Southerners: Do You Overlook This Tasty Wild Vegetable Every Spring?

[@jimhovater8755]

I'm 62 and have lived in the South all of my life. This is a new one on me.

[@Mntdewmania1]

Me too I've forged for years and didn't know about this one... Of course I'm in the mountains might make a difference..

[@rebeccagifford8088]

That doesn't look like what I grew up knowing as corn salad what we call corn salad grows on a huge Rock and it actually looks like corn growing

[@paulshell1729]

I grew this in my veg garden years ago and let it go to seed. It pops up voluntarily now, and I try to let a few plants self-seed. I did not know it was common as a wild plant. Corn salad (AKA Mache or hen's lettuce) seeds are available from many seed suppliers, and can be naturalized this way in your garden or border areas if you have decent conditions. It enjoys cool, moist springs and time to self-seed undisturbed in later summer.

[@MTknitter22]

No matter how long we have lived, there are many brand new things to learn we had no idea of!

[@iahelcathartesaura3887]

I'm 62 and lived in the south most of my life, generationally Western North Carolinian. I didn't know this grew out here! I bought some starts a year or two ago to try and grow it, but the possums got in my little garden. I wouldn't eat this from most of the soil in the area where I live because of contaminants. But this is amazing to know! I know this is tasty and I enjoyed what I could grow of it.

[@5points7019]

i learned of this lovely plant almost 30 years ago from my MIL. she was a refugee in germany in post ww2. she said this was one of many forages she and her brother would seek out bcs there wasn't much to eat. all the woods were cleared out of animals, farmers that were left had to stand armed guard to protect their crops until they were ready for harvest and for a time they were homeless, living in castles with other families. its also known as mache (mah chey). its delicious! its always a good thing to learn foraging. half the 'weeds' in my area are edible

[@CricketsBay]

When I saw the thumbnail, I was like, "Hey, that's mache!" It grows in wet areas of Southwest Iowa and Southeast Nebraska.

[@5points7019]

@CricketsBay Iowan here but in Michigan it'll grow as well

[@AudreyWortman]

62 old Gen x here ..here in🇨🇦 my grandfather use to take me in the wòods on walks and talk about the plants and nature in general ❤ MISS YOU GRAMPIE❤❤😊

[@ZBielski]

If your born before 1965 that makes you a part of the baby boomers I believe.

[@TheBudgetWarrior]

This is the best wild edible tutorial I have seen to date. Thank you.

[@LegacyWildernessAcademy]

Wow that is a wonderful compliment, thank you! Keep an eye out for more coming soon.

[@williammikell2210]

THANK YOU, for the explanation of "corn" in the old English. I read a book once that reference "corn" in 13th century England and I could never reconcile what I thought I knew about corn.

[@oakmaiden2133]

It was often used for wheat and barley.

[@oakmaiden2133]

I also had this confusion with indigenous weaving that I thought was introduced by Spanish exporers. They had cotton and yucca fibers before sheep.

[@nathanhale7444]

This is the kind of thing I want an exhaustive book about. One with pics of all the plants stages, how and when to harvest, how to prepare, any pitfalls you may encounter as well as lookalikes. Especially dangerous ones. Like how sweet potato leaves are edible but regular potato leaves are poisonous because potatoes are related in the same family as deadly nightshade so only the tubers are edible.

[@jrrn96]

Nicole Apeilan ex pharmacist has this book color pics and info

[@nathanhale7444]

@@jrrn96 I'll check it out. Thanks

[@BushcraftExplained]

When SHTF you’re going to be a valuable member of your community. Subscribed, guide coming to email and Facebook group joined. Thanks for the information.

[@LegacyWildernessAcademy]

I'm hoping to equip people one plant at a time. Thanks for watching, more videos coming soon.

[@herekittykitty9324]

Overlook it? Was raised on it. Fried it like poke salate with bacon grease. You can eat alot from the land. You can also eat its look alike and dandelions are delicious. Have many different recipes from Grandma from Appalachia.

[@sheilahenry7279]

I’d love to see a video of the old recipes. Have you any that show you coming w/ these? I watch a few Appalachian videos. Such a self sustaining people.

[@askip7]

You’re an excellent teacher, I really appreciate your style. I recently discovered your channel and webpage and have subscribed to both…also referred you to a friend of mine and she’s now a subscriber as well. Keep up the great work!

[@LegacyWildernessAcademy]

Thank you so much for the encouraging words! Hoping to make a lot more articles/videos this year!

[@carolfreeman2962]

Yes agree!

[@trustingod9160]

You should think about making a book for the edible plants

[@terrilegg1]

So glad I found your channel; I love foraging in the Southeast and your descriptions are much more detailed

[@LegacyWildernessAcademy]

Thank you for saying that! Keep an eye out for more videos coming soon!

[@Fallujarhead]

Thanks for the knowledge brother. These are growing throughout my old herb garden. I might throw them in the salad bowl.

[@blackthornknives]

Interesting point about the scripture reference. Thank you for the clarification!

[@valkyrie1066]

Transplanted Southerner; I am happy to learn about my new garden weeds! I want to know what I can eat, and make into poultices, tea, etc. YEP, I've seen that near the creek! Yes, I understand corn to mean "grain" in older texts. No teeth on the edge, opposite leaves. Chickweed! put a sprig of it in cheap olive oil; it will taste like the more expensive variety. Sheep sorrel, I've seen that. Arrowhead shape. Thank you; sometimes these weeds grow so close together, and I don't want to take home toxins. (or pick them separately as needed for poultices, etc.)Thank you so much AND you have a new subscriber! 😃😃

[@bmiles4131]

Sheep sorrel is shaped like a sheep’s head.

[@LegacyWildernessAcademy]

Thank you so much for watching and subscribing!

[@stacystepp7914]

​@@bmiles4131Well how cool is that?! Yeah...the head and both ears!

[@kellyclemmer9715]

This is so useful and I love seeing the look-alikes too. I know you can’t cover them all, but seeing the differences helps me get to know the first plant better too!

[@sv160]

❤️ wow it’s a German thing so. Tast sooooooooo good. We put it in the potato salad. It was a Christmas Eve dish in my family Kartoffel Salat mit Rapunzel Salat ( cornsalad ) and Fleischwurst oder Devil eggs. Rapunzel got her Name from that salad. Her mom loved to eat Rapunzels when she was pregnant.

[@lola8590]

I bought seeds from Bakers Creek of this plant. Hoping it’ll seed and reappear every year. Amazing in salads!

[@ewc435black9]

Mine did. In central NC zone 7b

[@Paula.M]

Grew up in Germany after the War we had it in our victory garden. I have it now in my garden sew seeds in September and eat it winter

[@utubemouse]

Already flowering down here in Houston area!

[@ql2ku]

Ivevmbeen pulling cudweed and chamber butters from.my yard for years without progress..i was glad to hear they both are medicinal

[@nancyfahey7518]

Does he have a video on it? I'll check it out.

[@Cherishflowers6]

I'm sooo glad this popped up on my feed! Just subscribed! You are awesome 🎉

[@LegacyWildernessAcademy]

Thank you!

[@wrengregory1458]

The cudweed makes a rabbit tobacco like flower. It is also the favorite food of Buckeye Butterflies. I can't wait to taste the corn salad. I bet it would taste great with sorrel. Too much sorrel will clean one out. I learned alot for you. Thanks!!~

[@LegacyWildernessAcademy]

Thanks for watching!

[@jerrystephenson6198]

I bought a seed packet of corn salad because it had a short maturity period. It did terrible, and I thought it was done, but it came back late in the season and is already growing this spring.

[@ajalicea1091]

Love the historical

[@AndreaM77]

New subscriber here. Love to learn about Father's " farmacy" and free greens. ❤

[@LegacyWildernessAcademy]

Thank you for watching and subscribing. More coming soon!

[@gendoll5006]

We have so many wild edible plants in our yard. But these corn salad ones popped up this year and just yesterday I saw them and was like what is that??? Definitely gonna go grab some now for a salad lol.

[@LegacyWildernessAcademy]

Awesome!

[@melindaroth5796]

Awesome teaching 😊 Thank you so much for teaching us all Brother ❤😊

[@LegacyWildernessAcademy]

Thanks so much for watching!

[@venamorgan9980]

Cilantro or bandanya here in the Caribbean is similar It also has a pungent smell and used in seafood and curries.

[@tigertyg251]

Best description of this plant I’ve encountered

[@betty4gators]

Appreciate the video and first time viewer. Really appreciated the bible reference.

[@LegacyWildernessAcademy]

Thanks for watching!

[@viewsandreviews180]

Thank you for sharing this with me. I’m sure I would still need some practice identifying edible plants but your information is very useful to a novice. Do you have in person instruction? If not you might want to think about doing that.

[@LegacyWildernessAcademy]

Hoping to start teaching plant walks this year! We just moved back to the South so I'm still working on finding locations, etc.

[@thekhakihat3233]

It would be great to see a range map if its available. Good video!

[@stacystepp7914]

TERRIFIC description of corn salad! I feel like I could go find it and positively identify it after just watching this one video...especially after it get older! Great job showing it right next to sheep sorrel too!

[@kleineroteHex]

Reminds me of Feldsalat (field lettuce) we used to pick early spring in Germany. The French call it mache, and I had seeds that never germinated 😢

[@utubemouse]

Also there is a wild white forget-me-not with slightly fuzzy leaves that are quite similar.

[@joshuaflowers6340]

Great vid! Subscribed and joined the FB group. I’ve been foraging for medicinal purposes for a few years now. Always great to learn more.

[@LegacyWildernessAcademy]

Thank you! Keep an eye out for more videos coming soon

[@MeadowLark8]

I recognize these plants; I"m not native to the South :) Thankyou! We'll have more salads to eat! I would love to be notified but I find Facebook too confusing for me. :(

[@nancyfahey7518]

Same here with facebook. Most people just plain don't like it.

[@jessicapearson9479]

This also grows up north too.

[@mzindyg007]

Oh Dear. I’m quite sure I’ve pulled this out as Weed. 😕SMH But I’ve run across Corn Salad seeds and thought it waa an odd name Now I know Thank you so much. Keep it coming

[@LegacyWildernessAcademy]

Will do, thanks for watching!

[@katylox1604]

Atwood has corn salad seeds

[@cblair8501]

I did the same. There were so many growing around my lettuce & spinach.

[@babystepsgarden6162]

So glad I found your Channel! I just subscribed.🤓

[@LegacyWildernessAcademy]

Thanks for watching and subscribing! More videos coming soon!

[@billfarr3343]

Thank you much. I appreciate the guide booklet.

[@LegacyWildernessAcademy]

Thanks for watching!

[@lola8590]

Great info….love your channel.

[@LegacyWildernessAcademy]

Thank you, glad you're enjoying the videos!

[@rusty6172]

I'm so thankful to have people doing this work in my region, all the stuff I've seen growing in my garden and wondering about, you've covered so much of it! Are there book recommendations you have? I'd like to get better at identifying all the plants here in georgia or the east tennessee regions, especially differentiating the edibles from the others.

[@lrg613]

You make me want to love back south!

[@LegacyWildernessAcademy]

Come on! I did! Lived in AZ for 5 years but had to come back

[@peggyalbright3745]

Great info! Thanks!

[@LegacyWildernessAcademy]

Thanks for watching! Glad you found it useful!

[@markwray366]

Thank you, very insightful

[@LegacyWildernessAcademy]

Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching!

[@NazarasfineCrafts]

Thank you again! The videos you have put out are very useful. And as you said is that you go over so much about the plant, that it makes it easier to identify. Is there any way you could do a video about the sheep sorrel, or sorrel in general? I know there are so many different types. Thanks again ❤

[@LegacyWildernessAcademy]

Hoping to cover it next year! I have 20 target species for this year and I'm running around like a crazy person trying to film/photograph them all.

[@NazarasfineCrafts]

@LegacyWildernessAcademy lol completely understand. Appreciate and all information you put out. Thanks and looking forward to the next video.

[@shakti7457]

WOW, I absolutely have wondered that they wouldn't have had corn in biblical times. Interesting!

[@laverneetheredge7852]

GREAT INFO>> Thank you!

[@deneseburrell]

Nice video, but I live all the way across the US from you in the PNW, where the Sun don't shine and most of the wild edibles are evergreen trees. Maybe I'll check back in a month, see if you travel~

[@BlancaHolland-xx9ny]

Love these teachings because in Florida I haven't seen this plant 🤔

[@LegacyWildernessAcademy]

It's mostly only found in far north Florida.

[@deetrvl4life875]

Nice! I wonder what is the nutritional value of each of these types?

[@glenharrod6230]

You are a wealth of knowledge. I'm in coastal Ga. and cannot find stinging nettle. Can you please help?

[@samuelestepp725]

Tangle gut,ramps,creasey greens,are good to

[@tsugima6317]

Not to mention young common violet leaves and flowers. I use them like spinach and they are delicious and have more iron than spinach.

[@blueplasma5589]

Mache is corn salad? You could cover the other names used on your plants. Great vid. Trader Joe's use to sell Mache in bags.

[@GoodWoodWorks-le4cd]

Thank you! Great tutorial. Do you know if sheep sorrel is same or different than "minor's lettuse"? Loved the seed description " beaked" as well.

[@LegacyWildernessAcademy]

Thanks for watching! Miner's lettuce is a different plant.

[@FeralEarthGardens]

Nice presentation, you have earned a new subscriber!

[@LegacyWildernessAcademy]

Thank you for watching and following!

[@chaz4471]

Thank you ❤

[@LegacyWildernessAcademy]

Thanks for watching!

[@annayetter]

I have learned so much from you and appreciate that you are willing to teach us. I do have one question about foraging. Can I still gather this and other greens in the middle of winter?

[@LegacyWildernessAcademy]

Greens typically aren't available in the dead of winter unless you live way down in the deep south. Plants like chickweed, wild mustards, henbit, purple dead nettle, and dock come out when the weather cools down

[@karmelicanke]

Buy seeds and grow your own mache/corn salad. When sold at the grocery store or market, it costs a fortune.

[@daregularperson]

I think I have some in my yard right now - liked the video for locality, and very good information, but the KJV contextualization is 🌟

[@LegacyWildernessAcademy]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@baneverything5580]

I planted it randomly in some pots and thought WEEDS were coming up in them because it is apparently already growing as a weed in my area in Louisiana. Ha! I was very confused. Now I`m allowing some to grow and produce more seeds since they came from plants in another region and may be a bit different.

[@toneenorman2135]

Does it only grow in the south? Thank you.

[@stacystepp7914]

It also grows in Missouri, Southern Illinois, and Virginia:)

[@CricketsBay]

It grows in Southwest Iowa and Southeast Nebraska too. Mache aka Corn Salad was a popular greens plant brought by settlers from Europe. Many low-lying wet areas along the Mormon Trail through Iowa and Nebraska have mache growing wild. It's incredibly cold-hardy and reseeds itself every year.

[@toneenorman2135]

Thank you! I really love weeds. Such a generous bounty from Nature.@@CricketsBay

[@GolDollar]

I would like to know about harvesting. Do you clip off the leaves individually or clip off the whole plant leaving the roots? I assume you don’t want to pull up the whole plant because you want it to grow back.

[@LegacyWildernessAcademy]

I strip off the leaves from the stem. You can pull it up from the roots because it's an annual(one year life cycle), so it's not going to come back from the root anyway.

[@annroberts7935]

My favorite spring ephemeral is beaked corn salad. Is that the same thing?

[@annroberts7935]

I should have waited to ask the question, LOL

[@LegacyWildernessAcademy]

haha thanks for watching!@@annroberts7935

[@poll2dock]

We eat this often in Germany. It’s called schafmeyer

[@Kazwellian]

Is it a good idea to rely on an app to identify edible or medicinal plants?

[@LegacyWildernessAcademy]

No, they're frequently wrong.

[@stacystepp7914]

Not in my opinion. My husband uses one and it's wrong more than half of the time.

[@kakea8403]

Nope

[@greatplainsman3662]

Get a good reputable plant ID book. They have good edible and medicinal books also.

[@cblair8501]

I just pulled hundreds of these out of my garden beds....😮

[@LegacyWildernessAcademy]

Next year if they pop up you'll be ready!

[@NathanBrown-z7o]

Knife bucket dip Knife in fine corn powder or use sand.

[@valkyrie1066]

Used this in medieval camping. Fine sand to clean things before washing. (or instead of; such as cast iron)

[@TheAdventuresofDrewandAmanda]

I see this all the time . Didn’t know it was edible.

[@davo8802]

You never showed the location. Which states is great knowledge

[@susanpaulson9010]

What about the water quality that it’s growing in?

[@ewc435black9]

I found these seeds online and planted them in a raised bed. They came up and died back for the Winter. This Spring the came back almost filled up the bed. No work at all. Disease and pest free here in central NC.

[@greatplainsman3662]

How far north does it grow?

[@LegacyWildernessAcademy]

Missouri, southern Illinois, Virginia. Around there.

[@CricketsBay]

I find it all the time in the places where the Mormons settled in Nebraska and Iowa. It just needs a low-lying wet area. Mache/Corn Salad plants are cold-hardy and reseed every year.

[@perrypresley9630]

I eat my free food in the yard😊 I supplement my hens with wild plants

[@Twinklboo]

Same as Lamb's Lettuce?

[@LegacyWildernessAcademy]

Yep! It's our native wild lamb's lettuce. Thanks for watching!

[@mariatorres9789]

I don't have FB. How do I join the foraging group for far N/E Florida? Thanks-

[@StatmanRN]

I don’t think I’ve seen this in central FL

[@elisabethjones4917]

Any specific uses for this one?

[@LegacyWildernessAcademy]

Not too much, just a good vegetable. It's closely related to a cultivated vegetable called "mache", so if you look up recipes for that they will all apply to this as well. Thanks for watching!

[@feliciapate7926]

Is that cudweed also known as “rabbit tobacco”? It looks like rabbit tobacco.

[@LegacyWildernessAcademy]

They're in the same family but different. Rabbit tobacco is native, gets taller, and is more of a well known medicinal.

[@zina6581]

☺

[@armeegetton]

So those soups, salads, and pies i made outside as a kid were more edible than we thought, lol

[@joannetaylor6868]

Are all three you discussed edible?

[@LegacyWildernessAcademy]

There are two, European (locusta) and our native species (radiata). Yes mam they're both edible and look virtually identical. Thank you for watching!!

[@joannetaylor6868]

Thank You for such valuable information.

[@shericontrary2535]

My grandmother ate all kinds of things during the Great Depression. She might have eaten that.

[@jrrn96]

Why not just grow lettuce? What can we grow to make those spring mixes beside lettuce and arugala and what is the best companion flowers to plant nearby to attract predators that eat pests like flowers that attract lady bugs. Lady bugs eat mites and pests that eat or ruin your vegetables.

[@marcusdub07]

Okay, I was physically pulling this exact weed from my lawn several hours ago and wondered if it was edible, and now this video?!?!?! This is impossible.

[@michaelmerck7576]

Thats what was called poke salad

[@DavidWade-fm3pb]

Definitely not poke salad

[@barbaramcarthur142]

That looks like Forget-Me-Not.

[@gregpace5982]

Is this what we call "Branch Lettuce"?

[@LegacyWildernessAcademy]

I believe branch lettuce refers to a different plant. This one sometimes goes by lamb's lettuce, but not branch lettuce to my knowledge. Thanks for watching!

[@mikekeltner4291]

Is it corn salad or corn sallat

[@LegacyWildernessAcademy]

Sallat is just an old way of saying salad. You may hear old timers still say it that way, especially when referring to pokeweed or "poke sallat."

[@mikekeltner4291]

@@LegacyWildernessAcademy who are you calling old timer

[@masteraus66]

Bro wtf I randomly ate this in my yard today and now I get recommended this video

[@shervegas]

It almost look like young lettuce

[@katylox1604]

Looks like chickweed flowers

[@fredflintstone6163]

Been eating weeds 70 plus years 😊

[@ImaOkie]

Appears no one is immune to having henbit in the yard , I'm hoping the chick weed will overtake it !

[@theage3888]

How do you use it😂

[@sabinadonofrio8863]

I'd rather call it kern salad. Hate corn

[@johnberry1107]

I don't over look it. I spray it.

[@Fiscals_Organics]

My nigga it’s early march everywhere