Foraging Wild Edibles: Fix your garden problem by eating the weeds
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- Опубліковано 21 кві 2018
- Have you ever faced weeds in your garden? So many weeds that it's intimidating? What if those weeds could be the first harvest of your garden rehab? That would be a good deal, I think!
In this video, I'm rehabbing a little raised bed garden that I have ignored for too long. I found 11 kinds of edible weeds and made a giant pot of wild greens with ham hocks -- enough to feed me for days! But I also found a weed that's highly toxic! See if you can tell which weed that is! I've got some tips for foraging weeds from your garden or yard, too.
I've had requests from some of you to show more of my gardens. So I will be doing that over this summer. I'm starting with a reality check -- a neglected raised bed garden. Looking over the weeds in here, there's a lot of good eating!
I have a video about 2 strategies for how to efficiently pick garden weeds to eat. For this project, I'm using the strategy of picking a wide assortment of weeds. So I'm starting off with a lot of bowls to hold the different kinds of weeds that I'm picking. That's because it's important to Pick Organized! It's a lot easier that way to double-check in the kitchen that I don't have any plants that I don't want, like the really toxic one!
In picking garden weeds, we don't have to take everything. They're weeds, after all, so it's OK to high-grade, and just take the best plants back to the kitchen.
But it is important to Pick Clean! Don't just pull a weed and toss it into the bowl. Cut the roots off so the soil doesn't make it back to the kitchen. And double-check any clumps of plants to make sure there's nothing mixed in with that 1 kind of plant.
As I find each kind of plant, I tell you about it. When the picking is over, I give you a chance to identify what I have in my big bowls.
After clearing out my raised bed, it's all ready to plant now. And I've got a big batch of delicious wild greens to eat, too! Enough for days!
Here's the plants I harvested:
Nipplewort - Lapsana communis
Dandelion - Taraxacum officinale
Common Sowthistle - Sonchus oleraceus
Prickly Sowthistle - Sonchus asper
Prickly Wild Lettuce - Lactuca serriola
Hedge Mustard - Sisymbrium officinale
Cleavers, Stick-Tights, and lots of other names - Galium aparine
Bristly Hawksbeard - Crepis setosa
Bittercress - Cardamine hirsuta
Purple Deadnettle - Lamium purpureum
Wild Carrot, Queen Anne's Lace - Daucus carota
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Poison Hemlock - Conium maculatum - DO NOT EAT!
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If you want to see how some of these plants cook up, individually, here's a video that shows some of them: "Homestead Haul 3: Cooking 10 different weeds" ua-cam.com/video/tKnM5m3KxFI/v-deo.html
NIPPLE WARTS 😂
Please post more videos. I love them and have seen them all. 🥰😁
it works quite well to put so many green things that are growing around in your wheat grass juicer and make raw juice. the juice you can put in your body from this results in very nice skin quality and physical energy. juice it fresh including the best of all wild grass. it contains all of the vitamins minerals and proteins your body needs not to mention " light energy". its less work and more pay off.
How you identify what is what?
@@mayphan2872 99% of what is growing around you is aok, some of it may be better than others based on taste. there are a very few things that can kill your ass. One of the few looks like a carrot, but has purple veins on its shoots and is actually hemlock. at this point in history there is work to do in each individual location on earth to know which 99% is safe. watch out for them purple veined carrots, they can really stick it to you !
I usually make a smoothie in the mornings.. Banana, orange juice, peanut butter etc. Then i go into the yard and grab some dandelion leaves, kale, plantain, chickweed or whatever I see and toss in the smoothie. .Gotta love it.
I really like the way you teach and show the differences between plants.. and the way you munch while you forage
I'm glad you find my videos helpful. Most of these plants, once you can see their differences, are easy to recognize. And there are plenty of these weeds around to notice. I do snack while I pick, lol. It's a good way to test whether a known plant is too mature or too embittered by stress. And I like to snack, too, what can I say? ; )
I love ur voice, the sound of it makes me happy! And thank u for all the info u give on wild edibles! :)
IDEM! :-)
This is a fantastic way to utilize weeds that would otherwise be wasted, extend your meals and stretch your outdoor garden crop. This is especially useful in times like these. Thanks
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypochaeris_radicata this is everywhere in Australia and everybody knows not to eat it.
I always love your video about wild edible weeds, and the way you speaking in the video is very lovely too. It is funny that I laugh a lot every time hearing you saying "this could kill both of us" or "kill both you and me" :)). I understand why you keep saying that. Thank you for your useful and interesting videos about wild plant foraging. I love your videos so much.
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POISON HEMLOCK...WOW , am I ever grateful for this video because I have picked this before and bought it in my house.. never again
It"s deadly
wild carrot/queen annes lace is similar looking but if you find THAT you CAN take it in.
I thought i spotted it at the start i helped my dad clean alot off his property
Lol I’m still to worried to make a mistake when identifying these plants to go eat them 😂
Same here! I have tons of weeds this year too. Too bad-that salad will go to waste!
More like Health-hazard homestead, check this out...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypochaeris_radicata
I fear that too. Especially after seeing the ending of "Into the Wild."
Wood sorrel and plantain are very easy to identify. Purslane is also super easy as long as you know what spurge looks like. It would only be easy to confuse if you’d never seen spurge before. But after seeing it once, you know the difference. Clover is another easy one. Try those!
@meem ك I've been using Picture This to identify many plants I've found in my yard. Good recommendation
I actually started leaving my dandelions and let them grow 😁
I foster dandolions in my yard as well as clover. Can't do any big ones or my landlord has them mowed down before i can harvest. He's not a fan. Lol
Carrot leaves & hemlock leaves look nothing alike. But it's so cool the way you pointed it out by showing them one after the other. Sometimes it's hard for me to remember that I was once a novice & how important it is for novices to learn to look at everything. This video brings me back to the basics. Thank you!
I appreciate your comment about how it is important to remember that we all start off as novices when it comes to knowing our plants. There's more to know about them than any of us can learn in a lifetime, so we are all still novices in some aspects of foraging, too. That's what makes it so interesting. I'm glad you enjoyed my video -- and I hope that more folks can see wild carrot and poison hemlock like you do, hotmale5221. Enjoy your wild plants!
Wow! You really know which weeds can feed from the not eating sorts. Impressive. I once had a neighbor who would yell out the bathroom window to me while I was pulling weeds..She would say now David you bring me those weeds. Her name Rose. So I always would bring her my pulled yard of weeds. She took them all and never complained about the mix of them. I guess she was sort of like you as she must have known which to eat like you.. Thanks for putting up an informative video like this on what we all call weeds; Maybe we can start eating a few too.
Thank you for taking precious time in sharing your knowledge with us. Man! I am such an idiot with these things and I can't stand wasting these jewels in the garden. Here in Germany it's a little difficult because of the language, but every now and then, using latin names, one gets to know a few things.
I wish we could just take a photo of a plant, its leaves, it's root system etc and identify it on the net, just like one can when one hears a song, records on Google and identifies the song immediately. Wouldn't THAT be good where it comes to herbs. 🙌
I like the Latin names and put them in every video, down in the description. There are so many great weeds here in North America that originally came with settlers from Europe. So we do have a lot of volunteer plants in common, even though we are an ocean and continent apart! There are some tools for getting plants identified online. I'll be doing some videos about them, sometime in the future. Enjoy your garden -- and its weeds! ; )
@@HaphazardHomestead Oh Gosh, that sounds lovely. Will be looking so forward to learning about the online tools you've mentioned. Yes, we have a lot of the species you showed in the garden. Am bordered onto the woods up in back, so feel very excited to add to my understanding of it all through what you're so unselfishly sharing with us. Thankyou so very much.
I have found a few plant apps that supposedly identify plants by your photo. After trying them several different times and testing them with commonly known plants, l would never trust them!! They'd have you making a salad with that hemlock!! No way!
@@connick7361 Oiff! Thankyou for letting me know of your experiences though. I guess I'll just have to keep peeping in on Apps over time.
@@HaphazardHomestead Thankyou HH. I love the meals you made and will certainly try them. So many of the herbs we have here as you mentioned also. Yumm!
I look forward to your views and vids on Apps for plant identification by photo search.
As always, great idea to eat them weeds. Thumbs up. The greenery has not even begun to grow here yet. We still have about a 70% snow cover. Looking forward to the wild edibles season.
Hey, Lonnie, it's great to see you here! I bet you are looking forward to some fresh wild greens, by this time in the winter. I'm just glad I saved some snowballs in my freezer for our spring heat wave, to make some cool drinks, lol. Have a great spring!
Hi my name is Kathy from West Virginia. I love watching all of your video's.
I just wish that you would hold the camera pointing start down on the plants for about 15- 30 seconds before cutting the plant. So that I can see and study the plant to learn it so I to can go out and enjoy theses greens.
Now some I do know by heart for my Momma. My dear sweety Momma before she passed and as I was a child as well. We uses to go out and green pick.
We had a blast.
But some that you pick we did not. So this is why I wish to learn them.
I just love my greens and hot buttered Biscuits.Yum yum! Lol
Thanks so much for taking the time to make theses video.
May the father in heaven bless you.
I agree! I have been foraging our yard for months here in the PNW, enjoying Purple Osaka mustard, Dandelions, and Bittercress. Also something that may be Gout Weed. Our Korean neighbor pointed it out to us and said it was edible. He planted it in his yard and it spread to ours. It can be invasive but we eat it fast! He did not remember the name of it in English. There are many more weeds that look like they would be edible but l cannot positively identify them so they are wasting. Poison Hemlock could be among them! Please help by showing them slower maybe. I love this video and will look for your others! Thank you!
Thank you for the detailed descriptions of each individual plant😄 especially how to tell them apart
You are wonderful I watch all your foraging videos. I've learned a lot from them. Thank you so much
Thank you for your informative and well-filmed video!
Your videos are amazing!!! I can see now. I have a day of videos to watch and learn about. Thank you for making these.
Wow ma'am, if I loved in your country I would have loved to have learnt from you. You are incredibly knowledgeable. Thank you for teaching us through your videos.
Thank you so much for showing HOW to forage and go through things and process them!
This video is super helpful! Thanks! Love your energy
Great tips!! We get lots of purslane, lambs quarters, dock, dandelion, and smart weed (this one helps with pain, we mixed it with charcoal and made a poultice when my son had appendix pain, it was amazing!!!), growing in our garden. Sometimes I think we spend so much effort trying to grow things that just weren't meant to grow here and throwing away the healthy food that grows abundantly. Thanks for the video.
Love your videos today I did my first foraging of the year it's been a very cold snowy spring here in Michigan it felt wonderful to get out I found a few ramps kinda small but good I'm gonna cook them with some salmon should be yummy,so glad winters over
I bet it feels great there in Michigan. Your winter has been longer than many in recent times. When I lived in Michigan, I really enjoyed those ramps. Yumm! Enjoy your dinner! : )
So glad I found your site today. Thank you so much.
I'm glad you did, too, Sandy Miller. There are so many great things out in nature, waiting for us to understand what they have to offer. Happy summer!
I’ve learned more from this than so many other foraging videos. Thank you!
You're welcome, Jessica F. And I appreciate you letting me know. I really hope that more people can make use of the common edible plants around them. They are so good and so abundant sometimes.
I love how much I am learning from you @ foraging wild edibles. My hubby isn't much of a fan, but I think your recipe with the ham hocks will convert him! I love learning the taxonomy information in particular as well as distinguishing characteristics. Thank you for another interesting and informative video!
You're welcome. It's interesting how some people like eating weeds, and other folks don't. For most weeds, I like a mixed pot of greens more than eating just one kind. So maybe that will be the ticket for your husband, too. That -- and the ham hocks! ; )
This is great! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and advice!!!
I love watching yout videos. I just found you a couple nights ago and I subscribed and am going to watch as many of your videos as I can until I catch up. I wish you had a book out. I would definitely buy it
I should have said so long ago you are awesome, I just moved back home to the NW after being deployed far away to long, I hope I can remember what I forgot about common forging in my own yard while planting a new harvest! after it being neglected for many many years and pass the knowledge on to my kids. Thank you for sharing your Knowledge.
I love your channels. Thank you so much for sharing. I love to forge. I love any Mother Nature has to offer and respects it.
Thanks, Lleb Lee! I'm glad you are enjoying my videos. And I'm glad you enjoy the natural bounty that's out there, just waiting for us all. Happy foraging! :D
Thank you for putting the effort to make this video. I live nearby a forest so it is very helpful.
You're welcome! There are so many wonderful plants to eat, once we get to know them well. It's amazing how much is out there. Happy foraging!
the fact ive watched so many of these videos looking at that bed i can regocnize plants and it makes me happy
this is so great, you're a delight to learn from. thank you!
First time watch your video, love it, particularly like the way u hv all the names on the screen.
I love gardening & more enjoyable to find edible wild green popping up among my plants! Thanks
I'm glad you enjoyed all those weeds in my garden! Thanks for the feedback about having names of the plants on-screen, too. I just recently started doing that. If only all our garden weeds could be the edible ones, that would be pretty handy! Happy gardening - and foraging!
I love your videos! You are a woman after my own heart🤗
Very helpful. Going to find some of these next spring!
Your knowledge is impressive. Thank you for the video.
Thank you for posting this. It's very educational to me
I wish I could learn to forage like this. Your videos are very interesting to me. Thank you.
Awesome video!! That was fantastic!! Thank you for sharing
thank you for sharing your knowledges it is so wonderful to learning the new stuff😊
Loved the presentation of this.
Just found your channel, very good been following learn your land for mushrooms & plants but your the best for greens by a long shot
Thank you! Liked your style of making video! Most practical and useful!
I love learning about edible weeds. Thank you. 😊
You're welcome. It's amazing how many great weeds there are, especially early in the growing season when it's too wet to work in the garden or too cold to plant many garden seeds.
Best video I've seen in awhile-thank you🥕
A very good teacher. Knowledgeable and interesting. Thank u for sharing knowledge.
Somehow, this makes fe feel secure to try this. Will be doing it today. I already eat wild edibles, but the pot of greens will help me to hone my skills. Thanks.
Great wild tips and that hemlock heads-up!
Thanks -- and I hope you don't see much of that poison hemlock, especially in a garden!
Thank you for your video presentation on edible weeds. For ages I've been trying to gain experience of foraging for wild foods, but so many in the UK guard their 'secret foraging locations' & their knowledge of identifying edible & poisonous plants correctly. I have a modest sized back garden & am now trying to identify the edible weeds from the inedible ones. I found your other video on frying dandelion flowers useful also. Thank you.
Just trying to live a more sustainable & self-sufficient lifestyle. JohnnyK from the UK.
Hello! I am William my wife and I enjoyed your video. We now plan to start watching your informative videos.
Thank you sharing your knowledge. I really enjoyed your video.
Wow this is a great video. Nicely done!!!
Thank you for sharing. You make everything look so fun and delicious 😘🙏👍
We have a close relative to the purple dead nettle here in the eastern US called common henbit or Lamium amplexicaule. I checked the Wikipedia and it says they are edible. They appear in early spring here. I wasn't planning on doing any foraging but I might someday. I find all the information interesting and potentially useful if I ever ran out of money and food. I also want to write a couple of short stories, which will probably never be published, with very detailed descriptions of the lead characters foraging. I did not know that weed I mentioned was edible until I watched this video. I love learning about plants. Thank you for the video!
Where I live we have both and yes they're edible
I love your video! I love to forage for edible greens and this video is perfect for me. I'm sure the rest of your videos will soon be favorites of mine. My Grandmother was a fan of Url Gibbons, she use to share with me his teachings. Now I have his old books from her. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!
I"m glad you enjoy the wild greens, too, A -- and that your grandmother shared her enjoyment of the wild plants with you! Those Euell Gibbon's books are so great. He's good at showing how wild plants can be real food for regular people. There's a lot packed into those books, even without many pictures! Happy foraging and I hope you enjoy my future videos, too!
@@HaphazardHomestead I am sure I will enjoy watching and learning from your future videos, as well. You make complex weed identification seem easy, and you give many useful tips along the way. Thank you!
So satisfying to watch.
I am just starting to dip my feet into medicinal herbs and coming across foraging and finding how many benefits I have out in my yard and garden. Really cool. I like your thinking that this is just your first harvest before you plant your traditional plants. I do not use poisons on my property. So I may try cooking some up this spring and summer to experiment. I am glad to find a video of someone who lives near by. Thank you for making this video.
Thank you for the new video!
You're welcome! Thanks for stopping by -- and enjoy your local weeds. : )
Thank you! Great video with clear descriptions. Living out in the PNW also, and am going to enjoy these and will know how to avoid the hemlock which is all over the place!
I live in the PNW, too. I need to see that Hemlock more clearly!! I suspect we may have it in the yard.
Really appreciate your videos, thanks.
Hello, excellent learning video, thanks, Zz watching from Canada 🇨🇦.
Excellent video. Thanks for the tips
Love this video and your personality.
Hi Darling, you may not realize but your video followed the SCIENTIFIC METHODS. So enjoyable and so informative. Much Love.
I will probably be watching UA-cam and/or Vimeo from here on out. I just wanted to tell you that I think your videos are awesome and I hope you keep doing what you're doing.
I'm so happy I came across this video! For the past several months I began to wash& eat green leaves fm. the red radishes I purchase @ local grocery store ever since I was told it is good for tummy aches. We don't get tummy aches but I figured it is excellent to eat!
Duh ....wow!
I should have known better.... I sautee the greens w/ anything else green such as broccoli, onions, garlic, tumeric, mushrooms &carrots. I'm so glad I connected with a neighbor in Oregon.
💜Greetings from Kelso 😷 Washington
I'm glad you found my garden weeds video, too, Odette M! And that you appreciate the radish greens. So many garden plants (not all, though) have other parts that are great to eat, beyond what people usually think about. I really like the inside of those fat, tough broccoli stalks. It sounds like you make a good stir fry up there in Washington! :D
That was really awesome. Thanks.
So glad to jave found your channel
Thank you the way you teach is great
My people have been eating what's considered as weeds for centuries, we teach our children how to harvest what's edible and what's not. One of our favourite ways is add with meat boil it all up with potatoes, pumpkin etc.
I'm barely getting into this and learning so I'm doing my best to just be paitent and research and learn before I start to use them for anything ♥️🌱
Sameee
Excellent informative video, thanx from New Zealand
Great video. Learned a lot. You speak very nicely. Kept my attention. 😊
Fantastic video. Thanks!
Thank you for sharing!!❤️❤️
Very helpful and informative
Thank you for the video! Well done!
You're welcome! Enjoy your garden weeds! ; )
Love, love, LOVE your channel! I just read that Cleavers are in the same family as coffee, and in fact, can be dried and roasted, then used as a coffee substitute! Learn something new every day.
Amazing!!
I love weeds. I don't let them grow too high in my yard, and just keep them trimmed.
Love this channel. I love nature, herbs, and you have really quality content :-) Wish you all best :-)
Great sharing friend,beautiful❤️❤️...
I have purple deadlettle all the time! I didn’t know they were edible! Thanks!
Wow u know your stuff!! Great informative video thank u so much for posting!!!
Glad you enjoyed my garden weeds, Agatha Dolan! I don't mind garden weeds when they are tasty edible ones, lol. Now I"m picking summer weeds. They are different ones, but just as delicious! It probably sounds strange, but I hope you have some good garden weeds, too! : )
Haphazard Homestead doesn’t sound weird at all! And yes I do have good summer weeds as well that I feed my chickens also and they love it too! Love your channel and videos!
Nice harvest! I like your style :)
Thank you for sharing your knowledge
You're welcome. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you can enjoy some edible weeds, too.
Great video😄☘🌱thanks for sharing
Thank you for this fascinating video.
Thanks for sharing, love learning what to eat in my yard
You're welcome. You know your wild foods, too. I like how, with weeds, we can have some plants in common, even though we live in different regions. Enjoy your redbud flowers this spring!
I missed them this year, i had surgery in feb. by the time i could get out they were gone =(
Sorry to hear that -- I hope your surgery went well and your health is better. At least with trees, they will be there next year. That's what I like about the weed and wild plants - they will be there waiting for us.
RIGHT, YES SURGERY WENT WELL THANKS, STICHES WELL BE GONE SOON.
Thank u for ur videos, I went to the park other day and pulled some young dandelion leaves and wild crest and they are so delicious and earthy
I'm just getting into this and I noticed in my yard a metric ton of Broad leaf and buckhorn plantains..yellow wood sorrel..Penn Smartweed..Virginia pepper...white n red clover...never knew a Maryland yard held such sustenance
Thank you I've been searching for a video like this for yrs brilliant thank you thank you thank you x😍
Very helpful. Thanks for sharing
Awesome, thank you Mam... that was such a lovely and old fashion teaching of plants you can eat off your garden, just beitufull, thank you so much, your parents or your grandparents teach you very good. ç= Greetings
Soooooooooo happy to see you back, my friend. I just came in from outside, working on a raised bed in my 'wild area'. Lots of jewelweed. This bed has been covered all winter, in Wisconsin, and the jewelweed and dandelions are loving the extra warmth. I see some Japanese red mustard, lettuces and dill coming from seed. :0) Pulling the dandelions for tomorrows breakfast along with some spring onions that made it through the winter in this hoop house. Violets will be harvested next. I am harvesting all these wonderful greens because of YOU teaching me what is edible. Thank you for your time, knowledge patience my friend. Keep the videos coming. We are all enjoying them. Looking forward to my 'fiddle heads'.
Hi, Lark! So good to see you here! It's nice to know that spring is finally coming to your area. And I'm glad to know my videos have been helpful. There's so much good eating out there, just waiting for us all. Lucky you, with your fiddleheads -- I enjoyed some wild ones cooked over a campfire in the Minnesota/Wisconsin area last May after traveling to St. Paul for a work meeting. Yumm! And your woods are so pretty, too. Happy gardening and foraging!
Great video! Yum!!
great video as always
I love watching your videos 🙂
Thanks!
like your down to earth approach, not apologizing for the pun.... hahah.... great stuff
Thank you for the information.