Eat The Weeds: Episode 142: Backyard Salad

[@zachtele5090]

You have been featured. You have some of the most valuable info on youtube, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for that...please don't go anywhere . I wish more people know about your channel and use it to help others. I live local and have identified at least 20 or more edibles. My good health is thanks to you. Would love to take a class in the future. Thank you so much for sharing your infinate wisdom. Toodles.

[@erinank6988]

Purslane goes very nicely in a soup especially with tomato in the broth and a few nice kidney beans and some carrot and celery.

[@opalshuman]

I would do this all the time in Sydney. Begonia blossoms and leaves, tropaeolum flowers and leaves, pelargonium flowers, purslane...Foraged salads are the best. :)

[@jaydak99]

Another great video Deane. Thank you for making and posting.

[@glumGlumm]

I love this Ep. Thumbs Up America!

[@TheShredfest89]

Can't wait to see the new videos with your new camera! I live in central Louisiana and watch a lot of your videos. I found a hoard of Wild Onions on our property after watching your video on them. I fried them up with some butter.. it was great! Just want to say thanks and keep these great videos coming!

[@kokonutbaby1]

It would be very interesting eating a salad at your place. That turned out very pretty and I bet tasty. I'm learning a lot from you. I have that portalaca or purslane growing everywhere at my place. It gets into my pots by the hundreds and I had been pulling them out & tossing them like weeds. Now I'm eating them. It does have a nice lemony lettuce like flavor that I like. Thanks for all the botany lessons, I really enjoy them! Angie in AR

[@T--xo2uq]

Purslane, I've seen that plant growing all over Las Vegas, and found out it was edible myself, but never knew the name. I normally call them "Red Octopus plant" because of the appearance, but I guess they've already been discovered. I've done a lot of exploring in the Mojave Desert, and I've tried to forage many plants, including datura by accident, as well as mosses and lichens. Not gonna lie, I may have acquired a taste for dusty, dry plant matter.

[@deserthummingbird9772]

i hope you do more videos, yours are the best i've seen for actually identifying these plants. I hope you do one on Sunchokes/Jerusalem artchokes.

[@EatTheWeeds]

The DVD button is on the upper right side of my home page. They are the same DVDs that are on You Tube. well, the first 135. I'm still working on volume 10.

[@EatTheWeeds]

yes, if it has no spines or glochids.

[@HFTLMate]

Cool man, I just recently bought a Camileo X4000 and that was $140 able to film 1080p.

[@angelinemartinez24]

Wow...looks delicious and doesn't cost a cent! 👍😁

[@brandonrockey5444]

Is the ivy gourd a squash?

[@EatTheWeeds]

yes and not... closely related.

[@reginadickerson4822]

IS THAT A CACTUS?

[@Captain-Electro]

In eastern NC I don't think I've seen any of that stuff, I have dandelion and some plantain. I wish I had some more information on south eastern botany. Good thing about Carolina though is we have mountain, piedmont and coastal terrain.

[@SouthernPatriot1]

Electro VA is the same way but where is he foraging at?

[@thebluemorpho6640]

I live in Raleigh, and in my yard alone I have purslane, wood sorrel, dock, mouse melon (similar to ivy gourd), wild garlic, chickweed, and various mushrooms. :-)

[@caradelsol1]

I just found your channel, and boy, do I love it! Thank you so much for these videos!

[@EatTheWeeds]

Actually my camera died or I would have. I make 142 videos with a little $149 flip camera. Now I'm looking an upgrade replacement. Actually I have picked out one, just shopping around for a good price.

[@EatTheWeeds]

The DVD button is on the upper right side of my home page. They are the same DVDs that are on You Tube. well, the first 135. I'm still working on volume 10. Got to buy a new video camera. .

[@EatTheWeeds]

Unfortunately such books don't exists. You can look on my "resources" page for an instructor near you and ask them. They might know of a local resource I do not.

[@EatTheWeeds]

Post a picture of it on the Green Deane Forum's UFO page (unidentified flowering objects.)

[@EatTheWeeds]

You may be referring to a west coast species that is indeed not edible.

[@grady1610]

I run into you all over the place..........

[@phoenixrestorations315]

Firstly let me just say I live your videos and am an aspiring forager and planning on doing some videos like this when I get better aquainted with wild foods. anyways i live in georgia and so I see a lot of the plants in your videos though i am still hunting purselane but I thin it would be really great if on your site where you go into detail about the plant and how to cook it you would have a section on how to store or preserve them for later. like as to what methods are best for long term storage. i know drying is good for alot of plants but some do not dry well at all like giant puffball mushrooms. thanks for the great videos and keep up the good work.

[@KennethKramm]

Your'e making me hungry, bro! I love salads. Thanks for the upload.

[@valnaples]

I live in SW Florida and the only ones I'm familiar with are the dollar weed and the purslane...I will TRY to find those lovely false roselles at a nursery or on-line. Thank you Dean for all you do!

[@toria555]

Curious if you have a backyard salad episode for those us that live up north. I live in IL and some of these plants we don't have. Thanks!

[@jasminezahraa5972]

La purselane on la cuisine en tajine avec de la viande ou de la volaille , c'est trop bon 😋 ( En Algérie , Maroc , Tunisie et au Liban ) . On fait de bonne soupe avec aussi .

[@locovassau]

your a cool cat,green dean...ty for being my first ...because you were..TY for opening a passion i never knew i HAD....FOR THAT I AM GREAT FULL....slaves NO MORE!

[@FacetsOfTruth]

I just love every one of your videos my friend. Thank you for the serenity that comes with each of them. Also, I'd like to thank you for all the funny faces my friends get when I reach down, pluck something out of yard or field somewhere, pop it in my mouth, chew it, show it to them all chewed up, and then GULP. LOL It's fun to eat weeds, but it's more fun to watch people gag. HEHEHE

[@elkutha]

sir i realy enjoy watching your videos, i was wondering if ou could please recomend a book on wild edibles that has color pictures for easier identification, i live in southern nevada wich is mostly desert but we do have some wooded areas too being able to idetify edibles in my area would be great. an recomendations would be apreciated thank you for your time and please keep up the great work

[@Jesses001]

I did not know sword ferns had those. Now I have to find some and try them. The cactus even when older can still be tasty. What the natives used to do is cut the outer parts off. There is a slender sheet of meat right down the center that is tasty older or younger; A bit slimy though. Why not use tools more often? Humans are designed to use tools. Just look at our claws. Compared to other animals, or claws are pathetic.We are not great at anything without tools but can adapt to almost anything

[@redcapedjoker]

Another awesome video Green Dean. The city issued me a violation notice cause my grass was over 18 inches. I was given 12 days to comply. The inspectors came back to check if I complied, which I did. They asked me, "so what do you do with your weeds?" I replied, "I eat them". I ate some plantains as proof. The inspectors seemed shocked and had no more questions. I think I got rid of them for good :P

[@stuartbeverly894]

THANK YOU like video And I have video on a plant and a fruit that I do not know the name of can you see it google+ thank you

[@taliaghoul]

I have a bush that has nut/pods that look similar to macadamia nut pods on my property in Georgia. I cut open one of the green pods to find it hollow with tiny kidney shaped green seeds inside. I have been searching the net for weeks trying to figure out what this thing is. We also have medium sized trees on the property that have the exact leaves but no pods.

[@grady1610]

How you been doing? Chase is back. He's been putting up some good ones last couple days. I'm waiting for the sun to rise so I can hang out the clothes........ I'm in E. Tenn. -slim picken far as weeds go. I think he's in Fla. I spent a couple month in the center of Ocala Forest when I was younger. Lots to eat there. It would be hard to starve in Fla....

[@daledurbin2354]

Dollar weed edible, who would have thunk? Now if only Nut Grass is as well, I'll be fed for life!

[@LeafOffline]

Great video

[@elkutha]

thank you for your response again keep making the videos they are great sources of information i do apreciate the hard work

[@jeffdavis2478]

Do the sell that stuff at wal-mart? Cause that looked like way too much work for a childs snack!

[@gopackgo2235]

Hiya Dean. I just enjoyed some thistles. Lemon and butter....and it tasted better than an artichoke...

[@4yourmediamexico83]

I heard it's better not to use a metal knife with plants? Does it make any sense?

[@ValCronin]

That false roselle looks an awful lot like castor bean plant!

[@b1gje55e]

Where can you get the DVDs? Couldn't find them on your site.

[@quinlan6968]

i love this guy one of the best channels on youtube. havent seen a new vid in a while hope all is well @eattheweeds

[@77Jewel]

Thanks for your continued enthusiasm, I love watching your videos!

[@biancadesilets2285]

I sure wish I could have eaten that salad. :)

[@EatTheWeeds]

The DVD button is on the upper right side of my home page. They are the same DVDs that are on You Tube. well, the first 135. I'm still working on volume 10.

[@ty99999returns]

im surprised this guy hasnt turned into a weed yet.

[@BigDH28]

hahahaha rofl... thanks for making my night LOL!

[@HFTLMate]

Cool salad. I want to see you eat it

[@lesliepless2939]

Gorgeous salad #142!

[@percymiller4570]

Mmmmmm, you have got me very hungry!

[@dilciaseecharan2146]

I did not see you eating the salad

[@KristyLeeVlogs]

Can I ask what part of Florida you are in?

[@greendeane1]

Central Florida.

[@catalinababy6068]

Wow begonia is edible

[@MrMknowles44]

That was great!

[@lejamagdalena]

love this!

[@creativeusername8760]

smoke the weeds?

[@BackyardPhenomena]

Roselle is great!

[@UrbanSurvivalcraft]

I've been needed dvd's from you for some time now : )

[@SouthernPatriot1]

Where does he forage?

[@greendeane1]

Florida and the Carolinas...