The Blackthorn Tree: Wild Food, Facts, Uses & Folklore 🌲🌸🍇

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[@olddevildog773]

Outstanding video and very informative. Thank you for sharing.

[@AlissaSss23]

I'm so excited about watching this video, I doubt I've ever found a whole video on this plant! I love how you show the collecting methods, you explain the edible and medicinal uses and I love the folklore touch!!!

[@sylvan9184]

Your enthusiasm is wholesome 🌸🌳

[@RobertBenzies]

I love my blackthorn- I have fields of it. People around me give me grief because of its thorn punctures car tyres and can give you septicaemia. Your video has lifted my heart- thankyou. The flowers are beautiful. I have an ancestor - she was burnt at the the stake- a full cycle- good prevails as you said.

[@ArielleViking]

Great information and very interesting uses for blackthorn as wild edibles. 💯❤👍

[@bill7379]

Absolutely lovely video!!

[@SuperRegans]

I was nibbling a few blossoms on my walk xxx

[@breadring]

What a great video really enjoyed it cheers.

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

Cheers!

[@Stan_the_Belgian]

I love my blackthorn bushes thanks for the vid!

[@nima16042]

Loved this! Learned so much, I’m trying to adapt the English hedgerow concept for my small suburban permaculture garden and I’m planning on planting the Native American plum on my border! Loved learning about blackthorn’s witchy history too

[@HEAVENGLAMOUR]

awesome video friend

[@howardsmith915]

Very informative again. Keep up the good work

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

Thsnk you 😁

[@forageforknowledge]

Wow! I need to get me a blackthorn broomstick! :)

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

Worked a treat 😁

[@michaelzavala7871]

really wholesome video

[@tonynapoli5549]

Thanks good information

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

✌️😁

[@krisztinab.4958]

I love your energy, enthusiasm & the content. More of it, please. Much Blessings of Grandmother Earth 🌟

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

We've many videos on our channel 😁

[@rhondasandhu907]

Love love love this video...gebuine love for the Blackthorn 😍

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

Thsnk you 😁

[@carldavies4651]

Love it

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

Cheers 😁

[@geraldgreshamcooke8605]

Excellent presenter & excellent video. Well done all.

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

Thsnk you 😁

[@stevegoody3744]

Thanks, great stuff

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

Cheers!

[@wendysweet808]

Thank you 🙌

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

Your welcome 💚

[@Yorkshiremadmick]

Brilliant The Prunus family is also Cherry. Thanks for sharing 🙏🏻

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

The cherry tree has the best fruit!

[@Yorkshiremadmick]

@@homeiswhereourheartis One of the best ❤️

[@oldgold1100]

That's so much info that I didn't know about the Blackthorn tree. Made wine from the berries many times. Thank you for showing us all again.

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

Your welcome 😁

[@Strickredmusic]

Such a good video 💯👍

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

New sloes video being uploaded today 😁

[@Strickredmusic]

@@homeiswhereourheartis il be sure to check that out, I've just gathered a bunch this morning plus some cleaver seeds to try the coffee you taught about.

[@debwhite9432]

Thank you. Loved the ending. Love your kindness and thoughtfulness towards our fellow Earthlings. I have a blackthorn walking staff that I bought for my grandma in the 80's and she left it to me when she passed. I use it on walks all the time. Adding your channel to my fav's.

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

Thank you Deb 😁 Got a new video all about sloes ready for tomorrow ✌️🙂

[@debwhite9432]

@@homeiswhereourheartis thanks. it is awesome and getting your beautiful book, too. Blessings ~

[@carolinedevereux]

another great video thank you

[@janineroses3819]

Lovely video as ever, I really appreciate the zoom out over the black thorn trees ! Thank you for the excellent edu-tainment and for the respect you promote for nature, you guys are excellent guides 💚

[@lionhousefilms]

Another great video. Love the addition of the drone! Will be decorating daughters birthday cake this week with some blossom 😋 x

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

Makes for the best cakes!

[@AlissaSss23]

Wow, what a beautiful idea 💡 😍 👏

[@janetbishop9066]

Absolutely brilliant....as usual 🌺

[@suzannebinsley5940]

Thank you for this video. I thought for years I had Hawthorne and instead I have blackthorn.

[@Prairie_Gypsy]

Thanks for the upload! 😊

[@wiwalk6611]

❤

[@g9278]

Great video. Really enjoyed it.

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

Glad to hear it 😁

[@gizmocrystal]

Just found you! Getting into the alternative way of living. You have great energy. Please do more on foraging😊

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

We've lots of foraging videos 😁

[@gizmocrystal]

@@homeiswhereourheartis I haven't had a chance to have a really good look through....I guess what I'm trying to say is don't stop🥰 Such a beautiful family. You make me so happy watching you.

[@wildedibles819]

Great video much love xoxox

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

Cheers 😁

[@wildedibles819]

@@homeiswhereourheartis much love xoxox

[@AlissaSss23]

It makes me sad you videos are not more well known, I've just discovered them and they are amazing! I'm from Eastern Europe but live in England UK now, I love your videos and I wish more people could benefit from watching them!!!

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

Our channel grows little by little each day. We're about to release our book which we think might help 🙂

[@cleonawallace376]

Really interesting video! We recently bought some land (we lived in Umbria, Italy) and it's completely overrun with spiky blackthorn. The tiny saplings spread everywhere by runners and are a nightmare when the kids want to run around. Good to hear about the fight between blackthorn and hawthorn though!!

[@HomeEdMum]

Another brilliant video, thank you. We happened to find those berries by accident the other week - I thought they were gooseberries 🤣 regardless, I've frozen them and not done anything with them yet 🤔

[@dawncunningham927]

Great video 👏 and really interesting about the blackthorn and the hawthorn, where I live there are blackthorn intertwined with hawthorn all amongst the hedgerows.

[@eastanglian3778]

Very nice:) I have a blackthorn staff and wand. In East Anglian (and I guess most witchcraft) lore the blackthorn rod is a "blasting rod" for directing malefica but is also defensive as well against malefica. Blackthorn staffs are heavy and this is why they make good self defence weapons. The Irish shillelagh is made of blackthorn for this reason. With regard to the sloe, I may be wrong but I think that in Ray Mears' Wild Food series that he did with Prof.Gordon Hillman the paleobotanist they found out that once the berry was bletted it was entirely edible as the sugars had been released. Maybe you have come across this? Ive yet to try myself!

[@AlissaSss23]

Sorry, what is bletted? I know they become edible after the first frost, some people forage them before and freeze them. Normally they are used for gin but they can be used in jams and preserves or syrups too

[@nl4064]

collect the berries, store one year and then sow for new plants = plant out in patches and ygrow to protect oak and other trees from deer and sheep

[@davidwhiren817]

Hugh fan of the walking sticks , & own 2 , made in Ireland by top maker's !!! folks check out Francis McCaffrey , McCaffrey Crafts !!!

[@AlissaSss23]

I've never seen a whole tree before, only shrubs in the wild or as decorations in parks

[@johannox4161]

Hi, how can i grow the plant from the berries/seeds?

[@margarethughes3763]

My sister had two spikes in her back, they were 4" long, she was getting ready for bed and I spotted two black marks on her back, she couldn't even feel them. I managed to get both of them out, God knows what would have happened if I hadn't spotted them.

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

Good thing to get the out!

[@chadsanpedro1886]

what would need to be done or given if pricked and a hospital is not an option? Curious and will continue researching. mentioning in the Comment section in case anyone already knows the solution. Thank-you!

[@murzua5]

Jealous of your neighbor hood!!!

[@homeiswhereourheartis]

We've just moved here it's beautiful 😁

[@hriwrmi]

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