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Hey everybody! Rob Greenfield here

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and today I am going to teach you how to

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forage in your own backyard.

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Or if you don't have a backyard, your

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neighbour's backyard. If they don't

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have a backyard, somebody's backyard.

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I'm going to introduce you to plants that

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are growing freely and abundantly all

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around us. A lot of us think that our

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food has to come from the grocery store

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and that we have to buy it.

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But the truth is, there are thousands of

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species of foods that are both nutritious

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and delicious and medicinal and free!

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Growing right in our yards, often that we

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think of as weeds.

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I'm going to start first with the

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dandelion, one of my favourites.

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Right over here. And a lot of

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people are probably familiar with this

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plant. This is the dandelion. This is

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the flower, right here. And then these

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are the leaves, right here.

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And the flower turns into a seed head

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afterwards and these are the seed heads

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that have already gone but right here

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are the seeds, still. (Blows the seeds.)

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And it's a beautiful thing just to blow

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those off. So, dandelion is a very bitter

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(munches on the plant)

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plant. It's very nutritious and it's a

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medicinal one. I want to say that this

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yard that I am in is basically a random
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I'm in southern France, I've never

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foraged in France before, up until a few

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weeks ago. And this is just a yard of

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the host family that I am staying 
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So I don't know all the plants here.

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This is new foraging to me, but I'm going

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to introduce you to about 10 plants that

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there is a good chance you will be able to

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find in your yards as well.

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So that's dandelions. Now I don't have to

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go very far and what I have, right here,

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coming up, this looks like sorrel to me.

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Plants around the world can come in many

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different shapes and sizes and colours.

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For example, this looks like sorrel but

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check this out, right here. This plant

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also looks like sorrel to me. Oh wow,

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check that out, there's this yellow

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spider. That probably came off the

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dandelion flower because it's camouflaged

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right in with that colour.

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Back to the plants. This is sorrel and

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sorrel has a nice sour flavour and there

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is another type of sorrel that I'm going

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to show you in a bit. Let's walk a little

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bit more and see what we come across.

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Okay. This is...right here, one of my

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absolute favourite plants.

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It's very small right now.

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In a month or 2 this

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plant could be, possibly, 4 feet tall.

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But right now it's a small plant and

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this is called lamb's quarter.

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Lamb's quarter is a relative to quinoa

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and the leaves of lamb's quarter are

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often described to have sort of a

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nutty flavour. (Takes a bite)

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I don't know if it's nutty

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but it's got a different flavour and
I like it.

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Amazing thing is, you would look at

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all of these green plants and you would

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think they all taste the same but they
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Lamb's quarter is a relative of quinoa

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and you can also eat the seeds, as well,

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as a nice grain. This is one of my

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absolute favourites and it grows into big

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shrubby-like greens that produce

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incredible amounts of food.

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You'll see where I am, I'm right next to

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this family's garden. And what you'll see

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is there's almost nothing growing in this

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garden right now. But there is food

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growing all over in the yard.

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Tons of people have gardens and they're

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pulling up the weeds, thinking that

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they're a problem, but it turns out that

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a lot of these weeds are more nutritious

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than what they're trying to grow in the

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garden. This is a perfect example.

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It's spring, it's early April, the garden

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doesn't have food yet, but there's food

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growing all over in the yard.

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Let's walk down here a little bit.

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(Sound of crunching leaves under foot)

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Now, this is a beautiful plant right
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Most everyone is probably familiar
with mint.

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There are different types of 
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and how you can identify something

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that is in the mint family is it has a

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square stem. I'm going to pick a

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piece and when I spin it in my fingers

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you'll see it's not rolling as a round

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tube, it's actually a square stem.

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So there are lots of different mints out
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I don't know exactly what kind of

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mint this is but when it smells really

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nice and minty you've got yourself a good

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mint for making tea, for putting in your

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lemonade, for just munching for a

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natural breath mint. And mint is very

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easy to plant. You can take a piece of

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the stem...a woody piece, poke it into the

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ground and you can propagate mint and

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spread it all over that way.

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So this is a really nice mint that's
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I see more of it over here.

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I'm not sure what this plant is.

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I'm very curious about it. Something

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that I'd like to learn. Actually, this

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plant right here...I was in the

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Netherlands about 3 weeks ago and

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someone told me that this plant is

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called cleavers and they told me that

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before it gets to the point of being ...

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it sticks to you...they said before it

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gets to that point it is edible.

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And I don't know how to use it but,

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again, I'm in a yard that I have never

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foraged before arriving here 2 weeks ago.

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I'm in a climate...in a region...I'm in

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south France, I've never foraged here.

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So, I've done a lot of foraging. I foraged

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over 200 species of plants in my year of

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growing and foraging all of my food, but

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right now, this yard and this environment

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that I am showing you, this is new to me.

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This plant, right here, looks a lot like

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a plant that I forage when I am in

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Florida. And that would be...oh, now I am

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blanking on the name, but I don't think

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it's it. It's just something that looks

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a lot like it and (pause) I want to say

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bacopa but I'm not sure so we'll pass on
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Okay, let's see. (Rustling sounds)

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Okay! Here we have

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a little more mint. Beautiful mint.

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Right next to it we have yarrow.

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Now yarrow is not so much of an edible.

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It's a medicinal.

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Yarrow has been used as

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a styptic to stop bleeding.

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So if people got a big cut

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you could actually pack the

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wound with this stuff and I've also heard

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of it being used for horses as well in the
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So this is a really wonderful

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plant to know and I see it around the
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So that's called yarrow.

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(Rustling sounds)

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Let's see. Right here we have...oh,

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more of the cleaver...

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So this is the leaves of

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the raspberry bush. (Rustling sounds)

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And it is thorny. It is sticking to me.

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And raspberries are great.

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Blackberries are great. Most

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people know about those but a lot of

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people don't know that the leaves are

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really good to make a tea out of. So you

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can make tea out of raspberry leaves.

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And this woods line is covered in actual

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raspberry bushes. So this is just a

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little bit of the new growth from the
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So raspberry leaves.

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Another dandelion head and...

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(Blows the seeds)

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you can also just have fun with
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Nature provides not just food,

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not just medicine, but also

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entertainment, enjoyment and love.

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Okay I want to show you one of my

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absolute favourites and that is right
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(Rustling sounds)

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This is stinging nettle and the

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easiest way to identify stinging nettle

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is it stings. I am going to put my arm in

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here. Oh ya, that is stinging me good!

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There are these tiny little fibrous hairs

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on here and they break off and it stings
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So there are plants that kind of look

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like this but if it stings you,

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it's stinging nettle or wood nettle.

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You can wear gloves or the sting actually

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is beneficial for you because it's used to

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help with diabetes to circulate blood

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flow so I like to rub it on me.

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Now you wouldn't eat this raw because

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you can imagine the stings in the mouth

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could be very painful, but you can make

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nettle tea and you can also just boil

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the greens and then eat the greens.

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And, ya, I'm really feeling that.

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So, this is a beautiful plant to use and,

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again, a lot of people would cut this down

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to get it out of their yards because they

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think it's a problem but it's actually

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super nutritious.

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I'm going to walk over here where there

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are some onions that I am going to show
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(Rustling sound of leaves under foot)

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So all along this there is food growing
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Okay here is another one.

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I see a caterpillar right here. Whoops,

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it fell off. Okay, so as I said, I'm

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foraging in a new place and I don't

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know the plants here. I don't have a

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guide book. There's a lot of plants that

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grow throughout the world. Now one of

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my favourite plants, that I forage in

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the United States, is broadleaf plantain.

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Also called plantago and I haven't seen

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it in this yard but just this morning

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I looked at this plant here and I think

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this is, indeed, a plantago. But I think

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what this is is a narrowleaf. And the

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reason why is because if you break this...

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(rustling sounds)

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when you break this...

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oh, it's not doing it (laughs) I'm going

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to find...okay, when I break this you can

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see the veins actually separating there.

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And that's, I think, a pretty telltale
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If this was broadleaf plantain I'd

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know for sure. But this tells me that

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this is probably a narrowleaf plantain

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and this is a great medicinal and great

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edible as well. I am seeing this all over
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Right next to this, all over the

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ground, you can see these little caps.

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And let's see if there...okay here is one

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with the...this is acorn. And acorn is a

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majorly overlooked food!

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In fact, humanity may not exist without 
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Many cultures, 50% of their

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calories in food came from acorns.

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There is a process in order to be able to

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eat them but this is an overlooked food

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and it's growing all over here.

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(Rustling sounds) Let's see...

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I mentioned this plant before that I said

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looked like a plant in Florida and

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I remembered it (laughs) and now I forgot

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it again...gotu kola!

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So, I don't think this is gotu kola

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but this is a plant that

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I foraged in Florida and it's one of the

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most bitter plants that there are but it's
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Another one is dollar weed

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which looks similar to this but just

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round and these grow in moister

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environments which, interestingly, you can

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see down here they're growing down here

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where water would flow rather than up

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there in the driest part, so they could be

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related but, not sure.

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identification. The idea of this

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is just to spark your brain. I mean, just

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in the last 10 minutes how many different

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plants have I found that are edible and

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medicinal just walking around this yard

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that I am unfamiliar with? This is really

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just about sparking your mind and

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realizing that your yard could be a great

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source of nutrition and medicine.

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There are a couple more plants I want to

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show you, then we are just about done.

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(Rustling sounds)

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This is a beautiful plant. I think maybe

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they would call this buttercup.

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Mmmm...smells wonderful.

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You don't have to pick all the

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plants, either, to get a wonderful

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benefit from them. You can just smell

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them, too. So many beautiful flowers.

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(Rustling sounds)

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Okay here is something that I know is a

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mint because of the square stem.

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I'm going to smell it. Not a minty smell.

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I'm not sure what that is but this is

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worth looking into. And you can see a

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lot more dandelion here. Dandelion is

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one of my top recommendations.

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(Rustling sounds)

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Right over here I found a different
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I mentioned sorrel before,

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well this is called wood sorrel and this

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has got a really nice tangy, lemony
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Looks like clover. A lot of

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people think it is clover but it's not.

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It grows...you know, this is one piece
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So this is wood sorrel.

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There's some dog hair on it. Perfect

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place to eat food that might have been

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peed on by dogs, so just avoid that

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if you don't want that. Simple as that.

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Use common sense. You got to start
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I am going to be putting out

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more foraging videos that will go into

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those sort's of things and help you with
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Okay, one last plant and we are

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actually going to step outside the yard
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into the little field next door.

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(Rustling grass under foot)

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And this is wild onions or leeks or
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They are all in the allium family

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and I found them to be

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abundant in a lot of places.

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I just found these the other day.

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I was actually out here to take a pee and

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I looked down and I was peeing on some
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Oh! I want to mention this plant
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In the mint family, I believe.

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Not sure what it is, but it is an

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interesting one that I want to learn.

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And I want to show you some more

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onions over here.

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(Rustling sounds)

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So... here! (Rustling sounds)

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More onion right here and here and here.

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So I think if you've ever mowed

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your lawn and all of a sudden

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you smell onions it's because you are

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mowing onions. Same for mint.

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Sometimes you might mow your lawn and

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you smell mint it's because you are mowing
mint.

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Now, I think this might be leeks.

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There are leeks and there are ramps and

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there are wild onion, there's wild garlic

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and there's a whole lot of different
varieties

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and I don't know them all.

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(Crunches on the plant) But they all

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work great as onions.

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Hmm, what's this right here?

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Okay so this would be

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clover I believe. And clover is edible

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and this grows all over the place. You can

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eat the flower and the leaves.

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So, that's just a little introduction to

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foods that can be growing freely and

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abundantly right in your back yard.

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If you have a back yard learn the foods

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that are in it. If you don't have a back

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yard talk to your friends and share

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learning with your friends and when

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you do this you will find that food is

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growing freely and abundantly all

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around you. I'll have a lot more videos

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coming on foraging to teach you some of

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the more basics of how to forage.

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So if you got a lot out of this video

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please share it.

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Please like it and if you have questions

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post them in the comments and if you

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haven't, make sure you subscribe as well.

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I love you all very much and I'll see you

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again real soon.

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Happy foraging.