FREE Food Is Everywhere | Huw's Garden Diaries

Today I'm joined by the amazing Aimèe from Peggy Farm and Forage (link below!) and we step beyond the boarder of the garden to discover the world of free abundance growing everywhere. Aimèe is such a wealth of knowledge, which comes in handy when you accidentally discover the most poisonous plant in the UK growing right next to your garden!
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[@sp00nfed]

If Aimèe had a YT channel about foraging, herbal remedies & whatnot I would subscribe.

[@spuddyl9938]

She has amazing hair

[@marijeb278]

Really loving these Diaries series! They feel like a very natural and authentic insight into your life, even if they probably are still well researched and thought out. Aimee has great knowledge too, learning about foraging is such a great addition to gardening!

[@journeywithnichole986]

Oh we need more of this duo! Informative and entertaining

[@ofrecentvintage]

I LOVE foraging info, ever since the first woodland foraging class I was able to take at 14. Thanks so much for this! Though I'm in NY, still so fun for me to learn and see what flora we have in common.

[@HuwRichards]

Thank you so much for watching, it would be interesting to compare what wild foods we share in two different continents!

[@ofrecentvintage]

@@HuwRichards It really would be! We have the 2 kinds of plantain in common, right off the bat. But several of the others, though I've heard of them, aren't so familiar/native in natural settings here. I'm going to go back through this vid to double check. Thanks again. Such a treat!

[@9FatraBbits]

Thanks for inviting Aimee! This was so informative and useful. What a beautiful day it was.🐇

[@HuwRichards]

I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

[@MrRemakes]

Whenever I hear of rowan, it reminds me of a poem. O rowan fair, upon your hair how white the blossom lay! O rowan mine, I saw you shine upon a summer's day, Your rind so bright, your leaves so light, your voice so cool and soft: Upon your head how golden-red the crown you bore aloft!

[@nancynesytofreske]

Aimee was great, so knowledgeable!

[@ArtemisSilverBow]

Lovely! Thank you for including the names of the plants in the video 😊

[@HuwRichards]

You're welcome!:)

[@beetle5000]

Awesome to see Aimèe on here 😎👌

[@M-TGram]

Wonderful episode, thank you!

[@sarahbee27]

What a breath of fresh air, so much knowledge

[@The_heirloomgardener]

Plantain is great for bee stings ...our lawns and fields are full of it ... when we get stung ...we just snap a few leaves off , chew on the leaves for a few seconds and then hold it on bee stink and it helps pull out the sting quickly ...great for kids to know how to do when they are playing outside

[@selinab8532]

lots of interesting foraging here; i love watching Danu's Irish Herb Garden for this, she has so many herbs growing of which many we call 'weeds'; i was surprised to learn that many of our sweet lettuces & green leaf vegies we eat actually come from most of our weeds originally great education! thanx for sharing

[@juanitaglenn9042]

I've wondered about that...do you have sources where I can find the histories of our 'domesticated' plants? I have found I actually prefer lambsquarters to lettuce and spinach.

[@AndyGadget]

Alexanders (or horse parsley - Smyrnium olusatrum) is another useful umbellifer; the seeds can be ground and have a peppery / Shezuan pepper flavour. Also confusable with hemlock water dropwort but the ripe seeds on the alexanders are black.

[@lisag.6599]

Such a knowledgeable girl! This was so interesting.

[@marsultor5719]

He's so adorable around a girl

[@jeangraze8031]

Ikr lol..I couldn't watch the video with the gardener chef. Hue looked so subdued. It made me wonder if there was a back story lol

[@sascenturion]

😂

[@jagodesune6894]

This was so informative and fun, Aimèe is a great guest.

[@goinblinddoggone]

Brilliant article thanks Aimee and Huw ❤

[@moragpotter4609]

Fascinating!!

[@maxiemills6982]

What a delightful guest.

[@annagriffiths717]

Loved this 💜 went on a local foraging day just up the road from me early this year. The flavours of things literally blew my mind 🤯 fantastic

[@PegsGarden]

Really enjoyed this, thanks for sharing!!

[@meadows.simplicities]

Love this!!!! Informative. Pumpkins, grapes, broccoli and cauliflower are for me (simple). Have a lovely day always 😃

[@aytenhatipoglu1238]

Thank you Aimee for this life saving information

[@thatgirlthatgrows]

I’ve actually got the broadleaf and rib leaf (I hope I’ve spelt them right) on the plot. I didn’t plant it there but I left it in there because I thought it looked nice! So happy I did now!

[@dogontheplot]

Really enjoyed this episode and the whole diaries format

[@GlitzyWitch]

Brilliant video

[@louiseswart1315]

We have a little aloe plant bulbinella with gelatinous sap in the leaves. Very good for sunburn, burns and scalds, rashes and pulling closed cuts. With a drop of honey and a drop of olive oil a good ointment for any minor wounds.

[@sherryberry2394]

Fantastic episode! I learned a great deal, thank you! From North Florida 🇺🇸🦋

[@HuwRichards]

Thank you!

[@JohnSmith-us9fv]

It is like a brand new world innit?

[@XenobiaF]

Very interesting!

[@bridgetplunkett7630]

That was great and very informative. I have Hogweed in my garden and know not to touch it but I didn't know about all the smaller similar plants. I've never seen hemlock before. Knowledge is everything. A relative got blistered badly by digging up a fig tree in Spain. Id never heard of that before either. I see you are growing willow Huw. Perhaps you might do a video sometime on growing willow. I bought some cut willow and it is growing happily in pots but I don't know what to do next. Many thanks.

[@johannasuter9139]

Love love love this

[@xanitajobe5920]

Wow such a wealth of knowledge ✨🤩

[@Novomko]

Hello Huw, great video. You would be surprised but we enjoy eating tomato leaves almost every day. They are edible and delicious as well. Go for them with olive oil.

[@FASIGMAN]

Thank you Huw (that's funny) for this and everything else you have produced. This episode you add a lovely spirited young lady (I can say these things I am 63 no 62 1/2 not that it matters age is a concept) showing us the lovely things plants can do for us speaking for myself I would like you to do more stuff on natural remedies thanks again.

[@Mixxie67]

Huw is already beautiful (inside and out).

[@johnmccarthy115]

Aimee was very cool & utterly bonkers 👍😁 as the saying goes...if in doubt etc lol

[@aname5267]

This is how gardeners go on a dinner date.

[@stephaniewilbur9748]

Wonderful

[@icekamus78]

awwww Huw is so cute

[@erikahuxley]

good video, learned a lot, I'm interested in growing cleavers now.

[@KristinGasser]

When I prepared my first ever garden beds last year, I digged our many wild parsnips and carrots... but obviously also a spotted hemlock... and - not knowing about it that time - I hold it under my nose because all those carrots smelled so gooood... and I only slightly touched my lips... my lip swelled up and my mouth started to tingle and was numb, like after the anesthetic at the dentist... after that I did my research and read for the first time about the execution of Socrates by the cup of hemlock...

[@freedombug11]

This was very interesting and fun. Great guest. :)

[@HuwRichards]

Thanks!

[@stephaniehanuman-dale6279]

Well… that was interesting 😂 Slightly freaked out now 😅

[@jcdmobil352]

Thank you, thank you, thank you for the English - and most of all the Latin - plant names! I'm German and I'm so often going through all kinds of research to find out what some plants you show in your videos might be called in German. 😅 The botanical term makes tjis so much easier to grasp for me. 😍

[@alexk7973]

Just a quick thing I like to do when I‘m unsure about the exact name of something like a plant species in another language: type in the name of the original language you heard it in, go to the wikipedia article and change the language to whatever you are looking for. Only works when the specific plant has it‘s own wiki page in both languages of course, so for some obscurer plants it might not work…

[@jcdmobil352]

@@alexk7973 I actually do that often, it does gelp a lot if you get the name right, but I sometimes don't understand the English name correctly, and also sometimes, Hugh uses terms Wiki doesn't know, for exsmpke all these bean varieties like dwarf, bush, runnner, French and so on. 😅

[@SuperSquark]

Small flowered willow herb, I read a long while back, treats enlarged prostate as well or better than any pharma poisons.

[@ricos1497]

Ribwort plantain drunk everyday as a tea in the months proceeding hayfever season helps - apparently. I've never tried it despite my horrendous hayfever, as I always forget until the hayfever arrives, at which point it is too late. Perhaps next year!

[@tricknameless4710]

The first plant in the video is the narrow-leaved cypress (Chamaenerion angustifolium (L.), Epilobium angustifolium L), from which in Russia they make an amazingly tasty and healthy tea drink - Ivan-chai.

[@trek150082]

She’s fun:)

[@hikerlindacanadianrockies8478]

That rosemary willow herb looks like fireweed, a common flower in Canada.

[@aimeecornwell5693]

spot on! Fire weed is another common name for it :)

[@juanitaglenn9042]

Yes! I dug up a bunch of fireweed and tried planting it in my garden this year....we'll see how they took come spring:) I think they are beautiful, and now I know how to consume them too!

[@gawain8000]

Great video - just a note on the hemlock vs parsley… If you look very closely at the tip, hemlock is red and parsley is white. This is very minute, say the tip of a pin size.

[@ofrecentvintage]

What an interesting distinguishing detail!

[@ofrecentvintage]

What an interesting distinguishing detail!

[@gawain8000]

@@ofrecentvintage yes it’s a very small detail, I always grow curly/French parsley just in case 🤣

[@ofrecentvintage]

@@gawain8000 Better safe than sorry! 😆

[@martinacusack9867]

Yeah date in 90 days wink. Nice to see ye having a bit of fun

[@NicoleHoltActress]

Delicious or death ... That escalated quickly 😅

[@Snappypantsdance]

Is squigle(sp?) the technical term there;)? In seriousness though, this was a great video, you guys have good energy for a video together:)!

[@anne-mariewileman7799]

Very interesting. Does she have a book ?

[@ricos1497]

I wondered similar. Seems she only has an Instagram (perhaps TikTok too) presence, which is a shame. Rules out us non social media consumers. Very interesting nevertheless.

[@fjalar4856]

Watching this while eating a big bowl of parsley... I hope... it is.

[@GLG_YT]

Nice!!! Also first:)

[@romulomendes6942]

No Brasil a gente chama esse tipo de plantas de PANC plantas alimentícias não convencionais.

[@Carolanne1926]

After three elderly people died two weeks ago from suspected death cap mushrooms I'm to scare to eat anything in the wild

[@MrLaking123]

lmao they should call the hemlock dropwort plant the joker plant

[@ofrecentvintage]

I thought something similar!

[@annadziewanna9250]

It is not caffeine but caffeine acids in those seeds

[@molittr]

Everything is edible Once.

[@GorillaHashstash]

Is she a tattoo artist too pretty sure I follow her on insta

[@sashawilkinson6978]

She is, it’s Aimee Cornwell

[@mattthefatcat6913]

Foraging can be deadly

[@nimimerkillinen]

everything can be

[@Snappypantsdance]

@@nimimerkillinenlol, so true!

[@mattthefatcat6913]

@@nimimerkillinen my point was that there making it sounds like it’s easy when it’s Russian roulette to someone untrained which is a lot more dangerous and deadly than for instance just sitting watching a vid on KZbin, there are levels of danger and foraging should be approached with caution even people with training mess it up, plus pretty sure not everything is deadly by the fact there’s plenty of things that people do that have never killed people

[@mattthefatcat6913]

@@nimimerkillinen if I die from a heart attack watching tv it wasn’t the tv that killed me lol

[@nimimerkillinen]

@@mattthefatcat6913 if you binge on tv for 2 weeks without sleeping and die, tv prob plays a part in it

[@KH75013]

If, instead of pronouncing the letter /t/ you insert a glottal stop, then you should pronounce the word 'aromatic' with a glottal stop too /aroma-ic/

[@capicuaaa]

Please don't encourage foraging... Everyone seems to be either at it or promoting it, including wildlife organisations. I think there is general agreement that many humans living in the modern world have lost their connection to nature. The argument most organisations put forward when organising foraging events is that they are ‘reconnecting’ people with nature. Some thoughts: do we have to consume nature in order to value it? We have lost most of nature and the ecosystems in which we live are in a state of collapse. It would be wonderful to graze wild food from the land as we would have done in our evolutionary past but the world is not in the same pristine state it was then. The context has changed. We have destroyed almost everything, taking and taking and taking some more. Now the challenge is to give back, to leave alone, to rewild, no more taking. The idea that you can forage and just take a little, when everyone else is doing the same is pointless. Leave wild foods for nature and the creatures that desperately depend on it!

[@HuwRichards]

I disagree. That narrative further pushes us away from the very thing we came from: nature. Understanding wild foods is an incredible way for people to reconnect with land and seasons, especially those who don't have their own garden. Like anything you will always get people who disrespect things, but foraging is a beautiful way to enjoy a little flavour of the terroir 💚

[@capicuaaa]

@@HuwRichards thank you for giving your perspective. I must say it baffles me that something so incredibly obvious (to me) is so often ignored. If we all go out and forage, the very little food that wildlife still has and that it desperately depends on will no longer be there for them. As you well know, several species of butterfly use nettles as the host plant for their caterpillars. Surely you can see that if we all of a sudden start to remove this food source *even more* by foraging it, it will have an highly detrimental effect on these species. Many birds depend of the fruit of wild; semi-wild or just ignored trees, etc, etc. If we take even more than we already do and have, it's certain death for the 4% of wildlife left. I truly cannot understand how such a logical thing is so often ignored, perhaps conveniently so by so many.

[@aimeecornwell5693]

You’re absolutely wrong here. The highest threat to the environment is infrastructure….mass mono cultures, destruction of habitats for new building estates, high speed railway lines etc etc are all the most devastating thing to environment. If you think about it…when we go about an forage…we just harvest aerial parts of plants and fungi,..the roots and mycellium are not touched, growing back year after year. Data shows us that teaching humans how to work WITH nature, by utilising it for food, medicine, building materials just teaches us how to look after it further. I do understand why your first thought might see it as damaging to the land but I urge to you think further than that…the common people will always help the land….also do you know about pruning? It makes everything come back bigger and thicker…..check the data if you still think otherwise, you cannot argues with that.

[@capicuaaa]

@@aimeecornwell5693 I didn't say foraging is the highest threat to the environment at all. Not sure where you got this from. Working with nature and taking from nature are two different things. Your statements show a very strange understanding of how nature works. Why on Earth would harvesting "just the aerial parts of plant and fungi" be OK because it doesn't affect the roots and mycelium?... You do realise it is often the fruits, nuts, berries and leaves wildlife depends on?

[@capicuaaa]

@@aimeecornwell5693 Interesting I can't reply to your comment. Censorship much?! Except the land isn't theirs and THAT statement is indeed what is showing privilege. The land belongs to itself but, of course, egocentric arrogant nitwits such as yourself will never get that. You can't see beyond your anthropocentrism... And I will stand up for wildlife whenever I feel I ought to. THEY don't have a voice. THEY are truly the forgotten, the underprivileged, the ones whose land and habitat was stollen!

[@k.d.2341]

I wish women knew how unattractive they become when they tattoo themselves. She has such gorgeous hair and could be so pretty if she wore a long breezy dress and covered her ink sleeves.

[@marijeb278]

which is such a shame because obviously these women only exist to aesthetically please you... /s

[@k.d.2341]

@@marijeb278 Nope, it's a fact that men prefer women without tattoos. I'm guessing you've got some. Don't worry, we've all made bad choices in life. Become sweet instead of caustic, that will go a long way.