Wild Edible, Medicinal, Useful, and Poisonous Plants Part I
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Part one in a series of three videos briefly overviewing dozens of edible, medicinal, and poisonous plants at my new location in the Northwestern area of the Adirondacks.
This is in no way an all-inclusive video series and does not replace formal training in plant identification. It is for your reference only. You and you alone are 100% responsible for anything you choose to consume. Always be 100% sure on your plant identification.
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Glad I came across your channel. First off: thank you for your service. Greatly appreciated sir.
You have an amazing and inspring mindset when it comes to sharing knowledge. Nothing pretentious or matter of fact. Just good knowledge to learn or get a good reminder.
Survival skills are becoming a lost art. So sad.
That is an understatement. It's like no One wants to know these skills anymore. I was raised in the middle of the Appalachian mountains and was taught quite a bit as a kid. I am passing all my knowledge to my children, in which I hope will pass on to their kids as my dad did, his dad did and his dad's did also.
Some deer hunting/field dressing videos would be awesome if it fits the scope of things. Just a thought for future content perhaps.
Maybe a year to late however, the channel and show MeatEater gives some absolutely fantastic videos on just this topic
Really enjoy videos like this...so much to learn. Appreciate your informational caution in this litigious time..keep up the great content. ✌
This was great. For an informal "quick" video I learned a lot. I'd like to see just HOW the different herbs and plants are used, though. Would probably make awesome follow up vids.
Have not seen white pine before or the method of differentiating, nice work. Also the Adirondack word " Algaquin" respect for the past. If we could only know what they did. Anyway good stuff GBGB a big hooah to ya,lol.
Thanks for video! You are very knowledgeable and your videos are always educational
Solid video. Great content for the community. This is an exceptional quality video. The white pine breakdown was hands down best plant ID I have seen.
Our toads here in Texas are much smarter. They carry small E-tools.
Hes just a bark eater
I’m happy for you and your family to have this. Adirondacks beautiful...full of food, et al. Ty for your service and information. I have only been in small woods since little (5-6)...so thank you.
enjoyable walk and talk about video ...thanks for taking us along. GBGB.
10:03 Interesting...didn't know that about the Mohawks...Adirondack / atirú:taks, literally meaning “tree eaters.” / bark eaters" LOL
yet their enemies called them Mohawks ...which comes from a name meaning 'man-eaters' / cannibals"
13:57 lol...camera shy wood toad..10 yr project..😂🤣👍
15:06 would you use the resin (ash,animal fat) to make a glue ??
I've been wanting to do a wild edibles and medical plant course and haven't found anyway locally. The search goes on lol (southern tip of Lake Michigan, Northern Indiana).
I'd recommend finding a local group (MI Mushroom Hunters Club or MAMI) who forage mushrooms. Most people who can ID fungus can also ID a lot of plants, due to known plant-fungus associations. I know the SB/Niles area has a lot of Master Gardener types in it , too. Good luck!
Nice property. I am jealous. Cool that you can ditch trailer unloading duties by pleading work, and go mess around in the woods.
And yarrow, because of its antibiotic properties, was also commonly used as an alternate to hops in beer-making until the 16th century. [The low alcohol content of beer, as contrasted with wine, leaves it vulnerable to bacteria when your water isn't sterile, that's the practical reason for hops having become an ingredient in beer.] In a period of peasant unrest in Bavaria (as I recall), hops was mandated in the making of beer by the feudal lord because where the local brews used it, the peasantry was more tractable or docile. The hops plant, we've discovered, has more estrogen than yarrow.
Adirondack...that would be hate speech today in this overly sensitive world. Lol
Your knowledge never ceases to amaze me! Great history lesson too!
Great channel, great videos thank you for what you do and sharing your knowledge God Bless You Good Sir
The last shot of blue cohosh with your eyes matching was beautiful ☺️
I also must say thank you for the knowledge you share ❤️
Awesome video man I've been watching you since the beginning I hope I get a chance to learn from you in person one of these days thank you for everything
Very interesting and informative! Better than any Hollyweird movie!
Awesome video. I'm in the Adirondack's as well love your videos
wedge and feathers used for splitting stone......I think.
I think you are correct
"You and you alone are 100 percent responsible for positively identifying anything you choose to consume." That's a great comment. It amazes me how people who have a known, dangerous allergy to certain ubiquitous food ingredients (peanuts, etc.) are prepared to trust complete strangers with their lives.
The spike in the stone looks like a old stone splitter was there. That's one of the techniques used to accomplish that task. Not sure why he quit though
GBGB should look for signs and try find out what happened, perhaps they left some tracks. The Gray Bearded Green Beret X-files
Pins and feathers in that stone. They were trying to split it.
Congratulations on the move to the Adirondacks, looks like to have plenty of great land up there in the mountains, big jump though from North Carolina to the mountains of the Adirondack mountains,you and your family are going have the time of your lives up there in the mountains of New York State, once again congratulations. Great video edibles, medicinal and poisonous plants, not many people who head into the nature really take the time to learn and understand the resources of the area that they'll be going into, which is very important when it comes to survival in the wild.
We really enjoy it up here. Technically this is where we were before, it was NC that was temporary. We are just back here now.
More videos like this would be great, just a great mix of information all around. Would also like to see hunting as it’s something I’m soon to finally get into (as well as pretty late in life for me, but never too late to learn).
One question though, what is up with the dog tracks, are there wild dogs in the woods? Thinking about it my conclusion would be sure, why not, a lost domesticated dog (or God forbid, a left dog) should revert back to its natural instincts and be on the same trail as deer and other animals in its search for food and water. Didn’t see any human tracks, so I’m ruling out that it’s someone walking their dog in the woods (ok, not entirely ruling it out as the dog could be free to roam untethered, in my opinion as they should be in an unpopulated place). Just made me think when I saw it.
Looks like you have yourself a very sustainable piece of land up there, that’s awesome and it gives me a goal of what I would like to accomplish when I finally break the shackles of living the suburban life haha.
"Dog" as in canine, which includes coyote and fox in this area, yes. There are also feral dogs like you describe in many places. These tracks were a day or two old and about the right size to be my dog Athena running amuck out there.
I see, never thought of it that way, thanks. Now I know the answer to the age old question of what does the fox say= “I’m your dog’s cousin” haha, can’t wait to tell my kids that!
Hahahaha BFR... Hmmm wonder what that might mean😂😂
White pine is my favorite pine. And the tea is awesome!
Watching these videos+ reading natural resource books has informed me quicker than what I expected
Nice series. I whisk I had found it before the frost hit.
Hi Joshua, you are one of the few who approaches that topic! Knowledge is the most important tool we can have. Many of us carry a cell phone why not using it as a tool in the woods? There are apps out there to identify plants, threes, mushrooms etc. One app would be plantnet; www.plantnet-project.org
You can use your cell phone to make a picture and that app will identify the plant for you. At the same time the user becomes part of the project to improve the app to map the plants in his/her environment. Looks like it works worldwide.
In regard to the stone you found. Looks like that in the past the area was used to harvest stones as building materials. The metal pieces in the stone are called a "Stone Splitting Wedge". Normally they are three pieces, two L-shaped pieces and one center piece that looks like a spike.
Very cool, that is exactly what this was. Two L-shaped pieces with a spike in the center. Another great app for folks learning wild edibles is called "Picture This"
Love the Adirondacks. Great bio-diversty in NY woods. Especially up there. I'm just east of the park and hike the High peaks. Two so far. Hope to see you out there one day. Great video. Hope to see more on chaga hunting. There's some whoppers in those hills.
Good chance to see us in the High Peaks, we only have 14 done and plan to do the rest
(cough) GBGB multi-book, different topics self-reliance series (cough). details we need, without the fluff and huckster foolishness we don't. Semper Fi, J.
Working on a digital library and books to go with it. Mainly for folks that can’t make it to a physical class, folks that want to prepare for a class, and folks that want the reference material after a class. It’s a big project I am working on but it won’t be for UA-cam since it’s heavy on skills training and longer lessons and neither of those do well here on YT.
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I would love to have some form of instructural book with accompanying videos. I'm an old school jar head, 1975 ch 53's, since I was a kid I felt at home in the woods. I know how to survive in the wild, I don't want to survive, I want to thrive. I can't attend classes at this time. Work and other obligations. I have a huge technical mechanical background, but very little in science bio, I've many books on medicinal and edible plants, but they're just to vague. I've access to 100 acres of woods near Galina ill, I've hunted and worked for near 40 years. Would love to learn about plants and trees up here. Our land is at the start of the north branch of the Galina river, red and white oak, black walnut, hickory and much more.
Love your videos thank you brother, Semper FI. Jim
@@JF-fv6ld Sounds like you might know my Uncle. Went in about that time, he was on 53's also, retired after 30 years of service.
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret when you finish, where can I find it?
The digital library
Surprised you didn't mention fern fiddleheads!!!....I could see quite a few ferns but no details. 😉👍🏻
I didn't see any Ostrich fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris); those are more a Spring edible also
Congrats on getting that land. Sure is pretty. BTW, when you were testing the waters for content, wild plant identification and tracking/aging tracks were on my wishlist. Thanks for the video, and hope you enjoy your new home.👍
The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice
Your information is great Thanhs
Thank you for the informative video!
Found this very interesting.
Great to see you back mate! Hope the family have settled in well.
Love the info in the video too, not really applicable to my area ( East Coast of Australia ) but a great learning tool nevertheless. Thanks Josh
Thats awesome giving Josh some love instead of a smartass remark since it doesnt pretain to you!! ✌
@@jeffgrumley8230 hi mate, there's altogether too much negativity flies around the interwebs, its much better in my humble, to say thanks and good work. God knows I wouldn't have the desire nor patience to do what Josh does on the channel
@@adamhumphries6918 dude i agree man.... Thats why i comended you for commenting the way you did! I could only dream about doing as Josh and the others do man, what a life. Take care man
@@jeffgrumley8230 you take care also mate, and I apologise for accidentally turning these comments into a " damn hippy love-in " as my dad was prone to saying 😃👍
@@adamhumphries6918 haha its all good brother... I like hippies! At least the ones that shower😂😂
Good property , good luck
Love the way you explain trees and the benefits. I bought Surviving the wild. Excellent book.
Hey Josh great videos. Your channel has quickly become one of my favorites.
I noticed a lot of your videos are based off of survival in a certain area. I'm in the high Sierras in California. I'm not sure we have many of these plants.
If I remember correctly there's a way to test plants for being edible, like rubbing the plant on a small spot on your skin then waiting a while to see if there's irritation, then if not, rubbing it on the inside of you cheek, etc. If you are familiar with this could you maybe make a video on it.
Also another topic: I'm planning on spending a lot of time near the ocean. I was wondering if you could make a video on ocean/beach survival and what tools you'd recommend for this. Stainless vs high carbon steel etc.
Thanks (sorry about the long message)
The Universal Edibility Test is more for soldiers who find themselves in a situation such as a foreign country trying to survive. It isn’t likely that they would have the time or familiarity with the foreign flora so that is done out of necessity. It takes over 24 hours to do it correctly and that 24 hours starts with an empty stomach so that the plant in question can be properly isolated. I haven’t done a video on that because it’s really not appropriate for civilians who have the luxury of taking their time learning the plants now on their area, with reference material and/or a local guide, eliminating the need to fast for 24 hours to test random plants that they could just take the time to learn.
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret Thanks for the response
Ok 😂😂😂 I’m the bark eater that my “ former” arch enemy the mohawks were referring to! My people were in constant conflict with them and we actually have an island name Mohawk Island where we would do battle!
Really appreciate your work here. I’m a native Of Missouri and have enjoyed Bushcraft from before it had the name, your knowledge reminds me we never stop learning and our need to seek knowledge.
Thanks for sharing 👍👍
Be intetested in the general region you located to. I grew up relatively near Cranberry Lake in the western ADK region.
I am close to Carthage and Ft Drum
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret I know it well. Nice area. Ever get a chance check out Five Ponds Wilderness south of Star Lake. Not exactly your neck of the woods but definitely off the beaten path. Takes a canoe to get way back in. Head upstream on the East Branch of the Oswegatchie towards High Falls. Don't need to go far. Well worth the effort.
I'd be interested to see you make some sawdust bread, one day. Sounds outrageous -- like one of those things multinational corporations do to skimp on their product (such as adding gypsum to bread, which they do) -- but it used to be something people actually did, back in the day. I've never tried it, myself, and I imagine it's a lot of work to dry the wood and grind it to powder. It's even said to be nutritious!
Excellent video! I'll be checking out the series. I live in the ADK park and it is absolutely loaded with edible and medicinal plants. Also many dangerous ones
Do you know of a good book or possibly even offline accessible downloadable content that is a good resource to use for camping/hiking in low data areas? I'd like to have a reliable source to verify against in the occasion I have low/no signal. Thanks and great video!
I would mention an app called “ picture this”. You take a pic of a plant and it amazingly identifies it. Be sure sometimes if the leaves arent grown in much it might misidentify but amazingly its gets the right plant and i have identified most all plants around me. Some i thought were something else or just didnt even know they grew around me. I would recommend it.
Thanks for sharing! I’ve always been curious about wild plants and I’m not far from you, in VT
Great info for a hunter gathered fan. Enjoy the presentation methods and style to match. Just subscribed. Look forward to more.
That thingy in the stone is a splitting wedge. The two side pieces are separate (the hole would be hand drilled with a star drill and hammer) and the wedge driven in between to do the splitting.
Great info!
I'm guessing BFR stands for big fuckin rock? Lol
Someone left their feather wedges in the Rock at 2:40. Looks like a failed splitting attempt.
I'd bet money that _almost_ anyone reading this could probably find a program in your area that does guided walks to teach medicinal and edible plant identification for very little money and sometimes no money at all.
Very well done
Thank you sir for sharing this, much respect! ✊🏽🇺🇸
Very informative and educational. Thank you very much
The metal you were looking at in the rock are rock splitters. I you them for making rock walls.
Foxfire is a great reference set!
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/C84/foxfire-series
Deer got a little bit of weight on em considering the depth of the tracks. Nice. Good video 😁
That pin in the rock might be a property marker. Be careful where you travel!
Definitely looks like you're in a great area. Looking forward to the next installments
I read that "adirondak" was the name meaning "place of no water". "Bark eater's" is a new one to me.
Always fun until tongue goes dumb and lips swell.
More plants, fungi?
Just seeing plants is good!
@CStoneSurvival I'm watching your UA-cam vids but you're absent from Twitter??? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!🤔
I don’t do twitter, I have an account there from back when I first got started but really didn’t like it so it just sort of sits there.
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I just got back from a foraging foray myself and found some of the same stuff here in IN. I found a small bunch of oyster (Summer, the fall oysters were just starting to flush) mushrooms and some Boletes (to ID), too. Harvested some Sassafrass root and got in some nice exercise. You have some badass toads up there! 😆 Nice looking piece of land you got there, buddy, and good to see that beautiful pup on sentry duty. 👍
Maple, Dolls eye , blue cohosh = ginseng woods
Hey, just a quick question. The one book you referenced in the video newcombs wildflower guide, that has a copywrite date of 1977. Wouldn't it be better to have a more up to date book with actual pictures vs hand-drawn illustrations? I just feel like drawings might make it easier for one to make a mistake when identifying a plant. I am just wondering cause I am currently looking for a good book to take with me when I try to start to identify plants.
I haven’t really had an issue with the illustrations compared to photos. The text description of identifying features is really the bread and butter of that system. No other book that I’m aware of organizes it the way Newcombs system for identification is laid out. It’s much more than just matching a picture. It’s number of petals or arrangement and shape of leaves or other characteristics that narrow it down to this or that and guides you to that section of the book. You can then cross-reference and confirm with another guide that has pictures if you want. As far as up to date, the plants haven’t changed so I don’t see where that would make a difference
Where in the Adirondacks is this?
Thanks for the info
Can you use the plant dry as well for first aid or should it be green? Great video and excellent video and audio quality 👍
There are different preparations for medicinals, each sort of has its own for how to use it. I have never tried to use the yarrow or goldenrod dry, but I imagine it could be dried and still work well.
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret thanks
Another awesome video! Thanks.
Not a chanterelle ever if it’s growing on wood.
Cohosh is a good sign that you could have ginseng near by!
Awesome walk, thank you for sharing so much information.
Really appreciated.
Cheers and have a great Sunday.
Ok Josh, I purchased a Mora Garberg. Self Reliance Outfitters is always where I look first, consider all the free material Dave and his crew have put out over the years, think about how much free info a person gets with each purchase, its more than just a honorary commitment, but common sense support.
do you have any books to recommend on the subject? particulary for PA, maryland and west virginia?
All my book recommendations are linked in the description
One of my (many) goals for our small property is planting indigenous edibles that need little to no human cultivation. I've already harvested and used walnuts, hickory nuts, and white oak acorns. People don't realize how much EFFORT it takes to harvest food from the wild. I honestly don't see how the human race survived! A gallon of white oak acorn flour takes DAYS to make, hours and hours of tedious labor. Makes really interesting bread though! I'm going to plant blueberries, blackberries, that sort of thing, whatever else I can plant. Lots of things can grow along a creek bed! I only made pine needle tea for the first time a couple of years ago, after spending 40 years backpacking and canoeing. Now I just LOVE it. Won't replace coffee, let's not go crazy. I've recently found a local outfitter who conducts classes in my area. Can't wait for spring! Awesome video, like always.
Poltices work just fine with cuts.
Why my teacher
send me this😆😆😆😆😆
Congrats on the new property. I can say I'm a little jealous. I'm in Jacksonville FL and what land you can find is very expensive. I want about 10 acres. But even in my little yard I've been able to find some medicinal and edibles. I've got tons of elderberry. I just need to learn how to use and process it. I have some broad leaf as well as narrow leaf plantain. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
My backyard has lots of wild edibles, black walnut, elder berrys , purslane, dandylions, lambs quarters, fake strawberries , very bland ! Crab apples , and a few others . I also vaule white pines , boughs makes decent bedding material . I was taught many skills by an old trapper and Hunter who was also a farmer . Looking forward to part 2 Josh ! 👍
Thanks for the detail video on on wild. Especially them with other plants around them. Enjoy the video keep them coming I'll keep watching and referring them to other friends. Gingdah
Enjoyed this type of video. I agree with the previous comment... future videos on deer hunting/field dressing would be great! Thank you for sharing your knowledge, brother! Great content!
That's some beautiful country. Reminds me of WNC where I live. Thanks for the useful information and another great video.
According to my Forestry professor, when I took Forestry in college back in 1973 (it doesn't seem that long ago, but it is), a bundle of needles is called a fascicle. Like you said, white pine has five needles in a fascicle. Thank you for the information in the video!
Love these videos. Next to Water procurement wild edible and medicinal plant identification is the most important skill to acquire - in my opinion. Of course I'm not a former Green Beret, I am grey bearded though. What do you think?
Awesome. It's annoying watching people "starve to death" on TV survival shows when they're dropped off at the salad bar.
Oh my God! Another awesome video. Thank you. I put this on my save list, to view as much as possible. Very informative on the different pine species. I thought I wasn’t good at finding fat wood. Turns out that the white pine is to blame 😉. I also live on the east coast and am surrounded by white pine. Will have to be on the lookout for red or yellow pine. Looking forward to seeing more videos from you.
They had a guy go home on the history channel's ALONE. He ate to much bark and got bound up
Correct
Joshua, thanks for sharing, great information as always, much appreciated brother 👍
Thank you for the video.
When you were talking about Forest management now I know why I subscribe to your Channel. No BS about leaving the forest pristine and not touching it, only about how to manage it make the forest stronger and can also help your family at the same time.
Great detail on the white pine, picked up some previously unknown information! Please keep up the great videos.
I miss seeing those northern birch 👍