I got a really bad case of poison ivy when I was a kid, and a local farmer gave my mom a bag full of goldenrod leaves. He instructed mom to boil the leaves, let it cool a bit, and bathe me in the juice. It dissolved my crusty poison ivy within hours!
Great information! I am so allergic to poison ivy. Every spring and fall and in between, major reaction! Yes, I was taught as a little kid and all the way through… what it looks like in each and every season…
This is the knowledge we no longer carry with us. We need folks like you to educate and continue passing the knowledge on, you never know when it might help
The late Dr John Christopher, some of his students and a few other world famous herbalists have proven that every disease is curable. Incurable diseases? They don't exist. Allopathic physicians don't normally know that. They normally only have time to read pharmaceutical research. Pharmaceutical companies don't want to produce cures. They want customers for life. They are greedy and want to make you feel better but not cure you. They only want to get rich.
As a former beekeeper, Goldenrod was the most important source of late summer honey. After the main honey crop was taken off, we'd let the bees build up their winter honey store which was mainly from Goldenrod.
@@kysmik8214 Probably much better off leaving the plant intact, I feel like bees would avoid plants that look damaged or dead. Besides I think the flower is better off attached so it can continue pollen/nectar production
I use it medicinally but a few years ago I used it to dye wool yarn and paper.. it was the MOST vibrant yellow. It didn't fade at all. I made a shawl probably 4 years ago and it's SO vibrant. Like the flower at its peak. I love wearing it in the winter.
@@markm8188 It was so easy. All I did was buy a little thing of alum from the grocery spice Isle. I used a teaspoon per cup of water. Just do a couple cups so a skein of yarn fits, or a bunch of paper. I soaked the wool (long enough to be thoroughly wet), or just dipped the paper quickly. You could let both items dry and dye at a future date, or dye it right away while wet. All I did was boil a pile of goldenrod for maybe half hour. Turned off, strained. Plopped the yarn it in (once cooled a bit) for at least an hour I think it was. Paper takes the dye by just dipping it quick and hanging to dry. It was hard to screw up. The one shawl I have now I did 5 years ago.. it is neon yellow still. :D I did the same with purple basil, exact same thing. It came out this gorgeous purply/grey color.
@@RunninUpThatHillh thank you for sharing that! I was going to ask which mordant(s) but I was beat to the punch. Another very vibrant natural dye is pokeberry. Poke is pretty toxic, so keep the berries (or leaves) away from children & pets, but the resultant bright magenta pink is another brilliant natural dye. (Poke sallat takes special handling to make edible.) Girls used to make a temporary hair stain with it, but mordants will set the dye. (Sorry, don't recall which mordants will do the trick, but I know you can search the interwebz for that & find it pretty easily.) Beauty berry (Callicarpa americana) is also ripe in September. Not sure if that brilliant pink would translate to any shade of pink with the proper mordant or not. (But it does make good jelly and pie filling.) There many are other good natural dyes you can grow & forage and the colors you end up with can vary a lot depending on which mordants you use. Blueberries, elderberries, horsetail, red cabbage, marigold blossoms, yellow onion skins, hollyhocks, Larkspur, beets/pickled beet juice, sunflower, amaranth, tobacco, heather, chamomile, dandelions, dahlia, cosmos, sumac, walnut, maple bark, red alder, butternut, cane berries, blood root, sassafras, crocus (saffron), coreopsis, and many more plants can all produce dyes of varying color. You can grow madder root, woad, lady's bedstraw, indigo, henna, and other traditional dye plants in your garden. (Note that some, like woad, are more intensive and/or toxic to process.) Alum, baking soda, copper pipe, ammonia, cream of tartar, wood ash lye, sumac twigs, urine, salt, vinegar, rhubarb leaves, oak or grape leaves (tannins), are all mordants that can be used in dying. I remember ladies in my spinner's flock that collected old wheat pennies to use as mordant (a handful in the dye or pre-soak pot???). I used to handspin, and white wool, while pretty, stains easily and can yellow over time, so you usually want to dye it. I am also a gardener & plant nerd, so making natural dyes is something that has deeply interested me since about 1995. I did play with dying wool and eggs for pysyanky many years ago.
As kids we used goldenrod stems as arrows for our homemade bow and arrows. Nice and straight, light and relatively stiff. 45 years ago....where did the time go
@@confucius2616 well, everybody has a different opinion, where I live we get some pretty good taste in Goldenrod honey, but I was really referring to it is supposed to be a higher antibiotic value. I don’t know if it is or not but I do know it works good in a lot of things, especially a burn and we ound Salve that the Amish make.
My dog Arlo (RIP) used to pick goldenrod out of any other plant in a field on our hikes. Even before flowering. He used to love eating the leaves. Don’t think it harmed him in any way. He was with me for 16 years.
Yup.. i had an American Boxer named Ammo that would do the same. I saw he liked those specific leaves, so i transplanted the plant into a pot to see what it would eventually flower into and it was goldenrod.
Thank you! I literally have a goldenrod farm and trying to figure out what to do with it all. Anyone in the NY area willing to travel, you are more than welcome to come get some. No pesticides, wild and protected Goldenrod for days. :)
Enough to come gather some of your golden rod. I cant find any except along the highways and have been told that plants along the highways are toxic due to the fumes from vehicles and chemicals that the highway dept use on the roads .
Wow! I took a few minutes to learn the benefits of goldenrod and black walnut hulls. I am blown away by how beneficial they both are and better yet, I have both right in my back yard!!
Interesting fact about goldenrod’s history, back in the 1920’s the Ford company we’re trying to figure out what materials to use for the tires. Goldenrod has a nice amount of properties you can create rubber with, they were going to use goldenrod due the properties but had decided not to for the first vehicle’s made by Ford. I am big plant and garden enthusiasts, goldenrod was the first wild plant I foraged in adulthood. By far the one medicinal plant that will always be close to me and always feel down for a lil bit when it’s gone for the year.
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I used goldenrod as a wash for my cats face to keep infection away. She had oral cancer and it bought us more time together before she had to leave her little body.
I made the goldenrod flower tincture with 90 proof vodka, was great for winter colds and aches and pains, this was a major plus👍 and it tasted like black licorice, which I LOVE 😋
I love the dog panting off camera during this video ❣️ And the praying mantis and bee shots… this is an informative and fun video. Sending you guys so much positive energy, you’re awesome ☀️
As a young man I had my first home out in the country ; Grape nuts commercials were prevalent back then . I remember Euell Gibbons saying in one commercial , " Did you know that goldenrod makes an excellent tea ? " So being ignorant as to what to harvest , I pulled it by the roots , hung it in the root cellar portion ( dirt floor ) section of my basement , hung by the roots . My dad came by one day , saw the golden rod and says " What the hell is that ? !! " I replied " Don't panic old man , it's not pot , it's goldenrod. "
I just realized these were flowering. Went out and picked a big bag. Filled up my dehydrator and 2 half gallon of tincture. This is my 5th Tincture this year. Never brought so much alcohol at one time. I liked keeping the plant together until I got home. Made it easy to rinse dust, & bugs.
In the northern areas goldenrod is one of the last plants to still be blossoming in late autumn to provide food for bees and for monarch butterflies before they leave for their long migration south. If you don’t have any it’s easy to find the seed heads after the flowers have gone by in the autumn.
Thank you for all the info in this video! I grew my first goldenrod by accident this year. I was researching all the "weeds" in my yard and for the longest time, I thought it was a fleabane plant. When it finally started blooming, my mom took a look at it and figured out it was actually a goldenrod! She used to be a florist and said the plant growing in our yard would easily be worth $200-300 if we cut it down and sold the individual stems. I think, instead, I'm going to try out some goldenrod tea!
Me and gramma used to go out to forage natural medicines.... I remembered goldenord kinda stinks when dried, but always had some on hand, stink seemed more to come from the dried flowers, the nice astringent properties smell used to come from the leaves. Thanks for the vid, dude. Took me back about 30 yrs to the good ol days.
Watching this in replay. My children used to bring them to me, especially my baby boy. I know I was so blessed. Sometimes those little ones brought rag weed as well. I know I was blessed by it all. 🙏 Thank you for this video. 😊
I hear dogs like to eat golden rod to settle their stomachs. I read one comment on another site where this woman’s dog had cancer, and he would always chew on young golden rod stalks ! Are use it fresh for keys I’m currently drying some now, so I’ll be making some keys with dried golden rod as well. I’m new at this and golden rod is my first adventure in natural healing with plants. I’m so excited about this plant it does so much it helped my UTI as well.😊
Was talking to my friends today about this plant I couldn't think of the name they both said golden rod , and they both said some people was allergic to it. So I'm sharing your video to both of them.
I was actually looking for pawpaws yesterday and was pleasantly surprised to find a bunch of goldenrod just next to the wooded area luckily away from the roadway. I will be drying it today for tea later this season.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and remember that everything is alive. Be sure to say a prayer to your harvest and give thanks for all the benefits it will bring. God is good all the time, all the time God is good. 😇❤🧘♀️🕊🌻🐝🍄🐝
Thank you so much !!! Awesome lecture we should be educating the kids in school biology and science the pandemic prove that we’re not teaching our kids right They need to learn these things because we don’t always have our stores open we don’t always have accessibility to products during a pandemic thank you so much for sharing looking forward to listening to you tell me more about other great things I new that Golden rod was great. I make my own salves also do you know about Black seed oil and bitter chamber and plantain it is a green weed and mulian also. What kind of Alcohol is a Vodka ????
They do grow in Europe, but are considered an invasive species. I'm a beekeeper, so I don't mind much. But I didn't know it had medicinal uses too. Useful to know!
WHen I was young, playing in the forest with friends, those were our torches lol. I will try this, as it is easy to find and never though about trying as a tea... I tried myself a good amount of plants as tea, my favorite of all time, Labrador tea. There was plenty of labrador tea where I grew up, and for 5 years harvested and tried different part of the plant... and now I know for sure what makes the best tea out of that plant... the leaves obviously are the go to, easiest way to have a good tea, but the buds are actually what you want in great number... when you have a handfull of it, you dry it, and blend it into powder... this power will be so good prepare into a tea, and no bitterness.
Did your flowers turn to fluff when drying? I already hung mine to dry. They turned to fluff, and someone else said she wouldn't use the fluff(dried flower). 🤷♀️
As kids, we used to build huts an shelters with them. Had our own little town going lol Would collect bundles an bundles of them! And we would double the walls and insulate, and we had our own little shelters for the winter where we ice skated. Of course dad, who was allergic to them, well you can imagine how that went when we came back inside the house!
Please share this information with as many folks as will be open to it! Too many people assume that goldenrod is what causes fall allergies and then assume that it is ragweed. In fact, my local newspaper even had a full page article about ragweed and highlighted it with a large photo of goldenrod!! >: ( Thank you ever so much for posting this! I don’t know how I missed this information until now! I’ve long loved learning about wild plants! That praying mantis might be the invasive Asian variety though. They are very large and prey on butterflies and hummingbirds, among other things, and are usually doing more harm than good. Sad, but true.
I appreciate your knowledge. Thank you for teaching me about the goldenrod. I had no idea what medicinal properties it had and now that I know, I can see this plant differently that grows just in front of my house in the wild. I recently started learning about foraging as a hobby and I really do enjoy watching videos like yours that provides plenty useful and potentially life saving knowledge. Keep it coming sir! Thanks again. :)
I just started farming an acre using hand tools. There's Goldenrod everywhere, it just started blooming , and there are SO MANY BEES! I was walking to the spot I had been working on with my son, when we heard and felt the LOUDEST buzzing and humming! We froze, realizing it was bees of ALL kinds. I had no idea there were so many kinds. We very carefully backed away, and went another way. They were all over the field, I don't even know what to do about it lol I don't want to get attacked
Leave the flower for them and you harvest the leaves. Our apples get so many bees on them but they don't sting us ofcourse we're somewhat careful we don't grab directly onto one. Maybe if you work the edge of your field first the bees will work their way in ahead of you.
Very informative. I wish all plants were shown such reverenced nuance. Then again, few are as closely useful to us as Goldenrod. You should do wild hemp, which is likewise medicinal in flower and useful for the making of tools of adventure. Wild hemp is usually leggy in Minnesota, and aromatic! I always manage to find a few specimens where I live. They're not heavy, much wispier than their drug plant relatives, with sparse, big leaves. Still, they grow a little CBD naturally. Hemp's another of nature's cures for so many ailments, and finally legal (and popular where I live). Anyway, keep up the good vidz!
Wonderful video! I am allowing Goldenrod to continue growing in my small flower bed. It looks kind of crazy because unfortunately anything in that flower bed has to stretch (becomes leggy) to receive sunlight as its location is on the west side of my building. My mother owns her home and I noticed she has Goldenrod galore all around her fencing on the property line. I said wow mom look at all that Goldenrod you have growing here. She's not very interested but I sure wish she was. To be fair, I'm not interested in the things she takes interest in either. Tic toc and chasing men just aren't my thing. I would like to harvest some GR this time around, dry it and use it. Wow! That's a big healthy praying mantis!
I like how you explain on using goldenrod. Other people don’t tell you how to use it, it’s like I see it all the time but you telling me how to use it gives it purpose in my mind. Thank you plus I can tell you’re not a liar, good man!
Goldenrod spreads like wildfire here in Massachusetts, often on the sides of roads and other hardy, industrial areas. Awesome to know it’s got a lot of use!
I really looked forward to Goldenrod this year. Last year was the first year I dried a small amount for tea. (delicious with honey) REGRETTED not harvesting more! So, I'm stocking up this year. Planning on vaccuum packing clear jars with leaves on bottom, and flowers on top). Thanks for your informational video.
This is such good information. Thank you! We have several types of goldenrod around here (WV), including woodland varieties that grow in the shade of the forest.
I was always told that goldenrod was whT m a de me miserable in the fall. So glad to fin d out that it was unfairly accused for my sneezing and coughing.
Is there two types of golden rod where one is poisonous and one is not? I know a lot of plants have a look alike that is poisonous and some dont... What can I look for on this plant to make sure this golden rod isnt poisonous? Thanks!
I have this all over my yard and along my road. I like green tea so, nice to know that’s what the leaves taste like. I’m one that has a flare up of my allergies to goldenrod.
I just found your channel today. I have some golden rod by my fence but wasn't sure what to do with it. Now I do, harvest it and preserve it. My husband has allergies so it will help him, plus it will help for other things as well. Thanks for the information.
Wow. Didn't know it was so useful. Beekeepers use them for bee feeding in the fall because you don't want to harvest that honey due to it being bitter, so it stays with the bees as food.
Great video I went out and looked along a clearing and found a clump of them just 80 feet from my house here in NC. They were 6ft tall and had smaller clusters but maybe its because they are under trees and they are in clay. Will be making tea tonight!
Thank you for sharing the information of Goldenrod...it's a lots growing in my back yard field...Goldenrod is best eat when is young grown around spring time great for stir fried just add soy sauce for flavor...my korean's friends picked goldenrod every Spring time...I will try this coming spring and you know how its taste....oh I have been cooks Stinging Nettles for stir fried and made Tea of its every Spring but i never tried the Goldenrod....I will try this coming Spring.... I Thanks God for everything of his creations. we have an awesome God! thanks for his❤ blessings🙌🙏❤...Amen!
As a bow hunter, I appreciate goldenrod as a camouflage element , when building or enhancing ground blinds. Imagine a man-sized bird’s nest comprised of dead branches. Cut goldenrod to the appropriate height and insert, weaving the stems into the matrix of branches. You , in effect, create a large, natural looking flower arrangement that stays green and looks and smells good for weeks.
I appreciate this informative video. I have tons of this in my field and never knew what to do with it and what it could be used for. New to this but I’m going to try it in tea and make a tincture. New subscriber
Thank you for taking your pup with you on this adventure!!! I bought different varieties of GR, because I've heard some wasps only feeding on GR nectar would lay the eggs into the Japanese beetles grubs, killing them! Can I just spread the seeds before the ground freezes? I will do it anyway, thanks again!!!!!
First time to listen in... Loved it so much... I think I saw this in a field where a house burned... Gonna check it out. Your description was very clear... Thank you so much
Great video, so much education! Foraging for rescue plants (in forest and meadow areas in Southern Ontario, Canada, being bulldozed for development), I discovered blue stem and zigzag goldenrod. Do they have similar medicinal or bees'/bugs'-supporting qualities?
Thank you sir, Love your way of keeping it simple even if loaded with interesting information. Like also the respect you show towards the insects as well. Nice to ask the followers to share their knowledge. You definetely get a new one here from Québec, Canada.
Please tell us if it helps.....started coming down with pain on my right side, feels like my body wants to turn right but my legs won't go right and the shooting pain almost lays me out on the ground. If this helps you please let everyone aware of how you helped you. I would like to find a way to stop or ease the shooting pain in my pelvic area..James .
Here in Southeast Central Indiana to goldenrod this year is so thick and so beautiful most people don't know it's a weather predictor to when the goldenrod blooms usually three weeks after we get our first.
I like seeing all the different ways everyone harvests and does tinctures and tea's etc. I'm looking for salad ideas with goldenrod. This is my first year using it. Newbie 😁 just picked my first batch.
Thank you for distinguishing between goldenrod and ragweed. I was skeptical about trying because I believed myself to be allergic to but must be ragweed. Thnx!
I went out and picked some yesterday. I just used some leaves to make a tea. It was nasty but I felt better. I think I'll try just the flowers and see how I like that. Thanks for the helpful information!
Goldenrods are keystone species for pollinators (you can probably tell by all the insects you ran into just in this video!). Because it is late blooming it is also a crucial plant for bees, who can be out foraging through October. I work with insects, so it's wonderful to hear all the benefits the genus has for humans! Really is a jackpot plant
Love your program and goldenrod . I have little price right problem and I’m willing to try it almost anything . I want to try and keep his natural as I can so grout . Goldenrod may be the answer . Thank you so much Brian
I got a really bad case of poison ivy when I was a kid, and a local farmer gave my mom a bag full of goldenrod leaves. He instructed mom to boil the leaves, let it cool a bit, and bathe me in the juice. It dissolved my crusty poison ivy within hours!
Plants that have astringent properties are good for that
Great information! I am so allergic to poison ivy. Every spring and fall and in between, major reaction! Yes, I was taught as a little kid and all the way through… what it looks like in each and every season…
Wow that’s amazing! I gotta save this somehow!
Thank you for your story and remedy. I need it for I often get poison ivy I hike and garden. It's very frustrating. 😉
This is the knowledge we no longer carry with us. We need folks like you to educate and continue passing the knowledge on, you never know when it might help
The late Dr John Christopher, some of his students and a few other world famous herbalists have proven that every disease is curable. Incurable diseases? They don't exist. Allopathic physicians don't normally know that. They normally only have time to read pharmaceutical research. Pharmaceutical companies don't want to produce cures. They want customers for life. They are greedy and want to make you feel better but not cure you. They only want to get rich.
As a former beekeeper, Goldenrod was the most important source of late summer honey. After the main honey crop was taken off, we'd let the bees build up their winter honey store which was mainly from Goldenrod.
Cool! In the desert- it’s rabbit brush, which tastes like old gym socks.
Too bad it makes honey smell like old tennis shoes!
Thanks for the response. Appreciate it. Lynn
This is so true
@@kysmik8214 Probably much better off leaving the plant intact, I feel like bees would avoid plants that look damaged or dead. Besides I think the flower is better off attached so it can continue pollen/nectar production
I use it medicinally but a few years ago I used it to dye wool yarn and paper.. it was the MOST vibrant yellow. It didn't fade at all. I made a shawl probably 4 years ago and it's SO vibrant. Like the flower at its peak. I love wearing it in the winter.
How do you set the color?
@@markm8188 It was so easy. All I did was buy a little thing of alum from the grocery spice Isle. I used a teaspoon per cup of water. Just do a couple cups so a skein of yarn fits, or a bunch of paper. I soaked the wool (long enough to be thoroughly wet), or just dipped the paper quickly. You could let both items dry and dye at a future date, or dye it right away while wet. All I did was boil a pile of goldenrod for maybe half hour. Turned off, strained. Plopped the yarn it in (once cooled a bit) for at least an hour I think it was. Paper takes the dye by just dipping it quick and hanging to dry. It was hard to screw up. The one shawl I have now I did 5 years ago.. it is neon yellow still. :D I did the same with purple basil, exact same thing. It came out this gorgeous purply/grey color.
I think most plants turn things tan or yellow..but those two plants are amazing without any fancy mordant or toxic stuff used.
@@RunninUpThatHillh thank you for sharing that! I was going to ask which mordant(s) but I was beat to the punch.
Another very vibrant natural dye is pokeberry. Poke is pretty toxic, so keep the berries (or leaves) away from children & pets, but the resultant bright magenta pink is another brilliant natural dye. (Poke sallat takes special handling to make edible.) Girls used to make a temporary hair stain with it, but mordants will set the dye. (Sorry, don't recall which mordants will do the trick, but I know you can search the interwebz for that & find it pretty easily.)
Beauty berry (Callicarpa americana) is also ripe in September. Not sure if that brilliant pink would translate to any shade of pink with the proper mordant or not. (But it does make good jelly and pie filling.)
There many are other good natural dyes you can grow & forage and the colors you end up with can vary a lot depending on which mordants you use.
Blueberries, elderberries, horsetail, red cabbage, marigold blossoms, yellow onion skins, hollyhocks,
Larkspur, beets/pickled beet juice, sunflower, amaranth, tobacco, heather, chamomile, dandelions, dahlia, cosmos, sumac, walnut, maple bark, red alder, butternut, cane berries, blood root, sassafras, crocus (saffron), coreopsis, and many more plants can all produce dyes of varying color.
You can grow madder root, woad, lady's bedstraw, indigo, henna, and other traditional dye plants in your garden. (Note that some, like woad, are more intensive and/or toxic to process.)
Alum, baking soda, copper pipe, ammonia, cream of tartar, wood ash lye, sumac twigs, urine, salt, vinegar, rhubarb leaves, oak or grape leaves (tannins), are all mordants that can be used in dying. I remember ladies in my spinner's flock that collected old wheat pennies to use as mordant (a handful in the dye or pre-soak pot???).
I used to handspin, and white wool, while pretty, stains easily and can yellow over time, so you usually want to dye it. I am also a gardener & plant nerd, so making natural dyes is something that has deeply interested me since about 1995. I did play with dying wool and eggs for pysyanky many years ago.
I also used it for dye! It was such an incredible color 😮😮😮
As kids we used goldenrod stems as arrows for our homemade bow and arrows. Nice and straight, light and relatively stiff. 45 years ago....where did the time go
Time flys, straight and true...like an arrow let loose by an energetic youth.🎯😊
These are the stories I love to hear
Ah, the memories goldenrod brings! I wish I had known about the useful properties of goldenrod back then, not that I really needed to.
Time flies like an arrow... fruit flies like banana
@@VocalMabiMaple *groan
It also helps the honeybees make the best honey Goldenrod honey was considered an old-fashioned antibiotic
Just about all honey has antibiotic properties. Even the most basic clover honey. It's the process of the bees and not so much the actual material.
Goldenrod honey is the worst tasting honey imo. Too strong of a taste
@@confucius2616 well, everybody has a different opinion, where I live we get some pretty good taste in Goldenrod honey, but I was really referring to it is supposed to be a higher antibiotic value. I don’t know if it is or not but I do know it works good in a lot of things, especially a burn and we ound Salve that the Amish make.
Honey is in itself an antibiotic
My dog Arlo (RIP) used to pick goldenrod out of any other plant in a field on our hikes. Even before flowering. He used to love eating the leaves. Don’t think it harmed him in any way. He was with me for 16 years.
Rest in peace ARLO
Yup.. i had an American Boxer named Ammo that would do the same. I saw he liked those specific leaves, so i transplanted the plant into a pot to see what it would eventually flower into and it was goldenrod.
My dog lives slippery elm for her digestion
Thank you! I literally have a goldenrod farm and trying to figure out what to do with it all. Anyone in the NY area willing to travel, you are more than welcome to come get some. No pesticides, wild and protected Goldenrod for days. :)
Enough to come gather some of your golden rod. I cant find any except along the highways and have been told that plants along the highways are toxic due to the fumes from vehicles and chemicals that the highway dept use on the roads .
Where in NY?
sell it as tea. It's so good.
I live in nevada i am looking for seeds to grow, are you selling seed?
What part of Ny
I had issues with my prostate swelling. Goldenrod tea 🍵 cured my issue.❤️
within how many days you got cured from prostate swelling
Good to know 👍
How often did you drink it?
@@sharksport01 I'd like to know as well because it would help my husband.
How often do you use the tea? Thank you for posting !
Wow! I took a few minutes to learn the benefits of goldenrod and black walnut hulls. I am blown away by how beneficial they both are and better yet, I have both right in my back yard!!
Interesting fact about goldenrod’s history, back in the 1920’s the Ford company we’re trying to figure out what materials to use for the tires. Goldenrod has a nice amount of properties you can create rubber with, they were going to use goldenrod due the properties but had decided not to for the first vehicle’s made by Ford. I am big plant and garden enthusiasts, goldenrod was the first wild plant I foraged in adulthood. By far the one medicinal plant that will always be close to me and always feel down for a lil bit when it’s gone for the year.
Good information!
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Is OK I it grows in someone else's yard... hate the allergies, and nonstop fight in the garden... 10 yes been trying to get rid of it
@@ronallens6204rag weed is most likely the allergen. It usually isn’t goldenrod. They are very often confused with one another.
@@ronallens6204 it's not the goldenrod messing you up. It's likely the rag weed growing close by.
After 56 years on 6 city blocks in Quincy Massachusetts, Now a retired electrician living on 7 acres in NH with a river Monsanto knows nothing about, I thank You. Learning how Not to go to Walmart 1 video at a time . 🤠
Amen! Lived in Northern Virginia for almost 40 years. Now retired and live on 25 acres in the hills of WV! Our little piece of heaven! 😊
Wow
I used goldenrod as a wash for my cats face to keep infection away. She had oral cancer and it bought us more time together before she had to leave her little body.
That's good to know! Thanks for sharing your experience using this wonderful plant.
Wonder if it helps pets with like yeast on skin or ears or some sort of really dry crusty ear no smell
I made the goldenrod flower tincture with 90 proof vodka, was great for winter colds and aches and pains, this was a major plus👍 and it tasted like black licorice, which I LOVE 😋
How do you use the tinture for respiratory issues? I've looked and not able to find the answer. I know how to make it, just not to use it.
@@stevenlaake9975drink the vodka tincture until the issues go away. Easy peasy.
Bet that vodka had more to do with pain relief than the rod.
Pawpaws is what I harvested today. I’m from Indiana, so maybe you can’t do a video, but the benefits and uses would be helpful to hear.
@@stevenlaake9975i use mullein for that
thank you for taking the time to show us the praying mantis too, and to move away and give it room. Love your approach to nature.
Thank you so much!
I love the dog panting off camera during this video ❣️ And the praying mantis and bee shots… this is an informative and fun video. Sending you guys so much positive energy, you’re awesome ☀️
And that wooly bear caterpillar at the end too 💖
As a young man I had my first home out in the country ;
Grape nuts commercials were prevalent back then .
I remember Euell Gibbons saying in one commercial ,
" Did you know that goldenrod makes an excellent tea ? "
So being ignorant as to what to harvest , I pulled it by the roots ,
hung it in the root cellar portion ( dirt floor ) section of my basement ,
hung by the roots . My dad came by one day , saw the golden rod and says
" What the hell is that ? !! " I replied " Don't panic old man , it's not pot , it's goldenrod. "
Goldenrod stems are straight and relatively strong, and we use them for various purposes in the garden, for starts and smaller plants.
I just realized these were flowering. Went out and picked a big bag. Filled up my dehydrator and 2 half gallon of tincture. This is my 5th Tincture this year. Never brought so much alcohol at one time.
I liked keeping the plant together until I got home. Made it easy to rinse dust, & bugs.
If you ever come across sweet goldenrod, propagate it. It smells like licirice or anise, and makes a good tea.
Awesome
In the northern areas goldenrod is one of the last plants to still be blossoming in late autumn to provide food for bees and for monarch butterflies before they leave for their long migration south. If you don’t have any it’s easy to find the seed heads after the flowers have gone by in the autumn.
Goldenrod flower also makes an awesome natural dye for fabric.
Thank you for all the info in this video! I grew my first goldenrod by accident this year. I was researching all the "weeds" in my yard and for the longest time, I thought it was a fleabane plant. When it finally started blooming, my mom took a look at it and figured out it was actually a goldenrod! She used to be a florist and said the plant growing in our yard would easily be worth $200-300 if we cut it down and sold the individual stems. I think, instead, I'm going to try out some goldenrod tea!
Me and gramma used to go out to forage natural medicines.... I remembered goldenord kinda stinks when dried, but always had some on hand, stink seemed more to come from the dried flowers, the nice astringent properties smell used to come from the leaves. Thanks for the vid, dude. Took me back about 30 yrs to the good ol days.
Thanks for sharing!!
Watching this in replay. My children used to bring them to me, especially my baby boy. I know I was so blessed. Sometimes those little ones brought rag weed as well. I know I was blessed by it all. 🙏 Thank you for this video. 😊
I hear dogs like to eat golden rod to settle their stomachs. I read one comment on another site where this woman’s dog had cancer, and he would always chew on young golden rod stalks ! Are use it fresh for keys I’m currently drying some now, so I’ll be making some keys with dried golden rod as well. I’m new at this and golden rod is my first adventure in natural healing with plants. I’m so excited about this plant it does so much it helped my UTI as well.😊
The flowers have a beautiful color to decorate your home too!😊
This plant is ubiquitous where I live(Michigan). It’s beautiful in the fall. I didn’t weed it from my backyard during the summer so it would bloom.
It is definitely a nice look for a vase even better as a cup of tea
Not a weed.....
I will harvesting me some leaves tmrw for tea. Thank you so much. I just seen your channel .
Was talking to my friends today about this plant I couldn't think of the name they both said golden rod , and they both said some people was allergic to it. So I'm sharing your video to both of them.
I was actually looking for pawpaws yesterday and was pleasantly surprised to find a bunch of goldenrod just next to the wooded area luckily away from the roadway. I will be drying it today for tea later this season.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and remember that everything is alive. Be sure to say a prayer to your harvest and give thanks for all the benefits it will bring. God is good all the time, all the time God is good. 😇❤🧘♀️🕊🌻🐝🍄🐝
Yes, thank you
Thank you so much !!! Awesome lecture we should be educating the kids in school
biology and science the pandemic prove that we’re not teaching our kids right They need to learn these things because we don’t always have our stores open we don’t always have accessibility to products during a pandemic thank you so much for sharing looking forward to listening to you tell me more about other great things I new that Golden rod was great. I make my own salves also do you know about Black seed oil and bitter chamber and plantain it is a green weed and mulian also. What kind of Alcohol is a Vodka ????
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i love this ❤ amen ❤
Just to clarify: thank God FOR the harvest. Not pray TO the harvest.
They do grow in Europe, but are considered an invasive species. I'm a beekeeper, so I don't mind much. But I didn't know it had medicinal uses too. Useful to know!
I literally see this plant growing everywhere!!
I got a bunch of this stuff growing in my garden naturally the pollinators love it
The goldenrod honey is one of my favorites❤️
I added Goldenrod flowers to honey to extract the medicinal properties. I will add Goldenrod honey to my Goldenrod tea.
WHen I was young, playing in the forest with friends, those were our torches lol.
I will try this, as it is easy to find and never though about trying as a tea... I tried myself a good amount of plants as tea, my favorite of all time, Labrador tea. There was plenty of labrador tea where I grew up, and for 5 years harvested and tried different part of the plant... and now I know for sure what makes the best tea out of that plant... the leaves obviously are the go to, easiest way to have a good tea, but the buds are actually what you want in great number... when you have a handfull of it, you dry it, and blend it into powder... this power will be so good prepare into a tea, and no bitterness.
Did your flowers turn to fluff when drying? I already hung mine to dry. They turned to fluff, and someone else said she wouldn't use the fluff(dried flower). 🤷♀️
The blossoms dry really pretty. Make a beautiful wreath.
As kids, we used to build huts an shelters with them. Had our own little town going lol Would collect bundles an bundles of them! And we would double the walls and insulate, and we had our own little shelters for the winter where we ice skated. Of course dad, who was allergic to them, well you can imagine how that went when we came back inside the house!
You’re so good at explaining things. Poultice and astringent are two things I hear a lot but no one explains…. Thank you sir!!!
Please share this information with as many folks as will be open to it! Too many people assume that goldenrod is what causes fall allergies and then assume that it is ragweed. In fact, my local newspaper even had a full page article about ragweed and highlighted it with a large photo of goldenrod!! >: (
Thank you ever so much for posting this! I don’t know how I missed this information until now! I’ve long loved learning about wild plants!
That praying mantis might be the invasive Asian variety though. They are very large and prey on butterflies and hummingbirds, among other things, and are usually doing more harm than good. Sad, but true.
I appreciate your knowledge. Thank you for teaching me about the goldenrod. I had no idea what medicinal properties it had and now that I know, I can see this plant differently that grows just in front of my house in the wild. I recently started learning about foraging as a hobby and I really do enjoy watching videos like yours that provides plenty useful and potentially life saving knowledge.
Keep it coming sir! Thanks again. :)
Thank you for making this, I have a lot of Goldenrod around my yard and am excited to start harvesting it.
I just started farming an acre using hand tools. There's Goldenrod everywhere, it just started blooming , and there are SO MANY BEES! I was walking to the spot I had been working on with my son, when we heard and felt the LOUDEST buzzing and humming! We froze, realizing it was bees of ALL kinds. I had no idea there were so many kinds. We very carefully backed away, and went another way. They were all over the field, I don't even know what to do about it lol I don't want to get attacked
That’s the bees territory. They must gather all the pollen they can before the weather turns cold. 🐝. 🐝.
I'll let them have the Golden Rod, as long as they promise to put in a good word for me@@e.conboy4286
Katie some of those are hoverflies. We got lots of them.
Leave the flower for them and you harvest the leaves.
Our apples get so many bees on them but they don't sting us ofcourse we're somewhat careful we don't grab directly onto one.
Maybe if you work the edge of your field first the bees will work their way in ahead of you.
I had a bunch of excavation done in my front yard. Didn’t have gr’s before but now somehow I have a ton! Super cool.
A native seedbank in your soils! What a treat…
Distribution to the soil is where to look
Very informative. I wish all plants were shown such reverenced nuance. Then again, few are as closely useful to us as Goldenrod. You should do wild hemp, which is likewise medicinal in flower and useful for the making of tools of adventure. Wild hemp is usually leggy in Minnesota, and aromatic! I always manage to find a few specimens where I live. They're not heavy, much wispier than their drug plant relatives, with sparse, big leaves. Still, they grow a little CBD naturally. Hemp's another of nature's cures for so many ailments, and finally legal (and popular where I live). Anyway, keep up the good vidz!
Thank you so much
Wonderful video! I am allowing Goldenrod to continue growing in my small flower bed. It looks kind of crazy because unfortunately anything in that flower bed has to stretch (becomes leggy) to receive sunlight as its location is on the west side of my building. My mother owns her home and I noticed she has Goldenrod galore all around her fencing on the property line. I said wow mom look at all that Goldenrod you have growing here. She's not very interested but I sure wish she was. To be fair, I'm not interested in the things she takes interest in either. Tic toc and chasing men just aren't my thing. I would like to harvest some GR this time around, dry it and use it. Wow! That's a big healthy praying mantis!
This plant smells wonderful to me! Great information and video!
Thanks for watching!
Great video! I'm in Southeastern KY. Going to harvest some goldenrod today in my yard. Thanks for the info!
I can't say I've seen this plant in central Washington. I would love to come across some. Thanks for the information
I like how you explain on using goldenrod. Other people don’t tell you how to use it, it’s like I see it all the time but you telling me how to use it gives it purpose in my mind. Thank you plus I can tell you’re not a liar, good man!
Thanks for this! Definitely want to try this. Both goldenrod and honeysuckle grow abundantly here.
Glad to hear it !!
I just completed making 4 batches of goldenrod jelly for my farmers market. Delicious!
That sounds wonderful!
Can you share the recipe please
I’d like to but I’m seeking a patent
Makes a great tea, twice a year , clears up allergies.
Golden rod is one of the last pollen sources for honey bees.
This is ludicrously false
I think they referring to it blooming in September. Not a whole lot of flowers this late.
This was very helpful and easy to understand, thank you so much for explaining this :)
Goldenrod spreads like wildfire here in Massachusetts, often on the sides of roads and other hardy, industrial areas. Awesome to know it’s got a lot of use!
in michigan too
I really looked forward to Goldenrod this year. Last year was the first year I dried a small amount for tea. (delicious with honey) REGRETTED not harvesting more! So, I'm stocking up this year. Planning on vaccuum packing clear jars with leaves on bottom, and flowers on top). Thanks for your informational video.
I have the same breadbag :)
Very informative video. Goldenrod grows prolifically here in rural Ontario.
This is such good information. Thank you! We have several types of goldenrod around here (WV), including woodland varieties that grow in the shade of the forest.
My dog will always stop and graze on goldenrod whenever he comes across it. He loves it.
Thank you .. I had wanted to try this but was confused by the allergy possibilities so thank you for clarifying that! Now I can happily harvest some!
I was always told that goldenrod was whT m a de me miserable in the fall. So glad to fin d out that it was unfairly accused for my sneezing and coughing.
Is there two types of golden rod where one is poisonous and one is not? I know a lot of plants have a look alike that is poisonous and some dont... What can I look for on this plant to make sure this golden rod isnt poisonous? Thanks!
Great video! Very informative and interesting. I can’t wait to try a few of these uses for goldenrod. It’s everywhere right now.
This was so great and interesting! I hope to find some GoldenRod outdoors.
have lots of golden rod in horse pasture i didnt know it had so many uses i will have to go pick some today and try it thanks for the tips
Good luck!
I have this all over my yard and along my road. I like green tea so, nice to know that’s what the leaves taste like. I’m one that has a flare up of my allergies to goldenrod.
A lot of people think they are allergic to goldenrod because ragweed blooms at the same time and grows in the same environment.
Thanks!
Thank you for the contribution and thank you for watching our channel!
Thank you. Very informative. We have a lot of golden rods here in Indy.
I’m new to this. I’m hoping this beginner has success with this. Thanks so much.
I just found your channel today. I have some golden rod by my fence but wasn't sure what to do with it. Now I do, harvest it and preserve it. My husband has allergies so it will help him, plus it will help for other things as well. Thanks for the information.
Wow. Didn't know it was so useful. Beekeepers use them for bee feeding in the fall because you don't want to harvest that honey due to it being bitter, so it stays with the bees as food.
Great video I went out and looked along a clearing and found a clump of them just 80 feet from my house here in NC. They were 6ft tall and had smaller clusters but maybe its because they are under trees and they are in clay. Will be making tea tonight!
Thank you for sharing the information of Goldenrod...it's a lots growing in my back yard field...Goldenrod is best eat when is young grown around spring time great for stir fried just add soy sauce for flavor...my korean's friends picked goldenrod every Spring time...I will try this coming spring and you know how its taste....oh I have been cooks Stinging Nettles for stir fried and made Tea of its every Spring but i never tried the Goldenrod....I will try this coming Spring.... I Thanks God for everything of his creations. we have an awesome God! thanks for his❤ blessings🙌🙏❤...Amen!
Yes thank God for all he allows us to have on this earth.
I didn't know goldenrods was helpful to us I learned something today thank you
As a bow hunter, I appreciate goldenrod as a camouflage element , when building or enhancing ground blinds. Imagine a man-sized bird’s nest comprised of dead branches. Cut goldenrod to the appropriate height and insert, weaving the stems into the matrix of branches. You , in effect, create a large, natural looking flower arrangement that stays green and looks and smells good for weeks.
I appreciate this informative video. I have tons of this in my field and never knew what to do with it and what it could be used for. New to this but I’m going to try it in tea and make a tincture. New subscriber
Yes, do not kill this stuff.
Thank you for taking your pup with you on this adventure!!! I bought different varieties of GR, because I've heard some wasps only feeding on GR nectar would lay the eggs into the Japanese beetles grubs, killing them! Can I just spread the seeds before the ground freezes? I will do it anyway, thanks again!!!!!
My favorite plant in my garden this time of the year (Autumn).
Beautiful
First time to listen in... Loved it so much... I think I saw this in a field where a house burned... Gonna check it out. Your description was very clear... Thank you so much
We have these in our backyard! I'm so excited to make some tea.
Great video, so much education! Foraging for rescue plants (in forest and meadow areas in Southern Ontario, Canada, being bulldozed for development), I discovered blue stem and zigzag goldenrod. Do they have similar medicinal or bees'/bugs'-supporting qualities?
1ST VISITING YOUR CHANNEL! LOVE IT! ❤
Thank you sir,
Love your way of keeping it simple even if loaded with interesting information. Like also the respect you show towards the insects as well.
Nice to ask the followers to share their knowledge.
You definetely get a new one here from Québec, Canada.
gonna try goldenrod for my chronic pelvic pain. thanks man
Please tell us if it helps.....started coming down with pain on my right side, feels like my body wants to turn right but my legs won't go right and the shooting pain almost lays me out on the ground. If this helps you please let everyone aware of how you helped you. I would like to find a way to stop or ease the shooting pain in my pelvic area..James .
Here in Southeast Central Indiana to goldenrod this year is so thick and so beautiful most people don't know it's a weather predictor to when the goldenrod blooms usually three weeks after we get our first.
More of these videos please! 🙏🌼💛✨️
Thank you for watching
I like seeing all the different ways everyone harvests and does tinctures and tea's etc.
I'm looking for salad ideas with goldenrod.
This is my first year using it. Newbie 😁 just picked my first batch.
I chop and put in honey. Keep it in the cupboard and it's an instant tea (you just grab a spoon of the honey/rod mixture and dump it in your cup).
Me too💚
Thank you for distinguishing between goldenrod and ragweed. I was skeptical about trying because I believed myself to be allergic to but must be ragweed. Thnx!
Thanks so much I'm gonna get picking,I got bad health problems and are going out tomorrow to get my year supplies,ty so much
I went out and picked some yesterday. I just used some leaves to make a tea. It was nasty but I felt better. I think I'll try just the flowers and see how I like that. Thanks for the helpful information!
Use some honey and yes add the flowers
Excellent video, I really LOVE watching, & learning about edible plants. I hope you do more on other plants!
Thank you for all you share. Totally grateful. Love the critters. Just came across your channel looking for something else. I am happy I did.
Nice learning video I see that plant alot never knew what it was but great information really learned alot of great info
Glad you enjoyed it
I had never heard thos info about golden rod. Thanks.😊
You bet!
I'm in Arkansas this is all over the place..thanks for the video
Thanks for watching!
Goldenrods are keystone species for pollinators (you can probably tell by all the insects you ran into just in this video!). Because it is late blooming it is also a crucial plant for bees, who can be out foraging through October. I work with insects, so it's wonderful to hear all the benefits the genus has for humans! Really is a jackpot plant
we have a HUGE field of goldrenrod near my house, i should definitely bring some home now
Loved the Praying Mantis too! 💕💕
Love your program and goldenrod . I have little price right problem and I’m willing to try it almost anything . I want to try and keep his natural as I can so grout . Goldenrod may be the answer . Thank you so much Brian
Earned a new sub. Great video!
Hey ✌️from Cape Breton,Nova Scotia, I also use goldenrod in tea
Very cool!