Blackberry Benefits | Brambles, Rambles, and more...

[@sharonromero128]

You are a walking, talking encyclopedia, Yarrow! If you haven’t written a book about all your plant knowledge, I hope you do, I would buy it. I had no idea blackberries are so beneficial. Wow! Superfood for sure. I remember picking them from a neighbor’s hedge when I was a kid; they tasted so good. Like your videos so much. Always upbeat, informative, detailed, practical, funny, inspiring. Thanks for sharing. Take care, stay safe. Many blessings

[@arjunapartha]

5 stars for slow-motion berry-surfing montage!

[@wsmc14]

My dad has always loved blackberry picking. They have tons of plants on their property. I love going in the summer and picking them with him

[@malemouse198]

One of the worthy channels

[@lisafreeman8691]

I love your channel, thank you for your wealth of information!

[@christinalynn4414]

I absolutely love blackberries. Last year while out boating with friends, we pulled into a lagoon that had some blackberries. I swam up to the shore and began snacking. One of our friend's was shocked that I would just eat berries right off of the vine, but then his girlfriend joined me. lol We also gathered a small bowl full and brought them back to the boat.

[@LittleJordanFarm]

It's my go to for diarrhea in my baby goats..works wonders..thank you for info

[@shawns0762]

I love all the brambles, I have tried most of them including thimbleberries and wineberries. Blackberries are great but nothing beats a black raspberry for flavor. For preserves nothing beats a red raspberry.

[@dansmarucheisola1583]

The flower are excellent for bees and give a very smooth white honey

[@hippiblue]

As a kid I picked two pails of BlackBerry and gave one to the old lady on the hill and one to my mom every day. That's how I two slices of BlackBerry pie every day.

[@Didi.creation]

Smart kid😋

[@karenl6908]

How'd you get 'em home without EATING them!?!

[@hippiblue]

@@karenl6908 I eat my fill when picking

[@karenl6908]

@@hippiblue YOU KNOW THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!!! ADMIT IT!!!

[@hippiblue]

@@karenl6908 we had hundreds of ackers of farm land, picking enough fruit for two pies is child's play. I still have to pick enough for mom making jelly jam and freezing for winter.

[@claudettehernandez3402]

My thornless blackberry is along a fence in my garden. I just grazed on it as I tended my other plants. It gave its best year ever.

[@skywalktriceiam]

Thank you so much for sharing. The information is TOP, your filming is always real purdy, your voice and energy are soothing, and you always improve my mood, no matter how good it is😉🙏🌻💜

[@lindylou9792]

Please write a book 📖!! I will buy it too! Yarrow you are the best!! 👍💖

[@AlOKaneMusic]

Mate, you really are awesome. Please keep doing what you're doing! With gratitude from the UK x

[@seasonofthewitch4209]

Gloves can work great if you cut the finger tips off. I did that working construction. In the winter your hands got cold in Ohio but wearing gloves made it hard to grab nails out of your nail belt. So we cut the finger tips off then I used them to go pick blackberries. 😎✌

[@SpookieChristie]

Thanks for sharing 👍 will use this trick! Ohio too!

[@BeFree-BeFrugal]

I love how abundant blackberries are, but I’m with you they have to be the juicy sweet ones on the tip that usually ripen first. You are a mind of information on such wide plant species. All the best for the UK 🙏🙋‍♀️

[@michaelkentmccormack2710]

I've been eating a bowl of mashed blackberries for desert every night for about 3 weeks now. Add a little bit of Demerara sugar, mix really well, chill really well, then mix really well again and it's a sweet and delicious Blackberry Soup.

[@user-gh8wt2zi2n]

The wild blackberries here in Northern California certainly don't need added sugar, they are sweet and tasty..

[@kthearcher3357]

"Blackberries are a carnivorous plant." Man.... after battling blackberries for 2 years now, that's so true. The thickets here are monstrous. They laugh at me when I ride by on the riding mower. If I tried sasquatch feet around here I wouldn't be found. I'd get eaten!

[@Didi.creation]

🤣🤣🤣

[@nobodysbaby5048]

Surrender to the thicket & make some jam. Maybe a cobbler, w ice cream

[@esterwyman]

No Joke , I come out Bloody 🩸whenever I pick Blackberries 😢

[@kathrynmcmorrow7170]

Blackberry brandy!

[@danwilkinson2797]

I remember picking blackberries as a toddler in my backyard and getting them all over my face and not caring a bit because they were delicious.

[@ainaearthocean3443]

It’s so nice to see a plant that I can recognize from my area. Here in the Mediterranean coast line of Spain its the only berry we have available as it can live in very harsh dry conditions unlike the others. Berries here are much smaller. Love to nible on them on my walks. Thanks for the info on the leaves as I didn’t know I could use them! 😊🙌🏼🍀

[@weavrmom]

I'm new to an area with abundant blackberry bushes, and your tips for picking are news I can use! Thanks as always for such high quality and fun videos.

[@KawakebAstra]

Yarrow Ur awesome fabulous .. beautiful videos & best info Thx 🙏♥️😎👑🍃birds plant blackberries all over my biodiverse garden.. i let them grow to a point but that aggressive grabbing, U explained it & healing benefits so well🙏

[@CorinneK3178]

I've always loved blackberries! Growing up in the PNW there was always a blackberry bush close by. I remember my mom making homemade blackberry jam and pies from the giant bush that took up residence in the backyard. Good memories. Even when I did get stickers stuck in my feet. >~

[@SaundaryaLahari]

I love the idea of them being Carnivorous plants. Nature is not vegan....

[@sweetgrassprincess]

Great Blackberry metaphor, to keep on giving.

[@TonyisToking]

Yes! I see every plant as the descendants of many generations that lived with our ancestors in harmony. Helping eachother. We must do the same! Peace and Love Radha!

[@SteveLurvey]

I have natural blackberry and black raspberry on the land I bought. Wanted to get the kids involved so I picked up some thornless blackberry and a bunch of raspberries. So I have so many varieties, and they are excited for next year

[@HitTheDirt]

Really enjoyed this video and I’m adding this one to my interesting by others playlist. This way other people might find it! In the Appalachian mountains people can blackberries. It was used for digestive ailments. Have the juice and not the berries stop diarrhea. Eat the canned berries but strain the juice makes you go! Absolutely works. Even if it’s not a pleasant topic.

[@dawna8695]

I'm glad you shared about blackberries! They are so useful and easy to locate. I didn't know about the toner properties. Sounds like it could make good facial toner so I will try it. Also, not a food or medicine, but I've gotten good cordage form blackberry canes in the spring. Love the easy going and loving connection you create when sharing your abundant foraging knowledge. ✌💚💛

[@angiejones3714]

Roots are also used for dying cloth also.

[@scarletmarie1350]

Really enjoyed this video. Blackberries are my favorite, and some of my fondest memories growing up are of me, my siblings and my mother going out and picking them in the woods behind our house. I haven't gone blackberry picking in a long time.

[@jasonhernandez619]

Re: the loose teeth. We enjoy such easy access to supermarkets, it is easy to forget that deficiency diseases were more common in the olden days. Loose teeth is one of the hallmarks of scurvy, and so we would expect anything high in vitamin C to help with that.

[@brodiwheeler7583]

Can’t wait to go Blackberry Surfing!! 🏄🏼‍♂️🍃🌿🤙🏼😆

[@seansecor3232]

Stinging nettle does the same for prostates. As well I hear for breadt cancers

[@CosmicChild1111]

Subscribed💜✨ I love blackberry and you are an incredible teacher! Looking forward to seeing what other videos you have on your channel🌟

[@creatingbeingwell]

Wow, what a wealth of wisdom on this berries, thank you!

[@matchpoint14]

I learned that if I allow them to sit on the counter for 24 hours before freezing them, they get sweeter and do not turn as red when I freeze them.

[@timmyodaley1411]

Thank you. God bless you....

[@insertname277]

Now I need to pick me some blackberries!!! Thank you for this! Absolutely love your channel!

[@CRHall-ud9mq]

Of the rose family. My favourite! So tasty and healthy! :-) Brilliant video! Cheers with mead!

[@andrewlancaster3198]

My old uncle would talk about shade berries, he always said biggest blackberries where in the shade. generally he was right.

[@louisemorgan3237]

Excellent

[@MrSpektyr]

They did a study to see if the brambles that had a dead sheep under it would have a more productive/sizable harvest vs. another bramble a good distance away that wouldn't be near enough to get any decaying matter/nutrients. It does in fact cause the main plant, (tap root) to have a considerable boost in its growing time and increases the brambles overall size. In the old country this is how bodies would be hidden, two feet under with a blackberry popped on top to prevent things from coming around as well as to help "absorb" the body so to speak.

[@MrSpektyr]

Delicious berries all around there for sure

[@Didi.creation]

@@MrSpektyr 😂 wow 🤣

[@nobodysbaby5048]

Well, from a plant perspective, fertilizer is fertilizer.

[@ethimself5064]

We used to severely cut them back although the grow back amazingly fast.

[@twolilfishies]

ohhh they grow back fast?! well thats nice to hear since the city of halifax just cut down a huge forest worth of them that many of us were picking from every year! was devastated to find it a few days ago

[@KawakebAstra]

@@twolilfishies ahhh. i know heartbreak of city cutting 💔🙏🍃.. .. but those aggressive blackberries are robust will grow back .. they are wiley and even climb up trees ,) ♥️🍃🌞

[@j.niccicoffie3272]

Can thornless blackberries be used the same ways? Do they have the same medicinal properties in leaves and roots?

[@angelsmagick]

I just found your channel, great work. I've lived my life in or near the forest, using old medical and veterinary books along with folklore, I'm subscribing! Blessings Maggie

[@seansecor3232]

Sorry for writing so much on your page. But I have to say I am a tea guy. Love that u said that.

[@garybrohard3144]

Do you have a recipe for the mead or port?

[@seansecor3232]

Love your descriptions. Learing things I never knew about this 🪴

[@imnoemit]

In my city i found two big trees of blackberries who havent been touched i have my freeze full of blackberries. Recently found near my home another tree that is in the edge of the sidewalk which I dont love because of vehicles, but nobody uses them and they get wasted because they fall on the sidewalk instead of on grass. Crazy things is that is first time I see the blackberries on these trees and I have lived since today all my life in same place😅. Here the blackberries are big ones.Thanks for video

[@lesleyohanlon209]

Brilliant tip with the plank!

[@PlantBasedFolk]

Wish I had a bush of blackberries near by

[@KawakebAstra]

i planted one from a few inch stalk broke off fm a neighbors bush ..stuck in ground & forgot about .. it grew .. birds ate the berries & planted them all over my yard .. now too many .. be careful what U wish for 😹🍃🌞

[@zozac7504]

Heard from another KZbinr that you can use the thorny branches to place around your garden to keep the slugs and snails away.

[@Didi.creation]

Verry good idea!! Thanks for sharing 🤗

[@Artzenflowers]

Thank you so much for your wonderful presentations!

[@Cleocatastic]

I assume if we are to harvest the roots, that would be done in the fall? I have gigantic bushes from the neighbors overflowing into my yard. I spend a few minutes nibbling on berries every day. Yum!

[@MrsMMcG]

Mmmm, my favorite berry! Good to know about the leaves medicinal properties Yarrow! Thank you for sharing! ♥️

[@DrBlues76]

Glad I found your channel. Just subscribed!

[@aldas3831]

My sister in North Vancouver went to pick berries in the neighbourhood this summer. Starting picking only to find out that they have been sprayed with herbicides! Her hand turned orange from it. She had to throw them away! She said they were big and nice looking. You are lucky that you can still eat them there.

[@gingerkoel5608]

Thank you so much for this video, I am wondering if the thornless blackberries have the same medicinal properties. We have both growing on our property. I have been following your videos for some time now. Learning so much from you, thank you.

[@seansecor3232]

I would love to know how to extract the seeds without wasting the berrie itself..

[@kurtbogle2973]

I agree about spikey plants , but what about Black Locus . Some of its thorns are 12 inches. You can pick your way through a BlackBerry patch. I have.

[@hoosierpioneer]

Black locust is dangerous. Had my share of infected thorns in my skin. The trees travel by rhizomes and pop up yards away, real difficult to dig out completely

[@dhaktizero4406]

gives more than it takes, except for sheep :)

[@UntilxThexSunxDies]

Yo, I made a black berry leaf tea and cured my tooth infection a few months ago.

[@TonyisToking]

Hey Yarrow, thank you for the video! Have you heard of soaking berries in a water-vinegar or water-lemon juice solution to keep them longer without freezing? I find that freezing ruins the taught pop of the skin and find that the vinegar solution keeps that quality for up to 2 weeks refrigerated!

[@TonyisToking]

Just wanna mention I missed that you were referring to medicinal uses. That makes much more sense!

[@Herbal_Jedi]

I have not tried that, I like the idea of it. May try for myself

[@TonyisToking]

@@Herbal_Jedi Oh wow, glad to hear I can share something with you, for once, rather than the other way around :) Thank you for replying, hope you're having a good evening/night!

[@MySaraMarie]

What do you think about consuming plants that grow by roadsides? I just thinking about the tires and break pads that ware down overtime and end up on roadsides… there’s gotta be other toxins by roadsides and the soil nearby that can’t be good.

[@KawakebAstra]

@ Sara Yes beautiful Angel . valid point & cities often spray poisons to keep down growth 🍃🌞

[@CarolynGibsonHerbalist]

for smaller roots can you use the whole chopped up branches for diarrhea, or do you still need to scrape off the bark?

[@doctorpretorious4196]

The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town Salutes You ! 😜

[@davidbrierley391]

Chainsaw trousers are great to use when picking

[@timothybrown7779]

Love your channel. Really wish you had a book.

[@thinklikenature6450]

Great video Yarrow

[@user-ne9sd4ow1o]

Was just picking blackberries and caught the last bit of this. Great tip on freezing them! Berries mold quick

[@evereletkline8732]

Thimble berriez grow here in Hawaii - are they a good substitute for raspberry leaf tea? Worth harvesting?

[@shawns0762]

How good are those thimbleberries? I have tried the ones in Michigan and they are great, they make an excellent jam too. Was thinking about spending some time in Hawaii, want to try the wild berries.

[@brianboivin781]

I'm going for the Blackberry patch going to Harvest some root

[@tjnightmare8717]

I love blackberrys live off em when I was kid now I wanna get back hunting that’s y I never had a broken bone before and I done crazy stuff lol

[@Jan-on1qb]

Another question: can I take st.johns wort if I take rhubarb extract and saffron extract,..I need all 3 for my hotflashes.

[@daveellery7380]

Brilliant video 😊

[@meghankuchma731]

I am curious if you would think that the thornless variety would have all of the same benefits and quality? I have a thornless one that I bought about 5+ years ago. Also, is there a book out there with all this information on rubus?

[@Herbal_Jedi]

Not sure about a book, but I feel the thornless ones would still have similar compounds in them medicinally.

[@svirdi422]

Yep they take over everything as well .

[@greenwayfilms1]

love your work bro 👌😀just a question do you have to make the sasquatech sound when picking berries ?

[@itsokaytobeclownpilled5937]

Yes.

[@Herbal_Jedi]

😂 making the sounds brings out more of your inner Sasquatch!

[@mysticmeadow9116]

Willard, I use 'Mare Majic' raspberry leaves for my mares hard seasonal issues. Can I substitute blackberry leaf instead? We have a literal WALL of free blackberries on our property but Mare Majic is getting pricey. Thank you

[@Herbal_Jedi]

Yes you should be able to use blackberry leaf as an alternative.

[@rngriff1]

Do the thornless blackberries have the same properties and medicinal value?

[@stevehodgman2570]

hi whats the best herbalist book for learning the uses of plants

[@SereneSoakingSounds]

💙💗God bless you all 💙💗 love blackberries 💗

[@twolilfishies]

oh boy, the huge blackberry field that many of us have been going to for many yrs was just cut down this year by the city of halifax. i just found the graveyard a few days ago :( i hope they grow back bigger and stronger soon! r.i.p. bedford park blackberry forest

[@Didi.creation]

Aaww😢 having the same issue with alot of the plants I harvest into my town, so I know the feeling.

[@ericsmith8129]

You can easily tip layer any you find and come back in a few weeks and take the plant home with you. Very easy to grow.

[@petercooper9054]

I was always told never pick them after September as the devil has walked on them. Researching this I found out that the seeds are not easy to digest after they have been hit by the first frost of winter.

[@Herbal_Jedi]

I’ve heard this too. Thanks for adding this bit of info to the comments.

[@cindys.w.8566]

The devil walked on them, now that's funny. Who comes up with this BS LMAO.

[@TheSakeCat]

Hey yarrow I have a really broken and screwed up sleeping schedule from years of working nights I'd love to see a video on herbs that can help bring back my natural timing.

[@Didi.creation]

Tried mugwort?🙂

[@TheSakeCat]

I've smoked a little and I don't like it.

[@Didi.creation]

@@TheSakeCat, try make some tea instead. Oow btw, to sleep very good you can try listening to Binaural beats 🙂

[@Didi.creation]

@Steve Simmons 😊 I know how important our sleep is. I hope it will help out more friends too. ❤

[@elcojongkind9008]

Thanks so much! Bless you 😃

[@heyhighkay4933]

I really wish the Jedi would cite his studies! I love me some ethically founded studies and good citations

[@tamsenish]

I love your videos!!

[@deecee7227]

Top tip. If you need to pull the blackberry it's not ready. A tiny nudge and it will drop off at perfect ripeness .sweet as sweet. Give thanks and enjoy.. Thank you mama earth 🌎

[@BonnieBlue2A]

Thank and praiseYHVH who made the earth to sustain our needs.

[@deveronin1]

In 17th Century Ulster , the Presbyterians became known as “ black mouths” because they were persecuted by the Anglicans and had to take to the wilds , they survived on blackberries and shellfish .., the ancient town of Holywood , Co . Down has abundant shellfish beds on the shoreline which helped many survive .

[@hollyb118]

I love herbal teas that contain blackberry leaf. 💗

[@bear-tv]

Hi Herbal Jedi 👋 Happy harvesting

[@Jan-on1qb]

I have a cold, can I take Nyquil before bed if I'm on 300 mg of st. Johns wort?

[@zcarp8642]

My grandparents house had a sizable forest on their property that i wandered through some months back, and i wandered into a clearing with a tree losing its bark, and walk further and find the HUGE, i mean easily 7 or 8 feet long, arching branches of a huge blackberry bush. I didnt know it was a blackberry until i saw a green fruit. An unripe blackberry! I walk back to show my mom and grandparents and they said the same. I go back to find the bush again And walk to the egde of the forest, from a field to the forest. I got snagged and had some thorns in my leg, and look down and notice there were dozens of smaller, also fruiting and blooming blackberries! Those ones i missed because they were hardly even 6 inches tall, and theres probably 60 or 100 individual blackberry bushes that ive found, as a larger portion of the forest isnt very traversable, its very shrubby and basically tick and wasp heaven, so i didnt want to walk through that.

[@simonamckinnon9622]

That slow-mo!! 🤣🤣

[@seansecor3232]

I am one who loves the sours 😀

[@johnberry2877]

Can you say blackberry pancakes 😘 sooo good !!!

[@seansecor3232]

If controlled can grow in a way that can be easy to pick. 😉

[@cherylhale5755]

An excellent poem you might enjoy: Blackberrying BY SYLVIA PLATH Nobody in the lane, and nothing, nothing but blackberries, Blackberries on either side, though on the right mainly, A blackberry alley, going down in hooks, and a sea Somewhere at the end of it, heaving. Blackberries Big as the ball of my thumb, and dumb as eyes Ebon in the hedges, fat With blue-red juices. These they squander on my fingers. I had not asked for such a blood sisterhood; they must love me. They accommodate themselves to my milkbottle, flattening their sides. Overhead go the choughs in black, cacophonous flocks- Bits of burnt paper wheeling in a blown sky. Theirs is the only voice, protesting, protesting. I do not think the sea will appear at all. The high, green meadows are glowing, as if lit from within. I come to one bush of berries so ripe it is a bush of flies, Hanging their bluegreen bellies and their wing panes in a Chinese screen. The honey-feast of the berries has stunned them; they believe in heaven. One more hook, and the berries and bushes end. The only thing to come now is the sea. From between two hills a sudden wind funnels at me, Slapping its phantom laundry in my face. These hills are too green and sweet to have tasted salt. I follow the sheep path between them. A last hook brings me To the hills’ northern face, and the face is orange rock That looks out on nothing, nothing but a great space Of white and pewter lights, and a din like silversmiths Beating and beating at an intractable metal

[@nobodysbaby5048]

She was too gifted to go out the way she did. Thnx for the poem, truly a picture painted in words.