Finding Wild Edibles: Spring Foraging

[@jessicafairfax_Bens_Bees]

Yay Spring 🌱🌼🌞🐝 great video, lots of great info. Gosh I miss my feral childhood days. Seeing any moral mushrooms popping up in your area yet this spring?

[@TheHoneystead]

Not yet... but soon!!!

[@sherihicks1427]

Oh...I saw the bloodroot at the end! It's always a treat to spot that! You're ahead of us in zone 6a, west central Ohio. We always have lots of big clumps of ramps. Yum! I want to do a lot of chickweed medicine this year, and add it to my greens blend.

[@TheHoneystead]

Yay!!! I was hoping someone would recognize the beautiful Bloodroot!

[@marthab4172]

Thank you for taking us on a little tour. It was fun to see a bee , moose and you enjoying the woods! Hope to see more foraging with you ,grandma and moose again soon!😊😊

[@DeverTeach2012]

lol moose had the forager’s zoomies behind you 😂

[@marthab4172]

@@DeverTeach2012 behind you yes I think he figured out how video camera works lol!

[@zeeshansiddiqi1]

Yes please

[@jojow8416]

I LOVE your feral child story. I laughed and never realized that other girls did the same as me. I was raised on a remote shore of a glacier lake in Western Canada. I will never forget the site of poison Oak leaves because they caused at least a month of terrible pain. My poor mother, who was trained as a nurse. was always nursing her little feral daughter.

[@annbullock3500]

That puppy is so cute and playful. Love watching him

[@GrowCookPreserveWithKellyDawn]

You have such a wonderful piece of land to explore and forage. Thank you for sharing!

[@renahollwedel3302]

You are magic !! I’m in Wisconsin, it’s raining buckets. I’ve been watching my chickens enjoy chickweed and cleavers for years ! Now you have me running about in the rain and harvesting cleavers for tea for myself ! Thank you keep the good stuff going 😊❤

[@jimneevel6576]

You have cleavers already ?

[@renahollwedel3302]

@@jimneevel6576 yep and chickweed and lovage is starting too . We had a pretty mild winter.

[@jimneevel6576]

West of baraboo , no cleavers yet.

[@renahollwedel3302]

@@jimneevel6576 mine seem to be showing up in sunny spots. I’m just north of the Illinois border

[@kathrynharter-donahue9663]

I love chickweed.

[@paulmassey5993]

Thank you for another lovely episode❤. Our honey bees are loving the willow trees at the moment in Hampshire England.. their heads and pollen sacks are so yellow and full. ❤🐝🐝

[@IndianaBackyardGardener]

13:50 😂 hilarious!

[@TheHoneystead]

Moose and his Walnut 🤣

[@elsathal7359]

Always such a pleasure! Thank you for sharing ✌️💖🤟✨️🧚‍♂️

[@rwally3able]

Thankyou!!!!!

[@crystalshabazian1178]

i'm so excited for the spring foraging!! we aren't quite there yet where i'm at in zone 6a but i'm keeping my eye out for anything green 💚

[@billross5877]

I live in Grayson county virginia and do foraging every time I get a chance. People need to get out and learn the land and get back to real life and take the wonderful bounty mother nature has to offer. I like your self make my own medicine and completely believe in this way of life. Keep up the videos we need to teach people about what God has for us if we just open ours eyes and look.

[@NicoleHoltActress]

I can't believe that I'm 53 years old and just now learning all of this! I have cleavers all over my backyard. Hubby was about to rip it out. I'm going to grab a handful and make tea to see, if it helps with my edema and lymphatic movement. Thank you!

[@TheHoneystead]

That is awesome!

[@oldworldmichigan705]

I see mullein growing in my yard

[@patricialawrence7459]

I'm jealous

[@MamaUrsa13]

Im excited to garden and forage its been a warm winter in zone 6a 😊

[@annphilbeck5174]

thank you for your videos.. we have 10 acres and herbs everywhere.. plantain. purple dead nettle all over.. dandelions are everywhere. I'm in Virginia too.

[@dancnluc1]

I love it when you forage because i have learned so much watching your videos. A neighbor has ramps on his property. Several years ago, my cousin and i picked some. You are right, it has a strong smell. I dried some and boy you can smell it when you open the jar. I took some and added to butter to put on french bread. Thanks to you last year, I dicovered chickweed and purple nettle right in my yard along with Jewelweed. I am ready to learn on foraging. One year we discovered fiddleheads, but I cannot remember were we found them. I think I am going to have to start writing locations down and leaving some sort of marker. 😅

[@josephleyva7471]

Delightful and great information. As a clinician I appreciate you and your presentation. Shalom

[@apocalypsegardens]

Thanks for the info about cleavers. Definitely keeping a list of all the cool things I could use as backup meds, with more research and consulting with my doctor. I'm really concerned about med shortages.

[@jwaltsmusic]

Love watching. You make me feel like we have known each other for years. Went foraging earlier this week didn’t pick anything yet just a wee bit early but now I know where they are and will go back in a couple of days and keep a watch on things. Thanks for teaching!

[@lfurches]

At our old house, we had a walnut tree and our then poodle puppy loved playing with them above any ball or stick. We would find them all over the house. LOL Now that we have a six-acre piece of heaven down here in NC our now older 14-year-old poodle still loves to forage with me taking walks around our woods and pond. Last week, I spent a while gathering many of the dead nettle plants. I'll keep an eye out now for the chickweed. Thanks for all the great information and sharing your knowledge. God bless. My husband and I love to sit in our gazebo and watch the ducks fly in for the evening as our dates.

[@ariedekker7350]

Thank you for this sign of life.

[@dizzizzfred7.835]

I m proud of you and your rare intelligence of all your herbal knowledge.. be very proud of your ability to absorb plant knowledge and comprehend the medicinal value.. maybe you have the Einstein genetics to learn so easy.. i made straight C+ in school and had a problem rememembering and comprehending.. i wanted to learn more .. but just couldnt hold onto what i learned ..

[@katebarton7134]

I love ramps.

[@barbaradunn3107]

Thank you! Love your pup in the background!

[@Joni-cv7ft]

Can’t wait to hunt more ramps this year

[@sharolcloud984]

Love watching your videos

[@PaulaSanders-tp1wr]

Thank you for sharing 😊

[@christinabradley4590]

Super excited to go forage...my sister is like 3 weeks ahead if us on the growth of stuff n she has BEAUTIFUL mullein growing everywhere...gonna go forage lots...in our woods the one side is FULL of ramps...excited to forage some n freeze dry for powder💃💃💃...I also just took a pic of garlic mustard right outside our garage door👏👏 This video was great

[@harrietpeabody2118]

Thank you for sharing your journey

[@ambermunson3805]

I’m in Upper Michigan. My family loves ramps pickled

[@tanyarichmond8313]

I learn so much from your channel, Kaylee. I'm in NC (consider myself an amateur herbalist) and it is absolutely gorgeous here the last few days. And I SCREAMED when I found cleavers in my yard. My husband said "aww, congratulations, babe!". HAHAHAH

[@TheHoneystead]

Lol yay!!!

[@Kdiefenbacher]

Thanks for sharing, I’d love to go gorging just to learn about all the good things! Have a wonderful evening.

[@brianhina8538]

I foraging every year but need reminded of what I have done previously.

[@maryr2418]

Thanks for sharing!

[@georgemcduffey2622]

I've had a personal foraging first this spring, harvesting and eating Fawn Lily bulbs. I was given "Nature's Garden" for Xmas and it's the first plant in the book. As soon as I read the description and saw the pics I knew I'd seen it about a mile from our home. Kept going back to the same spot every week and they finally started popping out of the dirt:)

[@joannvozzo4586]

Thank you for your time, I have learned a lot from you. I'm loving it.....Moose was having a blast while you were making your video, he was so cute!

[@deltorres2100]

lol great info and Great stories…lol 🧻 And your mom .How is she we missing her 💜💜✌🏽

[@crunchybunnylady]

In Ontario, can't wait for spring foraging. We have Ramps here, just not yet and we call them wild leeks. Unfortunately, ya gotta suffer the black flies at the same time. I have already seen little baby mullien sprouting up even with a little snow on the ground still. Mullien is good wild "toilet paper" too.

[@MarlenevT]

You're lucky. I'm still in winter. Snow on the ground and mud season. Thinking I need to move to a warmer climate.

[@andreacooley9428]

Awesome, thank you so much for this video it really helps allot. I hope you can do some more as more stuff comes up. I always get so nervous and your demonstration and physically showing us is so helpful❤😊

[@CarlKeeling1881]

PDN is the plant that got me interested in herbalism

[@scentsbyemebathbody3161]

Love your foraging adventures ! He was having fun running around ..all puppy ! lol

[@Gator-fromOZ]

YEUP, I noticed a bunch of BEES🐝🐝🐝 out in front today ( Thursday 21 Mar. ) & they were going crazy all over my Red Flowering Quince bushes out west here in the Land of OZ🌻 😉 👍

[@betty8769]

No Spring here yet. Zone 4a, Alaska still has 2 feet of snow on the gtound. Well to be fair its 30° today. Our idea if Spring. Our seeds are getting started and I have so many herbs this year becayse if this herbal rabbit hole Ive fallen into. We'll get to harvest willow bark and Devils club soon.

[@mtnlindama8146]

It's spring here too...we are under about two feet of snow!!

[@andikerr3809]

Spice bush we use it as a bug deterant

[@dcsblessedbees]

Purple Deadnettle has just started here in the NW.

[@decorahnord9902]

Thanks for taking me on the foraging walk ,that's awesome. Is your dog a blue healer? Beautiful doggie.thank you and God bless your harvesting this year ...

[@gelwood99]

I didn't know you could buy ramp bulbs! I had my first taste of them when I bought a bunch at the Ashville Farmers Market several springs ago. I would LOVE to plant some near my pond to have since that is a 2-hour drive to get more. I would be afraid to try cleavers as a tea because just handling it breaks out my hands in a rash. I usually let my hens have the chickweed because it is the first greens available in spring along with my abundance of kale and they give me eggs for the treats.

[@matthewgrice6902]

Thanks for the video.

[@bonniecouture4396]

I love your videos from foraging to beekeeping, homesteading. Thank you for sharing your adventures with us. I am a beekeeper, just a few colonies and have learned valuable information from your videos!

[@patriciaserdahl5577]

I loved foraging with you n Moose on your beautiful property Truly blessed you n your family are 😊🙏

[@strutt01]

I learned of a book called Kings American Dispensatory years ago and that's what got me started. Yea, you'll know what I mean if you know the book. 😁😁😁 It's the old pharmacists book from the 1800's

[@andrewhammill6148]

Your pants are in as bad a shape as mine. LOL. And of course, the pup wants to play with walnuts. They make noises and can be thrown far.

[@teamarovirginiahoytaaron2807]

It’s a lot of that here in warren county Virginia and I didn’t know that about the spice bush

[@ladyhawk1083]

I thought about doing this but so much work into it and I'm also very highly allergic to wasp for a hornet sting but other than that I love and play with bees and my property you don't see them

[@vonnapier860]

I swear I think Moose needs his own KZbin channel 😂

[@growjoyfullyhomestead]

Growing up feral is the best way to grow up!

[@aloras405]

I find it ironic that the day you release this video on spring foraging, I get 12 inches of snow. 😂

[@venidamcdaniel1913]

I used poison ivy once. As a child. Seriously. Then had to go to school n sit in wooden desk with no air conditioning. Oh yeah. Will never forget it. We were camping on a lake n it was my time to waterski. Everyone was hollering for me and I didn’t even look just grabbed. Big mistake.

[@vonnapier860]

And I’ve been wanting to ask if you ever use herbs to help your pets?? I have an 8 year old black lab named Georgia who has chronic bronchitis. The only thing my vet says can be done is occasional steroids. Just wondered if you had any suggestions ❤

[@christinenatvig2313]

Any thoughts on henbit?

[@ladyhawk1083]

I've got problems with the neighbors letting my chickens out when I'm gone they'll watch me and then they tear up my garden my strawberries my herbs my garden anything else they'll get out running around or else the neighbor's cats will come over and has killed five of my chickens damaged my ducks legs and my chicken legs I wished I lived out in the country more like you

[@BRecuyer]

Love💋💋💋💋💋💋💋

[@jimcrawford9767]

👍

[@davinawright3084]

Oh my gosh! I found dead nettle in my backyard and I want to harvest it but I am nervous that the person who lived here before me put some sort of bug killer all over the yard a couple months ago. Is it still safe to harvest??? I also found feverfew!!!

[@66bigbuds]

Dead nettle looks like carpenters herb.

[@deltorres2100]

So when I was growing up, I didn’t realize the importance of things that we had growing I was young I’m pretty sure my parents knew but now that I’m older, I think about it and I’m like wow those things think we just took for granted we had low quaz We had cumquaz. We had pecans. The big ones .,we have mulberry all around .,the low Quaz them all around .,Elderberry is growing wild in my backyard all the time I started propagating it and giving it to Friends and I do harvest it and freeze it. I just haven’t made any yet, but I have it in the freezer and it’s funny. I think the pandemic got everybody jumpstarted on growing things I have a 22-year-old Asian pear tree that gives us abundance of pears like 300 pounds One tree well it got to be so massive. I had to give it a hard pruning this winter and I really butchered it but it’s coming back it’s beautiful so hopefully I’ll get some pears 🍐 this year. It was just out of control. It was hard to harvest the pears. I have I have trees, blueberries, all kinds of stuff, crabapple And I’ve gotten good. This is my fourth year in the garden and I’ve gotten so much better now I just plant what I want to eat and I’ve been very successful. I’ve learned to succession plant so I’m doing really well I can do two or three harvest of carrots Different timings, two or three potatoes, garlic onions I’ve gotten so good I’m doing onions right now by seed, I just love it and I’m in the city here in Houston Texas but I do want your show when I get a chance thank you Hailey and we miss your mom. Hope to see her soon. 🐝 🌱🌱

[@StonewallJackson-n8w]

Hi from Bellville

[@Thomas-yd5qv]

I wonder if you made paper of everything that you find in case you forget where everything is

[@vonnapier860]

Could you do a video about cleavers?

[@zeeshansiddiqi1]

Please ❤

[@rayfelts6356]

For the algorithm

[@ladyhawk1083]

My chickens keep on getting out of no matter what I do they're tearing up my whole entire yard I guess I'm going to have to cut their wings which I don't like doing and which I found out some of them it doesn't even work and the fence is 5 ft tall too

[@nickglass12]

I’ve always cooked cleavers for eating because they’ll irritate your throat if raw. Thanks.

[@hasangelmez4888]

varroa için mart ve nisan ayında ne yapmayı önerirsin ben ısırgan otunu arının üstüne koyuyorum

[@horsense2]

Honestly, I heard everything you said. But you were sorely upstaged by a Moose! 😂

[@TheHoneystead]

Lol

[@FallenArkansasVeterans]

Sometimes it is hard for me to hear, so would you mind putting the name of these plants up on the screen as you show them, that I I can see the word and see what it looks like. It would be a great help. Thank you.

[@brianhina8538]

I have been looking for ramps and ostrich ferns for the last 3 years. Can I buy ostrich ferns also. I have 155 acres and cannot find any.

[@Junkinsally]

You can buy the ferns. They need a shady and moist environment. You can also forage those. Dig a very small clump, a couple sprigs of root is all you need. If your conditions are right, they will spread rather quickly.

[@robertreynolds2524]

Do you have any books?

[@LoriHakaMyHeartCries]

What does ramp? Do for your body? I don't think I've ever heard of them.

[@Junkinsally]

Ramps are wild garlic. They are much stronger in flavor than domestically grown garlic. They have basically the same the properties as garlic. Old timers always used them as a “spring tonic” believing they rid the body of toxins because if you eat a lot of ramps, your sweat can even smell like Ramps. They contain more sulfur compounds than domestic garlic and is a good source of antioxidants. It’s good for inflammation and has antimicrobial properties. It is indeed a very good, albeit smelly, spring tonic!

[@LoriHakaMyHeartCries]

@@Junkinsally Thank you so much for answering my question. I'll look into them. Blessings 🙌!!!

[@elsathal7359]

😂🦆

[@oldworldmichigan705]

Already?

[@أبوسفيان-خ7م]

كيف حالكم

[@venidamcdaniel1913]

Oh love Ramos. But boy if kids eat them then come to school. It’s not good.

[@sf6026]

❤