Pacific Northwest Forest Foraging with Sergei Boutenko

thank you everybody come in a little closer because we're going to be a family today and I don't want to yell because then I'll be go horse and then I won't be able to do my job so my name is Sergey for those that you those that may not know me and I've been doing this for about 24 years I started when I was very young I'm 37 now I started when I was 13. I kind of got thrown into it by my family I won't go too far into that story because it's all over the Internet it's in books essentially we started hiking the PCT we started running out of food because we had no business hiking the PCT and we were gonna quit until my mom thought well why don't we just start foraging and kind of bulk up our food supply so we picked up an old copy of a wild edibles book on one of the stops we started experimenting with things like wild celery radish mustard we would experiment on my father first because he's a Russian man he didn't speak English and so we thought if we lost him he would it would be the least detriment to our family that's that's a little dark humor for the morning needless to say we successfully completed the PCT not only did it help solve the problem of not having enough food but we felt healthier than ever before that was a byproduct of living on wild edibles for a big chunk of the Pacific Crest Trail from probably week two on we ate about 60 to 80 wild edibles by volume we realized a couple different things many of which we'll get into on the trail I don't I don't want to overload you here this morning with Theory but we realize there's lots of different benefits associated with wild edibles and there's also some risks which I want to talk about first but then we're going to get into the benefits so I gave you a handout it's called the wild edibles cheat sheet I laminated mine because I think it's really nice to have in your glove box that way when you go camping you can just shove it in your backpack you could roll it up these are common plants that I found in 66 countries I've traveled around the globe extensively I've been to 50 states numerous times and a lot of wild edibles books they'll have this region of where these plants grow which is kind of you know it's helpful it's a nice feature but I've found that they're not very accurate because plants they travel just like humans do and so they'll attach themselves to birds wild animals will eat them and when they poop them out the seeds will be in a perfect little pile of manure it'll just make new plants and so these plants literally just spread all over the world and grow everywhere more or less so now you're now you have that and on the back there's three simple rules for foraging sergey's three simple rules for foraging we're going to read them together rule number one is the easiest rule to follow don't eat something if you don't know what it is there's been a lot of Articles and movies about wild edibles being dangerous and while those are there's various degrees of truth to that if we just don't put things in our mouth before we identify them more than likely we're not going to harm ourselves now obviously there's plants like poison oak and poison ivy which if you brush up they they can you know do some things to your skin for those of us that are allergic but generally speaking if you don't put it in your mouth before you identify it you're going to be just fine rule number two is when trying new foods for the very first time eat them in small amounts this is kind of another Common Sense rule When We're Young we don't really know how different foods affect us and so our parents will give us peanuts and then some kids are like oh can't do peanuts we're allergic to peanuts for some people it's wheat for some people it's something else so when we go foraging together here today we're essentially going back to our childhood and we're experimenting with new plants and so it only makes sense to approach it cautiously right today you can try plants to your level of comfort but even though Sergey is going to say miners lettuce is really good and rich in vitamin C that's just guidance for you it's not I'm not telling you go and eat handfuls of it before you know how it affects your body last but not least rule number three is don't mix wild edibles in quantities that are excessive when you're first starting out so when I was a novice forager I was like more equals better I take 15 plants and I'd throw them in a in a recipe and a salad together and a couple times I got stomach upset I threw up I got a headache and it was very difficult to figure out which plant it came from it was difficult to weed it out if you will and so if you just approach new plants one at a time or two at a time maybe maximally three at a time than if you have any sort of reaction you'll know that it came from one of these few options if you lose it you can go to my website sergeybutanco.com and get another one free of charge so you could just tell your friends and family they could do the same I kind of hit it on my website I've been getting a lot of complaints like where is that form I thought I would be kind of funny because this is a foraging event and I want people to look but I might have to make it more visible so there's that yeah so just like everything in life there are some risks associated with foraging but there's also lots of benefits I want to briefly touch on those when I was in my early 20s I was flying to Australia and New Zealand to do my foraging tours over there I had 18 hours to kill on the plane and so I thought I'm going to use 15 minutes of this to write all the benefits no matter how crazy they sound I think I wrote something like 48. then I boiled them all down to eight number one foraging equals free food I don't have to tell you inflation's here food is rising when I wrote my foraging book in 2013 I was doing research and the average medium grocery store visit according to mint.com was 48 can you believe that more not anymore and so I reread that recently and I just laughed out loud because when I buy 48 worth of stuff from the store I don't even notice like what did I buy just jug of water and a bunch of kale food's expensive foraging gives you the opportunity to collect food for free so you can save you can stretch your money a little bit more wild food is also better than organic it's better for you and the planet there's been authors that have meticulously they've tracked how far food travels from dirt to plate and it ranges somewhere between 1500 miles to 2500 miles yeah so for example where you're you know if they grow lettuce in California somebody who's eating lettuce in the midwest I had to travel 2000 miles to get to them and so that's a lot of waste that's a lot of fossil fuels that's a big carbon footprint and I don't know if it's really worth it so wild food eradicates that because food grows all around us and in order for me to go and harvest it which is kind of the epitome of local food I have to exert my own energy and we call that exercise it's kind of another benefit wild food also has longer root systems so it can go below depleted topsoil dry vital nutrients I have YouTube videos about this last year I grew okra in combination with wild mallow which is its wild edible relative this right here is the vegetable known as okra and so I made this video where I wanted to see how is it true Our Roots really drastically different so I pulled the ocher plant and The Roots were about this big I pulled the mallow plant I almost threw out my back pulling it and The Roots were like that that long so healthier for you in the planet benefit number five is wild food prepares you for Unfortunate Events things are kind of Uncertain right now and in my short life I've been to many survival conferences and prepper conferences I've been a keynote speaker at some of those and the theme that I gathered was stockpile just stockpile just ammo guns food there's nothing wrong with that other than the fact that eventually it'll run out and so I'm somebody that believes that it's important to teach myself and others how to fish instead of giving them fish and so perfect you know foraging does that we're going to learn how to find food I'm going to teach you how to remember them for life so that you when you walk away from here you'll have something to keep forever I already touched on the fact that it's local food there are many advantages to local food one of them being when a plant grows where you grow it's adapted to that environment so if you're eating dandelions in southern Oregon it's actually helping boost your immune system for that climate and one of my favorite teachers and wild edible authors John kalis taught me that I went and did a couple of his retreats in Portland area and so he's a big proponent in the fact that you eat local because it stimulates your immune system locally wild Foods also expand and our food options Daniel Morman an ethnobotanist Native American ethnobotanist he cataloged all the plants that Native Americans eat in a big old book called Native American ethnobotany he discovered that hundreds of years ago people that roamed the land ate thousands of different plants they had a very diverse diet today it's changed quite a bit so we went from something like 80 000 different plant species plant animal species to about two thousand and I think it's probably even less than that I probably think it's in the hundreds and even though we eat what we consider diverse food hamburgers Pizza Pasta they're all made of the same ingredients wheat rice corn sugar and so when we eat wild edibles we're expanding our diets exponentially and the reason that's important is because the more different types of food we eat the more we ensure that we're getting all the different nutrients and micro elements that help us to stay healthy and so they expand our food options bonding wild edibles help you Bond when you forage with your loved ones your friends your family my wife Kylie right here we went mushroom hunting the other day and you go and you search for morels and you're not having any luck you're getting frustrated and then you finally find one then I find one and then there's this back and forth and then we bring it together home and we chop it up and make a meal together it's very joyful and it's nature therapy it's away from it's a getting away from screens and computers I'm a video editor I know better than most what hours staring at a screen feels like I kind of already mentioned it but I'm going to mention it again when we're outside we're breathing fresh air we're getting sunlight that's vitamin D today we're going to be crouching we're going to be jumping with joy hopefully we're going to be digging we're going to be hiking that's burning calories that's giving us exercise all those things are benefits Richard ulricht I both I believe his name is from Texas A M he conducted a study where patients that had surgery were placed in one of two rooms one room was staring at a brick wall and another room was staring at a window with Greenery through it the people that were looking at Greenery recovered much quicker and much better so something about being in nature just drastically lowers our heart rate it kind of brings us back to our Baseline and that's really helpful and needed if you've never read it I highly recommend a book called last child in the woods today we're going to be working on improving our search image and what a search image is is it's a folder in our brains that compiles information about all things so when you were a kid you probably didn't know the difference between an orange and a lemon eventually you compiled enough data on both those things that you could easily identify an orange from a lemon and so when we look at plants with the naked eye when we're starting out it's kind of overwhelming it's like a jungle of green how do we differentiate miner's lettuce from something else but that just means we need to spend more time with it which is what we're going to do today and eventually you'll be able to recognize it just you're walking down the trail and you'll just be able to go and here's proof so we're going to do this test together we're going to name these Brands first without looking at the answers at the bottom and then we're going to name the plants and we're going to see who's better at what name these Brands number one what is that Twitter number two this is a little outdated what's number three Myspace what's number four Lacoste awesome a plus plus now we're gonna do the plants what's a Oak that's pretty good number two is fur Clover oh no it's not Clover Oxalis yeah so this is wood soil if you do a Google search and search Clover most of the pictures will be wood soil and if you do wood sorrel it'll be Clover and there are some similarities they both have three leaves but wood soil has heart-shaped leaves and clover has oval leaves so they are both edible so that's that's number one that some people got wrong what's number D uh nope [Music] D so D is great this is a great belief what's e a maple seat a helicopter F Pine con yeah this is a Doug Fir cone what's G I haven't heard Christmas tree in a while somebody said Christmas tree fir tree I had to cheat how about h ockey Aspen yeah and then I that's Maple Maple it's interesting because we're much better at identifying Brands brand recognition than plant recognition so that tells me two things number one we spend too much time looking at Brands and not enough at plants and two just how you learned how to recognize these Brands you can learn how to recognize these plants if you look at them enough and I have one more example of this what's this what's this how do we they look pretty similar actually don't they how do we know which one's which one is in a plastic bag so at first glance these look pretty similar they're both green they're both round but then you start looking closer and you'll realize that these leaves are much more fragile they're more like lettuce and these are more you know brassica-esque then you cut them in half they look very different the stems look very different and so just by identifying those three things you've improved your search image that much and so now you're better adapted knowing which one's which so that's what we're going to do today that is my goal it's going to be repetitive it's going to be by Design I'm going to keep asking you what does this plant look like what does this plant look like we're going to drill it into your heads and my goal is that everybody walks away with five plants five new plants we're gonna under promise and over deliver hopefully when I did this hike last week I found 36 plants that I would eat so that's a lot that's why we're filming today because I haven't seen this kind of diversity in Oregon in over a decade today we're not going to be collecting we're just going to be studying this is my first event in Forest Park I did it legally I went through the city and so I want to show them the video as well to show them that they have nothing to worry about because sometimes when I say I'm doing a foraging event a local environmentalists will be like he hates nature he's going to decimate the population let's get this guy canceled I want to show that we're going to be respectful we're just going to study many of the plants we talk about are actually noxious weeds and the government wants them gone and so by picking these plants we're actually helping the local ecology in fact one of the best foraging guides in the nation is if you go to your local forest service and look up noxious weeds they usually either have a website or a booklet or a pamphlet most of those things are edible the thistles the mustards all of those things are good eating so let's not dilly dally let's um we're gonna head that way first we're gonna move slow and steady together we're gonna be a family we're gonna get close so help each other out the trail gets narrow at times if you see somebody slipping grab their hand say I got you brother let's just take a sip of water I'm gonna lock the van and then we'll just head sound good I think we're good the first plant we're going to talk about is actually over here so come on over thank you what are we looking at anybody now blackberries these are when we moved to Oregon we lived in Colorado we lived all over the place in Florida California Michigan when we moved to Oregon we were buying blackberries at the store and a local was like you guys are out of your mind these things grow like weeds here and everybody knows that blackberries are you know the berries are edible and full of antioxidants but a lot of people don't know that the leaves are just as good for you if not better A lot of greens generally concentrate the vitamins and minerals fruits concentrate sugar carbohydrates they give us Energy Greens give us nutrients but the leaves actually are good for stomach upset so dysentery any if you get food poisoning they have thorns on them so you don't really want to eat them raw you can grind these up in a smoothie or you could dehydrate them and make a tea you could just dry them make a tea so these are very nutritious the one thing about leaves when they're wilting there's some sort of chemical off-gassing process and so you don't really want to eat leaves as they're drying you want to eat them fresh or you want to eat them fully dried but not in the middle so that's my one cautionary note there and then also this is a good introduction to Mary stems Mary stems the term Mary stem comes from the root word to divide to grow and so Mary stems are the growing parts of plants the growing parts of plants are the most nutritious Parts because that's where the plant is allocating all of its nutrients so that the plant has time to grow and so if I invite you actually to come over to this this plant and grab the top of a young Blackberry let's do that together the Mary stems when something is growing it's generally softer to the touch when you feel the Thorns they're they're squishy They Don't Really protrude as hard and so as foragers we have to get good at differentiating between meristematic bits and not because that equals better eating sprays yeah thanks for bringing that up so sprays human contaminants are as big of a concern if not more in my opinion because when you concentrate chemicals they're much more potent you know some plants are have poisonous properties but they're in small concentrations but humans we like to like concentrate everything and make things more more and more effective and so you want to be conscious of your foraging environments you definitely don't want to harvest near golf courses for example you don't want to harvest food near railroads those are very toxic generally if you're near a road I like to create distance between that road and where I'm picking food I like to go uphill because if there's rain I know the road's not leaking on my food but the world we live in is such that it's getting more and more polluted so if you try and be too perfect you'll go hungry and so just do your best use your common sense but don't let it prevent you from doing this because the truth of the matter is even organic farms grow near roadways and highways and you know we're getting it from every side these days everybody grabs the little twig of this okay what does it look like chamomile pineapple now everybody take a pinch kind of crush it in your fingers and give it a smell what does it smell like it smells like pineapple looks like pineapple smells like pineapple this is called pineapple wheat it's a chamomile relative and chamomile is calming right we drink chamomile tea before bed and so this is wild chamomile you can throw it in your salads and diversify your salads these buds are actually not too bad tasting and then you'll notice that I reference green smoothies a lot because I found one of the easiest ways to eat plants is to blend them with fruit because it masks the taste of the greens so wild chamomile come on we'll just wait for Levi this is called wild Sweet Pea so this this right here is a very controversial plant Believe It or Not who's read the book Into the Wild or seen the movie a version of this plant is theoretically what killed the kid right he was trying to identify potato but then supposedly he ate sweet pea it wasn't this exact plant but it was in the P family that's what did him in according to John krakauer the author that's actually false the story was inflated and made better for books and media purposes the official Coroner's report of why Chris McCandless died was he starved to death he went into that situation and for many months he wasn't eating enough food and he depleted his body of everything and then that's what did him in there's a really great account of what actually happened in a book called Nature's Garden my friend and fellow forager Sam Thayer he's like he's one of the Gods of foraging and so I like to give him shout outs wherever I can but he's written lots of books one of them is called Nature's Garden on page 43 you can read all about what happened and Into the Wild what really happened in the wake of Chris's death botanists studied both plants extensively wild potato and wild sweet pea and they found neither to be toxic in fact one of the researchers that worked on that project he said I would eat both plants and as luck would have it I've been eating this plant for many many years I've never had one ill effect it's one of my favorite plants out there and before we try it together I want you to help me identify it let's do our little drill so what does this plant look like a Vine so that's one really good distinction right off the bat lots of plants have different growing structures this one crawls and creeps it's a pea what else Cynthia says it's got these tender tendril things these little curly cues great identifying characteristic now when this plant flowers it has really brilliant purple pink sometimes white flowers great identifying characteristic the flowers are edible the whole thing is edible but again we're back to the Mary stems when plants get fibrous when plant parts get fibrous they're not great to eat right so we look for the softer tips so here I got you one so when I'm making a salad at a wild sweet peas I literally go through find the top tendril part I have some of these in my yard right now you can eat the actual pea pods but they're not like sugar snap peas they're kind of like almost Woody often we have this idea that if it's green it has to taste awful this is the exception right and then the the purple flowers they're so good in salads you throw a couple of those suckers on on top of a salad and take it to your friend's potluck and you're going to be the Talk of the Town all right on we go salad oh the fiddly you're looking for a Philly yeah there we go yeah grab one and pass it around so this is a Pacific Northwest staple who knows this plant this is the fern we're a little past the Prime on the edible parts again we're back to our merry stems but in early spring the shoots of ferns will develop these kind of like little curlicues they'll look wrapped up and if you ever go to an Asian market or Food For Less they sell these for big bucks well you can just come out here or someplace like it collect Fern fiddleheads and they're really really good in soups you can eat them raw but they're a little bit gummy they're like they kind of taste like raw okra so they're they're very gelatinous slime yeah so if you don't like slime you probably won't like this plant I also am not really going to go too much into the exact nutrition of all the plants I talk about simply because I can't remember it I've written about it in my books uh the short end of the stick is I've discovered that wild edibles are rich in everything and good for everything and that's not even a an overstatement when I was writing my wild edibles book I locked myself in a basement going through all kinds of nutrition data.org the USDA and in the 60s they actually conducted massive research and they just went through and systematically cataloged all the foods they could think of including wild foods and they analyzed them for nutrition and so there's really great data from like 1969 from the US government about all things wild and conventional and so as I'm doing the research I'm like this plant's loaded with nutrients minerals antioxidants and this plant's loaded with nutrients minerals and antioxidants and I saw this pattern and all these nutrients and antioxidants are good for this these ailments and so I just learned I thought wild foods are rich in everything and good for everything that's probably the only absolute statement you'll hear me say today and then also on that note it's important to eat a diverse diet in fact I believe that whichever prehistoric man or woman said eat a balanced diet first they are probably looking at the forests the oceans the mountains and all the lands and they probably said eat a balanced diet like that so when we learn wild sweet pea and blackberry and fern you think you just Diversified your diet in three plants but that's actually not true because each one of these has hundreds dozens if not hundreds of relatives and so just by knowing how to identify a fern or a p you've expanded your diet hundreds of different varieties I think that's pretty cool do you have that oh the fiddlehead I just want to get a close-up you're freshy um let's find another here Pop Quiz if if somebody can find me a nice little fiddlehead I'll give you a copy of my book oh Jim okay they can't be me I don't want to work that hard and if you wouldn't mind being a hand model then oh yeah we don't just give books to anybody they're working hands they have done a lot of work so is that what you want to eat yeah so this part is actually um a little bit past its prime but if we were here like a month ago it would be totally curled up and thicker okay and but it would essentially look just like this but bigger and so that's what you would collect it's a little fuzzy and that's one of the reasons you might want to boil it is because it boils some of the fuzzies off but yeah that's the edible part I always wanted to know about furniture okay everybody grab a leaf let's talk about what this looks like it looks like a maple leaf that's a very good identifying characteristic but Maples are trees right and this isn't a tree so that's like a nice distinction somebody already mentioned that it feels soft to the touch somebody already mentioned that if you're out and about and nature calls you can use this as toilet paper awesome it's very soft in fact for years I've been trying to figure out how to grow this in my bathroom especially during the toilet paper shortage so this right here is a thimbleberry thimbleberry and the reason it's called a thimble Berry is because it's flat and looks like a thimble these will be ripe in about a month and they're the best eaten around they taste like nutty and delicious and fragrant it looks just like a raspberry but more flat and so if you come back here in a month and come to this exact spot this flower and the little buds around it will turn into little red berries and you just pluck them more antioxidant Rich than anything you can buy at the store in my youth when I Trail ran I would sometimes Bonk because I wouldn't practice and I would just be like I'm just going to go do 15 miles stupid but when I would Bonk I would usually find thimble berries and I would load up on them and it would give me a little burst of energy enough to bring me back to my car so you can eat the flowers you know they're good in salads they're good as decoration the leaves are technically edible but again they're kind of fuzzy and so if you like eating velvet you could eat it but if you don't like eating velvet then there's probably better eating out there yeah it's a little bit bitter and that's so I'm glad that you point that out because a lot of plants will be bitter tasting and bitterness helps bile production helps digestion helps our inner organs dandelions for example are extremely bitter and for that reason they're good for our inner organs and we generally don't have a high tolerance for bitter because we've gotten soft we eat things like donuts and other things that are sweet and delicious and so when you can when your taste buds adjust to those things then you try a thimbleberry flower and you're like but if you do this more they'll adjust back we might as well talk about this because we can't go far without Sergey finding something else take one pass it around this is called false Solomon Seal okay what does it look like false Solomon Seal foreign let's look at the leaf structure what do we notice about it alternate I love it so it has alternating leaves that just means that the leaves alternate on the stem from left to right opposite leaves they'll grow right next to each other so if I'm going to be silly here that's what opposite leaves would look like that's what alternate leaves look like yeah further up the trail we'll see this plant much bigger and so you'll notice that the stem starts to Kink especially at the top see that yeah let's see it on this yeah and then some folks they even have some flowers on their false Solomon Seal it is this is the baby this is the parent so look how much more the leaves start to Kink right here or the the stem starts to kink and then it has these flowers at the top and they will eventually turn to berries the berries are edible they'll be red in color they sometimes are kind of bitter so people will not eat them for that reason bitter is better it's not always better in my youth I really wanted to talk in absolutes I like to say like all dandelions are edible and all this is but that's a bad road to go down because John kalis my foraging teacher likes to say nature is not here for our convenience we don't get food labels there's inconsistencies and so you want to do your due diligence and notice everything you can but also be open to the fact that there's going to be anomalies when a plant gets this big once false Solomon Seal gets this big it's basically in its flowering and fruiting stage and I don't look at any other part for eating because it's it's Woody right if you feel this it's hard it's building a foundation for a big tall house so when we build a house we make a solid foundation that way we can build the first story the first story also has to be solid if you want to build a second story and if you do everything correctly then you can put your roof on and your house won't collapse when you move in same with plants as they get bigger in stature the bottom parts will start to be more rigid so that it can support the weight back to the little plant so the way that I would eat this is I would peel the stem the root stock and I would sniff it can anybody tell me what it smells like anything familiar kind of smells like potato good anything else when I say it you're going to be like oh totally wild asparagus so this plant is actually in the asparagus family and it's been reclassified I think recently it went from being a lily relative and now it's in the asparagus family or vice versa but yeah it has a little bitter aftertaste but this is essentially like wild asparagus and so I like to point it out but in practice I don't really eat that much of this plant just because it's it takes a lot to collect a little so I might just make a handful and throw it in a soup or a salad but I wouldn't make a full meal out of this just because I'd probably burn more calories hunting for it false Solomon Seal okay I would just eat the stem and then the berries sometimes false Solomon Seal s-e-a-l a lot of the common trees like Alders and Aspens they're more like medicinal food and survival food I'm Russian by Heritage I know that's kind of a dirty word these days but it's true I'm so happy to hear you say that that gives me hope they have more freedom than we have my grandparents grew up during World War II in Russia and while they didn't fight in the war they were kids they starved a lot there was food shortages and so in Russia during hard times they would eat all the common trees Aspen Alder they would boil them in soup they would eat the inner bark of the tree they would eat all the various you know you can come over here and see the little catkins which are like the flowering parts of Alder let's see if we can find any of those these are good to know about so like Aspen for example while it's not the tastiest meal you'll ever have it's also where aspirin comes from it's the root of aspirin so if you ever have a toothache chew on Aspen bark chew on leaves and it'll help your toothache and from willow bark as well yeah and a lot of these medicines a lot of the Pharmaceuticals that I'm stoked that we have it's great to have the option but they're all derived from Natural Things in fact I have yet to look into this and it's kind of a controversial subject but I think Ivermectin comes from wormwood so makes sense you know like you can just heal your body or I'm not going to make that claim but you can Aid healing with things that are in nature and you don't even have to like go to Mexico and bring it back in the suitcase so this is Alder well there's going to be a few more trees that we talk about in this sense survival food medicinal food I don't use it as a staple can everybody see me this is a Wild Rose these are great Trailside Band-Aids once when I was hiking the PCT the only time I was hiking the PCT we packed in a watermelon we resupplied I got a watermelon and before we left my friend had sharpened my Swiss army knife and I didn't know how well he was at sharpening knife so I was slicing through the watermelon and sliced through my palm and we're 80 miles from the nearest hospital so it's not like I can go and get stitches wild plants especially when they're fresh they have lots of nutrients in them and those nutrients can be used topically too you can just take rose petals and apply it to a wound and it'll actually help seal and heal so I would literally lick it stick it wrap it with gauze you can kind of see where that cut was it's right here but it's almost undistinguishable wow and I was I was deep you can eat the petals petals are great in salads they're rich in iron so if you lack iron eat roses the leaves are also edible now they will develop some thorns yeah there you go so the younger the leaves the better they'll taste and then roses are also one of the few plants that's abundant in December they develop their fruits called rose hips and when we come out and there's very little to eat we have roses we have madrone berries which we'll talk about a little bit further down the trail and so this is a really good thing to know about and the easiest way to identify them is by the flower [Music] you're right good eating so that right here that's another P relative vetch so this is we looked at Wild sweet pea this is another version of wild pea if you look at Grizzly Peak last month it was purple from this stuff and like other peas that we've already discussed right it has these little tendrils at the tips has purple flowers wild Sweet Pea will have flowers that are a little bit more pink than this generally not always but and they're bigger they're bigger and crunchier and so again this is a p relative so you can eat it and then this right here I just found one what do you think this is it's a berry yeah this is actually a wild a black raspberry you're right yeah obviously when the fruits are out they look black and like raspberries but before they're out it has a very waxy purple stem you want to pass that around and those are always ripe on my mom's birthday July 25th and I try whenever possible to harvest a little pint for her and that's her birthday present so Mom if you're watching this I'm thinking about you yeah so that's when the berries are are ripe okay best way to identify this plant ready tada these are called cleavers cleavers and believe it or not they are edible they don't feel like it but people generally use these in soups because it boils down the velcro Factor and in literature folks claim that this helps people from hair loss honestly I don't believe any of that stuff anymore because if it did you'd think that some company would have already exploited it and made a hair loss solution but this is a very nutritious plant it grows as a common garden weed and this is why we use our five senses because when you touch it for this plant touch is the easiest way to identify it I just started a wild edibles cooking show literally the first episode goes live tomorrow at 10 A.M on YouTube and the premise is one plant one recipe simple and delicious so the barrier of Entry seems to be that people are nervous to eat wild foods and there's reasons to be nervous but there's also many reasons not to be and so I'm going to try and break that stigma down and address it one plant at a time in the first episode is miner's lettuce side salad so first things first what does it look like beautiful I like it looks beautiful we got to be better like a lily pad yeah what else a satellite dish that's a really good description so it has Round Disc shaped leaves and it also has this stem that goes through the middle of the leaf that's a very good identifying characteristic the other thing about miner's lettuce is it grows in a basil rosette which is just a fancy science way of saying in a little bunch and so you know look for disc shaped leaves basil Rosette and then it's also important to note that the bottom leaves of miners lettuce don't look disc shaped so in combination those all of those things are good identifying characteristics and it's a vitamin C Powerhouse so a cup of this will have 90 to 100 milligrams of vitamin C I believe that's a third of our daily requirement might be wrong don't quote me on that but instead of drinking emergency packets when you're sick yeah do that and now where Cynthia's standing there's another wild edible that we need to talk about and this time we want to go macro you know we're just gonna use we're gonna hone in on the smaller stuff so everybody grab a little bit of this who knows this plant very tiny very delicate okay I'm gonna go through and I'm going to check to make sure you got the right thing yes yes yes this is called chickweed this is a common Garden a garden weed yeah a lot of this weed in my yard yeah let me let me check let me check oh I'm just sharing with her wow no we're not gonna eat well I mean you can or you you don't have to unfortunately it's very hard to film this plant because you can see how tiny it is and it also rains so the best identifying characteristic is going to be masked but chickweed has this unique structure where in between the sections of leaves there's a hairline and the hairline will switch sides so if you think of like a Razorback like a you know the Razorbacks I don't follow sports but there's a football team called the Razorbacks because they have a hair a mohawk so chickweed will have a mohawk hairline and it'll alternate sides so if you look very closely you can't really see it because it's wet but if it's dry you'll see a distinct Mohawk switching sides on the stem on just it runs along the stem so as it grows I don't have a good sample almost yeah exactly and it also has tiny little flowers focus on it that look like they have 10 petals but if you take a magnifying glass and look really closely it's five petals that are deeply cleft so they look like butterfly wings and this is a really good miner's lettuce like herb that you can eat in salads super healthy so so we just stopped and we identified miner's lettuce cleavers and chickweed Kylie's keeping track yeah all right onward here's another common tree this is a maple we won't stop too long but maple Maple little young leaves of maple are edible too now this is a big big leaf mature leaf it's probably not good for me to walk backwards I'll tell you if you fall if I fall yeah I don't want people climbing so there's we're going to talk about these purple flowers next this is a hori hori I believe this is a Japanese tool it's a gardening tool it's kind of like a shovel a saw and a knife that's my wife Kylie I forgot to introduce her because I was a bad husband we've been gardening and we've been using the hori hori it's been I'm new to this tool and I love it it can do everything it's a knife it's a hatchet I really like the ones that have a flat end because you can really like dig in there and dig the ones that are sharp up front I don't like as much and the reason I brought it is for this plant right here this is called a Fool's onion so I want everybody to find something that looks like this and grab it Fool's onion yep I believe it is it is a lily yeah okay so this is a Fool's onion right and the name fools is a little bit deceiving maybe it kind of tells you don't eat it because it's full you'd be a fool to eat it this is actually edible this plant right here tastes like peanuts like raw peanuts that was one of our Staples on the Pacific Crest Trail let me find another one yeah here let me see that thing so if you're lucky you can rip it out and it has like an onion like bulb on it right tiny a couple things to say about this number one generally speaking it's good practice not to grab roots for this plant it's okay it's prolific you're not going to completely diminish a population but in my personal foraging habits I generally eat the greens the berries the flowers the leaves because all those things are abundant and you don't kill the plant and so obviously there are some roots that I eat I have a video where I show you how to make dandelion root coffee that's caffeine free that's on YouTube you go but you know if we're just talking about Good practices generally speaking if you don't know too much about a plant you want to leave the roots intact because some plants like wild ginger are very sensitive and you start harvesting Roots you're just going to decimate the population so just be a little bit mindful of that this plant is very interesting because it has this defense where when you tug on the stem the root releases and so that's actually kind of special that you pulled it out with the root because usually you have to dig for it and that's why I brought my hori hori and you can see that you would have to dig a lot of these to really make a meal and it's much easier to just go through and pick the flowers will regrow those will yeah so these will regrow and I just think it's kind of cool it's like a lizard tail you pull on it it ejects the stem and then it keeps on growing then also you see a lot of yellow flowers kind of in this region yellow flowers that look like daisies those are all sunflower relatives sunflower is a huge family of plants there's tens of thousands of relatives so if you just figure out how to find flowers that look like sunflowers you've essentially expanded your diet by potentially 20 000 varieties and they're part of the Aster family which the root of that word means a star sunflower a star Aster that's kind of a fun fact the sun is a start and then since we're here and it's a great little spot look behind you at that white plant yeah that's called yarrow so everybody grab a little leaf that kind of looks like a pipe cleaner yarrow is a good disinfectant one use for this plant that I really like is it cleans wounds so if you cut yourself you know you can use rose petals as a bandage but you can just literally scrub your wound with this stuff and it'll disinfect it and then it has these beautiful humble like flowers that's another great humble just means like an umbrella okay this is kind of a poor example because they're not very Lush but at its best the umbles will be huge you smell it it's a very familiar smell yeah and smell takes us back right so hopefully next time you smell Yara you'll go June 4th Forest Park those were the good old days [Laughter] yeah exactly this is called salsify it's all over salsa fire salsa fee and it's the only non-bitter relative of the dandelion this is if I had a favorite in anything which I don't except for my wife um I know this would be probably at the top of my list it's just really good eating it also develops those big dandelion like puff balls which you've probably seen so in its early stages it has this beautiful flower uh which closes so if you don't go foraging before 11 o'clock you're probably not going to see this plant because it'll close when it's open at eight o'clock it's just brilliant uh yellow sometimes purple Deep Purple sometimes pink it has a very distinguished sepals and sepals are like the green petals that are under the flower how I would eat this plant is I literally see how tender it is you just and it's just crunchy and delicious so maybe let's go left first and then go right just just just I don't know whichever left you want and then because we're good at identifying Mary stems you know there's some things that haven't opened yet so all of these things are really good eating right here boom you just kind of go through and I actually brought scissors but I haven't used them but one thing that's very helpful as foragers is to just have scissors on hand because it's much easier and less stressful to the plant to go so yeah if it's still planted sorry plant thank you uh yeah so all of these you can feel it it's kind of Woody that part you don't want to eat but all of this stuff is edible and Levi you might want to catch this part because one other identifying characteristic is that just like dandelion it has milky sap but unlike dandelion that milky sap isn't bitter and again dandelion relatives are all good for inner organs pancreas spleen gallbladder liver you want a liver cleanser you're going out for the weekend you're gonna go party you know you're going to re-talk so you might as well do a detox detox retalks so eat some of this plant first or after this is a great plant salsify yeah I eat them before you they bloom because when they start blooming like this is the puff ball developing it's going to be very velvety and you know it's gonna not be delicious I would eat that part and I would eat these parts too here the pre-bloom and the bloom Levi I try to make it easier for you but I just complicated it oh you're just getting more of the yeah the s word s word hi how many of their of us are there those are 17 on the class 17. plus Kylie foreign let's come up here it's a little wider thank you thank you check it for bugs got it sir you don't have to eat it if you don't want to but if you do done more by the water this is like sun okay thank you thank you good this plant right here and let's not eat anything right here because this is a throwaway and so you know a lot of dogs come through so we'll just look at this one the salsify wasn't as big of a deal because I went down the hill and off the trail this plant right here everybody grab a leaf we're going to study it together you always get the good ones this is plantain narrow Leaf plantain Europe an yep not European but European here's my plantain Spiel if I was a wild edible superhero on my belt I'd always have plantain with me because this plant can literally save your life yeah it draws out poisons through the skin so it has this ability to suck stuff out so if you're allergic to bee stings or spider bites you get stung you can literally take this crunch it up in your mouth spit the the cut out put it on your bug bite and it'll instantly relieve and heal wow and I have videos about this I teach you how to do it with your mouth I teach you how to blend it up and make a skin cell and so this is a very good plant to know about if you have kids they get you know they like go playing in a flower field and then bam they get stung and they start crying and wailing and this will heal it right up another author who I greatly respect Janice shawfield she has extensive plantain knowledge and she says that it will heal a lot of different ailments including gunshot wounds I've never experimented with that one and I hope not to ever let's first discern how to identify this plant what do you notice striated yeah very unattractive According to some so it has very well-defined veins on the underside of the leaf right and another thing I like to do which it never likes to do on camera is if you carefully rip that main vein it'll expose some strings yeah let's see that so will you show the camera because for some reason the camera every time I turn it on helicopters start flying and muddying up the audio here we go yeah so that is a really good identifying characteristic of plantain parallel running veins strings in the main stem there's lots of different varieties this is called Lance Leaf plantain or narrow Leaf because as Lance Leaf shapes there's a broadleaf plantain which is more round and then they usually have seed pods some variation of this some are big some are small they can produce up to 20 000 seeds per plant and the seed husks are very fibrous and that's what psyllium husk is derived from so if you go to the health food store and you buy that psyllium husk which is a digestive or like a plant-based gelatin it comes from a plantain plant like a cultivated version but yeah yeah oh you're good you're good and then the other thing I want to talk about is right behind you that's a Pine a baby pine and so there's lots of different Christmas like trees out there we're gonna learn how to distinguish the three main ones which are pine Spruce and fur today um we've missed it here but somebody somebody brought up that you can collect pine pollen it's very has a lot of health benefits so what you would do is you would put a plastic bag around this part and just shake it and it'll fill with this yellowish whitish kind of like dust and that's very rich in protein one cautionary note is if you're allergic to pollen you don't want to be doing that because it'll kind of aggravate some things how do we discern from all the different conifers so everybody grab some needles Bruce Spruce Pine fur there's other ones but we're going to focus on these three what do you notice about these needles long they're long great identifying characteristic long needles generally Pine needles also grow in two three and five so long needles two three five fine they're all pretty sharp later on down the trail where we see other trees we'll we'll add to this but just remember long needles two three five in the same time yeah in the same so like you know in the same little in the same cluster there's going to be two three or five and all over the tree and even the ground what was your question they're all threes but they're mixed in they're mixed in yeah so there's different species and some of them will have the other two yeah that type is five okay yeah okay on we go let me just grab my hori hori this is everywhere that's obnoxious yeah this is a noxious weed yeah so this is wild mustard it's literally all over the place mustards are a Brassica relative so brassicas are kale cabbage all the cruciferous collards one of the largest family of plants and the trick to identifying while wild mustard is also smell because all mustards smell like mustard and so I'm gonna grab a flower because there's another trick one petal just went into my nose so it'll come out later so crush up some flowers and see if you can discern a little mustard-like smell crush up a leaf see if the leaves smell like mustard do I have any mustard I smell something else what's funny is it makes you have to distinguish the smells differently because mustard smells a lot like vinegar but this is like the mustardy part of it yeah so it's not like Heinz mustard it's like like mustard seed ground mustard another thing about mustards is they're always going to have four petals and six stamen so if you look closely at the flowers it's going to have four petals different colors arugula is a mustard it has white flowers this wild mustard has yellow flowers there's purple and pink flowers they're all going to have four petals and six stamen and stamen are the little like antennae that are inside how I would eat this plant is I would put it in soups and salads I forage differently than some instead of making recipes just out of wild edibles I cram wild edibles into whatever else I'm eating so if I'm gonna eat a pizza for example I just like will saute the crap out of wild mustard throw it on top if I'm gonna make a green smoothie I'll throw miner's lettuce in there and so I just pack it into whatever I'm eating because it's less work that way and I know what I'm going to eat anyways delicious and this will just make it better take a leaf pass it around yeah what is it dandelion green yeah nope this is a dandelion look-alike and it's called cat's ear I imagine it's because it's fuzzy like a cat's ear a true dandelion will always have a smooth main stem depending on who's counting 200 to 300 dandelion varieties but a true dandelion will always have a smooth stem so we're going to do the test together we're going to flip it upside down you're just gonna feel it it's hairy yeah so this plant is probably not going to be very pleasant to eat raw because it's hairy but again in a soup in a smoothie uh maybe fried up it would be better another thing that distinguishes it from a dandelion is the flower structure a dandelion has one stem and one flower this has one stem with many flowers and actually these are good eating before they flower you could just eat them and they kind of taste like almost like little okras too although they're not slimy so if I were to eat this plant I would collect the baby leaves throw them in a soup and then I would just sit here with my scissors or my fingers and just collect these guys and pickle that's another thing to do I'll wait for everybody like I said we're focusing on Edibles not poisonous plants but since we have the opportunity this is a poisonous plant we don't want to eat lupins but they're very pretty to look at and it's good to be able to identify them so let's let's practice and don't say purple flowers I need more would you call them again this is a lupine five on there let's count come on grab one and count them one two three four five six seven eight I got eight then I got one two three four five one two three four five six so we can't go off that they have different that's true so you know this is one of the top ten don't eat it I just appreciate it but right under it we do have edible plants we have a little wild strawberries look at this so everybody grab a strawberry let's identify those oh it's still a little early usually I find them towards the end of June and many is very relative I found handfuls here and there but what they lack in quantity they always make up for in fragrance you put a wild strawberry in your mouth and you'll never want to eat a store-bought strawberry ever again they're very nutritious in fact once a lady from Kazakhstan reached out to me and she said we really are after your Pacific Northwest wild strawberries can I get you to send me ten thousand plants and I said I don't think I want to get into exporting and importing plant life so I kind of left her hanging but what does this look like it's a Cloverleaf a little bit there's three leaves so you're not wrong there yeah I like that fuzzy on the stem serrated I heard serrated edges can anybody find a strawberry flower yeah a strawberry flower has rose-like petals five white petals we'll see some up the trail buds right now there you go so here's a tiny little strawberry forming right there they get bigger but not much bigger they might be like triple that size but you'll never get them store store size okay oh look at that boom good eye there you go wild strawberry so my favorite way to incorporate these flowers you take them the flower petals you pick them carefully you throw them in an ice cube tray fill it with water freeze it and now you got bougie ice that's infused with flowers Kylie and I made a video about it so if you need a little instruction Shameless plug and so that's a really great way to incorporate wildflowers into your diet Summer's you know summer's here you're going to have a potluck you're going to have a party you want to serve a fancy drink round ice is so 2020 you know let's go flour infused ice and it's healthy for you too these are Madrones their berries are very edible and very hard to get to because they can be 150 feet tall but this last January the trees fell over in the storm there's like 60 70 mile an hour winds here and so I was like I'm sorry tree but I'm gonna pillage now that you're at ground level and so they create these beautiful red berries that are very rich in vitamin C good eat and when nothing else is around this guy right here yeah so the bark will start peeling and it'll kind of look like skin okay and so the berries will grow way up there so you can see why you wouldn't want to climb up there they do so Manzanita is like the it's a relative and it's a shrub yeah and the Madrones are much bigger as far as I'm aware people can't cultivate Madrones so they only grow wild and it's not out of lack of trying people try and Transplant them and just doesn't work into their yards grab a pine cone we have some stories to tell everybody find a pine cone that looks like this so grab a pine cone and grab some needles okay three things pine cone needle and some light green tips okay so we learned down there that Pine has long needles three two three five Furs will have short needles and they'll be flat so if you're trying if you pick a nice green dark green one you try and spin it it won't spin very easily in between your fingers Spruce will have square needles so it will spin so that's a good distinguishing factor between Spruce and fur and there's lots of different types of spruce and fur this one's a duck fur I can tell because of the cones and the way that I was taught these cones the way that I remembered them for life is my another teacher that I have her name is Karen Sherwood she runs a really great organization out of Washington out of Yakima it's called Earth walk Northwest and they have awesome awesome Retreats you go there it's usually around Memorial Day weekend you spend three days harvesting food and making food harvesting food and making food so just intensive immersion and by the end of it your brain is fried you've eaten really good and it's just an awesome thing that's worth every dollar so she tells this story she has Native American roots and I hope not to butcher it too much but the essence is there's a big fire in the day and all the animals were evacuating the deer had long legs so they were able to prance away the birds had wings they were able to fly away there's a little mouse family with tiny little babies that couldn't run fast enough and so the mama Mouse she said I know how to keep you safe and she tucked all her little mouse children into the Doug Fir cone and now you can still see that they're still hiding they have two legs and a tail sticking out cuteness right there so I was thinking that with like a footprint but no yeah those are the little feet and tail Spruce spins fur doesn't yeah so how you would eat conifers is in springtime you look for the light green tips and those are actually tender enough they're meristematic enough that you can eat them raw and it kind of tastes Christmassy and Lemony whoa really good for respiratory stuff have you heard of any respiratory things lately no no so you can make a tea out of this you can eat them raw to make a tea you bring the pot of water to a boil throw a generous helping of these either dark green or light green tips let it steep for 45 seconds two minutes whatever your preference is however strong you want the tea and then it's a great thing to do when you're camping it's like an easy way to involve kids picky husbands and wives you know we talked about madrone just down the trail and so this last I believe it was January early January I came to this exact spot and you can see that Branch cracked in half and so the canopy fell down and I was like I come here frequently to walk my dog in the mornings so I brought a little bag and filled it with madrone berries and of course filmed it because that's what I do but you can see how much easier it is to harvest from there than having to Bear climb up super tall and I'm afraid of heights anyway so I wouldn't be doing that but you'll notice there's a lot of like bare like flowers that look like berries all over the ground those are flowers from the madrone just raining down the little bell ones yeah so you can eat those too yeah they taste great they are sweet a little bit sweet they have nectar they have a little bit of like a uh a lemony taste too sweet sour foreign foreign horsetail so horse tail funky plant this is more medicinal than edible it's high in silica makes your fingernail strong gives you nice hair skin and so um medicinal but it's horsetail and it grows near water the reason I stop here is a different reason and it's grass that's usually the first plant I talk about but today I decided to mix it up if you take nothing else away from this class grass is edible there's lots of different varieties it's a great survival food most people can identify grass and they look at trees and bushes they can easily spot grass now it's not the best eating you'll do in the foraging world but it's very nutritious full of all kinds of micro elements it is hard to digest we don't have seven stomachs like some animals and so if you just eat a bunch of grass they might come out the other end not so good so the way that you do it is once again you look for the meristematic bits and so what you want to do is you want to pull on this is another thing that never does it on when I'm live or on camera so you want to just find like the seeds and you want to take a firm grip and pull on it and you you usually hear like a squeak I'll go eat and then you go yeah the light green so grab it try it the grass helps me combine two things I love more than anything walking through the woods and eating and best of all when you throw the seeds somewhere else you're planting more grass so you're doing the forest service and it tastes quite sweet quite Pleasant I can do this all day no now look who's ever my show of hands who's ever had wheatgrass you know that it's like five bucks a shot the lady who pioneered wheatgrass and Wigmore some people call her the the grandmother of raw food yeah her story was that she got sick she went to Conventional medicine they said you're sick go home she noticed that her cat eats grass every time it's sick so she saw she thought what the heck they've already given up on me so she started eating grass and was able to cure whatever ailments she had and so then she started juicing it and that's how we got wheatgrass and so if you're out and about and you want to make some free wheatgrass there's no reason whatsoever why you couldn't put this through a juicer and extract wild grass this is so wheatgrass is a blanket statement for lots of different lots of different Wheats but hard winter wheat is what they use to grow wheatgrass and this is just a cousin of that so you can literally go home with handfuls of grass put it in your blender or in your juicer extract the parts that are hard to digest and save yourself five bucks a shot so well Jeepers ain't no anecdote the whole technique you use with these you ever see the farmer with wheat the wheat stock in his teeth oh yeah two reasons one there checking the moisture as it's getting close to harvest time or two when you're out there in the fields all day you are just kind of rehydrating a little bit so Levi knows a thing or two about hay harvesting because he used to Buck hay and live the farm life yep grew up on a wheat farm and barley is way sweeter than wheat so if you're on a barley Farm grab a stock and chew on that stock it's super sweet super yummy start on that wheat and barley growing again now okay we're getting close we have a couple more uphills and then a few more plants those of us that need to take off can take off a little bit more hiking one of the benefits exercise this is a Bracken kind of looks kind of like Fern but if you feel it it's much more cardboard like so it's Woody it's technically not poisonous or you know you could technically eat it but I don't know that you would because how fibrous it is yeah that's all I have to say about that we asked somebody asked about Brackins and we delivered oh gosh I don't know oh so let me grab a few more berries I just gave all mine away okay so we already talked about my drones this is its baby brother this is the Manzanita and so if you know any even a little bit of Spanish what is the word uh manzana mean Apple and the suffix ETA little apple so when you look at these little berries they look like little apples I don't think this one is no yeah you can eat them so these are vitamin C rich yeah and when they're fully formed they kind of taste like Nature's pixie sticks they're very powdery and you can put them on your tongue and they're they taste sweet and sour we're a little bit early still when they're raw they turn or when they're fully ripe they turn bright bright red and they're about this size this is last year's berries oh so these are them full grown and let's see what's inside so you can kind of see these are old so it's not a great example but you can see the powder that I was talking about and so there's a seed in the middle but in the same way that I just nibble on grass as I walk along I often just grab a handful of these and just start ingesting vitamin C okay has to be burned in order to propagate is that right like the I think that's right yeah I think that's right so we'll do a little recap and then you guys can linger we could talk or if you need to go that's an awesome place for that flower you're so welcome thanks for coming anybody need a water refill who who won this book again no was it you who picked the little fiddlehead so we have a few books for sale if you want um I don't really sell my own books anymore because I lose money every time I do it but for this event I have like 10 copies I thought for a long time but the the thing that I wanted to leave and finish with and that thing is we're all smarter than we think we are you know there was there was a time when my sister and I were just starting out making videos and we were making health videos we've been on YouTube since 2007. we have all kinds of smoothie challenges and stuff and wild edibles of course and at one point we started walking down the street in Ashland interviewing random people because we wanted to know are people completely confused about what they need to do for health or do they actually know and every single person without fail knew exactly what they needed to do to be healthier I need to eat less salt I needed exercise more and you know I need to eat more vegetables or whatever that is you know yourself better than anybody else knows you and so for me to give Health advice is kind of silly because I haven't been with you that long so the thought that I want to leave with you is that the the difference between being scared of Nature and foraging is just time and everybody is perfectly capable of doing it regardless of diplomas or credentials because we all have figured out how to eat food our ancestors have been eating food for thousands or millions of years depending on what your beliefs are and and so that's kind of really it I hope that today I was able to show you that it's not this intimidating thing if you just follow a few Simple Rules you have the power to safely forage and how did I do so much for joining me I really am honored I'm glad that you guys were brave enough to come and brave the rain I'm considering in the future at some point doing another event called Garden foraging if you're interested I have your emails I could email you about it but essentially the premise would be you'd come to my house where we have a big garden and we would just not touch any of the cultivated plants but we would forage all the the garden weeds pulling your weave exactly you would pay me to pull my weeds no kind of what I'm thinking is we would forage together some weeds and then we would make lunch that's kind of the premise coming up here in the fall yeah different a whole different ball game with what yeah it is you know so so we just bought three acres in Medford two years ago almost two years ago and just observing it has been crazy because a field will change and it won't just change year after year it'll change multiple times within a season my front yard at one point was all miners lettuce and then it was all common mallow after that and now it's currently all lettuce wild lettuce and all the grass is going away it drives Kylie nuts yeah go ahead I don't have weather situations yeah so I've noticed that on our farm I've got 24 Acres out of talent yeah and there's always difference there's always different stuff yeah they're alive just like we are and they travel they come and they go and so it's really been fascinating to watch and the field has taught me alive just sit there and watch it and things change and um yeah so that's going to be on the books and then tomorrow like I said on YouTube we're doing the first episode of one weed one recipe 10 A.M okay and uh I really really appreciate all of you thank you so much for being here yeah thank you high fives all around baboon oh are you gonna post this on uh yeah okay I will post on YouTube thank you it won't be for a couple of months probably because it'll take me that long to edit it thank you very nice thanks this is that cats here I was talking about I've always been told that's cats here so that's what I cat ear Lily oh okay yeah that is yeah so that kind of looks like a cat ear

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Published: Mon Aug 15 2022