What you're calling poisonous we used to eat all the time of children and it never hurt us.

39:28 sego Lily

Anything thattakes 24 hours to cook BETTER be tasty!

1st food found: juniper berries.

Based on the volume of collected plants collected within about 3 hrs, did you obtain sufficient calories vs expending calories searching/collecting the plants?

Agave similar perhaps to the physical characteristics of an artichoke leaf?

Is this the daybreak star herb, the herb of understanding from the memoir of the Lakota Holy man “Black Elk Speaks?” Online it’s listed as if it’s not a real plant but in the book he talks about physically going out and foraging this plant on the edge of a gulch. These are the characteristics he describes in the book: In the memoir it grows in the edge a dry clay gulch on the side of the bed. The root grows to as long as the man’s elbow, a little thicker than his thumb. Crows magpies, chicken haws and spotted eagles live in the area, It has 4 flower colors, blue, white, red and yellow. How can he physically eat a plant that’s imaginary and a folk legend?

Don't stop sharing science for us sir😊

I actually thought the one on the right was wild onion. I have those grow all over my yard. One time, i pulled one up to try the bulb. The whole plant smells like onion, so i figured it was onion. It tasted sweet, but it was really nasty. I spat it out and tried to get out as much as possible. At that point, I wasn't interested in eating any more wild onions. But i guess it wasnt wild onion? Looked the exact same as Deathcamas.

Why put yourself in this environment..???. Is this normal human behavior…??? What’s your credit score..??? Education level..??? Yearly income..???

It also has a “look alike” called “cats ear”. They also have a yellow flower and similar leaves; but the “cats ear” are more rounded and the flowers stems are more wirery. The “cats ear” also lies flat. The Dandelion has jagged leaves. The jags point to the center of the plant. I’ve eaten “cats ear” by mistake and it tastes and smells better; but IDK if it’s poisonous; apparently not highly, BC I’m still here.

I wished I could try some of that wild plant tea too 😋

Thanks for sharing this experience with us. One day I want to spend all night with mother nature ❤️

Thanks for the video. What did you eat in the meantime while your agave was roasting? Many thanks...

that’s why i’ve heard the best way to tell is by the smell, although it could be hard if it’s mixed together or you have some plant juice on your hands or your nose gets overwhelmed. iirc there’s one unrelated plant which smells like garlic or onion but it’s also edible and invasive in a lot places and looks very different

V notch UP STEM...feels more like grass...POISON

I got pretty lucky when I was young.

I found these in my yard today, I thought they were onions and i was pulling them with shovel and scraped one and licked it. It tasted sweet so I wasn’t sure what it was and it wasn’t onion smell

I look for these we call them "cuvenas" in southern AZ 👍

I know this is a year old video but I just wanted to say I'm really disappointed you didn't scrape and eat those prickly pear pads and just wasted them all. Theyre called Nopales in Spanish and theyre a bit slimy like ochra but taste like green beans and they are used world wide in several cultures cuisines. Huge missed opportunity and huge waste of food and everybody who watched these videos also missed the opportunity to learn about them as a valuable food source. Sorta blew my mind.

I'm in Larkspur, Colorado at the moment and just tried the berry. I would describe the taste as almost like a butterscotch flavor.

Why spend so much time cooking the agave hearts when you can have the Nopales faster with no digestion issue?

Need new cameraman. Waaay Off-center

I'd love to try sego lily

Appreciate the knowledge shared in this video!

From what you’ve learned, what edible plants would be the most hardiest to grow? And I mean the once that are easy… nurse them to seedlings and just set it and forget.

Awesome video

Poor explanation. And never ever eat anything as a trailside nibble, always rinse thoroughly and blanch it for 60 seconds is best. Animals pass along their waste all over the place and this can spread very severe even deadly diseases especially bird poop. Always rinse. I see all these experts pick stuff while explaining their videos and eat stuff without even thinking about rinsing it at a I know it is fun to eat plants while in the woods but rinse first

How can you tell the difference between this and lupine?

Death Candice candice coke fit in your mouth

Hello, Great channel and glad I came across it. Love identifying medicinal and wild edibles. Been on many walks and classes with Christopher Nyerges who is a friend and has written many books on this topic. Thanks for sharing your knowledge as well! Keep up the great videos!! Enjoying the survival mixed in with the primitive skills and plant identification!!

Question for you: Are you thinking this is Harbouria trachypleura (that's the one I call whiskbroom parsley, with the stiff, super narrow-lobed, quite bitter leaves found in a narrow band on the Front Range) or Pseudocymopterus montanus syn Cymopterus lemmonii (variable leaves, softer, not delicious but not bitter, wide range; that's the one I call mountain parsley). Just investigating these plants. Thanks for the help!

Hey friend! I can't believe I didn't know you had all these cool videos!

I had them growing in the yard on my lawn smelled like onions

would be better if you don't explain everything, let viewers think themselves what you are doing or what you are going to do.

Excellent video! I think I’d like to try the spiderwort and Indian bread root. Could you have also made juniper leaf tea?

Learn to listen to that feeling in the back of your head. The primal brain, also known as the reptilian brain, has been honed over millions of years. Before you eat anything you should look at it, feel it, and smell it. If you get a bad feeling, don't eat it.

Imma smoke the grass

You don't say anything about the bulb on the second plant which looks like it's got like a triangle shape to it which we have growing all over the place. You mention the first plant has no discernable bulb yet. So I'm confused - will the bulb that's not there yet look like the other one? Are all triangle-shaped bulbs the poisonous ones?

I never knew about this distinction, which is why I was poisoned and died 12 years ago on a camping trip.

Will both smell like onions?

Umm, you don't dig them unless they are done flowering and have seeds present on their tops, which one one he dug wasn't lol, and they have a bulb at the bottom of the plant, the part of the root he his holding generally isn't eaten. The bulb is what's gathered dried and used for flour or later meals

The ponderosa woodlands beyond our back fence in New Mexico were full of wild onions. For reasons unknown our beagle/dachshund mix dog loved wild onions. As soon as we pulled one out of the ground he was there to eagerly gobble it down.

I’m looking at a 30 acre property in the Sonoran desert. Instead of a traditional garden I’d like to repopulate the land with native perennial edibles. How would you suggest I go about something like that?

Lol

Good thing your faking it, other wise you would die wasting so much energy on a bed. Like most modern city people you have no clue about nature. only what you read in books.

Onion smell like onions and poisonous ones do not

What size Zebra pot, 16cm?

Thanks for not editing out the failures.

There are toxic camas in the east as well (e.g. Nuttall's death camas) but they are not as common in the mountain. The more common cause of toxicity in Appalachia is people mistaking young daffodils for wild onions or ramps. Thankfully this is merely unpleasant, not life threatening. Trust your nose, if it does not smell strongly of onion do not eat it.