Foraging For Beginners. Episode 1. Garden 'Weeds'

[@jimkeough7650]

This is a perfect example of how KZbin content far exceeds what regular tv has to offer. Top notch. Bravo Marlow and team 👌🌱🍄

[@jordonrichardson7608]

This should be a mandatory lesson in every school in the UK, love the videos and products. I can’t wait to book onto a course

[@1kotylion]

I joined this channel a few years ago and thanks to this, I learned a lot, thank you for being here

[@WildFoodUK1]

Thanx :) That's great to hear :)

[@mrs.robinson1828]

This has to be one of the most valuable videos on KZbin- sharing your knowledge like this is a real gift- thank you!

[@WildFoodUK1]

You’re welcome :)

[@GiorgiAptsiauriX]

I used to put your mushroom videos on and try to sleep while listening. Good you're back

[@WildFoodUK1]

Thanx :)

[@niezohe7392]

This has to be the best, most practical, foraging channel for the UK and western Europe... thank you.

[@WildFoodUK1]

Thankyou :)

[@lotus.b.lazuli2020]

I love dead nettles, got a patch of them out back and the bee species visiting that particular plant are more diverse than even the crab apple when it was fully in flower last week.

[@josephascroft4774]

Love this video and also love the use of the word designed when you were talking about dead nettles, God truly is a great designer, thanks again for another really interesting and inspiring video 😊

[@iskrajackal9049]

This is my personal favourite of all your videos to date as it really nails some great 'quick hits' for beginners. Thanks for posting👍

[@WildFoodUK1]

Thanx :) Hopefully you'll like the rest of the episodes too then :)

[@iskrajackal9049]

@@WildFoodUK1 Expectations set to 'looking forward' mode, Notifications set to 'on'👌

[@scotty5717]

Love these channels and this one in particular,subbed a couple of years ago..a great learning, knowledgeable channel

[@WildFoodUK1]

Thanks Scotty :)

[@MrJondoolan]

Very informative for me as a beginner, makes my walks so much more fun, looking forward to the next ones 👍

[@WildFoodUK1]

Glad you enjoyed it :)

[@fitz5487]

Knew about wood aven roots and they do taste amazing, but didn’t know how to identify them without the flowers/seeds being out (spend hours picking them out of dog fur!)! Hoed a young one out today thinking it was a strawberry that had somehow planted itself far away from where I grow them. Will look out for it growing back. Hoping to find some ribwort plantain!

[@aleydisbalthazar4969]

I enjoyed your comprehensive and very information-rich episode on wild plants growing "at your feet". Thank you!

[@WildFoodUK1]

Our pleasure, thanx :)

[@sallystamford4897]

Excellent... Thank you. Best wishes from Bromyard

[@WildFoodUK1]

Many thanks!

[@lukereece8497]

I CAN NOT WAIT FOR THIS SERIES!!! Wonderful video guys!!

[@SteveNoBeard]

Great video, really interesting stuff. Hope the knowledge in here will help me identify things when I'm out and about! I'd like to suggest making chapters with timestamps in the video for each plant, that way it would be easier to refer back to. Looking forward to the future episodes!

[@WildFoodUK1]

Thanx. Will try to figure out how to do that :)

[@petemc808]

I've never found one. Always alluded me. Found the false chanterelle. Hopefully this year. I'll get out next weekend.

[@CarolGillespie-qq4bd]

Fantastic video, really informative. Essential plant ID info will make garden foraging a regular activity. Can't wait for the next one!

[@WildFoodUK1]

Thank you, glad to hear it :)

[@contessa26-jim]

A lot of these scenes look uncannily like my own garden! Nice offering and very informative, thanks!

[@chrismoutdoors]

Great video, thanks! Amazing that you provide these in depth videos.

[@WildFoodUK1]

Glad you like them!

[@sibly124]

Hairy bitter cress, my new salad addition!

[@woodnugget1301]

Wonderful. I’ve been out recently had some nettles dandelions white dead nettles and some rosebay willow herb shoots. Hoping to add some more new ones this year. Still a bit nervous about hogweed though. Looking forward to this series very much 🙏😀

[@mikemilton4370]

Enjoyed this episode and bought a copy of your book. Retiring this year and planning on spending some of my free time learning more about nature. Tried wild foraged nettle tea and ate the nettles this week for the first time ever

[@WildFoodUK1]

That’s great :) glad you enjoyed it.

[@glynellis5431]

Really looking forward to the next installment!

[@joanjewellery7264]

That was absolutely amazing, very informative video, thanks a lot!!!

[@WildFoodUK1]

You’re welcome :)

[@Binarysandbyte]

Awesome looking forward to the next episode!

[@harvestmoon-k1446]

Very good and already booked onto course on Saturday in Stockwood and looking forward to it.

[@shronrowe213]

Thank you for explaining common garden plants

[@WildFoodUK1]

You're welcome :)

[@wilts66]

Really great video Marlow. Not saying I’m an expert but I’ve watched all your videos for years and thought there might not be much in there for me, but there was! Thank you

[@WildFoodUK1]

Great :) Thanx

[@danilakeiko]

Great video❤ thank you

[@mattentwistle70]

Fantastic video. So educational and informative yet easy to follow. Really looking forward to the following episodes. 👍

[@vanessaevans3401]

Loved the vid . I’m gonna have a look around my garden once it has stopped raining 😊

[@WildFoodUK1]

Have fun!

[@FellowHuman137]

Awesome, will look forward to every upload!

[@WildFoodUK1]

Thanx :) hope to publish the next one in a couple of weeks.

[@justmadeit2]

I made nettle soup some years ago, it was good

[@robtaylor6233]

Great video I’ve already booked so I’ll see you next week in the new forest Better get revising and yes we have wood avens in the garden so we’re be using the roots

[@stevegoody3744]

Thank you for this content, appreciate all your great videos.

[@WildFoodUK1]

Thanx :)

[@rodneystacey1155]

Brilliant

[@kimdodd6677]

This is brillant thank you🌿🍄

[@WildFoodUK1]

You're Welcome :)

[@AndyStrzelecki-on1kp]

Nice video as usual Marlow. I've been a forager for at least 30 years, but I still pick up new stuff from your videos. I think, if you check, that you may carry a folding knife with blade length up to 3 inches but the blade MUST NOT be lockable. So that precludes the Opinel, which is a pity because they're nice knives. Keep up the good work.

[@WildFoodUK1]

Thanx v much :) I did write a caption that it was 3 inches because I realised I’d said over 2 in the vid.

[@AndyStrzelecki-on1kp]

Sorry Marlow, I missed your corrective caption.

[@vt356b]

For fungi I think there's a huge difference between the approach of the "Can I eat that?" forager and the more scientific (even though amateur) mycologist. For the former - thanks Marlo for your straightforward and sensible guidance! For the latter I'd encourage getting a microscope for quick and much more reliable confirmation of initial ID...

[@CF1091]

Awesome video just finished watching, love the wood avens root one I never knew that. Can't wait for the rest of the series, thank you

[@dd7521]

Really really enjoyed that, some info I knew but some i didn't. Thank you very much. 👍🏻

[@WildFoodUK1]

Glad you enjoyed it :)

[@HappyHungryHibby]

Hey Marlow, just been on one of your foraging courses in Cheshire last week and loved it. Will be releasing it on my own KZbin channel this weekend. Just watched this and absolutely enjoyed it. Fascinated with the insight in the carrot family, including a view of poisonous varieties. Keep up the great work. James

[@WildFoodUK1]

Thanx :) Can’t wait to watch :)

[@daviecrocket9160]

Excellent work you guys!

[@WildFoodUK1]

Thanx :)

[@theexplorechanneluk7934]

Very much enjoying watching this video in full. 😊

[@WildFoodUK1]

Thank you very much 😀

[@theexplorechanneluk7934]

@@WildFoodUK1 I enjoyed it as I do all of your videos. I even learned new words within that video “proboscis” being one of them. Now that is indeed a very cool wordy word champion.

[@Dan.Parker]

Cool series excited to watch.

[@WildFoodUK1]

Thanx :)

[@parker9588]

I am now looking forward to making a hogweed seed and woodaven korma

[@WildFoodUK1]

Wait for the seeds to dry :)

[@MartinRose-id6xu]

Great video, extremely detailed and informative as always.

[@chrisstokie2361]

Brilliant mate👍

[@WildFoodUK1]

Thank you :)

[@arumblue1973]

Another amazing upload. A bit like the back to basics ones. I was curious about poisonous plants couple of years ago and it lead me to your channel. Learnt so much from your videos as well as your foraging books. I have only ever ate the most easily Ided plants & mushrooms like hogweed & amethyst deceivers.

[@WildFoodUK1]

I thought I'd do this as an upgrade to the back to basics ones. I wasn't able to edit videos then so they were all done in one take which was hard work for me and the camera holders!

[@arumblue1973]

I love those back to basic videos. They are great for beginners, but this is definitely an upgrade! Thank you Marlo! I can't wait for the next one! 👍

[@Malandirix]

Appreciate the advice about knives but I think I will continue to use my locking knife without worrying. Foraging is a totally reasonable use case. Just got to be careful not to go foraging in tesco! Love your work. So important.

[@WildFoodUK1]

Thanx :)

[@amandacarter4846]

I really enjoyed a foraging afternoon in Warlingham recently. It was super interesting and Fabio dished up a fab foraged lunch. I am now hooked on discovering nutritious wild food at our fingertips. Thank you for the video, the guidance keeps the motivation going but I have one question, Marlow.. a couple of times you say, ''throw away the water after cooking...whatever'.. doesn't the cooking water have nutrition value?

[@WildFoodUK1]

That's great :) The water will have some more nutrition and flavour than just water, I just meant it was no longer part ofp that cooking process. I often use it to cook the pasta in.

[@robmarshall7975]

Really enjoyed the video. I've learnt some new things which I haven't known before especially about Wood avens (herb Bennet??). I have never been able to get out on a forage in Surrey as I'm always late signing up🙄. Love that about plantain. I only heard of that medicinal property i.e. against nettles last year working for a local organisation. It was good to get the expanded version of all that it can do. (Any tips for garlic mustard?). I will be looking at the other videos. All the best. Rob

[@WildFoodUK1]

Great :) Re Garlic Mustard, wait for the seeds, they are the best bit IMHO, and yes wood avens are herb bennet.

[@pricklyplants]

Umbelliferae to Apiaceae is to standardise the families so they all take their names from a representative genus (here Apium as in Celery) and end with 'aceae', so it's always clear what's a family name or not. Umbelliferae is still conserved in the code as a valid alternative though.

[@WildFoodUK1]

Thanx for the info :)

[@ukminuteman]

Hi, Marlow and thank you for a very engaging & informative video. My son (who is a gardener) has a phyto/photo allergic reaction every spring and has to glove-up & cover up all the time...re the hogweed, is he OK to eat the plant even though he has to avoid touching it? Also, is the plantain sap useful to treat the skin reaction? Many thanks & looking forward to the E2!

[@WildFoodUK1]

He should be fine to eat it, but give him a small portion the first time. Plantain doesn't help with hogweed reactions as far as I know.

[@MuzikBike]

38:49 On the topic of ground elder, I've seen two cases of leaf patterns: one where there's nine separate leaflets, and ones like these where there's either five or seven depending on how you look at it, with the ones near the back seemingly fused into one weirdly-shaped leaf. I assume both are edible? This is probably a question with an obvious answer but the carrot family just isn't something I want to take risks with.

[@WildFoodUK1]

Absolutely! Don’t take risks with this family. The leaves do vary exactly as you say and all are edible. The only real lookalike is wild Angelica but that’s edible. If horrible tasting. I have heard of people mistaking dogs mercury for ground elder but that has a completely different leaf system so I don’t know how..

[@justmadeit2]

Marlowe, when you eat the stinging nettles raw does it not sting your tongue? Ive only ever cooked them

[@Frivolous002]

i live in bourne massachussets hope this info helps me here been having hard time with learning the woods besides me and for some reason i feel the need to learn every plant my memory is bad tho and it all stresses me out and i lose intrest its hard to explain .Thank you for the vidoe

[@WildFoodUK1]

You’re welcome. There is a more toxic lookalike for the parasol that we don’t have over here so I didn’t mention it in the vid. The Chlorophyllum molybdites. So beware of that.

[@Frivolous002]

@@WildFoodUK1 Thanks are u willing to teach personally by chance

[@ilricettario]

Very surprising, early generations of children actually survived. Definitely remember that game buttercup under the chin, to prove you like butter - oh my God!

[@theclumsyprepper]

I have Phillips's book but find it rather misleading in places. Some of the photographs seem to be mixed up as they don't match the descriptions. I have a number of mushrooms growing in my garden and can't positively identify them because the book differs from the photographs and descriptions I find online.

[@WildFoodUK1]

Mushrooms do vary a lot in appearance. In our book we’ve tried to show them young and old plus highlight the key identifiers.

[@CF1091]

I've always found it easy to rule out hemlock, even since being a beginner (from reading Harrap's 'Wild Flowers'). As long as the stems are not round then it's not hemlock. If the stems have hairs on them it's not hemlock either. Most cow parsley/sweet cicely that I come across has both a non-round stem and hairs on the stem, so was pretty easy for me to rule out hemlock and eat those (even though I didn't know whether they were cow parsley or sweet cicely). Are there any other poisonous lookalikes besides hemlock? I know that there are plants like fools parsley, but the leaves are very different.

[@zugolf4980]

I literally got that exact same illegal knife as a Crimbo present 😅 guess it won't be coming foraging with me!

[@MartinRose-id6xu]

Two things, the knife is under the 3" limit so not illegal from that perspective. It could be argued that a knife without a forward facing point and a brush on the other end is clearly for a specific purpose. The only area of doubt, the locking ring, could easily be removed making it 100% legal with no ambiguity. I will continue to use mine as it is.

[@stevemcgarrett24]

I was disappointed that you mentioned the date as 23rd April but not saying it was St. George’s day. It should have been mentioned because it’s a feast day and the video is about wild food 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@WildFoodUK1]

That was a bit remiss of me. I was trying to find a good patch of St Georges mushrooms to do a video of them on the day but they all seem to be going over early here. Hopefully there will be a second flush, but there were none in my garden..

[@Jan-Boer]

Great video, I'm watching from the Netherlands and I can't always figure out the name. It would be nice if you could put the Latin name on the screen. Then I can check it more easily.

[@WildFoodUK1]

I'll do that in later episodes ;)

[@WeAreAllOneNature]

1:38 to 1,44: ''The blade here is is more than 2 inches, which is illegal in the UK''. Then a message shows on screen saying: ''3 inch blades are illegal to carry in the UK''. Very confusing.

[@GhostZero1111]

The reason his knife is illegal is because it has a locking blade. The legal limit for blade length in the u.k is under 3 inches providing it has a non-locking blade. A two inch locking blade would still be illegal as far as i know. I generally use a small victorinox swiss army knife as it has a non-locking blade, aswell as small saw which is really handy too.

[@WildFoodUK1]

I realised I’d said over 2 inches which was a bit confusing so I put in the caption to clarify. Soz

[@stevemcgarrett24]

I was disappointed that you mentioned the date as 23rd April but not saying it was St. George’s day. It should have been mentioned because it’s a feast day and the video is about wild food 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@Morn2moon]

💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚

[@keithadams1538]

Oh for gods sake what has the world come to when a opinel mushroom knife becomes illegal. I do not comply. Lets face it if you own one and it is evident what you are doing with it what cop in his right mind would arrest you.

[@WildFoodUK1]

I do agree, and I think that if you are clearly out in the woods foraging then it would probably be unlikely that a policeman would arrest you. But if you're walking around town with one that would be different. That's why I use the little leatherman as there is no grey area with that one. I can have it on me all the time with no problem. It did get confiscated when I forgot to take it off when I had to enter the court building in Worcester to get some documents signed. But they sent it back to me in the post :).

[@fixswords]

It isn’t illegal if you are out foraging mushrooms.

[@MonkeyBoy-sd9vc]

They don't want White people defending themselves...

[@mathewwebb522]

It's the correct length to be legal. Comes down to the twist locking mechanism if we're going to get into the law side. Perfectly legal if you bent that bit of tin off that makes it lock closed for your carrying safety and locked open again for your safety in use. Personally I won't be making any adjustments to my one.

[@ollie2052000]

Laws are laws for a reason, I have found the ‘boomer’ generation only follow laws when they want to get on their high horse about something that affects them! Knife crime was the highest in the world in London recently, maybe because your generation has consistently voted for right wing governments that remove funding from youth services, leaving children bored & restless, it isn’t the same world it was when you were a child, one would be foolish to apply the same mindset.

[@maulor3]

so know yourself.... 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@maulor3]

why did a tear come to my eye lol

[@YassaviShayiskhunn]

Wuuuut the opinel knives are illegal????? Ive been unknowingly breaking the law then for the last 10 years. 😢 So sad to now know i have to leave it at home unused for the foreseeable future now.

[@larrya7822]

But it doesn't stop murders from killing people with knifes. Why ? Because murders DO NOT OBEY LAWS !

[@Mark1gig564]

Shot gun

[@GadgetViper]

Wow, a girlfriend that has no ability to smell, that has some serious benefits 😅

[@WildFoodUK1]

Yup :)

[@alancooper3982]

DISAGREE WITH THE OPINEL KNIFE, it's classed as an illegal weapon only if you are involved in a violent crime, possession in public is not illegal unless you are commiting a crime

[@WildFoodUK1]

www.askthe.police.uk/faq/?id=f843af6b-12db-eb11-bacb-0022483f5223

[@WildFoodUK1]

As I said in the vid if you have a good reason you can get away with it but if you’re walking around a city with it then you could face arrest.

[@alancooper3982]

@@WildFoodUK1 highly unlikely if it’s in your pocket, very likely if you’ve opened and locked the blade in a violent confrontation. I’ve carried an opinel 3 inch blade for 30 plus years as a fruit knife, mushroom cutter and as hoc sandwich maker. It’s not illegal unless you’re doing something illegal.

[@TWF17069]

@@alancooper3982the uk has turned into a police state

[@robmarshall7975]

Really enjoyed the video. I've learnt some new things which I haven't known before especially about Wood avens (herb Bennet??). I have never been able to get out on a forage in Surrey as I'm always late signing up🙄. Love that about plantain. I only heard of that medicinal property i.e. against nettles last year working for a local organisation. It was good to get the expanded version of all that it can do. (Any tips for garlic mustard?). I will be looking at the other videos. All the best. Rob