Funny story: I had a small herd of sheep , so decided to turn them out in the farm yard to trim down the new spring grass that was getting ahead of me. I noticed after a couple of days that my sheep were peeing this orange red urine. So being concerned I took them out of the yard and called my vet . We puzzled over this for a bit and decided to observe for a few days, then put them back in the yard if all was well , and observe again . Same thing orange red pee . No one seemed to be sick , so I followed them around observing what they were eating . The sorce of my worry ? Dandelions , than I knew why you never find a dandelion out on the prairies. They are candy to critters. They would fight over them. Another story to add to this is about my daughter, when she was about 7, she thought it would be good to just "hang out" with her horse, . So she followed him around the pasture . She noticed he would eat a bite of differant grasses and plants as he grazed along , and which ones he returned to most often. Then she decided to sample his menu. She came back and excitedly explaind to me that horses eat really delicious salads, every grass and plant has a differant taste, salty , sweet, spicy, green , sour and bitter . She didn't get sick so , her conclusion was , horse food was actually pretty good.😊

I dehydrate plantain, powder it, add organic aloe Vera juice to get it to a poultice stage and use it on a small spot of eczema. I started this about 3-4 weeks ago and my eczema has just about disappeared, I was using every other day and now it is about once a week, what a great healing/drawing plant! I keep dehydrated plantain on hand at all times… organic gardening is the best therapy, good for the soul.

Amaranth is called Calaloo in Caribbean cooking. Calaloo soup is a standard in our home. I spent 5 years in India, 3 of which was a drought. People were so hungry that they ate grass. Those who ate grass to stay alive didn't think they were that delicious. When my kids were young, they didn't like eating green vegetables. I would collect wild greens and make them "green quiche" to camouflage the greens. In fact, they still love green quiche. I'm going to make it for supper tonight. In France, only the vegetables in season in that area is available to eat, even in the restaurants. In fact, in France, the government rewards farmers who increase the carbon in their soil each year. The government does 20 samples of soil from your farm and compares the results to last year. If it contains more carbon, the government pays you a premium.

In Greece we eat all these weeds you mention, and many many others and they are very popular. They are being sold in the markets, some of them are very aromatic and very tasty being used in delicious dishes. In the winter you will often see mostly women on the hills picking wild vegetables. In the summer the green amaranth which is cultivated is a very popular vegetable eaten boiled as a salad with lemon and olive oil.

I have your book! It's a great resource!! I know all the weeds in my garden are edible, but the hubby won't eat them. I have snuck some in but I have to be careful 😉 I think with the way things are going, more people will be wishing they knew all of this info!💚

Just a little reminder that prickly lettuce has another name called: opium lettuce, so if you see that you’re getting super tired after you eat a salad made of prickly lettuce perhaps it would be best dried and used as a tea before bedtime✨ if you have issues with sleeping you’ll be able to fall asleep much easier with Opium Lettuce then Sleepytime tea guaranteed✨Enjoy!

Amaranth is widely used in India. We make lentils, stir fry, cook and add to yogurt. They say that it is very high in iron and is a good alternative iron source for vegetarians. Purslane too is eaten in India. Interesting fact about stronger roots in weeds compared to domesticated. No wonder they say when kids that grow big, strong and healthy that they have grown as weeds.😁

What a lovely soul you are. You wife is blessed to have you to share life with. May you have a lovely family to feed one day. Thank you

I grew up eating amaranth, we call it wild spinach. We make it soup sautéed with tomatoes,a bit of ground pork and shrimp . Some people also call it pig weeds.

No judgement here. I'm jealous of your weed bumper crop!💚

I can’t believe I found communities of foragers in modern times. I thought I was the only oddball I knew that picked “weeds” and ate them! People used to laugh at me in high school for picking weird stuff, buying from thrift shops, liking weird music, now it’s acceptable?!? lol I’m glad people are paying attention to the awesome plants around us!

I love gardening..i grew up in the farm ..when i was a child..i realized now why i never get sick..we ate vegetables..weeds from our corn field and eggs of our own raised chicken....i thought that was a poor life we had but i realized now it was the healthiest kind of life....thank you

Purslane is growing all over our 1 and a half acres! Marshmallow, dandelions, even mullberry trees came up in our orchard for years before we knew what they were!! And a fig tree!

My mother had us pick large shopping bags of just the flowers. She washed it and brewed the best wine I have ever tasted ! The honey jelly was a winter favorite the flowers are very good on biscuits . 🙏🏽😎

Congratulations on your marriage, and thank you for sharing this!

Awesome video!! You just gave us 12 healthy weed options to jazz up our diets with. Thanks for the clear descriptions and close ups of each plant.

Your famous mom and dad inspired me to restart and maintain a live food diet when I was a student in Santa Fe, NM. I am forever grateful after almost two decades (added to three previous years) that a raw diet and having great health and energy at 71 years alive! They have written some of the most used raw recipe books that I have. The book, Raw Family is a journey into your family’s amazing raw and healing lives. I have been a vegan for almost 50 years and raw, grain-free since I experienced the influence of the Boutenko Family! Many thanks!

Thank You I'm beginning to recognize these edible plants. Congratulations Sergei to you and your Wife, on your Newly Wed Nuptials... G0D Bless Your Marriage!

Even the Bible repeatedly mentions using "Bitter Herbs" to treat all kinds of ailments.

I really enjoyed this very informative video. Years ago someone mentioned “lambs quarter” being edible. I usually eat it right in the garden. I let it grow wherever it will. It tastes like a very mild spinach. I just pinch off the tops so it grows bushy. The young leaves are the most flavorful. I frequently forage for snacks throughout my the days in the garden. Thanks for reminding me of some I had forgotten and now I know I have a huge crop of wild amaranth.👍🏻

I'm 85 n growing up we ate wild edibles daily when available. I have 5 in our backyard that my daughter calls weeds..I eat.

You never disappoint. Thank you for showing us the beautiful gifts of health this planet offers. 🌏♥️👍

We had a friend who had to carry a pen around because he was allergic to bee stings. We told him about plantain and like you mentioned above how to apply. He had forgotten his pen and got stung and thankfully remembered what we said! He thanked us and mentioned that it literally saved him!

GREAT VIDEO!!! I love the Quote from the dictionary about a Weed!!! My recently late husband used that on me all the time. I would bring home food plants.. and he would say.....Oh Crap... More Weeds.!! He supported my planting obsession.... But also called them ALL WEEDS!!! Coming across your video and seeing this made me smile about his attitude.

Love my own weedy garden and wills edibles! Early Marshmallows were made using the roots of marshmallow and sugar

Couple bonus tips about the grass entry: Grass seeds are edible, too! Once the whole plant has grown old enough that the stalk's gone dry and brown and dead-looking and the seeds are fully mature, treat the seeds as you would a grain: Pluck the seed head, then do threshing and winnowing to get the actual seeds out, and you can make a kind of flour from the seeds! Grass seed is gluten-free, so it won't be good for bread or pasta, but for anything else, grass flour works fine! Additionally, if you're grabbing the grass while it's still green, try peeling a couple layers off of the bottom inch or two, until you find an inner core that's whitish in color, and tender. This can be eaten as-is, no need for juicing or pulverizing!

Mmmmm! Watching which weeds my mini pigs prefer is also helpful for taste indication. They do love lamb's quarters, wild amaranth, Shepperd's purse and young mallow .

I grew up grazing on the countryside. It was great to know edible things in the wild as a kid when hungry on hikes. Hopefully you are also making great use of All your other plants like melons, pumpkin and squash leaves and flowers that are also edibles used a lot in other countries. Great for veggie wraps, stuffing, greens, curly tendrils and stems like beans & peas. Other leaves like those of the pepper 🌶 🫑 and bean plants too. There are so many wild plants and many others where most gardeners don't even utilize the whole plants. Enriching info that is useful throughout our whole lives. Fun to know about the use of the whole plants. Thanks for sharing your garden. It's such fun to see the natural field of wild edible greens 😋😁

The value of food security is priceless. I've been watching you & other teachers for 3 years now . Without even trying I can find food almost anywhere & I Thank you for your work, teaching us The Most valuable information I can think of. 👋😎💚🌿

Congratulations to the newly married 💒.❤❤🌻🌻🍀🍀 🌸🌼🌺 Love is like a garden, take good care of each other.

As full time RVers I have gone from a homesteader to a gypsy. My gardening efforts are very limited but I still plant what I can, where I can. Your book (I just ordered a copy and thank you so much) will make me feel much more self reliant! And now the challenge of introducing my franchise food loving wife to some new and beneficial tastes, textures and natural vitamin sources. :-)

I love the etymology of Dandelion. It comes from the French “Dent De Lion” which translates to “Lion’s tooth” - due to the leaf shape!

Hi there the lambs quarters actually smells like Saldana tinned fish hence when I was a young lass my cousins and i used to pick a whole field of this herb from our school grounds and we used to braise it with garlic onion and a little tomatoes but I never knew the actual name of this herb so we called it fish herbs...due to the fishy smell!

Golden or yellow radishes, completely edible. Once they flower, and produce seed pods, you will have an abundance of seeds. The root bulbs are edible, so are the leaves, the flowers, and the fresh green seed pods. Radish seeds can be sprouted for food as well. I love all radishes, black, yellow, red, white. Even horse radish, a absolutely stunning plant. Beautiful edible leafes as well.

As the economy gets worse people will be watching your videos and reading your books. When I found your videos I was drawn in to your stories of your family and after reading the books I am amazed at what you have gone through. You are great and I look forward to finding more. I thought I had all of the books from your family but I keep finding more! It's like a treasure hunt! My son and his family are also reading the books.

I think you would like Paul Gautschi's "Garden of Eden" video. He's out in Washington. His farm is centered on placing wood chips all around his land to help cultivate the soil.

We always called the common mallow belly button plants. Us kids use to sit & pick the buttons off & snack.

I found a Lanbsquarters that is almost 6 feet tall. I had planted some from seed I purchased, and it did not do well. haha. Like You, I have been so delighted with all the wild things this year, that I have enjoyed them as much as my planted garden.

I'm doing this very thing-- eating the weeds growing in my lawn--dock, wild lettuce, poke salad, and plantain leaf. It is SO awesome!! 😋

I beat up a plantain leaf, then put it on a severe bruise and it stopped hurting. Remove the plantain the pain returned. Put it back, pain stopped. Lol. I left it on 2 days.

The Malva or mallow we have been eating it a lot in Greece. We boil or blanched them and turn it into a salad by adding lemon, olive oil and salt. Great accompaniment with any meat dishes. I love it myself and miss it a lot as in the uk I have not found it anywhere.

I love how much wild man beard it takes for Sergei to not have a baby face. Hehe.

Thank you. My family ate dandelion greens every spring in post-war Germany. I still have a craving for bitters in my salad. Have harvested the first three dandelions this spring. Yeah

When you compared the mallow “buttons” to capers, it make me wonder if they would be good to pickle. I have pickled a number of different things, and really enjoy them (especially kimchi and dill pickles), so if I ever run across some mallow, I think I’ll try pickling the buttons, if I can get enough of them. I’m glad you mentioned them, too, because I immediately would have thought they were curled up worms. One final thing about the mallow, when you were describing the leaves, I was thinking they look a lot like geranium leaves.

I see you’re foraging barefooted which is a very good way to ground your body to the earth, which is a healthy thing to do❣️🙏🏼

Congratulations ! Wishing You Many Kids

I love Amaranth and dandelion I cook them sauted with garlic stems and leaves so yummy, watching you and I done subscribes from taiwan xoxo

Loved the live chat and the simple to retain yet chock full of information video! I'll be diving into my "weeds" with full force!

Purslane is also extremely high in vitamin A and contains more beta carotene than a carrot! Awesome videos! Definitely going to be buying your book.

in Norway, Broad leaf plantain is called "healing wound-leaf", Groblad (best translation i could muster). I use it on everything.. wounds, bites, inflamed joints.. got to try them IN something edible too, I think :)

No bitter in young dandelion leaves, pick prior to the yellow flower to avoid bitterness

Loved this video. Love your style. Informative, clear, upbeat, user friendly. .... Just all round useful. I shall be checking out more of your work Many thanks

Thanks for helping me identify my mystery plant...green amaranth!! It's now about 4 ft. tall. Couldn't cut it down until I learned its name...I just knew it was edible. Thanks!

I keep trying to get hubby to just water one row and let the wild things grow.

I'm glad you finally got to the Lamb's Quarters, my own favorite.

Love the wedding band! 👍 Great spacious place you have. Congratulations!🎉

I'm sure after a year someone already said this but the mystery plant is... Common chicory is used in a variety of culinary applications around the world, most commonly with coffee. It is occasionally also added during the beer-brewing process to inject a coffee-like flavor. The leaves can be boiled or eaten raw in salad or with pasta. Common chicory is also a simple livestock fodder. In European folklore, the small blue flowers could be used to magically open locked doors. not 100% sure it's correct but that's what my app said lol

I am really liking this video. I cannot count the times I have weeded these plants out of the garden without knowing the nutritional value.

Prickly lettuce is also known as a pain relieve lettuce. The white sap can make a pain relief medicine

Here in Germany, malva has always been popular, too. It is a beautiful wildflower (malva sylvatica) and a very common garden plant. Malva is not only grown for onramental purposes, but also forms an essential part of medicinal herb gardens. (a popular garden style in Germany) An malva infusion is a popular cough remedy. (Tipp: Don´t overheat it, if you make an infusion. Very subtle flavour escapes otherwise. )The smashed root was used as a food for babies and the elderly to treat malnutrition.

I love dandelions so much just as a flower. I had no idea until recently, but there’s also a pink variety which I’m excited about introducing to the yard next year! Like I get giddy with excitement just thinking about it. 😅

No judging here! This is my second year of eating the free food growing in my garden instead of pulling it and throwing it out. Your videos are awesome! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with the world.

Learned something with the skinny plantain . Love the short leaf .

I grow the beautiful Red Amaranth. So beautiful. I am not a lover of the wild amaranth, turns into a huge weed patch. With all the rain we had this summer, this plant is growing to 11 feet tall.

When you let weeds grow up when it's hot and draught they draw up moisture and minerals, and they provide shade. I've gone to keeping the friend covered.

If your mystery plant has sour leaves it is a type of sorrel. Tastes kind of like clover leaves. I grew a Sorrel with lacy leaves through a New Jersey snowy winter. Cold sorrel salad or crumbled into soup is delicious In Winter

When I was a kid, we had friend who picked wild salad on our place in the spring. I wish I’d watched her more closely

Hi Sergei, You were right, she was the one. Happy for you or as you say "stoked". Interesting to see where you are 4 years after the last workshop in Medford. So you are back in the area? Left Tacoma? Anyway, your videos are always inspiring. I am treasuring the purslane that spontaneously grew in my community garden and always looking for new treasure popping up. Thanks for that wonderful show of wild edibles in your garden.

Green amaranth we call callaloo iñ Jamaica. Very popular. Makes lots of seeds for more plants. We actually grow it on purpose for food. Saving those precious seeds. Great used as a stir fry. Cooks in about 7 mins. Loaded with calcium and vitamin c i.was told

Love Lambsquarters! It is the only "spinach" I can successfully grow. Great sauteed and delicious with spices and tomato sauce!

Dandelions are the bane of our backyard. Will start looking at them differently.

WOW! You’ve just made my day. I love the soil and what it produces. Great video. 🙏🙏

Great insights, really common, easy to identify plants...usually in our faces and we overlook them-- a concept to consider in several areas of our lives...thanks

I know u are right. We are sposed to eat a huge variety. It is that way so gathering can provide sustenence when it's hard times.

Thank you for taking time to look, smell,taste and tell us how to cook these wild edibles.

Thank you so much Sergei I learned so much these were given by God for us. !!!

Thanks for the nightshade comparison to green amaranth. I've a pot in the greenhouse taken over by a weed and I didn't know what it was. When I saw your green amaranth, I remembered the weed, because of the similarity of the leaf shape. I ran out to check and now it has a few flowers and I can see, it's nightshade. I do have a garnet red amaranth growing out there though and I'm hoping it will go to seed, so I can plant more next year. I've found packet seeds have a low germination rate, so I'm keen to collect my own seeds for everything I grow.

I eat dandelion all the time, I don't consider them very bitter. They have a mild bitterness that I enjoy. The endive that I buy in the store is more bitter than dandelion. I also eat chicory because I can't always tell the difference until it gets big with those incredibly beautiful purple flowers. So, today I learned that that strange plant that moved onto my lawn is a Mallow! It's pretty so I let it stay.

Congratulations!!!! Prayers for a Blessed union!! Thank you for your sharing with all of us!!

Love the content! My favorite weed is nettles, I made them like spinach with my Grandmothers Sweet & sour egg sauce.

Eat sow thistle BEFORE it goes up to flower and becomes prickly and bitter. We eat it all winter and spring. Purslane is one of our favorite wild plants. I have naturalized it in my desert garden. Eat when young and tender. Purslane SEEDS are rich in Omega 3 fatty acids, not the leaves. The yellow flower one is more tender than the pink leaf variety.

Also if i may add thanks again for going into detail explaining how to identify each by their futures helped so much more

Thank you! This is great. I live off-grid on 20+ acres of forest land. I have "weeds" in abundance and have been looking for ways to learn about these plants all around me.

Congratulations to you both!!

Omg thank you so very much i didn't believe it yesterday when my mother said no don't weed those nearly every single "weed" you talked about in this video we're pulled out by me thinking they were simple pesky lilweeds in the way of my gardening yet again I'm a beginner 🔰 but always some good space for learning new things so glad i came across your channel and especially this educational video 💯❤️👌🏻

Super handy information for when I finally get a chance to time travel back to the middle ages.

Thanks for opening our eyes to all of the amazing diversity just under our feet...open our eyes and explore,

Thank you. I had a couple of those plants misidentified.

I’m so glad I found your channel...I have books on edibles, and my own research have helped me identify edible plants in my garden/yard

You are so cool! We're impressed over in my neck of the woods. 😂 There seems to be so few younger people who have your kind of knowledge. Or older people, like me. Being a child of the 80s, I certainly had no interest in paying attention to the things that REALLY mattered... until now. NOW we're scrambling trying to understand all the things we should have already known. My husband tasked me with identifying wild edibles. You had some really good tips and you're making my job so much easier!

Excited to find you! Love this info. Thanks for sharing this great info!

I can not express enough how excited I am to watch this video. I love your content!!! You got me drinking green smoothies and eating weeds out of my yard 😂.

Thank you very much, very informative. You can eat the leaves of the green amaranth, very nutritious.

Just saw this for the first time. I have 'tamed' dandelions, curly and plain dock, chicory, and stinging nettle. All in my garden except the stinging nettle. I am working on red clover next. The amaranth grows in an area that is fenced but not used for garden. And today I made a great discovery, last fall while cleaning I found an old yarrow I had hanging to dry. I tossed it into one of my raised beds and today I was cleaning the bed out to get ready for fall plants and was happy to find a yarrow growing. People need your knowledge, I thought I was the only one who had 'tamed' weeds, they do change over time I found. I use barn hay for mulch so the 'weeds' are fertilized too. You have many more plants than I do, and I will try to find those thst you have

THANK YOU so much! You've just reminded me of all the usefull edible foods that I have in my veggie garden. So inspired by your sharing.THANK you!

Thanks for this, very informative. I come from Jamaica where there is very little documented on the wild herbs or wild edibles there. So, I've spent the last couple of years researching (watching this is part of my research) the common herbs of the tropics and the northern hemisphere and am surprised to learn that most of the wild herbs are indeed the same - we just call them by different names. Take Amaranth for example, in Jamaica it is called Callaloo, the most common vegetable consumed. Dandelions, Spanish needle and plantain are also common. I will also try your book!

That Portulaca plant adds a lot of flavor to soups, Mexicans have a few dishes with it!

Thank you. Thank You. THANK YOU! I have beautiful weeds that I have been tempted to eat, because they are so beautiful & some of them look similar to greens I buy at the grocery store. Watching your video has taught me what to look for to decide if they are edible. I’m SO excited about this, that I’ll be foraging tomorrow morning.😊 I’m going to look for your book on Amazon, right now! Thanks again!

How cool. Thanks so much. I'm ordering your book right now💞

Dandelions were garden greens BEFORE they were thought of as weeds!😋