Foraging in My Yard: Wild Salad from 24 Plants of Late Spring & Early Summer
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- Опубліковано 16 тра 2024
- If you have some of these common wild plants, weeds, and trees in your yard, you could be eating an incredibly delicious wild salad, too. I forage 24 plants from my yard. Then I show you how I turn them into an amazing salad with a wild salad dressing, too.
Even though spring is the easiest time for foraging a wild salad, there are still plenty of great wild edible plants to eat as late spring heads into summer.
The plants in order of appearance:
1. Common sowthistle - Sonchus oleraceus
2. Grand fir - Abies grandis
3. Spearmint - Mentha spicata
4. Wild field mustard - Brassica rapa
5. Wild garlic - Allium vineale
6. Chickweed - Stellaria media
7. Black locust - Robinia pseudoacacia
8. Sheep sorrel - Rumex acetosella
9. Blue Spruce - Picea pungens
10. Trailing blackberry - Rubus ursinis
11. Nipplewort - Lapsana communis
12. Cleavers - Galium aparine
13. Oregon grape - Mahonia aquifolium
14. Western Larch - Larix occidentalis
15. Dandelion - Taraxacum officinale
16. Common hawthorn - Crateagus monogyna
17. English daisy - Bellis perennis
18. Hedge mustard - Sisymbrium officinale
19. Curly dock - Rumex crispus
20. Bristly hawksbeard - Crepis setosa
21. Lemon balm - Melissa officinalis
22. White clover - Trifolium repens
23. American elm - Ulmus americana
24. Bittercress - Cardamine hirsuta
Here are some tips for making a great wild salad:
1. Focus on plants that are in good condition.
2. Pick clean. Look through what you pick, as you are picking it. leave the grass, pieces of other plants, and poor-quality plant parts out in the field.
3. Pick organized - and keep everything organized until you've double-checked it all, back in the kitchen
4. Chop the plants into tiny pieces
5. Keep some of the wild flowers aside, to mix into the chopped greens. It all looks nicer that way.
6. Use a simple salad dressing. Let the taste of all those wild plants shine. A simple oil and vinegar mix works fine!
If you enjoy foraging wild plants, here's my playlist - Foraging: Real Food for Regular People
If you want to eat what you forage, here are playlists about preparing your harvests:
Cooking Wild Greens - • Wild Greens Recipes: Y...
Wild Salads - • Wild Salads: Foraging ...
If you like to garden, too, here are my gardening playlists:
Potatoes - An easy and productive garden crop - • Potatoes - An easy and...
Elephant Garlic: How to get the most out of growing Elephant Garlic - • Elephant Garlic - How ...
Collards: How To Grow and Use ALL of Your Collard Plants - • Collards: How To Grow ...
Hops: How To Grow and Use ALL of Your Hop Plants - • Hops: How to Grow and ...
In the Garden - • In the Garden
Here are my playlists about specific wild plants:
Dandelions - • Dandelions: Foraging W...
Wild Mustard Plants - • Wild Mustard Plants: G...
Elderberry - • Elderberry Bushes, Flo...
Spruce Trees - • Spruce Trees: Foraging...
Redbud Trees - • Redbud Trees: Foraging...
Detailed ID of Wild Mushrooms - • Wild Mushrooms - Deep ...
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My channel: Haphazard Homestead: / @haphazardhomestead
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Music: "Fireflies and Stardust", "Garden Music", "Hep Cats", "Lobby Time" and "Marty Gots a Plan" - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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Can I just like come stay with you for a summer?! Man! So knowledgable!!! Thank you so much for your amazing videos! Much respect.
me too!
Me too. And I love your voice
Oh Gee, it's going to be soo crowded there !!! 🙂
If yall do the foraging ill do the cooking got pain issues and wild edibles are not as painful as cultivated planys, but i have days i cant move.
How I wish more people appreciated what nature has freely given.
MOTHER EARTH PROVIDES...THANK YOU!
It is a great service to your viewers how you share this valuable info that teaches how even the common person can experience great fresh nutrition.
Thanks for that nice sentiment, Lonnie! I am constantly amazed at how much good food is around in so many places, so much of the time. I hope more folks can enjoy all the abundance, too. Happy foraging up North! I bet things are looking so green up there now!
@@HaphazardHomestead GOOD YOU remembered that DIFFERENT NAME herbal medicine IS USED LOT in southeast Asia
More than ever
Can you start a series of wild identifications with all separate videos that will help us thoroughly identify wild edibles??
Why not just buy yourself one of the multitude of wild foods/weeds foraging guides? Or keep watching UA-cam vids on the subject? Knowledge is easily available....for free online, and in printed field guides you can carry along with you.
@@occipitalneuralgia2339 better to watch someone whos showing u what the plants are as opposed to looking it up in a book.
there's a phone app that identifies plants using your phone
Go with an experienced human. Post on hiking groups online, the mushroom folks are understandably secretive, but the rest of us would love to teach you! Individual plant videos won't help lol, you have to learn it spring to winter, year by year, you can't learn it all and then go out. It's very humbling, I suck at it after 15 years (ie, I couldn't survive in the wild), but I love it and it is my church, my hobby, my prayer, my exercise, everything. It's ethnobotany, you have to learn in community.
I've actually learned more through UA-cam than i ever have with books. Books help with a specific plant that you're already researching but UA-cam can go through a variety with one video that helps you to learn new plants to research
Such a helpful video! I'm just now learning about foraging and wild edibles and don't want to slip up and grab the wrong plant. So grateful that kind souls like you are here for us
Gonna get out in my overgrown yard right now, I'm hungry
That salad is filling, alright! Eventually, I get my yard more trim, but it's hard in spring, when there's so much food out there! : )
Haphazard Homestead Hello Sally! I to do not like to mow my yard n spring or summer, mostly spring, my Neibors on the other hand have no problem with calling me n, I do let it go for a bit, and hope for rain to extend my search time. Before October 2017 I had a flip phone, which was no good of course for identifying anything, I have a few books, they to show/explain little. Getting my iPhone made me a spaghetti brained, nut case Lol, I cannot learn enough, fast enough. Though I am proud to say, I have come to recognize a plant before the name is said, not many, but a few. I need to write down the names of plants, edible parts during the season and how their eaten. Thank u
I live in England. I have so many wild plants growing in my garden Hawthorn.bitter cress.chickweed.dandelions.ground elder.wild violets.plantain.i have a tree in my garden it's branches swoop downwards I call it my Japanese temple tree because of the shape of the branches it is evergreen some kind of fir tree?
I have stinging nettles.dead nettle with the phone pink flowers low growing nature. Mahonia.englush BlackBerry. Raspberry bushes.hooseberry bushes.goji berry tgat has never flowered and for tgat has never fruited.redcurdant and blackcurrant and strawberries that have lots of rich healthy leaves but never fruit .
I am too scared to eat any of this except the ground elder,cleavers, nettles,chick weed.
Hypnotized by your voice,knowledge and videos!!!
This video just shock the hell out of me. I live in Barbados in the Caribbean and I have being seeing so many of wild weeds for all my life and had no idea that most them can be used for food. Thank you so very much for posting this video my friend, because of this video, I will be on the look out for eatables in the wild from now on, with the help of a book base on wild eatable greens.
I" glad you enjoyed my wild salad video, Abstract Creations! Weeds and other wild plants have fed many people in your region and there are some strong traditions and great recipes for using them. I'll look forward to hearing from you about which weeds you have found around you. I'm excited for all the good eating you have ahead of you! Happy foraging!
I" glad you enjoyed my wild salad video, Abstract Creations! Weeds and other wild plants have fed many people in your region and there are some strong traditions and great recipes for using them. I'll look forward to hearing from you about which weeds you have found around you. I'm excited for all the good eating you have ahead of you! Happy foraging!
I" glad you enjoyed my wild salad video, Abstract Creations! Weeds and other wild plants have fed many people in your region and there are some strong traditions and great recipes for using them. I'll look forward to hearing from you about which weeds you have found around you. I'm excited for all the good eating you have ahead of you! Happy foraging!
I" glad you enjoyed my wild salad video, Abstract Creations! Weeds and other wild plants have fed many people in your region and there are some strong traditions and great recipes for using them. I'll look forward to hearing from you about which weeds you have found around you. I'm excited for all the good eating you have ahead of you! Happy foraging!
I" glad you enjoyed my wild salad video, Abstract Creations! Weeds and other wild plants have fed many people in your region and there are some strong traditions and great recipes for using them. I'll look forward to hearing from you about which weeds you have found around you. I'm excited for all the good eating you have ahead of you! Happy foraging!
most knowledgeable foraging I have seen. Thank you!!!
Wow! That's what I call rojak salad. Amazing!
I had to look that up, rosalyn ping, and found 'rojack' means eclectic. So thanks for that great name for my salads! Every one is different, but they are always delicious!
It's nice to see the cow eat the grass
Watching at 3 am, and actually considered grabbing the flashlight to go forage my yard!
We in Finland have light all night long by now until august. Last night I thought to go working out there in all peace, but had to rest anyway. It's the busy time in garden, preparing the soil for sowing, which should have been done already.
But I am only one, sadly, with not much power left. Really enjoy everything I might find in my garden wild to eat. That's why I do not use mower, for not to pollute my weeds.Instead I use my scythe, inherited from my parents.
You really know how to make a fellows mouth water. Thanks for the video.
i love how you review after the collecting, well done!
This is actually very calming and helpful
Wow I want to forage salad like that! Yum!
Wow!
Love it!
You go girl!!
Great video!!! Thank you so much!!!
I am so lucky to watch ur vlogs
Thanks, Mariewinks!
So knowledgeable. Thank you for sharing x
Thanks so much for this video! Can’t wait to hunt out some of these greens.
Very informative! Thank you, Love
Thank you for this video and for always including the binomial for the plants. So helpful...
omg that looks amazing..wow
Holy Moly!!! I had no idea there was a salad out back!!! Thanks so much!!!
That salad looked amazing
This was amazing!
I think you're just amazing!! Thank you for sharing your knowledge, I learned a lot🤗❤
WOW ! I just had to subscribe . Hope to put it into practice . Thank you .
Loved this video and your enthusiasm!
Amazing!
Hooray hooray for new videos! What an inspiration!
Thanks, Red Yumi! I was surprised how many different plants I found for this salad. As spring moves into summer, there's such a shift in the plants. At least the ones in good enough shape for a salad. Salads are the most challenging because they have to be tender and tasty, without any blanching. I hope you have some of these plants around you!
THANKYOU soooo much for your videos!!!
You're welcome! I hope you have some of these great plants in your area. They are worth getting to know. I enjoy every one of them!
I'm so hungry for weeds right now! 😍
Amazing video !!!! I have always wanted to identify wilds for a salad ! Thank you
It looks yummy and healthy wild Salad , thanks for Video
Amazing work!
I really enjoy watching you. I've learned alot! Thanks!
I love your videos thank you sooo very much
Fantastic, thank you 😊
Thanks. I really appreciate you.
Love this video!
Amazing video!!!! Thank you !
You amaze me. Thank you for posting. I'm learning so much.
Great video. Thank You
Thanks for sharing . Cheers
You are super intelligent and super talented!!! Thank you so much for everything you've taught me! I just made spruce tip vinegrette this year and I can't get enough of it!!!
Love your Channel! Thankyou so much!
Hello from TN! WOW! I wish I could have found you back when I lived in Oregon! I lived in Pleasant Hill and in Springfield! My Sister still lives in Springfield!! We have always eaten the Wild Things! You have given me so much more to hunt for!! Thank you! Bee Blessed!! Danny and Rita in TN on Rooster Ridge
I love this video!!!!!!!!!! You did an amazing job here. Loved it. Just loved it. I subscribed. I look forward to watching your content this weekend and I won't miss anything new you create. I just had to leave a comment. I love your personality too. Just an all around awesome and informative video.
Oregonian here - born and bred - and I never knew the Oregon Grape was edible! In fact I was told it was poisonous. So glad I found your channel!
I was told sheep sorrel is poisonous and literally just ripped pounds of it out of my garden (it's growing like crazy next to all my squash).. Now I'm gonna have to Google and see what I come up with.
As for Oregon grape - as long as your certain it's Oregon grape I've always known it's edible I've just always been afraid of misidentification! (Also an Oregonian). The things I forage wild because I know for sure what they are - are blackberries, Logan berries, salmon berries, and thimble berries. The salmon berries and thimble berries grow like crazy down by the river next to us. Found Logan berries behind my greenhouse a couple weeks ago and now am making sure the canes get to keep growing ❤
Anyway. We also have a lot of broad leaf Plantain, pineapple weed, Goosefoot (which this gal calls lambs quarter?), European black nightshade, and list goes on. Oregon is chock full of edibles that are unmistakable!
I love your video. I am learning so much from knowledgeable people like yourself. I am clearly a newbie, so I am going slow. Fear is just awful, but I didn't grow up learning this stuff and I want to be careful. Thank you SO much for taking the time to make this video and sharing your wisdom. That salad looked Terrific
I love all of your videos, the foraging for wild salads are my favorite! 🥗
Thanks, Plant a Garden! I appreciate that feedback, too, about the wild salads. I enjoy how wild salads are different every time, as the seasons change, and even year to year because of weather and the plants themselves. I like eating these salads, so I'll be doing more of them. Happy foraging!
Thanks for sharing
Looks sooo good! Every time I watch I see more things in my yard. Please keep on with it. Thank you soo much!!
Thank you for sharing! Jesus bless you!
Thank you SO MUCH for the recepy for the dressing!!!! Thank you for mentioning me by name AMonikaD too, made me feel so nice !!! Here it's a year later but I did find the video, your recepy and I'm grateful you addressed me. I cant wait to make that salad. The only thing that doesnt grow here is the locust tree. But the other ingredients I can surely find. You make everything sounds so yummie I want to run out and forage! God bless!
Thank you again
Ur wonderful very informative I'm glowing
Oh o , learn a lot from your video. Thank so much ma’am .
Glad you enjoyed my wild salad, MrsHeavencitizen! The wild plants are worth knowing, for sure!
Wow, I love your video. I'm enjoying eating the wild plants and veggie's from my garden. Thanks for introducing me to more plants I can add to my salad!!
Excellent video!!! 10/10!
Omg you are the herbal salad queen .you are very good to your self missy .i cant wait to know half of what you know .thank you so much for your percise foraging .an great food demos .love your vids an humor.
Best video EVER
That salad looked delicious! So many plants, leaves included that I had no idea were edible. Amazing information! TFS, :) Peaches
Hey, Peaches, it's always good to see you here. It is amazing how many plants are worth eating. Many of them, I don't think, would be so enjoyable all by themselves. That's why these salads are so good - a little bit of a lot of different plants is completely delicious! I have to keep myself from telling folks - "Don't step on lunch!" ; )
Thank you I like the way you explain it
Thankyou so much. All the best.
I have been slicing and drying leaves from the leek plant......I dried them in oven......I got the oven up to 170 degrees and turned it off and left only the oven light on and in 24 hrs they were so crispy and golden.......I crunched them up to add to fries, or to seasoned salts or even to sprinkle on frying pork chops......yummy
I ENJOYED YOUR VIDEO Holly. keep doing what you do. you have a special gift. thanks for sharing your knowledge
Thank you, I have been learning wild edibles for years now, but still have so much to learn. This is exactly what I am interested in, not just a trail nibble but how to make a meal out of what is around me.
So good
thank you so much for sharing all that precious knowledge.it's an amazing feeling to look at weeds right under my feet and see them in a whole new way!nutritionally packed organic food 😀.not to mention free of charge 😁.exciting and somewhat therapeutic outdoor activity
God bless you 💖
Wonderful video!
Thanks! I hope you have some of these great plants in your area, too!
That was cool. I'm inspired.
Love the use of background music here(Kevin MacLeod - Garden Music). Thanks for soothing my day!
Wow, wow, wow.
THANK YOU!!!!!!
You're welcome! Wild salads are the best. I hope you can enjoy some of these plants, too.
Great video. Very informative. Many, many thanks for posting such useful information.
Thank You for Sharing ur Knowledge !
We can tell when you really liked certain things as the leaf returned in half :-) ...
Knowledge like yours is rare & nothing you've said sounded rehearsed like some we've watched , Thanks again !
I wish I could have a taste of your salad. That is so cool.
This video is league's ahead of anything else out there. Pure green gold. I've seen and read up on these wild edibles, but you really destroyed! There is 5 times the info in all the videos combined packed into one video.Great job and thank you so so much for sharing your wealth of wisdom and your delightful personality with us. You deserve a medal for this : )
Thanks for your appreciation, archadeinteriors! There are so many great plants to eat out there, just waiting. I like the challenge of putting together a wild salad. They are different every time, but I've never had a bad one yet. They are so satisfying to eat. I hope you can enjoy some great salads, too, from the plants around you!
Thanks for your responding back to me! I too love the Crepis Setosa
And heretofore i am going to pretend i have always known what it is
called: ) . . . with so many plant options it's almost like one might have to
have do strategic plans of salad possibilities, -not just for flavor
optimization, but for nutritional focus, and health or immunity emphasis
too. I love salads and could eat one every day with dinner, or as light
meal, especially in the summer months. If i come up with a great
combination maybe i will make a point to mention it in case you want to
share on you channel. The star performers of this episode were, for me,
the grand fir, elm, spruce, and black locust tree, which effectively blew me away and opened up a
whole new universe of plant sustenance and wild edibles. Thanks
again for what you are doing and for sharing your knowledge and
experience with us. . .
I have also nibbled soft maple leaves in the spring, when they are red and undersized. Never tried mature leaf.
Love your work
Thanks, Autumn Huling!
Thank you...that was awesome soo many plants...and that salad n dressing just topped it off :)
Glad you enjoyed my wild salad, Heeni Kerekere! These salads are so delicious. I hope you have some of these plants around you!
Fantastic video👏👏👏👏
Thanks again for wonderful information! I did blanch a combination of henbit,nettles, sticktight, nipplewort, wrapped it all in a norisheet to make a wrap, very nice! I live in Hawaii and am learning new things like banana stems as the plant is cut once it fruits. Your videos are so clear and stress good habits, I am learning so much!
The most intrigue video about wild salad! So practical and useful for free food in backyard.! Really enjoy watching it! Hope you have more videos like this! Big thanks!
Thank you so much for creating and sharing this video, this information is priceless and I learned a lot watching. Thanks so much - Erica
Awesome video!
A superfood salad. Looks yummy!
These wild salads really are so wonderful. I have never had a bad one, even though every one is different and I don't plan out the ratios of the plants. They are super, for sure!
Your my favorite !
Fantastic
Didn't know I can eat black locus flowers. Nice!
So glad that I found your channel. I learn a lot!! Thank you so much
I love watching you forage. I wish I had so much knowledge. I've been trying to find some local foraging classes but haven't been able to. 💗
Classes are rare but if you see people doing it, ask if they can show you. We love to pass on the knowledge!!!!
That was amazing I'm a new subscriber and I'm going to share this with my friends and family
Wow 😮 great information 🙏
Glad you liked it! There are a lot of great plants to eat out there! :D
I've subscribed and I plan to give your channel a shoutout very soon! I loved this video and your personality while sharing your obvious knowledge with us. I live in the suburbs on less than 1/4 acre, and I HAVE MANY OF THESE PLANTS GROWING IN MY YARD! You have peaked my desire to get busy and make a wild salad from my puny suburban back yard, which is chemical-free. My little homestead cultivates quite a bit on a small space, with a dozen fruit trees and vegetables, berries, but now I will concentrate on some wild edibles. Thank you! With love from BanDana Gramma
Loved this video!!! I have all kinds of plants on our acerage!! You taught me a bunch in this!!! Ty!!! Glad I found your channel!! Im in SW Washington.
Thank you for sharing your valuable knowledge. I was hoping to see greater detail describing the plant characteristics and a little more on plant details other than that just wonderful vids thank you very much great to know info!
THAT is some nice salad! I happen to have almost all of those plants or trees in my yard.Now I know! THanks for the info!