I had the pleasure of studying under Gordon for three years at the Institute of Archaeology and he completely caught my (and many other's) imagination and stimulated a love of wild plants and foraging. He was just as lovely as he comes across in this series and is greatly missed. One of the kindest and gentlest people I have ever met and a fount of knowledge
Ray Mears should be more popular. I can't believe anyone thinks Bear Grylls is more interesting that Ray. Ray is a real human being, is sensitive to other people's cultures and does not pit himself against nature. He is intelligent, charming, funny and unpretentious. Him and Gordon have fabulous chemistry in this series and the two of them deliver an immense amount of information in these documentaries. Fabulous work.
Lady comments when program finishes: Can Gerry Robinson Fix the NHS. So based on that it looks like this program originally aired in Aug 2007. But must have been filmed few months before.
I don't understand just tossing the food in the ashes to cook. Surely it would be easier, cleaner and more efficient to grill the food on skewers above hot embers or on a clean hot stone. That's how we did it in the boy scouts and never had to pick through dirt and ashes to get to the food.
Damn wht a piece of art these docs were! WE WANT RAY MEARS BACK!!!!! Theres not ONE show today that compares to the quality of these shows.. good ol times
Some foods that are "revolting" or "too harsh" can be changed through aging or through fermentation. Sometimes wet heat, or dry heat, can change potential food stuffs into something palatable. Turn buggy and tart crabapples into wine, berries into fruit leather or added to pemmican, break down calcium oxalate crystals, drive off volatile constituents with heat or evaporation. There's a big difference between palatable and barely edible.
This is probably my favorite of all 5 episodes. Brings me back to a lot of great memories as a child. Also I always wondered how early man figured out how to use flint to create fire. I often wondered if someone witnessed a boulder crashing down and all the right elements struck at the right time and made a smoldering coal.
Not to bash Gordon, but for an academic who studies prehistorical hunter-gatherers to first meet current hunter-gatherers towards the end of his career is rather a sad state of affairs in academia.
Gordon was suffering from Parkinson's disease and had started withdrawing from his illustrious work , of which there's many publications to go at , but he didn't give up and rarely complained .
Fascinating and far less extreme than Bear G's shows. (However, I find his stuff a lot more fun to watch.) I wonder if you can brew the buckthorn juice into wine or beer. (Of course, sweetening the juice or salting it in order to make it less bitter.)
The natural brit bushcraft method to get fermentation going is to make a pulp of apple and a natural sugar, leave it 48 hours, occasionally stirring, then add to the base wine liquid. Ve
is there a North American series like this anywhere? any videos I find are soooo NOT comprehensive. stupid short unclear videos with no context. this is real information.
In Scotland as kids we were taught that you only ever eat the shell fish if the month has an R in it, January, February, March, April,September,October,November,and December. No toxic blooms around in them months as the water is really cold.
Do you mean the sea kale? If you are I highly recommend it as it quite good. But as with any wild foods make sure you know what you're doing, maybe buy a guide for wild plants, because you might have some nasty surprises if you get the wrong plant. Best of luck!
Gordon Hillman, an expert in fungi, was poisoned and nearly died, because he ate "mushrooms" that were sent to him , having been given to him by a scientist in the same science building, after he had done with them, because he knew Hillman loved to eat Fungi!
chris bond is that the story where he wrote down on a piece of paper which mushroom it was, so that the doctors would know wht he had ingested? I think i remember him talking about that accident.
those iron nuggets could/would have been gathered for smelting into tools by blacksmiths later. I am sure the kelp roots are so large because they have not been gathered for decades if not centuries.
"I'll give you a bit of eel- Many thanks! It's going to be hot- I'll believe you" Great dialogue between these two gentleman, there's something both charming and funny about it.
You can take the buckthorn juice, and make a jerky out of it. Then it can be used for a meat rubdown (ascorbic acid, Vitamin C) keeps the meat clean for jerky, or for poultice uses as well. Otherwise, dilute down the intensity of the juice so that it doesn't taste like lemons and puckery.
The use of the buckthorn berry and juice has a far better utility. Just roll up into little pill sized objects. Pack them up in a dry container. Then the hunter-gatherer can pass out the little bitter pills each day to everybody, and they would be healthy with their daily Vit C. (Raspberry and blackberry leaves ... and rose hips and leaves) besides the berries have high Vit C, that can be harvested spring through winter for Vit C tea. Biochemists are now saying that they have found Vit B complex in mushrooms, so hunter-gatherers can get their vitamin here. Animal fats and bone marrow and fish (liver) oils have Vit A and D. Grains and nuts have Vit E. Hunter-gatherers, with a proper food supply, were far more healthy than us.
John Lord Actually, no they weren't. They were lucky to live to 50, and spent the last 20 years of that time suffering. There are still hunter gatherers today, and they are still malnourished. Ain't nobody short of vitamins. You'd die of starvation long before you had any symptoms of vitamin deficiencies. Lack of food is more unhealthy than ANYTHING found in any food. And way too much is made of "processed" food. The scaremongers seem like they are paid by the "organic" food industry to make shit up. Because most of these "processes" are just things like slicing and chopping and have no bearing whatsoever on nutrition. And a lot of these preservatives that hippies are so upset about are from the very berries and plants that they turn to as an alternative. Love that. Unless by "us" you mean the average internet user. And, lets face it: If hunter gatherers had Cola, they'd drink it all day. If they had that much honey, they'd eat it all day and that's just as bad, since it spikes insulin just as much, and that's the only harmful thing about Cola. And even that is utterly harmless unless it's done constantly over a long period without a break. If you listen to these "health" idiots, you'd think we're all being poisoned to death, despite living longer than at any time in earths history.
Alex Kingg No, they did not live longer in general. They suffered from the exact same problems as the rest of our species did at the time. Mainly dying from teeth problems, childbirth, infection, malnutrition, combat. Hippies, I wish you'd leave the internet.
um, I tried pan roasting acorns until there were at least 2-3 jumping out of the pan at high heat (wear goggles) but a day after eating them my balls felt uncomfortably tingly
I was wondering if Ray,Gordon & Nicky while sitting under the over hang realized the path leading up to and way from the over hang. You can see that it's really has been well warn over the centenary's showing that it has been a very sort after gathering area through out time. Ray & Team another well done Video thanks again as all ways. Rod
Just so everyone is aware, those berries ar far past their prime in terms of flavour quality, the flavour gets fermented/ rancid tasting on the branch- still good for you but not as delicious.
I had the pleasure of studying under Gordon for three years at the Institute of Archaeology and he completely caught my (and many other's) imagination and stimulated a love of wild plants and foraging. He was just as lovely as he comes across in this series and is greatly missed. One of the kindest and gentlest people I have ever met and a fount of knowledge
Really?that’s amazing. I can imagine he was an amazing professor and have all the qualities you’ve described!
@@greenkostia If anything, I have undersold him. He is greatly missed 😢
Rip Gordon
A very clever and knowledgeable chap, I like all his videos and read many of his books.
Ray and Gordon were a great team.
I could listen to Gordon all day.
RIP Gordon.
Ray Mears should be more popular. I can't believe anyone thinks Bear Grylls is more interesting that Ray. Ray is a real human being, is sensitive to other people's cultures and does not pit himself against nature. He is intelligent, charming, funny and unpretentious. Him and Gordon have fabulous chemistry in this series and the two of them deliver an immense amount of information in these documentaries. Fabulous work.
Well said.
God I would love to hang out with these people and live off the land .
try looking up the Mountain Men societies or the Primitive Man Societies, I have belonged to both, you learn a lot while you camp in period clothes
My DVD of this just broke. Thanx for this upload.
Gordan is cool as fuck!
Now these two is what real pals are.
Great videos !
thanx mate, great video
Good old Gordon.
I'm cooking roast chicken with taters in goose fat and parsnips and sprouts off the allotment (Jan 2018) but Sea Kale now we are Talking - :-) - ATB
I couldn't have said it better myself !
A tasty eraser !
gordan is a hero
Lady comments when program finishes: Can Gerry Robinson Fix the NHS. So based on that it looks like this program originally aired in Aug 2007. But must have been filmed few months before.
What's the name of his guest?
I would have found some way to wrap the eel to keep the dirt and junk off it.
you know he has parkinsons right? Seems like he's doing quite well considering his condition
at 27.00 , may be they diluted it with water
9000 years old XD LOL LOL!!
???
@@MontyCantsin5 its close to 6k
@@Kakifruit194: What's close to 6000? The material from the archaeological site mentioned in the programme?
@@MontyCantsin5 the age of the earth
@@Kakifruit194: Ah, so you're just a dumb troll. Got it.
Queues for foodstuff in Russia? :O Shocker
Toby Arrowsmith they got nuclear potatoes over there
5:14
I don't understand just tossing the food in the ashes to cook. Surely it would be easier, cleaner and more efficient to grill the food on skewers above hot embers or on a clean hot stone. That's how we did it in the boy scouts and never had to pick through dirt and ashes to get to the food.
I don't believe that even ancient hunter gatherers would cook and eat their hard won food in such a filthy way
OxundHeiner good point
Bear Grylls, Who's she?
Damn wht a piece of art these docs were! WE WANT RAY MEARS BACK!!!!! Theres not ONE show today that compares to the quality of these shows.. good ol times
Where did he go?
Watching this show when I was a kid was for entertainment, now, in 2022 I see this as a survival manual!
I swear down, Gordon is the biggest lad in the world!
Da Frostie 243 He's a darling. :)
Absolutely love, Gordon he's wonderful, as was this amazing series, tip of the hat to Ray and crew, hi camera man Andy...
"Now do you detach those?"
"I just bash them with a rock Gordon!"
Haha! Back to basics! :D
Matthew McVeagh Yeah, but the moment you know they're there, they clamp down. So you have to only get the ones you don't know are there
Yeah, but you have to do it with your eyes shut. Cus the moment you know they're there, they clamp down.
@@ashscott6068 limpet quantum observation theory
love these two.. they gel together so well , and have a good laugh .
Some reason every time i watch wild food make me want too live in the wood and eat thing there.
Some foods that are "revolting" or "too harsh" can be changed through aging or through fermentation. Sometimes wet heat, or dry heat, can change potential food stuffs into something palatable. Turn buggy and tart crabapples into wine, berries into fruit leather or added to pemmican, break down calcium oxalate crystals, drive off volatile constituents with heat or evaporation. There's a big difference between palatable and barely edible.
Well at least we know what Gordon would do if he drops food on the floor. He would pick it right up and eat it.
i love it when Gordon nibbles.
learnt more from this show and ray's books than in two years of science at school.
Angus King he wrote books? Damn , need to buy them!
i love t Gordon's facial expression when he eats something. great show indeed
This was a great fuckin show
The David attenborough of bushcraft we should have a new series or 2 of Ray
This is probably my favorite of all 5 episodes. Brings me back to a lot of great memories as a child. Also I always wondered how early man figured out how to use flint to create fire. I often wondered if someone witnessed a boulder crashing down and all the right elements struck at the right time and made a smoldering coal.
I always thought it would be more probable for a lightning strike to cause man to witness fire first, but hey! I could be wrong!
My favourite episode as well.
Love this so much , I can watch it over and over , Ray is the man
gordon is knowledgeable.
Not to bash Gordon, but for an academic who studies prehistorical hunter-gatherers to first meet current hunter-gatherers towards the end of his career is rather a sad state of affairs in academia.
Yea I thought that. But in all honesty we don’t really have many left do we.
Gordon was suffering from Parkinson's disease and had started withdrawing from his illustrious work , of which there's many publications to go at , but he didn't give up and rarely complained .
I like how he's using the dig stick now :)
Amazing experience and knowledge. I have enjoyed watching many Ray Mears videos. Thank you.
Sea buckthorn is such a great wild food. Tastes amazing!
Fascinating and far less extreme than Bear G's shows. (However, I find his stuff a lot more fun to watch.)
I wonder if you can brew the buckthorn juice into wine or beer. (Of course, sweetening the juice or salting it in order to make it less bitter.)
Don't know about that, but I'm sure it sometimes happened to ferment naturally and so our ancestors would've had a fun ride lol
YamiKisara magic berry juice make head fuzzy
The natural brit bushcraft method to get fermentation going is to make a pulp of apple and a natural sugar, leave it 48 hours, occasionally stirring, then add to the base wine liquid. Ve
is there a North American series like this anywhere? any videos I find are soooo NOT comprehensive. stupid short unclear videos with no context. this is real information.
look up "survivorman episodes" with les Stroud, really good NA survivalist with good shows.
The fact that it's called "SURVIVORMAN" highlights the difference between this show and the American one.
sort of there is one on canada, but is more historical
In Scotland as kids we were taught that you only ever eat the shell fish if the month has an R in it, January, February, March, April,September,October,November,and December.
No toxic blooms around in them months as the water is really cold.
... im getting very very very hungry right now
Then get out in the woods and eat a tasty bug! :-D
bit of a waste on the fungus for fire... the larger ones can be used as lighters and dimmed again and can be used 1000s of times
Do you really want to tell that to Ray Mears?
Do you mean the sea kale? If you are I highly recommend it as it quite good. But as with any wild foods make sure you know what you're doing, maybe buy a guide for wild plants, because you might have some nasty surprises if you get the wrong plant. Best of luck!
None of the native seaweeds of Britain are 'inedible' or 'toxic'. Ve
The way he says pyrite cracks me up
That's what makes limpet gathering so hard! "The moment you know they're there, they clamp down."
This really put one in contact with mesolithic humans. Thanks so much for such a wonderful exposition.!!!!
New series of this, please.
Ash i hope your well. My job is to check on people to see how they are and if I can do anything to help.
@@admiralboom481 4 years after they posted a random UA-cam comment?
Thanks for the video everone, very detailed ,great information ☆☆☆☆☆
As usual Ray is rocking his trusty Swazi Tahr Anorak
Thanks for the work
Funny story while the camera zoomed in on him blowing the tinder some one lights up the tinder in the background with a lighter
Awesome video guys, thank you!
Gordon Hillman, an expert in fungi, was poisoned and nearly died, because he ate "mushrooms" that were sent to him , having been given to him by a scientist in the same science building, after he had done with them, because he knew Hillman loved to eat Fungi!
chris bond is that the story where he wrote down on a piece of paper which mushroom it was, so that the doctors would know wht he had ingested? I think i remember him talking about that accident.
@@Tombombadillo999 Yes that's correct, I do believe he told the story himself in an "offshoot" of one of these vids.
If the ancients weaved baskets, couldn't they have used them a strainers for the berries?
I want an everlasting gob stopper NOW !!!!!
rock samphire is awesome stuffed inside a chicken
those iron nuggets could/would have been gathered for smelting into tools by blacksmiths later. I am sure the kelp roots are so large because they have not been gathered for decades if not centuries.
It's pyrite.
"I'll give you a bit of eel-
Many thanks!
It's going to be hot-
I'll believe you"
Great dialogue between these two gentleman, there's something both charming and funny about it.
So different to Bear Grylls..
Bear Grylls is a showman
What kind of the fruit are you guy picking? I’m Montagnards North Carolina.
52:00 I dont know just eat it. lol
You like your limpets don’t you Gordon, I find them exciting rubbery Ray 😂😂
wonderfull video
thanks
very nutritious
The dynamic duo have done it again. #goodeating
Gunakan pasir kering ditelapak tangan / di hati2 anda...agar tidak licin.
You can take the buckthorn juice, and make a jerky out of it. Then it can be used for a meat rubdown (ascorbic acid, Vitamin C) keeps the meat clean for jerky, or for poultice uses as well.
Otherwise, dilute down the intensity of the juice so that it doesn't taste like lemons and puckery.
The use of the buckthorn berry and juice has a far better utility. Just roll up into little pill sized objects. Pack them up in a dry container. Then the hunter-gatherer can pass out the little bitter pills each day to everybody, and they would be healthy with their daily Vit C. (Raspberry and blackberry leaves ... and rose hips and leaves) besides the berries have high Vit C, that can be harvested spring through winter for Vit C tea.
Biochemists are now saying that they have found Vit B complex in mushrooms, so hunter-gatherers can get their vitamin here.
Animal fats and bone marrow and fish (liver) oils have Vit A and D.
Grains and nuts have Vit E.
Hunter-gatherers, with a proper food supply, were far more healthy than us.
John Lord Actually, no they weren't. They were lucky to live to 50, and spent the last 20 years of that time suffering. There are still hunter gatherers today, and they are still malnourished. Ain't nobody short of vitamins. You'd die of starvation long before you had any symptoms of vitamin deficiencies. Lack of food is more unhealthy than ANYTHING found in any food. And way too much is made of "processed" food. The scaremongers seem like they are paid by the "organic" food industry to make shit up. Because most of these "processes" are just things like slicing and chopping and have no bearing whatsoever on nutrition. And a lot of these preservatives that hippies are so upset about are from the very berries and plants that they turn to as an alternative. Love that. Unless by "us" you mean the average internet user. And, lets face it: If hunter gatherers had Cola, they'd drink it all day. If they had that much honey, they'd eat it all day and that's just as bad, since it spikes insulin just as much, and that's the only harmful thing about Cola. And even that is utterly harmless unless it's done constantly over a long period without a break. If you listen to these "health" idiots, you'd think we're all being poisoned to death, despite living longer than at any time in earths history.
Tell that to the Native Indians who lived to be 100+.
Alex Kingg No, they did not live longer in general. They suffered from the exact same problems as the rest of our species did at the time. Mainly dying from teeth problems, childbirth, infection, malnutrition, combat. Hippies, I wish you'd leave the internet.
+Cly Johnston agreed!
um, I tried pan roasting acorns until there were at least 2-3 jumping out of the pan at high heat (wear goggles) but a day after eating them my balls felt uncomfortably tingly
Did you leech out the tannins?
Anyone know the name of the song around 3;50?
We need 1 more Gordon here. Gordon Ramsey.
I think that would be an interesting trio lol
Mymal Moktar I loled. :D Yes that would be interesting indeed.
Cly Johnston hahaha I have been rewatching Ray mears, I was going to comment only to find I already had.
hes a twat
so are you, nobody.
small limpets can be used for fishing maybe they weren't eaten?
Never trust a skinny survivalist.
The berries are easier to pick when at peak ripeness , they won’t pop
EbbyDyy,, Ebbityydee, Ebbyttee, .. Thats All Folks!!!
This guy is Hilarius...LoL
This Mexican dude is pretty good
Ray looks like someone who left home without putting his beard on.
What brand is the green jacket that Gordon is wearing?
I was wondering if Ray,Gordon & Nicky while sitting under the over hang realized the path leading up to and way from the over hang. You can see that it's really has been well warn over the centenary's showing that it has been a very sort after gathering area through out time. Ray & Team another well done Video thanks again as all ways. Rod
But they know it’s been. That’s why they were there. As the voice over says.
Anyone know of an American version of Ray Mears? haha
in reality that old man is Edward Norton in disguise!
Ray does all the digging, Gordon pokes with a stick.
Thanks for that story Buzz Killington.
Just savin' up for the winter, no doubt.
please , can any say me what´s the name of the first rooth of this video? thank
you
Sea kale, all around the coast of britian except scotland
Nah, they're all waay too lazy.
ORGASMIC!!
HAHAHAHAHA
55:47....that music...wow.
That is quite sharp
Just so everyone is aware, those berries ar far past their prime in terms of flavour quality, the flavour gets fermented/ rancid tasting on the branch- still good for you but not as delicious.
When is best for harvest?
@@michaelbalfour3170 depends on cultivars - definitely before the winter, late summer
@@bobsmith8124 I didn't know there were cultivars, thought it was exclusivly a wild food?
@@michaelbalfour3170 there is many, some people have even bred out the thorns
@@michaelbalfour3170 many plantations/ orchards, if you type in “Catina” in youtube - you’ll see the world record cultivar called Mara