Want to start foraging? Here is my foraging resource guide to help you get started: robgreenfield.org/foraging Here is my Find a Forager page to find a forager to learn from in your area: robgreenfield.org/findaforager
Surprised you didn't cover purslane the most nutritious with ALA/EPA Omega 3 which is hard to get from the SAD diet. Nice video I kept wood sorrel in my potted plants thinking they are clovers fixing nitrogen. But no sorrel use nitrogen.
Rob.. a favorite treat of mine is to take a bunch or the dandelion flowers, brush it off with a pastry brush, then poke it down into a jar of raw honey. Let sit for a couple weeks. You can eat these alone of put them on other dishes/salads as a condiment.
I do forage but mostly mushrooms in season. A note of caution should be added: don't forage in areas where the landscape is maintained by professional services using pesticides and fertilizers. Also, avoid foraging near areas of heavy traffic including trails where people walk their pets.
@@nic.k_o You study and learn the basic tests (Spore test, etc.) and never eat a mushroom you aren't sure is edible. And, never eat raw mushrooms. Most of the easy to identify edibles are safe and require a little investigation to become familiar with. Learn the mushrooms that will kill you especially Aminita Phalloides & Aminita Virosa there are others to learn too. Then start with oyster mushrooms, Shaggy Manes and Slippery Jacks (Suillus & Boletes). Find a mushroom club near you and learn. Good Luck and if you are not certain DO NOT EAT.
@@nic.k_o quick word of advice on identifying shrooms or any other plant or fungus. Learn the ones that will harm u first. Easier that way. Also don’t mess with lbm’s little brown mushrooms, there all poisonous.
@@nic.k_o quick word of advice on identifying shrooms or any other plant or fungus. Learn the ones that will harm u first. Easier that way. Also don’t mess with lbm’s little brown mushrooms, there all poisonous.
Stinging nettles are my favourite, very rich in iron. Just boil some water and put them in for 30 seconds, after that they won't sting any longer. When I was in Italy, I used to cook "risotto alle ortiche" (ortiche = stinging nettles) which is a traditional delicious dish in the mountains in Italy. Rob, alternatively, if you are still foraging, eat them as spinach, they are absolutely delicious! 🤗💖😁
Great info! I have been eating them most days for the last couple months! I make tea, soup, pesto, and boil and then lightly sauté them with olive oil. Sending love!
@@thesanfranciscoseahorse473 No spines. It's more like short hairs that have an irritant on them. If you lightly brush the plant, you feel it sting for a few minutes, but you grab it hard and nothing happens. When you're eating them you don't really notice it at all.
Warning: there's a plant called "mountain death-camas" that looks a lot like wild onions, but is quite poisonous (hence the name). Make sure you pick the right plant!
I was wondering how you tell the difference when he was talking about wild onions and garlic. Do either of those plants smell like onions enough that they confuse you? Because there's many allium bulbs that have been domesticated that are poison so it doesn't surprise me that there are things in the family that are poison
Notes: ***Only Eat What You Know*** Stinging Nettle- 1:50 You can roll it up and eat it raw, in a tea or sautéed Plantain: 2:59 both food and medicine. Chew it up to make a pulsus and apply to area. Dandelion: 4:06 Every part is edible. Root can be used to make coffee substitute when roasted. Wild Mint: 5:00 Many varieties and found in different locations. Wood Sorrel: 5:50 Often mistaken for clover. Lemon/tart flavor. Watercress 7:00 Found by fresh water. Strong flavor add to salads sauté or eat raw. Wild Brassica 7:50 Buds, flowers, seed pods and leaves are edible. Wild Onion/Ramps/Wild Leeks: 9:03 Seeds, leaves, bulbs are all edible. Blackberry/Raspberry 10:09 Can eat the berries and the leaves make a good tea. Apples: 11:45
My grandmother was Cherokee. She never actually taught me to forage, but I would see her occasionally chew on a wall plant. She kind of didn't do lunch. So I learned on her Farm to eat pawpaws, crabapples, walnuts, wood sorrel, dandelions and blackberries, raspberries, and mulberries. Then my mom would send me to her sister's house in the city and she would catch me eating acorns and other such things and just freaked out lol. Once her mother-in-law caught her spanking me for eating blackberries that's a lady had planted herself LOL. by the way I mentioned eating raw acorns don't eat too many Raw where they will make you very sick LOL if you boil them, dry them and grind them up and had a little to your pancake batter it's yummy though. I wish Grandma had taught me formally and more. She died when I was young. And she taught my mom's son but Mom couldn't remember and now she's gone too.
Oh! Watching you wander around, plucking and chewing all manner of botanica, reminds me of my childhood in South San Francisco, CA. I learned purely through childlore about plants were edible. Kids are willing to try so much. To eat weird things. Especially things that grow wild. There was a hanging blossom we'd pluck, pick off the petals, and suck out what we believed to be nectar. There was sour grass, dunno what it was called. Did have a bloom but I don't believe it was dandelion. Long, dark green, sturdy stem we'd pick, pop off the flower, and chew on the grass, puckering our cheeks. Millennials had Sour Patch Kids. We had grass in the side yard.
IVE BEEN FORAGING IN MY VERY SMALL YARD HAVE FOUND 13 EDIBLE PLANTS BESIDES THE REGULAR STUFF I GROW ON PURPOSE! I MADE A SALAD THAT WAS SIMPLY WHAT I PICKED IN MY YARD AND IT WAS AMAZING!! THANK YOU FOR THESE AWESOME VIDEOS! I AM LEARNING SO MUCH!!
One of my favorites and easy to find is lambsquarters or goosefoot or as I call it wild spinach. I am blessed to have an acre full! I steam and jar over 200 pints a year!. Sauteed with EVOO and fresh ramps and wild garlic, it is a great side with my annual venison harvest, It seems every time I forage I discover a new addition to my knowlwdge. Here in NY state I have recently come upon a large patch of wild asparagus!!! The crown jewel of foraging!!! What most people don't realize is that all these wild foods are pesticide free and nutritionally more potent than their store counterparts!!! Love to forage!! Saves money too as a pound an 8 oz bag of fresh spinach costs around 3 dollars.
And sadly corporations like MONSANTO kill it all & convince the sheeple that weeds are useless & troublesome when this couldn't be further from the truth. So everyone be sure that where you forage it hasn't been sprayed by the local council with glyphosates but hasn't died off yet.
Great video! Back in early April during the worst of the CV Lockdown, I ran out of fresh vegetables but was able to forage dandelions and chickweed growing in my tiny backyard.
We had Hard Times once and took the foraging. My adult children came to check up on us and wouldn't touch the food LOL my one son's girlfriend had a salad with us and she said it was quite yummy I told her she's going to die now LOL Anyway the point is that we didn't miss a Beat nutrition-wise. And saved a ton of money. And I didn't have to ask my children to make sacrifices for us.
I just made a comment elsewhere about forging as a child and how am I native Grandmother Had taught me things but my mother's sister didn't understand. She would spank me LOL wood sorrel was my favorite
Many many many edible plants have a poisonous look alike. I wish when he was talking about wild onions he would have mentioned that they have a poisonous look alike. If it smells like an onion and it taste like an onion it's an onion. If it doesn't it's poisonous.
@@78_mary31 never eat anything that you're not sure of. An easy plant to start with that everyone can recognize is dandelions. There's no look alike, and every part of the plant is edible do mature plants the leaves my taste. slightly bitter. it's very nutritional and has medicinal benefits. Wild Onion is easy to spot, there is a Dudley look alike. But there's an easy way to tell. And that is just smell it. If it's small sulfurous like onion or garlic then it's onion if not then it isn't. They grow right next to each other so test each shoot. Clover is easy to recognize. Plantain if you know it. I'm not sure where is your location but Papa's are pretty easy to recognize and crab apples. And black walnuts. if you know what wood sorrel is it's edible. Acorns are edible if they are prepared properly. You'll find a video how to bleach the tannins out of them dry dry them out then and grind them up like a flour, I love to replace a little flower with a Acorn flour in pancakes. when you begin getting two things you don't know, you might get help at the local University or Community College to identify plants. Some may even offer a course. You can take survival courses, You can go with someone who Gathers. it is possible to learn from a book, but as Chris learned in Into the Wild that can be very dangerous. so don't eat anything you dont know
@@carolmoore1038 damn thank you so much usually while watching discovery I wonder if people had the knowledge to know if each plant was edible or not it would be much easier to live in the wild
Wow I remember 8 years ago, when I was 17 y/o and interview to be you and your sister's roommate. So much has changed for you in a decade, its great to see you thriving! Growing fast like this beautiful plants
Be very careful when harvesting wild onions. Death camas look scarily similar to them, and you don't want to eat those. Wild onions smell like onions and have more roundly curved leaves, while death camas don't smell like onions and have more sharply curved leaves.
I have narrow leaf plantain growing in my yard in Washington state, USA. I don’t have any broadleaf plantain in my yard, but that’s all my dad has 100 miles away. The way I tell raspberry from blackberry is the stem. For my local varieties, raspberries have round stems, blackberries have grooves or facets on their stems.
I also saw a wild carrot in this. When picking wild carrots make sure the flower cluster has a dark spot in the center to be sure it really is a carrot.
Great video! Be careful not to mistake wild onion for lily of the valley, an extremly poisonous plant! They look very alike, especially without the blossoms! They look a bit like wild garlic, which tastes awesome!
Let's all take a second to reflect on the apparent origins of the name: Dandelion. I've heard many tales of how the vibrant, yellow flower with sharply serrated leaves was originally named "Dents de Lion", meaning "Lion's Teeth". Given the flower's mane-like appearance and the toothy nature of it's leaves, this would make a lot of sense. Ironically however, the French have their own name for the plant: "Pissenlit", which comes from the yellow streaks that pale children like to smear on each other's arms while chiding, "You pissed the bed, pissed the bed". Just a little fun fact, and back to episode.....
Yep we used to call the dandelion pee the beds, put under your chin and if it glowed means you peed the bed, , , , I was about 6yrs old, honest, I want to make dandelion coffee, but finding an area where dogs dont walk is about as rare as rocking horse doo doo around here in the uk, hull
Several of these things you point out have dangerous, similar plants, often in the same family. Foraging for beginners should never be seperate from the identification factor. Knowing what NOT to eat is far more important.
@@twitch.tvmorkani3142 that is exactly what the title is, and it doesn't mention identification. It's a list of ideas for things somebody can look into if they don't know where to start
? I wouldn't go off of just this video even if he had closeups. Everyone still needs to look up pictures and info or even take a foraging course maybe...
These plants really are for beginners. But if you want to forage, you HAVE to research and research. To know the plants each day a little bit more. Watch many videos, read books, go outside. Don't rely only on this video. There are many videos about foraging in general, identification, and there are a lot of videos that talk about just one plant at a time. Always learn each day to be sure that what you're foraging it's edible.
I love your enthusiasm,please don’t twirl the plants we are trying to identify them we understand your playfulness but please focus on the identification. Keep making videos ,I’m 63 and I believe the younger generation needs your energy .play before and after. Teach more for content.I love what you are trying to pass on to us,we love you.
Thanks for sharing! I've been living in rural Japan for over a year now and have been surprised to see fruit growing wild during my walks to and from work. I occasionally harvest some fruit on my way home. It's wonderful to be able to tell what time of the year it is just by seeing what's growing by the side of the road!
Water cress is my favorite green to eat. I don’t go out foraging now, but my mother did. We grew up eating wild greens, and water cress is my favorite. And blackberries are also a favorite.
I made my first soup with dandelion leaves. I cooked them first in boiling water for 4 minutes. I then drained the bitter water (I drank most of it, but it tasted .... bitter). I added the cooked leaves to 450g potatoes, an onion, 250mls full cream milk and a packet soup, and it was delicious. It cooks down like spinach. Next, I'm going foraging for nettles, now I can identify them.
I've been eating wood sorrels since I was a child, but I always thought it was clover. I've looked online for seeds so I could plant my own, but could not find clover with little pink flowers. Now I know why! Thank you so much! Now I know what to look for so I can grow my own. I've known about a few of these, but never tried them before. I will have to start playing more attention when I'm out, and about.
Here in British Columbia there are soopalali bushes that grow soopalali berrys. The native people harvest these and create soopalali ice cream. By the way there are not any store bought ice cream ingredients added.
Wild food is real food for regular people. It really is incredible how many wild mustards there are, each with their own flavor. Edible tree leaves and tree flowers are good ways to get started, too. People don't seem so intimidated by them, the trees stay in one place for a long time, and they can handle significant harvests. There is a world of abundance out there, just waiting for us all to take the time to get to know each plant and appreciate how to use it.
I am growing broad leaf plantain (Plantago major) in a pot here in my home in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I found it growing by the roadside, I picked it and planted in a pot. There are more of them in the mountains in Malaysia, I found them growing wild abundantly in Cameron Highlands which is Malaysia's premier mountain resort. The leaves have anti-nicotine substances, so for people trying to quit smoking, I was told from what I read that chewing the leaves can kill nicotine craving..in US they have commercially manufactured anti-nicotine pills from this plant..
This is awesome! We recently went foraging with a chef friend of ours (and posted a video about it on our channel called Wild Roots) and now we are hooked!
Delighted to see foraging encourage, and pleased with myself that they are all plants I already forage, except apples, which rarely fruit here. But we have abundant wild plums, canning pears, and persimmons growing wild.
Your berry bush resembles a blackberry bush from Quebec. The distinguishing features are: a generally darker and more bluish look to the entire plant, powdery white stem with a bluish sheen, larger leaves on a >2ft bush with a rounder structure. Each large leaf is about the size of an adult's palm. Though, these genotypical features are also shared by the black raspberry, but the veins on the underside of the black raspberry leaves are slightly reddish
I live to learn more about foraging. I already know of a few things around my yard Wild Blackberries, Autumn Berries, Muscadines, Wild Onion/Garlic, and Dandelions.
Ehhh what do I know, turn out I've been foraging since my childhood!! I just realized living in developing country with abundant (Rob's favorite word in this video) greens all year round is amazing for children.
Nice video Rob! I bet many people don't know much about most of these plants and therefore I'm very happy to see them being introduced. There are two things though that would be fair to mention: 1) Stinging Nettles (Urtica dioica) are the best when they are young. One should not use them for food after they start flowering, as at this time the plant starts producing cystoliths - calcium carbonate crystals which are harmful for kidneys. A good thing is that nettles can be cut back and new fresh sprouts don't take long to show up. Other than that, this plant has amazing properties, multiple health benefits and a really good taste! 2) Oxalis or Wood sorrel should be never consumed in large quantities.This plant contains oxalic acid which can cause kidney stone formation or other types of kidney damage (it also has more side effects). Children, people with kidney disease or blood clotting problems, pregnant or breastfeeding women should be especially careful not to consume too much. Cheers!
I found your page because of me limiting my space in my backpack for hiking. Born and raised in Philippines and i used to just take a lot from the trees and eat them,there is a fruit in Philippines,negros island called Tambis and salt and you are set to go. But over the years i moved here in new york and i adopted the environment here as a tattooer. I want to be able to identify eatable weeds again as i go back to trekking. I want to hear more about this,very informative.
Just wanted to add regarding the nettles: it’s also very good to make a soup out of, you make it just like a spinach soup. It’s rich in iron and really beneficial to drink as a tea when pregnant. Avoid picking it close to piles of cow manure as it can then contain high levels of a subject we dont want (sorry, cant remember the name). Also the top leaves are the best! And if you get stung, don’t scratch it as that will just make it worse.
I’m definitely trying to forage more, especially this summer, and I just finished making my first batch of dandelion root coffee! 10/10 would recommend, it’s fantastic
I have a container of green onion and sometimes they grow exactly those flowers. It is an almost endless food supply and they require very little attention. Great for a beginning or busy gardener. Oh, and my last home had wild blackberry and I loved it.
The plantains I see them every where in southern Ontario and thought they were just weeds and clovers I had no idea they where edible thanks for making this video and very helpful thank you
Wood sorrels were my favorite as a child. My four year old loves them too. My favorite part is the tiny "okras". We all called it sour grass because it tastes very lemony.
Foraging is so fun! :) Just started learning about wild edibles this year and I found that I have a lot of them growing in my own yard... Spanish needles, wood sorrel, peppergrass, blackberries, and an elderberry tree! For all of my life I thought all these plants where just pointless weeds!
Try to eat the youngest ferns’ leaves it can be eaten too. It’s delicious. You can steam and mix with salad dressing, or sautéed in cooking oil with garlic, soy sauce and onion with pork meat or shrimp. Or even without.
I’m 60 now but I grew up in a rural area of central Wisconsin (and have retired near that area now). At the edge of the small farm I grew up on in the tree line were a few crab apple trees on the woods line. My Mom used to take the crab apples and can the apples whole skin and all. They were small enough to just pop in your mouth and eat that way. Of course if one didn’t like the skin, which would slide off like a blanched peach or tomato skin, you could just spit it and the seeds out. As I recall she used very little sugar in the canning process but they were still very delicious and a bit tart.
My family has a really big crab apple tree in our backyard and for years now all of the apples have just been falling from it and getting eaten by the squirrels, I'm definitely going to start foraging them now to see if they're any good and if they are I might make some apple treats for me and my family!
Resourceful, you did a great job showing the different ways the plants can look in environments. I learned about the narrow leaf plantain from this video. Another staple is Mullen especially now as it’s one of the best things for respiratory health. Thanks for the encouraging words at the end, here in Appalachia I’ve got a lot of plants to learn. God Bless ♥️🙏🏽
Thank you so much for this. My partner and I have become increasingly interested in growing our own food, as well as wanting to know more about food from the wild. My UA-cam rabbit hole started with me watching how to make your own mozzarella and I am now watching your program. 😁👍🙌🌻🌱🌾☘🌿
I like that... by Robin Greenfield: Start in your own backyard... Dandelions, Nettles, Wood Sorrels, And The Clovers... In Video Duration 12:47 - 13:31.
I’m in Wisconsin and I know In langlade and forest counties for sure have a lot of random apple trees. But I have never seen so many fruit trees and bushes as I have in forest. That is why I’m getting into all of this. So thank you so very much for helping a fellow Wisconsinite on this journey :)
thank you Rob for your teachings, i harvested lots of wild garlic/ ransom, in german: bärlauch (bears- leek). in august ill dig out some ransom onions also edible. lots of hugs from switzerland/ cross,cow,milk,chocolatecountry.
rec. watching the ALONE series on the history channel $ 500,000 winners purse. There was a women on the channel I was rooting for that was on season 3? and she was a biologist- her foraging knowledge played well in her survival.
I'm just getting into foraging wild edibles and found that right in my backyard , I have an abundance of garlic mustard, stinging nettle, purple dead nettle, dandelion, lambsquarters, amaranth, purselane, chickweed and wild garlic . These all used to be just weeds to me. I never knew they were edible, and actually quite tasty. It's amazing the things you learn when you open up to new things
Hey Rob! I love your videos, and the idea of foraging. But the thing that keeps me from foraging is fear of wrongly identifying something. When you make these videos, would you be able to name or even show similar plants and compare the noticeable differences? Either way, love the videos, thanks for everything!
Well this video is specifically for easy to find and identify plants to look for. You can always go more in depth in your own research to fully make sure you have the plant youre looking for. Also a neat trick ive heard about is if you aren't sure, then rub it on your arm. If you don't get a rash in 15 minutes, then repeat the process on your face(like a cheek or above an eyebrow). Again, if theres no rash in 15 minutes, rub it on your tounge and wait 15 minutes. If everything is fine (no swelling, itching, so on) then its very likely safe to eat. Granted this is from hearsay so be sure to do your own reasearch
As I explained in this video, my goal is to open your eyes to foraging, not give exact ID, because there are so many plans out there. Please use foraging books, local resources and go out foraging with local foragers if you can. Resources here: www.robgreenfield.org/foraging
Sorrel has a sour taste in which I like,starting in March we hunt Morel mushrooms. The bigger the dandelion gets the more bitter it because and the flowers are bitter you can boil the flower and roots for tea
You always inspire me to take little steps towards doing more of what you teach. This video is especially inspiring. Thank you! I know where I can get a couple of the things you mentioned here so I'm going to go do it!
Thanks Rob, I was just wanting to learn about this recently, and this video gave me a lot of great ideas! It would also be really helpful if you made a video on plants to avoid or that are extremely poisonous. :)
#thevelvetloungelife says -- 1. be aware of dog pee areas right off any trail, walked area or track, 2. Chemical/dump runoff and 3. pesticides/farms near the foraging areas.
I love you too first off, that was a wonderful lesson and I will apply the knowledge and yes I did like it, subscribed and shared your awesome WEALTH! Thanks for sharing! Light, love and safe travels!!!
Wood sorrels root is also edible as well, they kind of look like miniature daikons. When i was a kid, me and the neighborhood kids used to foraging them in the fields around the empty lots. They were sweet and sour, pretty tasty for something that you can just dig out by the side of the road.
The secondly is a kind of vegetable which we are used to getting in our meal in viet nam. It is of a medicine and good for health. Sorry if my english does not catch your brain
Stinging nettle is also a great helper to prevend your veggies from vine louse aka aphid. They prefer high nutrition plants and choose the nettle. I'll plant it in my garden for this reason and to get tea from it. The leaves from a blackberry are edible too. They're rich in vitamin c and also a medicine because they're anti-inflammatory.
Want to start foraging?
Here is my foraging resource guide to help you get started:
robgreenfield.org/foraging
Here is my Find a Forager page to find a forager to learn from in your area:
robgreenfield.org/findaforager
Surprised you didn't cover purslane the most nutritious with ALA/EPA Omega 3 which is hard to get from the SAD diet. Nice video I kept wood sorrel in my potted plants thinking they are clovers fixing nitrogen. But no sorrel use nitrogen.
Rob.. a favorite treat of mine is to take a bunch or the dandelion flowers, brush it off with a pastry brush, then poke it down into a jar of raw honey. Let sit for a couple weeks. You can eat these alone of put them on other dishes/salads as a condiment.
Why can't you cover your legs and top of your feet?
Someday iwant to be your personal assistant because iwant to be like you sir rob
Bob; A Bro Showed an awesome Way too Cook almost Anything on UA-cam having Within A Green BellPepper Hollowed Out.. Smart Hu?
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I do forage but mostly mushrooms in season. A note of caution should be added: don't forage in areas where the landscape is maintained by professional services using pesticides and fertilizers. Also, avoid foraging near areas of heavy traffic including trails where people walk their pets.
How do you know if a mushroom is poisonous or not?
@@nic.k_o You study and learn the basic tests (Spore test, etc.) and never eat a mushroom you aren't sure is edible. And, never eat raw mushrooms. Most of the easy to identify edibles are safe and require a little investigation to become familiar with. Learn the mushrooms that will kill you especially Aminita Phalloides & Aminita Virosa there are others to learn too. Then start with oyster mushrooms, Shaggy Manes and Slippery Jacks (Suillus & Boletes). Find a mushroom club near you and learn. Good Luck and if you are not certain DO NOT EAT.
@@Atlanticmoonsnail Nice! Thank you for the tips.
@@nic.k_o quick word of advice on identifying shrooms or any other plant or fungus. Learn the ones that will harm u first. Easier that way. Also don’t mess with lbm’s little brown mushrooms, there all poisonous.
@@nic.k_o quick word of advice on identifying shrooms or any other plant or fungus. Learn the ones that will harm u first. Easier that way. Also don’t mess with lbm’s little brown mushrooms, there all poisonous.
Stinging nettles are my favourite, very rich in iron. Just boil some water and put them in for 30 seconds, after that they won't sting any longer. When I was in Italy, I used to cook "risotto alle ortiche" (ortiche = stinging nettles) which is a traditional delicious dish in the mountains in Italy. Rob, alternatively, if you are still foraging, eat them as spinach, they are absolutely delicious! 🤗💖😁
Great info! I have been eating them most days for the last couple months! I make tea, soup, pesto, and boil and then lightly sauté them with olive oil.
Sending love!
I'm from Italy and I use them to cook risotto, gnocchi and other recipes.
stinging nettle is unsafe for pregnant women fyi can possibly cause abortion particularly in large quantity
Don't the needles still have sharp spines? Does boiling them soften the sharp parts?
@@thesanfranciscoseahorse473 No spines. It's more like short hairs that have an irritant on them. If you lightly brush the plant, you feel it sting for a few minutes, but you grab it hard and nothing happens. When you're eating them you don't really notice it at all.
...no one will ever be hungry once they've mastered the art of foraging...thank you for sharing...
I learned to fish but this must be my next to learn.
I don't know about that...if EVERYONE was foraging I don't think there is enough land to support that.
I grew up hungry... knowledge is power....
Educate plz
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@No name plants are full of nutrients
To dear Rob's parents! Thank you for creating this person and bringing him into this world! He is a true gem!
A slow burn, genre-defining, ethically sourced gemerald.
Yes❤
the earth is enough for a mans needs but not for a mans greed
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Very true
I almost tried to start a philosophy debate here lol
Good job!
or woman's
Warning: there's a plant called "mountain death-camas" that looks a lot like wild onions, but is quite poisonous (hence the name). Make sure you pick the right plant!
@Tuff 2: electric Boogaloo Crows poison is another that is deadly and looks like onion and grows next to it. Not quite as deadly as Death Camas.
I was wondering how you tell the difference when he was talking about wild onions and garlic. Do either of those plants smell like onions enough that they confuse you? Because there's many allium bulbs that have been domesticated that are poison so it doesn't surprise me that there are things in the family that are poison
Thank you for the warning!
Thank you. I was going to add this comment, but you already did!
how can we tell the difference?
Notes:
***Only Eat What You Know***
Stinging Nettle- 1:50 You can roll it up and eat it raw, in a tea or sautéed
Plantain: 2:59 both food and medicine. Chew it up to make a pulsus and apply to area.
Dandelion: 4:06 Every part is edible. Root can be used to make coffee substitute when roasted.
Wild Mint: 5:00 Many varieties and found in different locations.
Wood Sorrel: 5:50 Often mistaken for clover. Lemon/tart flavor.
Watercress 7:00 Found by fresh water. Strong flavor add to salads sauté or eat raw.
Wild Brassica 7:50 Buds, flowers, seed pods and leaves are edible.
Wild Onion/Ramps/Wild Leeks: 9:03 Seeds, leaves, bulbs are all edible.
Blackberry/Raspberry 10:09 Can eat the berries and the leaves make a good tea.
Apples: 11:45
Thank you very much. This comment should be pinned ❤️
Food theory UA-cam channel: *eats a tree*
You are an amazing soul. Thank you.
Bless you sister!
Idk why but I thought you were going to say
Stinging nettle, you can roll it up and smoke it lol
Every time I’m out and about in nature, I find a new plant. So exciting
My friend has made stinging nettle pesto and it was AMAZING!!!
I just "found" sorrel growing in my garden. For years I just thought it was a weed. Thank you for the education.
Great Erik!
probably clover, sorrels only grow in forests
@@MostIntelligentMan nah I saw some wood sorrels growing in my garden hehe
@@MostIntelligentMan not true, wood sorrells grow just about anywhere
My grandmother was Cherokee. She never actually taught me to forage, but I would see her occasionally chew on a wall plant. She kind of didn't do lunch. So I learned on her Farm to eat pawpaws, crabapples, walnuts, wood sorrel, dandelions and blackberries, raspberries, and mulberries. Then my mom would send me to her sister's house in the city and she would catch me eating acorns and other such things and just freaked out lol. Once her mother-in-law caught her spanking me for eating blackberries that's a lady had planted herself LOL. by the way I mentioned eating raw acorns don't eat too many Raw where they will make you very sick LOL if you boil them, dry them and grind them up and had a little to your pancake batter it's yummy though. I wish Grandma had taught me formally and more. She died when I was young. And she taught my mom's son but Mom couldn't remember and now she's gone too.
Oh! Watching you wander around, plucking and chewing all manner of botanica, reminds me of my childhood in South San Francisco, CA. I learned purely through childlore about plants were edible. Kids are willing to try so much. To eat weird things. Especially things that grow wild. There was a hanging blossom we'd pluck, pick off the petals, and suck out what we believed to be nectar. There was sour grass, dunno what it was called. Did have a bloom but I don't believe it was dandelion. Long, dark green, sturdy stem we'd pick, pop off the flower, and chew on the grass, puckering our cheeks. Millennials had Sour Patch Kids. We had grass in the side yard.
IVE BEEN FORAGING IN MY VERY SMALL YARD HAVE FOUND 13 EDIBLE PLANTS BESIDES THE REGULAR STUFF I GROW ON PURPOSE! I MADE A SALAD THAT WAS SIMPLY WHAT I PICKED IN MY YARD AND IT WAS AMAZING!! THANK YOU FOR THESE AWESOME VIDEOS! I AM LEARNING SO MUCH!!
One of my favorites and easy to find is lambsquarters or goosefoot or as I call it wild spinach. I am blessed to have an acre full! I steam and jar over 200 pints a year!. Sauteed with EVOO and fresh ramps and wild garlic, it is a great side with my annual venison harvest, It seems every time I forage I discover a new addition to my knowlwdge. Here in NY state I have recently come upon a large patch of wild asparagus!!! The crown jewel of foraging!!! What most people don't realize is that all these wild foods are pesticide free and nutritionally more potent than their store counterparts!!! Love to forage!! Saves money too as a pound an 8 oz bag of fresh spinach costs around 3 dollars.
I love putting lambs quarters into scrambled eggs, it tastes just like spinach!! So delicious
the earth provides us with all we need
And sadly corporations like MONSANTO kill it all & convince the sheeple that weeds are useless & troublesome when this couldn't be further from the truth. So everyone be sure that where you forage it hasn't been sprayed by the local council with glyphosates but hasn't died off yet.
I like your icon.
@@newsviewstoday5689 Thats right and keep signing petitions that favor the banning of glyphosphates, everywhere.
Great video! Back in early April during the worst of the CV Lockdown, I ran out of fresh vegetables but was able to forage dandelions and chickweed growing in my tiny backyard.
Whoa! You go Steve!
We had Hard Times once and took the foraging. My adult children came to check up on us and wouldn't touch the food LOL my one son's girlfriend had a salad with us and she said it was quite yummy I told her she's going to die now LOL Anyway the point is that we didn't miss a Beat nutrition-wise. And saved a ton of money. And I didn't have to ask my children to make sacrifices for us.
You can eat chickweed??? I didn't know that
.we have a ton of it growing in our yard
I love when chickweed comes in spring. I like to make dandelion and chick weed pesto.
In Finland we call wood sorrel "fox's bread". I used to eat it all the time when I was younger.
I just made a comment elsewhere about forging as a child and how am I native Grandmother Had taught me things but my mother's sister didn't understand. She would spank me LOL wood sorrel was my favorite
Everyone remember if your not sure, don’t eat it.
Many many many edible plants have a poisonous look alike. I wish when he was talking about wild onions he would have mentioned that they have a poisonous look alike. If it smells like an onion and it taste like an onion it's an onion. If it doesn't it's poisonous.
even when I know some plants but in the wild everything looks the same how do u differentiate tbh
@@78_mary31 never eat anything that you're not sure of. An easy plant to start with that everyone can recognize is dandelions. There's no look alike, and every part of the plant is edible do mature plants the leaves my taste. slightly bitter. it's very nutritional and has medicinal benefits. Wild Onion is easy to spot, there is a Dudley look alike. But there's an easy way to tell. And that is just smell it. If it's small sulfurous like onion or garlic then it's onion if not then it isn't. They grow right next to each other so test each shoot. Clover is easy to recognize. Plantain if you know it. I'm not sure where is your location but Papa's are pretty easy to recognize and crab apples. And black walnuts. if you know what wood sorrel is it's edible. Acorns are edible if they are prepared properly. You'll find a video how to bleach the tannins out of them dry dry them out then and grind them up like a flour, I love to replace a little flower with a Acorn flour in pancakes. when you begin getting two things you don't know, you might get help at the local University or Community College to identify plants. Some may even offer a course. You can take survival courses, You can go with someone who Gathers. it is possible to learn from a book, but as Chris learned in Into the Wild that can be very dangerous. so don't eat anything you dont know
@@carolmoore1038 damn thank you so much usually while watching discovery I wonder if people had the knowledge to know if each plant was edible or not it would be much easier to live in the wild
Made this mistake at a strip bar once.
Wow I remember 8 years ago, when I was 17 y/o and interview to be you and your sister's roommate. So much has changed for you in a decade, its great to see you thriving! Growing fast like this beautiful plants
Be very careful when harvesting wild onions. Death camas look scarily similar to them, and you don't want to eat those. Wild onions smell like onions and have more roundly curved leaves, while death camas don't smell like onions and have more sharply curved leaves.
Agreed extremely important!
I'll stick to planting onions.
I have narrow leaf plantain growing in my yard in Washington state, USA. I don’t have any broadleaf plantain in my yard, but that’s all my dad has 100 miles away.
The way I tell raspberry from blackberry is the stem. For my local varieties, raspberries have round stems, blackberries have grooves or facets on their stems.
Rob, all the plants you shared to us , we saw it as weeds here in the philippines 😭 I didn't know that it could be use in salad
Talaga?
wild chickory root roasted is the BEST" coffee substitute! No caffeine and honestly less bitter. Great info and channel!
I also saw a wild carrot in this. When picking wild carrots make sure the flower cluster has a dark spot in the center to be sure it really is a carrot.
This video was the best Rob. Thank u!!!! I really liked that u would eat it too. So people don’t fear so much!
Great video! Be careful not to mistake wild onion for lily of the valley, an extremly poisonous plant! They look very alike, especially without the blossoms! They look a bit like wild garlic, which tastes awesome!
Just smell them, the fragrance of onions is impossible not to recognize.
Oxalis is the plant I used to eat as a child and enjoyed the nature.. Miss those days
Let's all take a second to reflect on the apparent origins of the name: Dandelion.
I've heard many tales of how the vibrant, yellow flower with sharply serrated leaves was originally named "Dents de Lion", meaning "Lion's Teeth". Given the flower's mane-like appearance and the toothy nature of it's leaves, this would make a lot of sense.
Ironically however, the French have their own name for the plant: "Pissenlit", which comes from the yellow streaks that pale children like to smear on each other's arms while chiding, "You pissed the bed, pissed the bed".
Just a little fun fact, and back to episode.....
Yep we used to call the dandelion pee the beds, put under your chin and if it glowed means you peed the bed, , , , I was about 6yrs old, honest, I want to make dandelion coffee, but finding an area where dogs dont walk is about as rare as rocking horse doo doo around here in the uk, hull
Rob Greenfield is the perfect name for what he does...well almost. As long as he harvests edible plants 'legally'!
Several of these things you point out have dangerous, similar plants, often in the same family. Foraging for beginners should never be seperate from the identification factor. Knowing what NOT to eat is far more important.
Agreed thank you!!!
He says at the beginning that he wasnt getting into the identification. Theres thousands of references online anyone can reference.
@@twitch.tvmorkani3142 that is exactly what the title is, and it doesn't mention identification. It's a list of ideas for things somebody can look into if they don't know where to start
? I wouldn't go off of just this video even if he had closeups. Everyone still needs to look up pictures and info or even take a foraging course maybe...
These plants really are for beginners. But if you want to forage, you HAVE to research and research. To know the plants each day a little bit more. Watch many videos, read books, go outside. Don't rely only on this video. There are many videos about foraging in general, identification, and there are a lot of videos that talk about just one plant at a time. Always learn each day to be sure that what you're foraging it's edible.
This video was my introduction to foraging as I know it now! Thank you Robin for starting my 3 years of experience!
Thanks to you, Rob, I'm always looking around me when I walk and showing gratitude to the earth !
I love your enthusiasm,please don’t twirl the plants we are trying to identify them we understand your playfulness but please focus on the identification. Keep making videos ,I’m 63 and I believe the younger generation needs your energy .play before and after. Teach more for content.I love what you are trying to pass on to us,we love you.
What an intelligent, brave human being!
I love it, you munch along and chatting to us, it is very adorable and it makes me need to go out and grabs some greens and munch Thanks .
Thanks for sharing! I've been living in rural Japan for over a year now and have been surprised to see fruit growing wild during my walks to and from work. I occasionally harvest some fruit on my way home. It's wonderful to be able to tell what time of the year it is just by seeing what's growing by the side of the road!
Water cress is my favorite green to eat. I don’t go out foraging now, but my mother did. We grew up eating wild greens, and water cress is my favorite. And blackberries are also a favorite.
Did my first forage today :D I made some dandilion tea! I am super pleased with it!
Cool! I’ve made dandelion tea before but it wasn’t that good tbh. I recommend mint and lemon balm tea honestly. Very good
I made my first soup with dandelion leaves. I cooked them first in boiling water for 4 minutes. I then drained the bitter water (I drank most of it, but it tasted .... bitter). I added the cooked leaves to 450g potatoes, an onion, 250mls full cream milk and a packet soup, and it was delicious. It cooks down like spinach. Next, I'm going foraging for nettles, now I can identify them.
I've been eating wood sorrels since I was a child, but I always thought it was clover. I've looked online for seeds so I could plant my own, but could not find clover with little pink flowers. Now I know why! Thank you so much! Now I know what to look for so I can grow my own. I've known about a few of these, but never tried them before. I will have to start playing more attention when I'm out, and about.
Thanks for sharing these easy foraging finds! Can’t wait to start looking.
I actually made icecream with wood sorrel in it in school once. Super tasty, tarte and sweet.
Here in British Columbia there are soopalali bushes that grow soopalali berrys. The native people harvest these and create soopalali ice cream. By the way there are not any store bought ice cream ingredients added.
@@helenclark7876 That sounds cool! I can't seem to find the berry you are mentioning. Does it go by a different name?
Wild food is real food for regular people. It really is incredible how many wild mustards there are, each with their own flavor. Edible tree leaves and tree flowers are good ways to get started, too. People don't seem so intimidated by them, the trees stay in one place for a long time, and they can handle significant harvests. There is a world of abundance out there, just waiting for us all to take the time to get to know each plant and appreciate how to use it.
I am growing broad leaf plantain (Plantago major) in a pot here in my home in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I found it growing by the roadside, I picked it and planted in a pot. There are more of them in the mountains in Malaysia, I found them growing wild abundantly in Cameron Highlands which is Malaysia's premier mountain resort. The leaves have anti-nicotine substances, so for people trying to quit smoking, I was told from what I read that chewing the leaves can kill nicotine craving..in US they have commercially manufactured anti-nicotine pills from this plant..
The person that told you about plantain being anti-nicotine was absolutely correct.
This is awesome! We recently went foraging with a chef friend of ours (and posted a video about it on our channel called Wild Roots) and now we are hooked!
Wood sorrel! I remember eating that every time I’d visit a certain friend’s house as a kid. We called it “sourgrass” or “grass candy” :)
Delighted to see foraging encourage, and pleased with myself that they are all plants I already forage, except apples, which rarely fruit here. But we have abundant wild plums, canning pears, and persimmons growing wild.
Your berry bush resembles a blackberry bush from Quebec. The distinguishing features are: a generally darker and more bluish look to the entire plant, powdery white stem with a bluish sheen, larger leaves on a >2ft bush with a rounder structure. Each large leaf is about the size of an adult's palm. Though, these genotypical features are also shared by the black raspberry, but the veins on the underside of the black raspberry leaves are slightly reddish
I live to learn more about foraging. I already know of a few things around my yard Wild Blackberries, Autumn Berries, Muscadines, Wild Onion/Garlic, and Dandelions.
Ehhh what do I know, turn out I've been foraging since my childhood!! I just realized living in developing country with abundant (Rob's favorite word in this video) greens all year round is amazing for children.
I love nettles. Where there are nettles the plantain help to heal the sting plus edible. Dandelions...yummmm
Nice video Rob! I bet many people don't know much about most of these plants and therefore I'm very happy to see them being introduced. There are two things though that would be fair to mention:
1) Stinging Nettles (Urtica dioica) are the best when they are young. One should not use them for food after they start flowering, as at this time the plant starts producing cystoliths - calcium carbonate crystals which are harmful for kidneys. A good thing is that nettles can be cut back and new fresh sprouts don't take long to show up.
Other than that, this plant has amazing properties, multiple health benefits and a really good taste!
2) Oxalis or Wood sorrel should be never consumed in large quantities.This plant contains oxalic acid which can cause kidney stone formation or other types of kidney damage (it also has more side effects). Children, people with kidney disease or blood clotting problems, pregnant or breastfeeding women should be especially careful not to consume too much.
Cheers!
Thank you for the information. I live in Santa Barbara and have been learning about foraging for a while.
Awesome video!! I like that ur in the woods running around barefoot, i love doing that!
I found your page because of me limiting my space in my backpack for hiking. Born and raised in Philippines and i used to just take a lot from the trees and eat them,there is a fruit in Philippines,negros island called Tambis and salt and you are set to go. But over the years i moved here in new york and i adopted the environment here as a tattooer. I want to be able to identify eatable weeds again as i go back to trekking. I want to hear more about this,very informative.
Just wanted to add regarding the nettles: it’s also very good to make a soup out of, you make it just like a spinach soup. It’s rich in iron and really beneficial to drink as a tea when pregnant. Avoid picking it close to piles of cow manure as it can then contain high levels of a subject we dont want (sorry, cant remember the name). Also the top leaves are the best! And if you get stung, don’t scratch it as that will just make it worse.
I’m definitely trying to forage more, especially this summer, and I just finished making my first batch of dandelion root coffee! 10/10 would recommend, it’s fantastic
We used to hunt for “lemongrass” as kids! We didn’t know it was edible, we just figured it out the old fashioned way lol
I have a container of green onion and sometimes they grow exactly those flowers. It is an almost endless food supply and they require very little attention. Great for a beginning or busy gardener. Oh, and my last home had wild blackberry and I loved it.
This is the most helpful foraging video I have seen. Thank you for your content. It is always a blessing to watch and learn. ❤️🌱
That is great to hear Rebekah! Sending love!
I am a hunter/fisherman. Nice to know these things. Thanks for posting.
The plantains I see them every where in southern Ontario and thought they were just weeds and clovers I had no idea they where edible thanks for making this video and very helpful thank you
Good to know. I'll keep an eye out for them
Wood sorrels were my favorite as a child. My four year old loves them too. My favorite part is the tiny "okras". We all called it sour grass because it tastes very lemony.
Foraging is so fun! :) Just started learning about wild edibles this year and I found that I have a lot of them growing in my own yard... Spanish needles, wood sorrel, peppergrass, blackberries, and an elderberry tree! For all of my life I thought all these plants where just pointless weeds!
When you said cider....you really got my attention....you should do an episode about best plant for beer and cider...
Try to eat the youngest ferns’ leaves it can be eaten too. It’s delicious. You can steam and mix with salad dressing, or sautéed in cooking oil with garlic, soy sauce and onion with pork meat or shrimp. Or even without.
So happy to discover channels like this, these type of channels are my real treasure, literally free awesome knowledge.
Thanks from Ukraine. Your pronunciation is very easy to understand.
I’m 60 now but I grew up in a rural area of central Wisconsin (and have retired near that area now). At the edge of the small farm I grew up on in the tree line were a few crab apple trees on the woods line. My Mom used to take the crab apples and can the apples whole skin and all. They were small enough to just pop in your mouth and eat that way. Of course if one didn’t like the skin, which would slide off like a blanched peach or tomato skin, you could just spit it and the seeds out. As I recall she used very little sugar in the canning process but they were still very delicious and a bit tart.
My family has a really big crab apple tree in our backyard and for years now all of the apples have just been falling from it and getting eaten by the squirrels, I'm definitely going to start foraging them now to see if they're any good and if they are I might make some apple treats for me and my family!
PLEASE be careful, most types of crab apples are poisonous to humans
Resourceful, you did a great job showing the different ways the plants can look in environments. I learned about the narrow leaf plantain from this video. Another staple is Mullen especially now as it’s one of the best things for respiratory health. Thanks for the encouraging words at the end, here in Appalachia I’ve got a lot of plants to learn. God Bless ♥️🙏🏽
There's a guy in my village that makes syrup from nettle.
Wow! Have you tried it?
Thank you so much for this. My partner and I have become increasingly interested in growing our own food, as well as wanting to know more about food from the wild. My UA-cam rabbit hole started with me watching how to make your own mozzarella and I am now watching your program. 😁👍🙌🌻🌱🌾☘🌿
I always think wood sorrel tastes like green apple!
Same!
Emily Marguerita also very tart and lemony in my opinion
I always thought of it as kind of lemony.
No way! Now I have to find!!
I like that... by Robin Greenfield: Start in your own backyard... Dandelions, Nettles, Wood Sorrels, And The Clovers... In Video Duration 12:47 - 13:31.
Mulberries are a good one too!
I’m in Wisconsin and I know In langlade and forest counties for sure have a lot of random apple trees. But I have never seen so many fruit trees and bushes as I have in forest. That is why I’m getting into all of this. So thank you so very much for helping a fellow Wisconsinite on this journey :)
Awesome video! I’ve been teaching my not yet two year old grandson to forage in his backyard.
I want to get into more foraging! Hopefully I can find a few and bring them home to keep growing!
These are nice tips for a colder climate.
I loved your series in Florida, the climate is very similar to where I live (Ceará, in Brazil).
When I was at primary school we used to go out and pick the wood sorrel flowers in the forest. Good memories
thank you Rob for your teachings, i harvested lots of wild garlic/ ransom, in german: bärlauch (bears- leek). in august ill dig out some ransom onions also edible.
lots of hugs from switzerland/ cross,cow,milk,chocolatecountry.
This is helpful for me, I'm currently living in France. Thank you very much. 😊🙏🏼
You know I realized that if someone was stranded or lost somewhere in the wilderness, this could be great for
survival tips.
rec. watching the ALONE series on the history channel $ 500,000 winners purse. There was a women on the channel I was rooting for that was on season 3? and she was a biologist- her foraging knowledge played well in her survival.
yes thatsy
I'm just getting into foraging wild edibles and found that right in my backyard , I have an abundance of garlic mustard, stinging nettle, purple dead nettle, dandelion, lambsquarters, amaranth, purselane, chickweed and wild garlic . These all used to be just weeds to me. I never knew they were edible, and actually quite tasty. It's amazing the things you learn when you open up to new things
Hey Rob! I love your videos, and the idea of foraging. But the thing that keeps me from foraging is fear of wrongly identifying something.
When you make these videos, would you be able to name or even show similar plants and compare the noticeable differences? Either way, love the videos, thanks for everything!
Well this video is specifically for easy to find and identify plants to look for. You can always go more in depth in your own research to fully make sure you have the plant youre looking for.
Also a neat trick ive heard about is if you aren't sure, then rub it on your arm. If you don't get a rash in 15 minutes, then repeat the process on your face(like a cheek or above an eyebrow). Again, if theres no rash in 15 minutes, rub it on your tounge and wait 15 minutes. If everything is fine (no swelling, itching, so on) then its very likely safe to eat.
Granted this is from hearsay so be sure to do your own reasearch
As I explained in this video, my goal is to open your eyes to foraging, not give exact ID, because there are so many plans out there. Please use foraging books, local resources and go out foraging with local foragers if you can.
Resources here: www.robgreenfield.org/foraging
Sorrel has a sour taste in which I like,starting in March we hunt Morel mushrooms. The bigger the dandelion gets the more bitter it because and the flowers are bitter you can boil the flower and roots for tea
I will named my first sim after you Rob ever since the Sims 4 Eco Lifestyle dlc came out
You always inspire me to take little steps towards doing more of what you teach. This video is especially inspiring. Thank you! I know where I can get a couple of the things you mentioned here so I'm going to go do it!
Thanks Rob, I was just wanting to learn about this recently, and this video gave me a lot of great ideas! It would also be really helpful if you made a video on plants to avoid or that are extremely poisonous. :)
I like the fact you eat the plants in the video. It gave me confidence.
Amazing video! Thank you for what you do! :D
This is my dream also.simple life.
Another one, easy to identify, and harvest, is rose hip... Dried make great tea, and from flovers you can make great brandy, or strong spirit.
#thevelvetloungelife says -- 1. be aware of dog pee areas right off any trail, walked area or track, 2. Chemical/dump runoff and 3. pesticides/farms near the foraging areas.
why the dog pee part? what makes it harmful?
Urine is water soluble
I love you too first off, that was a wonderful lesson and I will apply the knowledge and yes I did like it, subscribed and shared your awesome WEALTH! Thanks for sharing! Light, love and safe travels!!!
6:30 when I was a kid I used to sit around and just eat a ton of these for no reason
Wood sorrels root is also edible as well, they kind of look like miniature daikons. When i was a kid, me and the neighborhood kids used to foraging them in the fields around the empty lots. They were sweet and sour, pretty tasty for something that you can just dig out by the side of the road.
The secondly is a kind of vegetable which we are used to getting in our meal in viet nam. It is of a medicine and good for health. Sorry if my english does not catch your brain
Your English is fine just we don't say (catch your brain)
@@dylancampbell7406 thank you for your feedback.
No problem and mo offense intended
@@dylancampbell7406 i dont get your mean with mo offense intended
Doahm it means I am not trying to be mean
Stinging nettle is also a great helper to prevend your veggies from vine louse aka aphid. They prefer high nutrition plants and choose the nettle. I'll plant it in my garden for this reason and to get tea from it.
The leaves from a blackberry are edible too. They're rich in vitamin c and also a medicine because they're anti-inflammatory.