Surviving the High Desert on Foraged Plants, Part 2 (My Survival Feast)

[@AB-kg6rk]

Thanks teacher! Good info, but i aint sleeping in a bed with snakes, scorpions and centipedes🤣

[@rockymountainedibles3593]

Haha! Thanks for watching! Yeah, I do not get very excited about sharing my bed with those creature! :)

[@sandygap1]

Great video. Thanks for taking the time to do this. As I said in Part I, there is very, very little on KZbin and in the written literature about survival and foraging in the high desert. I'm surprised there is so little information, as it requires special techniques.

[@rockymountainedibles3593]

Thanks for watching and leaving a comment. You are right, there is not much out there.

[@sheilam4964]

Yay, part 2. Awesome filming of foraging, roasting and feasting. Watching the 'feasting' part demonstrated what the cooked plant is like (biting and chewing) very informative showing what texture to look for before eating. Thx.

[@rockymountainedibles3593]

Thanks for watching and for the kind feedback.

[@Coldforged-moble]

You need more viewers I love you're videos

[@rockymountainedibles3593]

Thanks. I appreciate the kind feedback.

[@BeastMixer]

Come to the high desert in Southwest Wyoming to teach us more!!👍😁

[@reptiliost358]

Very epic video, sir.

[@rockymountainedibles3593]

I appreciate you watching and for leaving a comment.

[@josephbenton3471]

I wish I was there with you as well. Learning and trying the wild edibles. I just drove back to Denver from Arizona a few weeks ago. I went to Gilbert, Arizona and went on a plant walk with Matthew Hunter at the Riparian preserve. I really enjoyed the sweet cucumber flavor of the desert honeysuckle. I finally tried wolf berries for the first time. I was drawn to the desert beauty around Winslow and had to stay a while at a rest stop, looking at all the plants. I'll definitely be back down and I hope to run into you someday.

[@rockymountainedibles3593]

That sounds like a wonderful experience. There is nothing like the desert in the spring.

[@rockymountainedibles3593]

Thanks for watching.

[@BCVS777]

Great video! I live in the high desert SW and I think I have seen some of those plants. Unfortunately, I am not confident enough with identification to make much use of them.

[@rockymountainedibles3593]

Yes. For quite some time when I started learning about edible wild plants I did not have the confidence to try them. Caution is always a good idea. If possible I might suggest finding someone from your area who offers plants walks. That is a great way to learn and develop confidence about identification and use of plants.

[@cayenneshu]

Appreciate the knowledge shared in this video!

[@mr.r2816]

Missed your videos sir! They are very useful!

[@rockymountainedibles3593]

Thanks for the kind feedback.

[@backwoodstrails]

We have wild hyacinth here in So. California. I had always called them "Blue Dicks" which is another common name for them. Then I was told by the National Park Service that we must use the name Wild Hyacinth on our nature walks with the kids. Interesting thing, the kids really don't remember the Wild Hyacinth but when I used to call them "Blue Dicks" all the kids remembered! Imagine that.

[@rockymountainedibles3593]

Thanks for watching! Haha! I had a similar consideration when I decided not to refer to them by that common name. I also sometimes refer to the by the same common name as you do!

[@potterylady44]

Ha...this was nice. Thanks for sharing!

[@catchncookcalifornia1574]

This was awesome! Thanks for sharing! I do a lot of survival challenges and wild plants foraging out here on the CA coast so this was a real treat to see you in your element and in a totally different environment than where I live. Looks like a lot of the plant communities overlap with ours in the eastern Sierra's. Definitely earned a sub!

[@rockymountainedibles3593]

Awesome! I am glad to hear that you enjoy the same passion for wild plants and survival. I have not had the opportunity to explore the eastern Sierra's yet. I hope to in the future!

[@ericgroetz4120]

Fantastic video! Thank you!

[@rockymountainedibles3593]

Thanks for watching!

[@yknott.1493]

Thank you for both parts of this. I enjoy your videos.keep it up!

[@rockymountainedibles3593]

Thanks so much for watching.

[@yknott.1493]

@@rockymountainedibles3593 I've been hiking and veggin on wild food and truly appreciate your videos. Thank you for showing us the best ones!

[@toddcrossoutdoorsurvivalsk7456]

Amazingly done

[@rockymountainedibles3593]

Thanks for the encouraging comment and thanks for watching.

[@DanielAubel]

love to content - I'm grateful for you!

[@rockymountainedibles3593]

Thanks for watching.

[@delilahevers4937]

Im so glad to see you putting out videos again, its been so hard getting resources on edible foraging in Colorado, all you ever see online is stuff from humid places out east and i really appreciate your videos for the rockies specific things, please keep them coming!

[@readoryx373]

That hyacinth looklike a death camas, i gotta learn more

[@kirkha100]

Awesome helpful video. Thanks.

[@rockymountainedibles3593]

Thanks for watching and the kind words.

[@kirkha100]

@@rockymountainedibles3593 Collected Cymopteris seeds today. Critters, including cattle snip the umbels right off. Locals call it “Chimajá” gonna sprout’em. Found three calochortus. Needless to say, I did not touch them. They’re quite rare here. Took pictures and enjoyed their beauty.

[@ulperformance4087]

Agave similar perhaps to the physical characteristics of an artichoke leaf?

[@chriswhinery]

Thanks for the informative video. I live in that type of forest and have seen all of those plants. I'm interested in your thoughts on juniper berries. To me, they taste like pinion nuts.

[@rockymountainedibles3593]

Thanks for watching! I have consumed juniper berries numerous times as a trailside nibble and I really like them. However, I need to experiment with other ways of preparing them.

[@DAUDYBENYAHUAH]

Anyway you could point me in the right direction of where I can go to learn how to properly identify those wild edibles my friend? Great video btw really appreciate it. Ty

[@rockymountainedibles3593]

Thanks for watching. Would you mind letting me know your general area? I might have some ideas depending on where you live.

[@DAUDYBENYAHUAH]

Brigham city utah

[@MichaelMMiddleton098]

Anything thattakes 24 hours to cook BETTER be tasty!

[@John3.36]

What is the balance that you would want to eat? I imagine too much greens or agave would give you the runs.

[@faustthesnake3600]

Damn you weren’t kidding teach

[@rockymountainedibles3593]

Haha! Thanks for watching!

[@MisSorryforthespam]

Thank you. Do you teach classes?

[@rockymountainedibles3593]

Thanks for watching! I am considering offering classes in the near future.

[@TaylorsAuthenticTraditions]

If all you brought was a steel h20 bottle, steel cup, knife and pick axe, how did you start your fires?

[@rockymountainedibles3593]

Good question! I used my botany lens to get the fire. This is shown at about the 6 minute mark.

[@utej.k.bemsel4777]

Now my potplant agave looks at me with big eyes...please don't eat me!🤣

[@rockymountainedibles3593]

Haha! Thanks for watching!

[@philipbaity7083]

Good to get this info which is nowhere to be found in print....

[@rockymountainedibles3593]

Thanks for watching. If you are interested, I can tell you the title of some sources which contain quite a bit of valuable information for the prospective forager.

[@1snakebob]

Do you actually get to see Hemlock out there in the parsley family ?

[@rockymountainedibles3593]

Yes, I have encountered tons of poison hemlock and water hemlock. It is a sobering thought to consider those who have accidentally poisoned themselves thinking they were harvesting edible plants.

[@1snakebob]

@@rockymountainedibles3593 sad ❤️ its serious stuff

[@kirkcarpenter8263]

Can you talk more about the carrot family plant that can kill you .. thx

[@paulhammons7077]

#desert

[@zachandrews4459]

Why spend so much time cooking the agave hearts when you can have the Nopales faster with no digestion issue?

[@Messenger1.0]

Wish more people my age enjoyed this stuff😔

[@paulhammons7077]

#survival

[@paulhammons7077]

#Edible-plants

[@1snakebob]

Agave leaves are just like the artichoke

[@rockymountainedibles3593]

Thanks for watching! They do bear a resemblance.

[@IngeniousOutdoors]

I know this is a year old video but I just wanted to say I'm really disappointed you didn't scrape and eat those prickly pear pads and just wasted them all. Theyre called Nopales in Spanish and theyre a bit slimy like ochra but taste like green beans and they are used world wide in several cultures cuisines. Huge missed opportunity and huge waste of food and everybody who watched these videos also missed the opportunity to learn about them as a valuable food source. Sorta blew my mind.

[@collincluff7955]

Having grown up on the high desert, I have to point out several things that you missed. 1st when your video starts you are standing in a Grove of Juniper, in fact you even killed a sapling for use as a digging tool. But you seem to have missed the fact that Juniper berries are edible. Granted they don't taste very good, they will keep you alive. 2nd while you were raking up pine needles, you fail to mention that scorpions and rattle snakes like to hang out in them. If you are going to produce survival videos, perhaps you should learn about the environments that you plan to highlight

[@rockymountainedibles3593]

Thanks for watching! I appreciate the feedback. Certainly it is the case the we must be wise stewards of the environment. As appealing as the ideal of humans having no impact upon the environment appears on the surface, that of course is not how it is in practice. Any direct physical action we take within the natural world will leave that environment changed. The question of impact then becomes a matter of scale. Juniper berries can be a great option. Unfortunately during the springtime the forager is left with one of two options when dealing with juniper berries. Either pick and consume unripe berries from the current season and suffer the discomfort of an extremely bitter flavor, or pick and consume the remnants from the prior fall which are desiccated and offer little nutritive value. With regards to scorpions and rattle snakes, I am quite familiar with both of them, especially the latter. I have encountered numerous rattle snakes on my foraging adventures. Anyway, thanks for your concern. :)

[@MotoGiant]

fake roast - bad form !! :(

[@rockymountainedibles3593]

Thanks for watching! I did roast the agave in the fire pit. It was awesome! :)

[@MotoGiant]

@@rockymountainedibles3593 too bad your credibility is not?