Spring Foraging for Medicinals!!! WILD Raspberry and Blackberry Leaves

[@50shadesofgreen]

Good day to you kevin & sarah from living traditions homestead !! 👍👍😁😁 Thanks for sharing your update of your homestead and what's going on throughout the day 😁😁👍👍

[@purplerain2922]

Yes please do more foraging videos. God bless!

[@kevinbwillson4161]

Shara your Wonderful as are your lovely Family Thank you all for the needed info Happy Trails

[@littlecreekhomestead4086]

I had no idea you could make tea from raspberry & blackberry leaves!!! This is why I love watching your channel....I ALWAYS learn something!!!

[@nms886]

I have those May Apples all over my place and wasn't sure what they were, Thanks to you now I know!!!

[@franknovak6268]

Easiest way to determine rapsbery vs blackberry leaves it turn them around and rapsbery ones are whitish on the bottom and blackberry are plain green ;)

[@glenokla2588]

Beautiful peaceful land.

[@ozarkoracle7389]

I'm a Missouri gal too and my fingers look a whole lot like yours do. haha! Hard working hands. Enjoy your videos.

[@christiezemmin9197]

I LOVE your foraging videos!

[@JaniceCrowell]

Wood sorrel makes a delicious lemonade and is very high in vitamin C.

[@christakavejama904]

Thank you for your information, I like natural resources so I will keep on drinking all the fruits leaves. Thanks more.

[@rayandmelaniemelograne7209]

Just started following your channel. Trying my hand at urban homesteading. This is my second year lol. I never knew what a wild Violet was good for until now. They grow wild in my humble backyard. In fact there are a lot of beneficial "weeds " growing in my yard. So excited about all I'm learning. Thanks for taking the time to share. Be blessed:o)

[@HaphazardGardens]

This is such an exciting video!

[@ffwife1210]

LOVE this!!!

[@mariaengle2202]

You are one of the most adorable teacher I've been watching.

[@thecoppergoat7098]

Yes loved this!!

[@OurTinyHomestead]

Morrell mushrooms should be found growing around the mayapples. Morels come out in the morning and cooler weather after it rains.

[@taunyaw2181]

LOVE morels! I grew up East of KC a bit. My dad and I used to go out every year and come back with breadbags full (lots of bags actually) of morels. We had woods behind our house, that the owners sold and is now a housing addition. It's sad to think all the morels are gone... (And lol...making tea with raspberry leaves now...not found in wild though. I need to find that too!)

[@nanamary6]

Thanks for all the great information

[@krickitfarm]

I’m wondering if you could use the fold gold raspberry leaves for tea as well? Or does it have to be the red raspberry leaves?

[@letitsnow4822]

Excellent video ! Keep on keeping on

[@WithrowUrbanHomestead]

You inspired me to get collect violets, raspberry leaves and dandelions this morning.

[@LivingTraditionsHomestead]

Awesome!!!! I collected more just yesterday. I hope to have 2 quarts of dried raspberry and 1 qt of dried blackberry leaves to get us through the year. We have fantastic dandelions in the yard this year.

[@NS-pf2zc]

Oh! We have violets everywhere! And wild BlackBerry bushes in an invasive way... that's it, I'm going foraging tomorrow! Oh, by the way... my hands look the same. 😉 Sign of a garden beauty hard at work!

[@linabradfield3922]

Thanks for the information! Enjoy your videos.

[@tennmcclain]

Great video, Sarah☺

[@HeartinessApproach]

Thank you Sarah for taking us foraging with you. We are trying to learn what we have on our property and we have much to learn.

[@LivingTraditionsHomestead]

Make sure to join wild edibles groups on facebook. There is one for the Ozarks and most of the time they talk about things as they are in season. That way you know what to be on the look out for.

[@deborahfranzen6168]

Great video. I love the foraging. A thought that I did have about you knowing what is in your canning jars when you forage is to use Post-it notes on your jars. You can simply write what you want on each note and stick the note on your jar. I would use the super sticky notes. I use the notes on my jars that I store foods in. It works great for me.

[@LivingTraditionsHomestead]

Thanks! I tend to just improvise in the moment, lol!

[@asimhusain8087]

@@LivingTraditionsHomestead thanks for the information I found 3 very large patches I saw that blackberry their fruit & especially their leaves are super foods and very anti carcinogenic

[@browncoathomestead2080]

THANKS FOR ALL THE GREAT INFO ON FORAGING FOR BLACKBERRIES AND RASPBERRIES AND THEIR, LEAVES I ALSO PLAN TO DO SIMILAR.ACORNS TO MAKE ACORN FLOUR. HAVE A GREAT AND BLESSED DAY :-)

[@grsartofworship4352]

Nice information. Very colorful basket! Great find!

[@WendyK656]

Sarah, you are so cute! it looks like hard work with your nails. Thank you for taking us on your foraging trip.

[@whatabouttrish]

I am so impressed with this video! I am going to watch it again. I think I can actually tell the difference between the raspberries and the blackberries, now!

[@melissashadrick1593]

Southern Illinois Gardner here, I'm afraid morels are going to be few and far between this year. We need a rain, then a warm sunny spring day, to make the morels pop. And we're slap out of warm sunny spring days around here! LOL thank you for the info, my son gets canker sores something terrible and I'm going to now try a tea, maybe a poultice for him.

[@sandrag7202]

Great video, what Frank said, Raspberry leaves have a whiteunder leaf whereas black berry are just the normal green.

[@roefane2258]

I love your foraging videos, I would love if you make more and maybe even a playlist? Pleeeeeease. Haha

[@tomwells9665]

Like your foraging videos. Please do more in the future.

[@juliebaker6969]

Red Raspberry leaf tea is my favorite too. Your property may not be inoculated with black morel spores. If you know someone who DOES have them, you could try laying a few of the older fruiting bodies where you want them to grow. They may or may not succeed, it depends weather they are more hardy than your natural fungus strains. It may take a while to produce fruiting bodies though. Since they will have to spend their energy killing off the indigenous funguses first, before they can colonize an area. Even a successful inoculation can take years to fruit effectively. If You decide to try, have patience and remember it's a gamble.

[@dwilhelm11]

Wow, thank you for the education and learning the difference and what to use the leaves for. I really enjoyed.

[@missourigirl4101]

I’ve this video Sarah! Great helpful info

[@darleneclark6098]

Should have picked those fiddle head ferns. They're delicious in salads. Taste like asparagus.

[@Vanlifekay]

thanks for the great info loved the video

[@toofewacres5690]

I'm in Kansas city and harvested morel mushrooms in my backyard.

[@Kimmies991]

Great video! Forage vids r awesome!

[@RiverPlaid]

I did not know that tea could be made from these leaves! I’ve never thought about foraging, thank you.

[@dbennett20]

Here in Oklahoma to find morel mushrooms we have to have a rain then a warm sunny day soon after for them to pop up. We normally find them in bottom areas. If I could post a pic here of the ones we harvested I would.

[@countrygalinthecity]

Peaceful in the woods for sure... haven't got any deer yet, been hunting for three years...but that's okay, I love just being out there being with The Master...such beauty! Besides, my husband gets 2-3 deer a year...lol

[@jennyduncan5799]

Dirt under my nails? My favorite kind of day!!

[@erikacronje8985]

Thank you for the educational video, always good to be able to identify plants in the wild!

[@jeanrichards8042]

I used to live in Muscoda WI, the morel mushroom capital of the world! When I was a kid, my dad, brother and I would go out in the spring on the hillsides and harvest dozens of 5qt ice cream pails full of them. Harder to find now. I think what someone else said about finding them by dead elms is right though. Keep looking, you never know. For the record, my mom hates morels, haha. I never really aquired a taste for them either, but have fond memories of collecting them. Your kids are so lucky you can teach them these things and hopefully create some of those lifetime happy memories too 😊

[@bettyjoelauper]

Thanks I love that you give both visual and factual information on edibles in wild. Appreciate it!

[@michellerushing4311]

Yes! Love the foraging videos! We have a true ton of invasive wild blackberry that I am forever trying to kill. I had no idea that I should be taking advantage of the baby leaves first. Looks like I have a project ahead!

[@Acadian.FrenchFry]

WOW I had no idea about this! I am literally surrounded by blackberries! I have to fight them off my land. They have invaded the creek bottom almost entirely! And now I at least have a use for them. I have issues with both things so this will really help me actually! Thank you, now I'm all excited and going to grab a basket and a jar or two and harvest from those pests! lol

[@jmbo16]

Thanks for the tour , keep looking for those morels , after 5 years on our place , yesterday while not looking we found 4 right under our noses !!

[@susieblackman7981]

Great information from the woods, love that you share.

[@suemcfarlane4199]

Sorrel is great for small parrots like para keeps like australian budgeriegars

[@NicholeLynne28]

Wow! Great information! I knew about raspberry leaves but I did not realize you could also use blackberry! We have loads around here. Time to get foraging!

[@carolmcintyre8485]

On the subject of morels, here in Ohio, morels grow around apple and pine trees and are out when the may apples first come up Also look for them after plenty of rain on a sunny, warm day Best wishes!

[@LuJustLu]

Wonderful video!!! So much information and great ideas and tips for usage. I have a question. Do you wash the leaves and flowers before drying them?

[@muddyacres9334]

Ah, yes....the elusive morel. Yeah, with you. I'm sure they're not real! Love, though, the information you're passing onto us. Anytime you want to take us for a walk in the woods, it would be great! I would love more of this learning experience. Thank you.

[@universalgardener333]

Never give up on Morels LOL I have been picking violets for the last few days. They took awhile to show up but I think they are making up for it!

[@Idontwantachannel67]

Love this video! So serene ; relaxing.

[@srodgers1969]

I noticed you scanned some fern fiddle heads when you were panning the woods. I have never tried them but those are edible too.

[@Forevertrue]

The white powdery stuff on the raspberry stem is yeast. If you want to make wild yeast Bread take some stems and put in a slurry of flour and watch it like you do sourdough. Wild grapes have it on their outside as well. You have seen it.

[@LivingTraditionsHomestead]

That is fantastic info! Thanks so much!

[@barbaraanderson5785]

Love this,, you taught about just enough that I learned a lot. So enjoyable the walk in the woods. Do another one soon.

[@charmainemontgomery582]

Very interesting information 😊

[@maraneesherman3096]

Thanks Sarah!

[@ammiecoburn3036]

Thank you for sharing! I have forraged the same leaves, just was never sure what one I had!

[@wval4379]

Love your foraging videos. I live in a wooded area and love being in the woods, too.

[@swianecki]

So beautiful in the woods. I love the violets.

[@shelly8387]

Yes I would love to see more foraging videos. I learned a lot with this one. Very timely. Thank you so much.

[@yeshuaisthewaythetruthandt515]

Thanku

[@lisabooker6405]

Loved it!!! Thank you!! ♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@flatlandah52]

Great video! Anything about foraging/medicinal herbs is of interest to me. Last year I was teaching a class on wild edible plants and made wood sorrel soup! (found the idea online, can't remember where) I kept it simple by sauteing chopped onions in butter, adding chicken stock and a few handfuls of wood sorrel. Cook until tender, then add a tempered egg or two. The egg added a creamy richness and also seemed to cut the sour-ness a little. Season to taste. I'm sure carrots, potatoes, etc would taste good in it too. It's one of those inexact recipes that you add what you like/want/have.

[@farmherchick2518]

I watched this video this morning. This afternoon I went for a walk with my kids and we found some violets! 😃 I’m with you on the mushroom thing, I’m in Michigan and people find them all the time but not me. Thanks for the info!! Love the channel. ❤️

[@OZARKMEL]

I have not found any morel mushrooms here either! LOL I would love to see more video's on what you dehydrate. I just recently got one (in preparation for this Fall's garden harvest). Thank you for another informative video! :)

[@loriehabel1552]

😱Oh ya goodness from the woods.

[@Mrs-Emcee]

Maybe more luck for the mushrooms in the autumn? Interesting video, thanks! And what a great place to live!!

[@kimadkins4558]

Love you're foraging videos! Always learn something! I had just finished watching the part about how to identify the wild raspberry leaves and my kids called me out to look at a waterfall they had found in the woods. Guess what I found while crossing a tree that had fallen?....wild raspberries! I wouldn't have known what they were had I not seen your video. Thank you!

[@shayesgarden7398]

❤️ forging videos

[@candiwallace6605]

Hey 🤗🤗🌱🌱

[@amier7628]

Love the foraging video! I learned so much! Thank you!!!!

[@jackeekp]

Thank You for the video, and the details, very informative,

[@tamarawheeldon1060]

As always a great and thoroughly informative video!!❤️

[@bubbacrabb]

Lol I just asked about mushrooms on another vid of yours. I always find them around dead elms but have found them about everywhere. Little grays are being found around me now. The big yellow morels I usually find closer to beginning of may at least here in the Hoosier state.

[@dasroberts6811]

Great information. Do you rinse the leaves before you dry them? Definitely more videos about foraging. Thank you.

[@tennesseegirl1215]

Thanks Sarah, great info, more foraging videos and maybe can do a dehydrating one someday. Blessings

[@joeychancey9192]

We have that merriel mushroom here in south Georgia certain time of yr around here

[@verneparrish5681]

I m in iowa and find morells here on southern facing hillsides

[@smokinreptile]

Good stuff to Know

[@spie115]

Awesome video today Sarah! I love tea but know nothing about natural or wild resources for making tea. I would love more videos about making teas. Thanks a bunch!

[@Keiths1234]

You can make a dryer real simple out two by twos and make a Square and stretch screen over it then I cut two by two square 4 the corners to raise one on top of the other just with a space between or you could take and drill holes in the corners and use rope through it and put knots in the Rope so it won't slide up and down the space of a part and hang it from your ceiling down just some ideas thank you for sharing your forging and God bless you

[@LivingTraditionsHomestead]

Good idea!

[@eddiejordan7061]

Have you ever tried Fever-few it is great for head aches and a good to repeal rodents

[@pinkcoffee1502]

thank yo9u for the info hun i will be going out in my back yard and seeing what i can find

[@GraceHomesteadFarm]

Thank you! I didn't know how to tell the difference between the black and raspberries. In our area you can dig the mayapple and sell the roots. 40c a lb wet or $3 a lb dried.

[@LivingTraditionsHomestead]

Wow! What do people use them for? I think I could become a millionaire!

[@AlmostHomestead]

Good info. Thanks!

[@christiebetts4970]

I had forgotten about the blackberry leaves being good for diarrhea.I need to add that to my herbal medicine cabinet i'm trying to built

[@CrystalA777]

Thank you Sarah we just got 12 Acres of land. We just found blackberries and raspberries growing everywhere. My husband and I were told that we had both but had no idea how to tell them apart. Would also like to see how you make your tea. By the way I love your videos keep up the good work. Thanks again.

[@greenrage2484]

Crystal-How lucky are you? :) wellnessmama.com/5107/raspberry-leaf/ Pour 8 ounces of boiling water over 1 teaspoon to 1 tablespoon of raspberry leaf (depending on how strong you like your tea). Steep, covered, for at least 5 minutes and drink as regular tea. I often keep a gallon of cold raspberry leaf tea in the fridge so that I don’t have to brew by the cup. To make a gallon, just use 3/4 to 1 cup of raspberry leaf per gallon of boiling water. I pour the herbs and boiling water into a gallon glass jar, cover with a plate, and leave overnight before straining for a strong tea.

[@bettysams8559]

Please keep making the videos. Curious what you use the violent blooms for.

[@zelphiaellerson6283]

You just saved some wild raspberry plants. I was going to dig them up today! Thanks for sharing your walk with us! Do you know anything about wild garlic?

[@darleneclark6098]

Was wondering if regular raspberry plants would be usable too.

[@LindseyHeine]

Thank you for sharing your adventures with us! I was wondering if you wash the plants you bring home before dehydrating them? Or is washing them necessary? It is awesome there are so many valuable wild plants where you live!

[@greenmouseguard]

Sarah, I have a Question? How do you vacumn seal , I have seen the bag ones. How do you recommend vacumn sealing a jar & show how? What product, I cant find it in your Amazon store list. Please help 😘🙏 Linda from Connecticut 👍🏻 God Bless You Your Awesome 😘