Family Foraging Fun: Teaching the Kids how to Hunt Edible Mushrooms in Alaska | Kilcher Homestead

Join Eve and Eivin Kilcher as they take their kids on an exciting adventure hunting for wild edible mushrooms in the beautiful Prince William Sound, Alaska. Watch as they identify various mushrooms, teach sustainable foraging practices, and enjoy quality family time in nature. Learn tips and tricks for mushroom foraging and discover the unique lifestyle of the Kilcher Homestead. Don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more Alaskan adventures!

[@laruesiens8090]

I've watched you all afternoon. Loving the kids. They have grown up so fast. I can remember when they were born on the History Channel. So glad to see the family healthy and lhappy.

[@crystalmeier6579]

Enjoy your style of filming so much. The TV show was great, but I prefer your down to earth approach without the dramatics. 👍 ♥ 🍄 🎄

[@3BHomestead]

It is great that you are teaching the kids like this! Things they need to know & knowledge passed down is great!

[@Donlewis4683]

Philadelphia checking in. 14:04 Sparrow is so smart n the finger point had me cracking up. "Porcupine can hurt you" lol 18:01 the double finger point "blueberry pancakes in the morning" so cute. Raising the kids the way they should be. A city kid here would be terrified of the forest.

[@bernardjones6162]

It is so nice to see kids learning about how to survive with what nature provides! Great to see all of you again!

[@dfuss2756]

Your children are getting a very good education. Thank you for bringing us along.

[@charleshatmaker4425]

You guys are the greatest. I’ve watched your family and your children grow up for a lot more than anything on KZbin altogether thank you for continued tradition.

[@patriciaharkin1571]

I love that you're teaching your children these wonderful foraging skills.

[@piscesrising6533]

Your family is adorable, thank you for raising them the way you do ❤

[@bethgordon1240]

Thank you so much for sharing your family adventures with us! I was so excited to find you on KZbin. I’ve missed seeing you all.

[@shanelee240]

Your children are so cute and eager❤

[@cathybrubaker9705]

It’s like hunting Easter eggs! ❤

[@kilcher_homestead]

That's exactly how we feel, only better because once they are in the freezer or dried they last a long time. Unlike old Easter eggs. Lol those start to turn after about a week

[@user-by9hw3hp2n]

Alaska is so beautiful

[@clelameusborn4164]

All kids should learn like your kids do. Well done.

[@Pam-FL-7]

Good to see the fam. Used to watch all the family shows back when I had live tv LOL. We love mushrooms 🍄‍🟫I’m from OH & PA, now in FL, all which have mushrooms too.

[@anneamoroso7075]

I really enjoy watching your family watched every season alot now that your on KZbin i wacth every episode i can find i think we need longer episodes.i can't believe how big the kids are such a beautiful family ❤️

[@kilcher_homestead]

I'm working on getting them longer. Is a bit if a learning curve

[@shanechappell9305]

Great video an awesome family!! My wife has been watching your family for years an I understand why she loves you all so much!!

[@debbiecollins1154]

Just love watching what you guy’s teach the kiddos. Awesome video I look forward to your videos every week. Thanks you for sharing your life’s. As I always say Discovery’s loss your gain.❤

[@kilcher_homestead]

Thanks for watching!

[@ritahall8653]

Love this

[@danielcargill8019]

That cave and forest are interesting. Watching from Massachusetts

[@Alaskahuntr]

That's what I love about living in Alaska, rain doesn't stop any adventure!

[@Runningoncoffee05]

That forest area looks medieval!

[@diannedutton6127]

I enjoyed this ❤

[@islandgardener158]

Just like an Easter Egg hunt

[@AZJH8374]

I want to see you cook that beautiful harvest!!!❤❤❤❤

[@melissadimoush8196]

Omg, what fun! I want to go mushroom hunting with you guys. 😊

[@normfromhawaii1173]

The children are so at home in the woods! I love mushrooms too. With Aloha...

[@galenklisch4354]

I love mushroom hunting. Great video. You guys scored big. Thanks for sharing.

[@charleslindsey9167]

Love your channel!!

[@gingermccoy2732]

Great video, I love the way you are teaching your beautiful children! ❤❤❤❤

[@1944chevytruck]

Awesome!

[@MartinE1798]

What a heavenly place

[@GinaLarsen-xe9cr]

That forest is so gorgeous! Y'all are getting a mega score, of shrooms! Y'all have the greatest adventures!

[@jonluongo7250]

Really really beautiful and so fun as a family seeing this!

[@sherrybacon8041]

I wish you showed you cleaning and cooking the mushrooms!!

[@jujube6650]

I am really enjoying all your videos. Can’t wait for the next one!!!

[@proud999saudi]

Oh my god I so happy I found you beautiful family got started with a KZbin channel 🎉 I loved the show I wish you guys would either do something on TV or even KZbin we miss you so much glad the family is doing well so happy to see the kids all grown up and a happy family 💙🙏🏻 loved your show btw you definitely have a huge following from where I’m from Saudi Arabia so loads of love and best wishes all the way from Saudi Arabia to your family please say hello to everyone including uncle atz and his family hope Otto is doing well and charlotte wish to see more of your family show such an amazing family and show you made a lot of hard days easier jthank you for that best wishes and will definitely follow and subscribe

[@Fjewt]

tbh i kinda wish i got this kind of childhood, my dad liked video games i am not saying i had a bad childhood but i wish knew more about the outdoors

[@TheIHCS]

So great to see you and your beautiful family again. I hope KZbin is good to you. 👍

[@bobbolieu9013]

Such beautiful country

[@tlc1718]

Teaching luv it , remember to leave some for next year's (:

[@DubultaisT]

Thanks for returning my faith in people. In these digital times we must go back to nature and picking mushrooms is so relaxing. And those kids seem to be fully in it. We need generations like this if we want to thrive. 🌿🌿🌿

[@NUNLEY_7777]

I actually enjoy watching your videos I'm from Tennessee it's good here just think I'd be happier in Alaska I'm 40 my uncle moved to Alaska when I was a baby he's still there I think I got what he wanted from Alaska just to be away from people I love the cold snow all that nature name it love Alaska

[@lindahollister5530]

What a joyable video❤❤❤❤. So cool to be in the forest . It's beautiful. The kids are having so much fun.😅😅😅

[@user-vi5vy3kr2w]

My, how fast they grow up.: I used to watch you guys with your parents in the series.. “Alaska……” with your uncle and his family.. I hope your Dad Otto is well and still active.Best of Health to you all

[@AZJH8374]

So glad l subscribed! I'm loving your channel. BUT THIS AZ NURSE LOVES, LOVES, LOVES THE RAIN!!! ❤️ 😍 💖 ❣️ 💕

[@TheMaverickAcres]

beautiful there and so abundant. thank yall for sharing.

[@duncanmarchant4992]

I'm jealous. I live in the UK, and you can't really do mushroom hunting, but you can forage for berries.

[@wildfire365]

Such cute kids,

[@aaltmaier81]

Miss the cooking and horse segments, but do good to get caught up on your lives❤

[@John-kl5mh]

The little girl is soo cutee

[@davidbacani3143]

wow! a channel must to followed.

[@ourmichigan5318]

love you guys on the show now on youtube great stuff .

[@bobbolieu9013]

Ii love Findlay's enthusiasm, "Did you find the mother lode"?

[@valeaton4538]

Thank you for the video

[@l5r90]

yOU GUYS are doomsday preppers!!!....oh eah just like meeeeee!...(and I come from outer space)

[@tatianallewellyn464]

Another wonderful episode! 👍 You forgot to show us the final result - cooked mushrooms! 😄 Scenery around is so beautiful! Can't wait to see more of your family adventures!!!

[@sabinacheshire3753]

Easter spring

[@douglassmith5414]

I like your boat and your channel.

[@firesandfishing5589]

Another great episode thanks

[@billykelly5798]

Awesome video

[@kilcher_homestead]

Thanks!

[@ReignForesthome]

Adorable adventure

[@susanrogers917]

Watching this reminds me of happier times ❤❤😊

[@gophishn]

Love The channel..That boat comes in so handy..Look forward to more content in the future..

[@LifeinAlaska]

It's wonderful to see parents teaching their children 8)

[@janemay8721]

Your children are getting an excellent educational experience . New subscriber! Love your channel!

[@alysiachristensen5475]

You guys are so wonderful with your children!!! God bless your whole family!!!

[@BethenySlater]

I want to learn more about foraging in my area.

[@JoseyWales-ed]

Mushrooms!!🍄 😎

[@joanneganon7157]

Hey Eivin,Eve,Findlay, and Sparrow👋. Thanks for the spelling🤭. I'm not furmiliar with the yellow foot,but I love the larger Shantrels yum! Sparrow is the queen of mushroom picking🎉. Thanks for the adventure 😍. JOJOINVT 💞

[@blessedbeauty2293]

- How do you guys not get lost? Did you leave trail markers or have you grown up in this forest 🤔? Great video. *It would be better if you did a pick && cook* 🍳 🍄.

[@JayThompson256]

A bit of a kitty kat, LOL. I meow sometimes right before a big hike if it is raining and nasty out. I can totally relate.

[@lee_t_outside6471]

I can’t believe y’all didn’t pick the deer horn up off the hedgehog trail

[@tylerterrell4491]

Here from outdoor boys channel

[@kolomaileparaha298]

Hey bro howzit going mate kolomaile here from Sydney Australia love the vidz widawife&dakids like too know if any future catch and cook vidz cheerz

[@barbaraackerman57]

I used to go with my dad and get wild asparagus and morels under the apple trees in Michigan. Made a good feast❤

[@homey3051]

Keep them coming Do you can any of the mushrooms

[@shirleyparent1873]

👍💙✌️thank you for sharing

[@rubyrose24881]

What fun!

[@maybeebuzzy2265]

The amanita is the first mushroom I learned to stay away from. I was little and said "Ohhhh... pretty🍄" and Mom said "Don't touch! It's a death angel". LOL, I haven't thought about that in years😊

[@DubultaisT]

Depends how You use it. Ancient shamans were using strains of Amanita for their rituals. Only one which I think was not used was the gray/green one because even with boiling too much toxins are left inside.

[@maybeebuzzy2265]

@@DubultaisT Mom wasn't an ancient shaman 😁

[@stevespangler6042]

What a adventure!

[@ceciliaalin7299]

Love walking in the Woods and pick mushrooms

[@Mary-yu3sn]

spore printing and always when you think its a good one just try after cooking a bout a thumb nail size piece,wait 24 hrs ..

[@billhatcher2984]

Chanterelles and morels are my two favorite mushrooms the woods you are in look like a great place for ginseng to grow does it grow that far north

[@FranklyFranky]

I just found your content. I was a huge fan of your old show. It’s super weird to see you. Use an iPhone because the show definitely portrayed you guys as a little more primitive because of your location so they never showed you using a folder or or anything like that, but I think that was, a theme of the show like they were trying to portray you guys as this rare thing

[@l5r90]

Every mushroom grows from animal poop falling on the ground and mushroom grows from the molding poops!!!....and everything else molding...mold is mushroom

[@kenbyers8036]

Comment for the Algorithm 😊

[@tammysmithers664]

Hi Eivin, Eve and family!! Unfortunately, I know nothing about mushrooms but my daughter is learning. She recently went hunting for morel mushrooms for the 1st time and really enjoyed the experience (and the mushrooms!). I was just wondering if morel mushrooms grow in Alaska and if they are a kind your family also enjoys?

[@deniscarter6613]

Iven the Mushroom app is very handy

[@jessicamaki2067]

I wonder what app they used. This is a great video.

[@navychief8425]

How much of your family's diet is derived from hunting, fishing, foraging and gardening?

[@shaneburdick228]

What kind of hardwood trees were in that area?

[@carrieashley6465]

Do get morels mushrooms there ??? They grow in lot of places here lower USA We got white and black morels around apple s and elm trees It look like you all a lot mash rooms to eat do frie them in flower and butter ??

[@reality_is_the_key]

I have yet to find a mushroom app that's accurate. I bring a book along for I.D. purposes.

[@carlasimpson-py9ms]

Is that where you took Eve deer hunting years ago and one of her first hunts?

[@kelliepineda9822]

can dry them or freeze them?

[@tj_poepoe]

Is there a certain way to pick a mushroom? Do you leave a root?

[@kilcher_homestead]

You pick the while fruiting body. Some people believe they should be cut and not picked. But I don't know if this is true

[@_DlME]

Mushrooms don't regrow in the typical sense of a plant. They don't have the same type of root system that resprouts. They repopulate off of spores which become airborne after the mushroom has reached full maturity or near it. Which is one reason people that pick mushrooms often use mesh bags that breath so they spread spores as they pick the mushrooms and walk around. The mesh bag also keeps the mushrooms from getting sweaty and slimy like in a sealed plastic bag.

[@josephmc57]

I like "lala land"....🤔

[@bobbolieu9013]

Is the Sound a Temperate Rain Forrest?

[@kilcher_homestead]

Yes

[@sao9995]

Never put mushrooms in anything but a wicker basket or brown paper bag! Never EVER plastic, if you want them to keep.

[@kilcher_homestead]

When you are 200 miles from home or town, you make do with what you have. Plus the best way we have found to get these to keep is to cook them down right away then vac pack and freeze them. Then they can be added to meals much later