5 TOP WILD Foods to Forage to Keep You From STARVING!

[@FeralForaging]

UPDATE - Please read! 👀 Upon further investigation, I’ve found that the edibility of Air Yam, Dioscorea bulbifera, is less clear than what my initial research showed. It appears as if there are different varieties in the wild and some can be eaten as I showed in the video, while others may require additional processing. I suspect that those that require additional processing would be quite bitter and unpalatable. I’ve consumed a fair amount of Wild Chinese Yam, Dioscorea polystachya, without issue (and that’s the one I mainly focused on in the video), but I don’t have a lot of personal experience with D. bulbifera as it grows out of my range. Hopefully I’ll be able to take a trip to Florida in the future to build my personal experience and I’ll be sure to report back to all of you what I find. At this time, I cannot recommend the consumption of D. bulbifera before I’ve eaten it more myself! I apologize for this oversight. I put in a lot of work to ensure my information is accurate as possible, but I’m not perfect and sometimes things slip through the cracks. This is why I recommend you ALWAYS cross-reference your foraging information with multiple independent sources in my “How to Start Foraging” guide. I hope you found the video helpful!

[@Azamyth]

Lots of bulbifera in florida thats for sure. as far as I can tell D. Alata also grows abundantly in florida and is non toxic. While you're down here try your hands at gathering some coontie(Zamia pumila), it was another staple starch food down here for a long time.

[@AMPProf]

[@MagralhoPT]

Im sure was not intentional but, as someone who is affected by trypophobia your video thumbnail was very disturbing to scroll by in the feed. You were probably not even aware of such condition. Hope in the future you could be mindful of it! Best of luck with your endeavours and have a happy fulfiling life!

[@TKCTSTN]

I was introduced to "Air potatoes" here in TN & they were quite tasty. I was thrilled to find them while visiting FL. Much larger & I prepared some for my hosts. Wow, they were nasty! Astringent in flavor. At least now I know I didn"t somehow mess up the prep. This was 40 years ago- I can still remember that awful flavor.

[@JudgeBob]

Yes, keep up the good work. We need to know more about staple foods available around us. I really appreciate the info on American lotus. Rural OK has much to offer but most of us who live out in the sticks walk right over abundance to get to the known offerings. Acorns here are not palatable though. We even have our own burn remedy plant since aloe doesn't survive freezing. Peel back some layers of a cattail stalk. There you'll find the same beneficial slime as aloe. Tiz the season for persimmon ice cream now. Although they don't look fresh like Asian persimmons and they're full of seeds, after the first hard frost American wild persimmon are sweet and gooey, the natural alumn content is past. Almost a ready made pie filling after deseeded.

[@roku3216]

Even without disasters, I’ve had to rely on wild foods after losing a job in the inland Northwest for several weeks. It’s good to have some knowledge about wild foods.

[@anyascelticcreations]

I can relate. Pecans were the bulk of my lunches for a while too.

[@nphealth3046]

I am 74, raised in rural Iowa. I have fond, fond memories of my mother and neighbor ladies going into the woods and “nutting” for walnuts, hickory nuts. Then they would go to one of their homes and sit around a table picking out the nut meats, all the while gossiping and laughing about things going on in the area :-).

[@itstimetogameomgh7857]

Oh i hope nutting dosent get misinterpreted

[@Nigmyballs2]

I’M NUTTING SO HARD RIGHT NOW. I CAN FEEL IT COMIN-AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Great experience :D

[@winterbear8633]

When hunters were hunters and gatherers were gatherers!

[@editorcat55]

@postal3-dude seriously why did you do that this guy is 74 he probably doesn’t understand what you said

[@Nigmyballs2]

@@editorcat55 Tis the Internet.

[@vivianramsay2527]

The idea is to have options, backup ,and backup for your back up plan! Buy from the store, grow your own And actively forage for food that is in your area. Knowing you have these options is your path to food security. I fully appreciate this channel and its presenter!!A true teacher!😊😊

[@swedneck]

Swiss cheese model! Also, one of these steps (and it should be among the top ones) really ought to be making friends with as many people around you as possible, so you can hopefully help each other.

[@thecityissleeping]

the "why I made this video" section is exactly why I subscribe to your channel. you're such a kind soul, looking to share his knowledge of an incredibly important and innately human topic with the world to equip people with the skills to do the best they can. thank you for what you do! always looking forward to your uploads.

[@CharlesGann1]

Read an account of French fur trade Native peoples crushed and boiled the hickory nuts and skimmed the oil off the top. Thanks for sharing this food and a practical

[@SalyLuz-hc6he]

My favourite food that you listed are shagbark hickory nuts. I grew up with those & and they are so much easier to process than Black Walnuts! I'm not sure about the availability of slippery elm around here or Lotus. I live in the north so if it's up here it would have a much slower growth because of the cold winters. I will have to look up Slippery & Siberian Elms and see if we have them here. Please share more about hickories, and any other similar foods to these, that are also available & grow in the middle to northern part of North America. Thanks very much!

[@brianboye8025]

Yes, the Native Americans crushed hickory nuts and boiled them to make the 'milk. I watched an elder teach her granddaughter how to do it.

[@SaladofStones]

@@brianboye8025 They weren't the only ones, gringo

[@trenomas1]

A note about acorns: those weevil worms are exceptionally fatty. Get a whole bowl and fry em up like bacon.

[@nancythomas2602]

Makes good bait for pan fish too

[@RayGalactic]

Thank you!

[@anyascelticcreations]

People use them as chichen feed too.

[@claytonsavage7955]

Makes better bait for fatty fish like trout

[@serahloeffelroberts9901]

Yum

[@chrisallen5680]

Hickory nut milk is called kanuchi in Cherokee

[@The-HiveLord-Galleries]

This guy might legitimately save lives one day with this information. And if anything g happens where we lose everything, it'll be people like this whole lead entire towns to survival.

[@sesame.sprinkles]

I've been foraging wild Chinese yam in their native habitat in Korea 🇰🇷 and it's truly difficult to get it out of the ground without a proper tool, particularly since the ground tends to be full of small rocks here! 😅 I'm amazed by how quickly you managed to dig them up with that long shovel! Btw, I'd like to recommend eating the tubers of Dioscorea polystachya without the skin and using gloves when peeling them! ❗ The skin contains oxalates that can irritate human skin and mouth. In Korea, it's always consumed without the skin, and often enjoyed raw! When raw, the white tuber is very crunchy and it releases a slimy liquid. (I know this texture can be off-putting to some people, but it is appreciated by others.) Air potatoes (Dioscorea bulbifera) do not grow in the wild in Korea (winters are too cold), but they are farmed and can be found in stores sometimes. They are yellowish inside and the texture is crunchy and slimy as well. Here, people also eat them mostly raw. Some eat the fruits of Dioscorea bulbifera with the skin on, but I personally find the texture of the skin unpleasant and bitter.

[@coupledyetivonvanderburg5385]

What a delightfully thoughtful comment. Thank you

[@TheSniperWho]

Oxalates you say? Personally, I'll pass on eating the plants in general and let ruminants eat them. Then when they've had a good life, I'd rather eat steak. 😋

[@barkmaker]

This is why people used to be a lot leaner. You actually had to put in a good amount of physical labor to be able to eat something that was very low in hollow calories.

[@annetteericsson266]

They were leaner because they didn't eat the adulterated over processed junk they call food today

[@LeeEisPrettyStrange]

Nah. It's because of refined sugar.

[@barkmaker]

@@LeeEisPrettyStrange, try making your refined sugar. 🤦🏿‍♀

[@heidimisfeldt5685]

​@@LeeEisPrettyStrange It is a combination things, the sedentary lifestyle is certainly a part of it. So is the absolute lack of essential nutrients in factory foods, and even agricultural products from depleted soils on mega farms. ETC.

[@heidimisfeldt5685]

​@@LeeEisPrettyStrange sugar used to be kept in a locked spice cabinet, as it was valuable due to scarcity. However now it is everywhere under many different names and disguises. Detective work required, ongoing.

[@debbiecurtis4021]

In Japan, lotus tubers are called renkon. They are a staple part of the Japanese diet.

[@monareese5307]

Can you process them and eat the whole flower stem root leaves like the seeds of American Lotus

[@gorilladisco9108]

I learnt about it when I went to China. I saw an unknown ingredient in my soup. They told me it's lotus root (tuber?).

[@dianamayfield5615]

Growing up in Missouri, we would gather hickory and walnuts every year. Wonderful! We also ate wild blackberries, gooseberries, mulberries and persimmons. & drank sassafras tea... In the spring my Grampa would bring us wonderful morels. He would never let anyone go with him on his search. He had special places to find them.

[@chezmoi42]

In western WA, we used to go to a neighbor's field for morels. As kids, it amused us to find them on the borders, among last year's bracken leaves, where they thought they were perfectly disguised.

[@oonaghmarguerite6752]

Morels are my favorite, blackberries next in line

[@az55544]

When winnowing anything, pour from a square sided cat litter bucket. More surface area. Fewer passes to get a clean product.

[@mikeconley9590]

Wild lotus grows wild in one of my ponds. I get about an acres worth of coverage in the shallow end. Ill be trying some soon.😊

[@olivinemage4233]

Wish I had this video a year ago when my neighbor damaged the shagbark hickory in my yard. It fell and dropped literally thousands, probably tens of thousands of nuts. At least the squirrels had fun that year!

[@marcydrake9159]

I really appreciate the effort you put into educating folks about wild foods. Really excellent content. ❤

[@donttuga9310]

Thanks for sharing this info, knowledge like this is always important to have! Hickory Nuts are a common and tasty thing in my area (Southwest Virginia), they're next to acorns and walnuts, with chestnuts being uncommon but still obtainable. I've had wild yam before, there's a whole patch about 250 yards from my house. They're good eating. Had plenty of slippery elm, though I'm more knowledgeable of sycamore. Which also has various medical benefits, and tastes like rooibos tea. A little milk and honey makes this tea amazing! Ahh and acorn which I already mentioned, YES, these are an amazing staple food. I spent a long time as a kid being told acorns are poisonous, only to grown up and find out the "poison" is water soluble tannins, that can be easily removed with boiling(over several changes of water) to make a very tasty and nutritious food. Also the bugs you get from the acorns can be used as fishing bait, thus making them into bigger food. Lotus is a favorite of mine(right next to cattail in terms of watershed survival), glad to see you showcase it here.

[@rachael9999]

Wonderful video! Side note: your nails seem to suggest an iron deficiency (large lunula and some spooning). May want to get a blood test. Here's to your health!

[@daisypekin6787]

good eye/catch!

[@anyascelticcreations]

Hmm. Mine are like that. I have very little red meat in my diet. And I haven't been supplementing recently beyond my multivitamin. Thanks for my sake too! 🙏

[@RevolutionQueer]

FYI, if taking iron supplements, take them every other day and with vitamin C at the same time.

[@HappilyAnonymousGirl]

@RevolutionQueerYes! Or you can also drink orange juice when you have breakfast, like eggs and bacon! 🥓

[@SharkShow398]

It would be interesting to know more about edible root/tuber species that you can forage!

[@trenomas1]

Sunchokes grow wild out east, I hear. Groundnuts (apios americana). In the west there are camas and other brodeias.

[@latishajaubert5600]

Back in Louisiana, we used to pick these in the fresh water swamps. We called water peanuts. They are good

[@lisaslayton3880]

Wow, Thankyou Young Man, I have huge oak trees and I know where there are plenty of lotus. I will give them both a try. God Bless You 🙌

[@duncansh81]

I got into foraging after the pandemic and I saw what certain groups of people were saying and threatening to do to others for thinking or believing in a certain way. I bought Thayer's books and read and reread them but haven't actually started foraging much. I really like these videos b/c they offer the opportunity to see and hear a lot of the info in Thayer's books. Unfortunately, I believe that quite soon, this info is going to become very important and hopefully save some lives.

[@anitahilliard247]

This is a great video. The information is presented in a way that most will understand. I had no idea on the hickory nuts, we have a shagbark hickory nut tree on our property. I am learning so much from your channel. Thank You for the great information.

[@duudsuufd]

Hickory nuts don't grow in the wild where I live, but walnuts do. You don't need a hammer or a stone or a block of wood to crash them (makes a mess). You also don't need a mechanical nutcracker. I am not particularly strong, but there is an easy way to crack them in your hand. Just take two nuts (with the wooden shell) in one hand and crack. There is always one of the two that will give up and it is only in two to three pieces. It works even better when you put the seam of one nut against the round part of the other. That means, with 100 nuts collected you are left with one that you have to smash, or just leave it in the woods for a new tree to grow.

[@sinclaire5479]

How about doing a video on edible plants that you find in a typical garden, like hostas and purslane

[@FeralForaging]

I have a lot of videos on wild edible plants in garden and backyard settings!

[@jesseandersen4055]

I'm obsessed with the American chestnut. if only that were still in our forests, with its large range, incredible size, and reliable mast production, it was truly the king of foraged nuts.

[@chrisallen5680]

I live in South West Pennsylvania near Chestnut Ridge, once the epicenter of the American Chestnut population. These trees are not extinct! And not just saplings either.

[@zarynt1089]

Plant Chinese Chesnut. It is being used to hybridize with American to produce trees resistance to the chestnut blight. They will readily cross pollinate and having the Chinese ones around will help fill the gap a bit until the hybrids become more available. One day in the future the giants will return just a little different and stronger.

[@jesseandersen4055]

@@zarynt1089 I’m not so sure. Have you kept up at all with the American chestnut foundations breeding program? Their hybrids are less than 80% American, with pretty terrible and inconsistent blight resistance. I’m planting ozark chinquapins, a native chestnut that has been bred using only surviving trees from the wild to produce trees with similar blight resistance to asiatic species.

[@jesseandersen4055]

@@chrisallen5680 do they produce many chestnuts each year? I have heard of pockets of healthy chestnuts out there. I know there are 400 million left but 80% are less than 1 inch in diameter.

[@zarynt1089]

@jesseandersen4055 Maybe I'm wrong then. Their website leads one to believe they are having good results.

[@ZeroToMidnight]

This has been a fantastic video! Please make a part two!

[@alexburgdorf419]

every single one of these I started out saying nahhhhh thats gonna be bad, but the prepper in me after each one was like I should plant these

[@ColonelZuka]

When I was a kid [7 or 8 or so], my dad and uncle taught me how to hunt and forage, and the first thing they taught me to process was white oak acorns. The acorn segment in this video really brought me back. Thank you for making this video!

[@Defender_messenger]

Here in California acorns are what I will be foraging for in an emergency. So many oak where I live!

[@GeorgymonF]

I had no idea you can use the invasive siberian elm the same way as slippery elm! I've battled with these trees coming up in my old garden, not knowing i could eat the inner bark. Theyre a huge pain in the ass to deal with, but they'll make me a little less angry knowing i can make some good tea from the inner bark.

[@sandymei4053]

Thank u for the information! I had learned a lot about nuts. The Lotus is flower are beautiful to view and the nuts of it is very tasty. U could also cook the lotus roots and it’s very crunchy. Also u could eat the raw too but make sure to clean inside of the roots before u eat them . Keep up with more great videos!👍👍👍👍👍😊

[@sundippatel1688]

Thanks for the video. Starting farming for my family. Not a pro but my friend is allegic to corn and wheat. It is hatd for her but she joined planting groups so she can make food she can eat. I never new how much corn is in everything. I feel bad i can eat everything. She cant even take medicine because they have some parts of corn. I sent her this video hoping she has more options. You have at least 1 more new subscriber and maybe one more if she watches it.

[@MoonlightSonata214]

Extremely interesting and informative! Do please continue, perhaps make this a series.

[@txtardis7887]

Always greatly enjoy your content. Half for the info and half for your presentation. Majority of people in the USA are completely disconnected from what non-commercial good food sources are out here. Thank you thank you for sharing the info and first hand consumption enthusiasm 👍

[@branwen8009]

Thank you so much for this video, and please thank your Mrs for the lovely recipes!!! I know developing those takes a lot of time, work, and experimentation. I love your vision of food security and the principle of sharing our knowledge! There aren't enough of us left who know even a small bit about foraging...and you've taught more than I already knew, so again, I thank you! I had no idea about how valuable elm could be as a food! I use slippery elm in medicinals, so I do know where to find the trees if the need arises. I do need to find the hickory trees in my area, though. The squirrels delight in bringing the broken shells to the yard, but I haven't found a single tree in the woods beside my home! Those little guys are just taunting me because they know how to forage better than I do! 😂😂😂

[@endrankluvsda4loko172]

This was very cool! I would love if you made more videos about things growing in the wild that are good for food. Perhaps you could also do a video about things growing around us that look good but are toxic/definitely not good to eat?

[@swordwhale1]

This is fabulous! I have shagbark hhickory on my property, and ever since going on a kayaking expedition with Sultana Education Foundation on the Sassafras River in MD years ago, I have been fascinated by American lotus. I began growing it in pots, and now a couple of garden ponds (made from a pond liner, and one 100 gallon stock tank). The local Susquehanna River also has a large area of lotus that we have paddled through. Now that I know more about their edibility, I will have to collect more pods.

[@Alas-xj8cr]

In terms of volume and calories I would rate blackberry as first on the list. I can literally pick 5 gallons of blackberries in 3-4 hours. And I can do it everyday for about a month or two depending on how long the plants produce in large volume.

[@Kyle_Spivis]

“Shriveled up nut meat” is definitely one way to say it… My jokes aside great video

[@GhoatFocker]

Each of these videos I just go wow. Amazing and I agree with your philosophy, this is the kind of self reliance I care to integrate and eventually pass along. 💯💫

[@joshward7009]

I was about to comment on the thousand year old sprouted lotus seed until you brought it up yourself. those things are incredible

[@Marshall-y8m]

Hey, just wanted to say that you're doing a fantastic job covering this subject, from identification to preparation and beyond & I genuinely appreciate the time & effort you put into these videos. Would love to see a walkabout video where you visit a park or explore your backyard & identify everything you can for that area.

[@lauriemclean1131]

So in the talk about gathering wild nuts & processing them, we can better understand the old saying, "Let's get cracking!"

[@ekappaz504]

Really glad to see people teaching how good lotus is to eat! It really is underrated outside of China/Asia in general.

[@DurtinTracey]

Nature blushes her secrets. Returning us to the grove.

[@despinne]

I have many fond memories of cracking hickory nuts. A great pastime in winter when there as no tv, internet, etc.

[@GrandmaforGrownups]

Thank you. Colorado here. Could you put a map up for each food you discuss? It would be very helpful. Much obliged. Grandma Barbara

[@SLHexotics]

You are quickly becoming one of my favorite channels. Amazing quality and presentation of information. Thank you

[@danielkingery2429]

I did odd jobs for several elderly ladies in Willcox, AZ. Harvesting and shelling pecans was a couple of those tasks. They all boiled water, smoked the hulled, dried nuts for about ?30? Seconds, then I would crack the shells. Once I got the hang of it, more of them came out half's and wholes.

[@moniques1377]

How convenient for me... where I live, at least half the town in on top of a swamp 😂 I haven't looked for lotuses, but will be keeping an eye out from now on!

[@Twin-jl1bi]

I can totally remove all the meat out of the hickory nut, it's an art form.

[@abittwisted]

Do tell the secret, better yet demonstrate it for everyone.

[@rebeccaknudsen6190]

​@abittwisted please show us.❤❤❤

[@Twin-jl1bi]

@@rebeccaknudsen6190 I don't think you can upload video here, but the basics is you crack the nut all the way around the center and it's equator. A basic nutcracker that looks like metal nunchucks, does the job perfect

[@flowerluv-xh6kn3jl8l]

Yes. Very good and very important to learn. Thank you for this information! Looking forward to more.

[@jollyjoyful-cf9tc]

I greatly appreciate the wonderful amount of very very practical information provided ,and your impassioned presentation !! you have inspired our little household to value NUTS ..galore..just outside our back , out in our local woods. thank you !

[@ryanmac3134]

Just a suggestion… and I’m not being snarky, but you need to get you a really sturdy knife for doing stuff like scraping bark

[@Xianne027]

A Chinese friend invited me to dinner once and cooked lotus root. It was great! Tasted similar to potato.

[@jmjlori]

OMGosh!!!! we have had hickory nuts everywhere, but i wasn't sure we could do anything with them. Now I need to go and see if there are any left asap! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! Your channel is fascinating! (my husband "retired me" to the Ozarks, and there is a plethora of fauna, etc., here!)

[@melodyfaith7712]

I love this! When I was in my teens I would force my family to eats foraged foods such as cattail, amaranth, and daylilies.

[@monareese5307]

Thank you for sharing keep up the good work 🎉🎉🎉it's kind of funny that I was thinking of getting some Lotus I wasn't sure about them I know they smell fantastic in your house but I made up my choice thanks to this video🎉❤ love your work it's in great detail❤🎉

[@localfoolthecreature]

This video, especially if mixed with other agroforestry processes, is so unbelievably valuable, good work!

[@johnkeck1025]

Hickory nuts and walnuts are everywhere where I live. This video was very intriguing! Could you do a video on the hack berry?

[@stephanielamphere6426]

Great video, and very informative! I am surprised, though, that you didn't mention hackberry, which is so much easier to process... in fact it can be eaten right off the tree or just mushed into a protein bar (which I think I learned from your video!). It's also super easy to ID and easy to find.

[@FeralForaging]

Hackberry will definitely be in the next edition of this series! At the time of making, I hadn't come up with a good way of harvesting them in large quantities as I highlighted in my recent hackberry video. 😄

[@stephanielamphere6426]

@FeralForaging oh, I watched these out of order! Haha! Thanks!

[@thegiantenemyspider1]

4:33 doesnt everybody once in a while

[@ThatOneBlackGuy]

Beat meat to it

[@jhonnerythesteckman]

aw *nuts*

[@fuddy_man]

nah, i dont. *i let it crust*

[@tohur]

Grew up in Georgia so ate Pecans all my life.. never knew they were hickory.. learn something everyday

[@Dvpainter]

Death by trypophobic starvation

[@yoyoschmo1]

Huh?

[@vincentvon1470]

@@yoyoschmo1 the thumbnail fruit looks like a trypophobia(fear of lots of small holes) image you might see.

[@RvNgn_Fn]

Make an icecream with hickory nut milk

[@A_termite]

The combination of words "dont starve" just activated my PTSD trying to survive kaiju deers and wierd ahh seasons

[@StephenDurham]

Very informative video, thx. Please do Colorado in winter next. I always wonder what I could eat once the snow falls here. Living in a place with four distinct seasons makes foraging very interesting.

[@laz272727]

Siberian elm also has edible seeds and leaves. Seeds need to be unripe, leaves can just be eaten whenever. They don't taste great (they don't actually taste like anything) but they're still edible, especially if you add something to give it taste. Like used as a filler in soups or something.

[@Natalie_Grace_girl]

This video was very informative thank you! Great work!

[@erikvaldemarstrom978]

5:13 Jesse out of context

[@katrinaholmes395]

I grow everything thank you for sharing this with us

[@bh1326]

This is a valuable video for me. Thank you!

[@SleepyBaseball-vv1kn]

Hey I live more on the west coast and while I'm sure i can find plenty of foragables it would be cool to see a video on more of what I'd see over on this side

[@raytripp6155]

The northern and western Rocky Mountains desert region has some special challenges. I’d love to see a video on foraging here

[@coldmuffins5313]

This guy knows his stuff, I've played Stardew Valley before so I would know

[@lindayoung3228]

PLEASE MAKE A VIDEO ON WILD GREENS LIKE MUSTARD, PIG THISTLE, PLANTAIN, ETC.

[@chezmoi42]

You may want to check out Eat the Weeds, he has all the basics.

[@jesseandersen4055]

I read somewhere that some indigenous tribes called elms bread trees, but I know that many called the chestnut a bread tree and used dried out chestnuts to make flour so I don't know if there was a mix up, or if they really did use elms to extract the starch and make bread with it.

[@Curlylass]

I am very excited to learn this information! Please continue, you have my full attention!

[@charlesmaurer6214]

Good vid, further north so a few not as common here in WV but as I mentioned my parents' place that I grew up has shagbark hickory and it is too much work with a worm getting most and the hard shell to crack. I do love them as a treat sometimes with the meat is creamier than most other nuts. Rather leave the acorns to the deer (that can also feed you) but have sampled them. Be careful with walnut because it grows fast and hard to keep cut back or killed off from places you don't want it (plus it has fury gardener helper spreading it far and wide). FYI A major WV event is the Black Walnut Festival in Buckhannon we also have an Apple Festival in Clay (birthplace of the Golden Delicious). I wish I could find a copy of the photo of the tree in the birdcage stopped at Mink Shoals as it was moved to OH (a mile from my home on US 119) that I saw when I was young. My grandmother lived on a farm so besides the Lotus most I was aware of from spending summers on it. In a prior job at a church they did a weekly free dinner that ended due to getting dangerous. I had the Idea for something like this vid in pamphlet form to print and hand out for WV plants to help the homeless that came in. I have told many people while it is easy to go hungry it is hard to starve in WV. Just common yard weeds alone pulled in an hour or two can feed you, provided you know them. Dandelion, Onions/Garlic/Ramps and Cattails are plentiful and easy to tell. (I even graze on them as I weed a garden.) While it might cost a bit to print and may need reedited you might consider doing something like that with a charity kitchen or pantry. In this case that cost being given away could be a write off while increasing a printing order too to save per unit cost. Just a few thoughts.

[@sopiagotim]

Thanks for the info. Due to myself having the same food sustainability concerns, I’m trying to grow everything I eat, which is ridiculously hard!! I live in California, off the grid, in a private valley, within 3 hours of the Bay Area, which I still find incredible! It takes a huge grove of fruit and nut producing trees, as well as all of the common fruits and vegetables. Contrary to fruits and vegetables though, in order to have enough nuts and fruits from trees, you have to start @10 years in advance of needing/wanting these fruits and nuts.

[@rjp3593]

This is my favorite video so far and I almost didn't watch it because I thought the thumbnail was fake. The lotus seeds looked like they had eyes!

[@teamshoemaker]

This is a common fear for people. Tiny circled. Not kidding. It's very off putting. 😅

[@pyrojack8230]

I would totally subscribe if you made a series telling us the best foods to forage state to state

[@JerryHall-d8l]

Hickory nuts are soooo good in chocolate chip cookies 😊😊😊😊

[@chrisleach4245]

Can you please do a video of the plants available in Florida please? A lot of the stuff you showed I have never seen before. Thanks for your time and effort making great content thank you.

[@joev8887]

This is really interesting, keep making videos my friend

[@charlesmckinley29]

Thank you, I appreciate the range maps.

[@karenpolzin8297]

Wow, thank you for this, you are a wealth of knowledge and I appreciate you sharing with us. I'm interested if finding out more about the lotus--range, processing, etc. Thanks!

[@t.n.t6537]

Very interesting would you be willing to do a small series like this with a video for each state? Like on a few wild beneficial plants from each state? Would be really informative to see and would probably help a lot of people.

[@Stella-n-Luna]

I have SOOOO many black walnuts!!! I gathered and processed them, and stored them in shell from last year but idk what to do with them now lol

[@nineteenfortyeight]

Pasta sauce. It's amazing

[@Stella-n-Luna]

@ wait, really?? Recipe??

[@serahloeffelroberts9901]

Black walnut cake, cookies and ice cream!

[@hillarydana3057]

Please make a video on ghost pipe!💛

[@marvinpybus4599]

You should check out kudzu tubers, if you don't already know about them. There are hundreds of thousands of acres of kudzu in the South, with enough tubers to feed a like number of people. In the winter after the leaves die, find the spots where the vines come out of the ground. Using your trenching shovel, dig a hole about 16 inches deep next to the root, then sink your shovel as deep as the soil will allow on the opposite side of the root and pry out soil with the tuber. I personally don't care for the taste, but in a survival situation taste is secondary.

[@giuseppelogiurato5718]

Being in Nevada, this is all inapplicable to us, since none of these things grow here, but we use similar processes for our wild food (pine nuts, tule roots, elderberries, etc)... Cool video! 👍❤️

[@waypoint3639]

Thanks, I enjoyed this information and look forward to putting some of it to use.

[@randyjenkins8896]

my trypophobia hates your thumbnail.

[@NameSurname-p3r]

It loves the thumbnail because it furthers its existence

[@GypsyBrokenwings]

Keep these videos coming! I'm still trying to find a slippery elm on my property.

[@Dankpuffin]

When o was a child I ate the lotus seed fresh off the bulb while its green. It was considered a treat.

[@WiliamBennettwildarbennett]

Absolutely outstanding teaching. I grew up in N Arkansas Ozarks foraging foods as a kid. But this is a first I've heard of the AMERICAN LOTUS. Also may I suggest you look into PINE NEEDLE TEAS a handful of them has as much Vitamin C as a large orange. Thanks Again 👍🏻

[@kittenlang333]

I truly learned a lot from this episode. I'm in southern Louisiana, if you can ever help me out down here 🤭✌🏼 The pecans, hickory, the info about acorn flour...I'm bread maker (by hand, no machines except the oven).

[@Erewhon2024]

Mayhaws, gators, nutria, fish, Nelumbo...