! Definitely going to look for that.
I love this guy instantly, what a nice energy!
In the last couple of days I just harvested 10 pounds of fiddleheads! They are an awesome find in my area of the country at this time of year! Now I have veggies for the next month! By next week, I should have a motherlode of wild asparagus ready to harvest. I harvested 50 pounds of asparagus last year with 3 cuttings in my not so secret spot otherwise, I would have 100's of pounds to myself if I didnt have a half a dozen competitors, but oh well, there is plenty to go around. I also look forward to harvesting garbage bags full of stinging nettle leaves on some land that has about an acre of them.
Fiddleheads! We just went out to harvest some today! And those nettles . . . one of our all-time-favorite greens =)
My kids took me foraging at the river for Mother's Day ❤ Was the best day of the year so far! I think I surprised them on how much FOOD I can identify lol 😊
Thank you Gentlemen for this wonderful video
i learned to enjoy my greens from your page way cool videos.
I am excited to go out and eat every of these things 😍
My friends in Italy used to forage unbelievably tasty mushrooms which are healthy, delicious and nutritious. In Thailand I ate mushroom skewers which resembled meat in terms of texture and taste.
Awesome
Thank you 😊 👏👏👏!
Thank you for sharing!!!!!☀🌄👌😁☀
You bet, Nigel!
Amazing. Great timing thank you!
Wow
Wonderful
What an inspiring and beautiful video. I have been wanting to go foraging close to my house but would have no idea what to forage. We live by a creek in Texas but I fear now that an apartment complex will now take it’s place. I’m so upset. They are already building a small strip of stores as you enter my subdivision. Still inspired to go foraging while I can.
🌱🦋🌱💜🌱🦋💜
Aagh. I know that feeling of watching a beautiful natural area become parking lots and strip malls. I hope that creek can stay!!
ReWildUniversity ~ Yes, me too! I think it may have to but, I’m not an engineer. Wish us luck. Argh!
@@treasuretreereynolds1764 I will indeed -- it's always sad to see a creek disappear -- they support so much life =)
Good job bro!! 😀
Great spread of knowledge! we need more people willing enough to search and eat wild food!
Hey Rob, and Kinton, I am from greece and I was so surprised when Kinton mentioned horta! We eat then all year round but they absolutely thrive in spring. In the first days of May here you can also find lots of figs to make fig candy and now young walnuts that are starting to form are the best choice for an aromatic sweet.
Of course the downside is that they are inedible without the addition of sugar.
Markos, it was a dear Greek friend of mine, now deceased, who passed on the love of horta to me. We try to eat it with every meal if we can!! =)
Excellent video
Great video! I grew up in Eau Claire, WI!
Stephanie, that's awesome! What a beautiful area! We get down there sometimes for some foraging or exploring around Big Rock =)
I just saw Kenton's channel and it was awesome, pure survival, great tips as well!
thanks to you Rob!
Nice fresh spring reintro into gathering, subbed both channels for some while now.
Great to see you here =)
Great video, some new plants for me, though I won’t find all in Valencia, Spain 😉 it would be useful to have the Latin names, but I understand you’re catering to a mainly North American audience. Looking up Spring Beauty now! Thank you to all involved 🙏🌱🌱🌱
Sending love to you Rob. Come visit us in Oregon anytime.
Watercress on tomato and egg salad sandwiches. Oh my.
Brianne, you are speaking my language!!!! =)
Good material in this video. Not everything applies in my Deep South location in central Mississippi but the principle of foraging work anywhere once you learn what native edibles are there for the taking. So study what is available in your area. Then learn ways to prepare the items you forage. If you are interested in foraging, I have a video on the cooking section of my channel showing how I make a Smilax and Wild Garlic omelet. YES, you can eat foraged foods for breakfast!
As stated, foraged foods have both appealing and not so appealing characteristics. They are usually very nutritious, healthy, plentiful, and FREE. But they may also be bitter, sticky or slimy, or have flavors you just don't like. Start small and add a few foraged items to a normal salad, for example, until you develop a taste and tolerance in your body for consuming them. If your body rejects some foraged item, simply don't eat it. Everyone cannot eat or will not like the same things.
But trust me here, adding a few ripe blackberries picked in the woods to your plate will make you want to go pick more! So will picking up nuts in the fall or picking edible mushrooms when in season. For me, the very first wild edible I ever learned to eat was beggar's lice. They are tiny seeds inside that are hard to get to but they taste great. Sprinkle them in your salads! You don't even have to pick them.....they will just stick to your clothes as you walk through them!
Know your foraged items before you eat them and stay safe.
Second also in my region it is already 90 to 100 degrees
Horta.. steamed greens, olive oil, lemon juice and sea salt.
I don't think we have most of these where I live in California, but we do have various docks, dandelion, miners lettuce, wild radish... Etc. Every region will have different types. BUT, some like dock are nearly everywhere in the world.
A lot of wild edibles in the USA are imported from Europe by settlers or natural spread from ancient times.
Geovanni, that miner's lettuce is such a treat. We don't have it here, sadly!
Awesome video! Grow on!
Watercress - conhecido no Brasil como Agrião, é ótimo...
Definitely one of my family's favorites, Francisco!
Great vid!
I love to snack on hawthorn berries,but find the skin a little bitter. I also leave edible weeds in my garden amongst my veg.
I wonder if watercress could be grown and kept in a fishtank?
I'm not sure! I think it likes moving water, so maybe a tank with a filter of some kind? It does grow aggressively, so it might be possible. If you try this, please let me know if it works. So good to see you here my friend!!! =)
@@ReWildUniversity I have to get the fishtank, water filter, and some watercress but I will be trying this possibly next year. I'm move next year so I can get more projects done there. I will for sure let you know how it turns out.
@@DisabledandPrepping Thanks. I'd be very interested in knowing how it goes!
I have wanted to learn what plants are in my area to forage. I think it is awesome that you could eat off that land like this. I had one concern. There have been reports of chronic wasting disease in the deer population around here. I believe that deer get this disease when they eat greens that have been drooled on by an infected deer. I'd this something you would be concerned about? What do you do to protect yourself from tainted foraged food?
Sean, that's a great question. We have CWD in our area as well, and as you note, there is some evidence that it can spread deer-to-deer via saliva. However, at this point the evidence is pointing toward CWD not being spread to humans. Granted, at some point it may cross the species-to-species barrier and affect us, but until that mutation happens in the disease organism, we're probably safe eating deer or even deer drool =)
For me, when assessing dangers, I try to look at it from the point of view of numbers. There are tons of foragers out there, and none have contracted CDW from foraging that we know of. However, grocery store purchased food sickens many people every year. I hesitate to think what stories some of our grocery store food could tell us about its long journey from field to factory to truck to grocery store, being subjected to spraying, touched by countless people, gassed for preservation, coated in wax or plastics, etc. To say nothing of the environmental costs of transporting much of our food. So I suppose when I compare foraged food, it seems incredibly clean in comparison.
Finally, anecdotally I know many, many foragers, some of whom eat foraged food every day that it's in season (including our family), and they're all in robust health.
I'm super excited about your interest in foraging, and I hope this can lay to rest some of your concerns. As you begin foraging, you're going to open up a world of super-healthful foods, and flavors that you just can't get anywhere else. Enjoy!
=) Kenton
If you don't know Kenton from Rewild University, please check him out, he's an out and out gangster! Absolute beast! 🙏🏾💚💪🏾
Hello Rob, thanks for opening your life and sharing things with us. How would someone like me go about getting a less expensive tinyhouse if I don't know the 1st thing about building.
Check out schoolies. People get school buses and make into dwelling. Full length or shorter ones.
You two speak the same way!😜 must be the wisconsin accent🧐 anyways nice vid!!
Ha! Yup, we're both northern Wisconsinites, speech patterns and all =)
what a bounty! I wish we had this in Hawaii...
It's so funny, David, but we just spent the last seven months in Hawai'i, thinking we'd have a much easier time foraging there. But the abundance up here is incredible!!!
The cows😂😂😂😂😂😂
I know! They were upset that they weren't getting any film time, and weren't afraid to let their displeasure known! =)
I'm so glad you posted this- this is exactly what I have recently become I tweeted in! Any recommendations for other sources? Especially around Vermont or the SF bay area?
For Vermont, check out Samuel Thayer's books. Green Deane at Eat the Weeds is based in Florida, I believe, but his website has tons of plants, plenty of which you'll find in the SF Bay area. =)
@@ReWildUniversity Thanks!
@@eximmer4601 You bet!!!
Soo, if i plant it in home, will it be different?
I am an OG forager
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You..very..talented i'm interesting
✨️Love❤️&🤍Light ✨️
I eat dandelion while walking. Now know more what to eat!!!
I just received my seeds the other day. Thank you so much!
Hey man if I was to buy some land in Texas in the near future would you help me build a tiny house on the property and maybe and extra living space for guests
Horta-dining.
In todays world evwryone that breathes need to learn to forage!!!
Every time I see someone eat a plant from the ground I want to tell them a deer pissed and shit in that spot.
This kind of diet, well, eating wild greens, is almost seen like cannibalism where im from.