Wild foods and grocery shopping in the great outdoors | Oregon Field Guide

John Kallas demonstrates how fun and nutritious it is to collect wild foods, including gaper clams, mahogany clams, cockles, thimbleberries, lady fern, Japanese knotweed, cow parsnips and even Himalayan blackberry shoots, in this exploration from Oregon Field Guide’s archives.
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[@sharonloomis5264]

My dad use to do that. Only he called them something else. Ostrich ferns have fiddle heads. And, you should let the Indians, Quinalts, know how to eat the knotweed.

[@beckylynn209]

I thought that looked like Oregon.. I've gotten shrimp with a shrimp gun, but I had no idea that we have those huge clams. So I've watched many nature show's people digging up a really gross looking clam called geoduck pronounced gooeyduck.. One of those that you had in your hand looked like them but much smaller.. I know they are caught up n down the Pacific so I'm wondering if they have more than one name.. Anyway great video! 🤗

[@TheScott-man]

I live in oregon and thought that at first. Lol

[@fritzwilhelm8258]

Gaper clam.

[@matthewbolton4289]

What area were they claming? Looks beautiful. Not saying much coming from a high deserter, anything green is!

[@beckylynn209]

Their in Oregon up North, somewhere in Tillamook County.. It is beautiful but, then again, all of Oregon is beautiful.. ❤️🤗😘

[@jackiefujii2426]

Said netarts bay

[@allanegleston4931]

there was a author called euell gibbons who advicated this . one of my sis started to do this amd mom made sure that she had a complete course on nutrition .

[@suzettecalleja3122]

How do we sign up for one of these adventures?

[@audioartisan]

KZbin keeps deleting my response here for some reason, and I can't post the actual link. But just google: wild food adventures

[@debbyamoge]

First, get a tide chart...

[@fritzwilhelm8258]

@@audioartisan I've taken many of his classses. Very knowledgable man.

[@ashleythompson2942]

Mmm poison hemlock

[@guyh.4553]

Great story! So much lost knowledge.

[@HeavenLeahSky]

I don't appreciate them showing gathering wild parsnip without touching on the fact that you should NEERVEER touch giant hogweed. . .

[@jackiefujii2426]

Y?

[@jackiefujii2426]

What's it look like?

[@HeavenLeahSky]

@@jackiefujii2426 same family, but if you don't know what your looking for a young giant hog weed can be very dangerous. It had a chemical that destroys you skin barrier and gives you sunburns when exposed to uv. It can last years. I believe it is one of the numerous plants with the nickname "suicide plant"

[@Mycobob]

Never trust a guide that doesn’t know the tides.

[@brygos7436]

of course the cops ruin everything