I think its so nice of you to take the time to make these videos completely for free for you viewers. That makes me feel like you are a very good person. Thanks for your time and hard work. It means something to me, and I'm sure to many other people. Just figured you deserved to hear your work was appreciated! Keep up the excellent work!

Great stuff Deane! You are a true inspiration. Keep the videos coming as you are helping to wake up a sleeping humanity.

Absolutely gorgeous video Deane. Love every one of them. I use them too. I amazed my sister the other day by going out into the abandoned yard next door here in Ohio, grabbed some Clover, Dandelion, & Plantain, shoved them in my mouth & with a very confident smile, swallowed them down. LOL She was horrified. But it is two weeks later & 'Alas', I am still alive. Hehehe. Thanks for all the videos. Oh! And my description this weekend in the woods of the food of the gods was equally horrifying. LOL

Thanks... I've been busy with the website update... I do need to do some more vids.

LOVE THIS SHOWW ! More people should see this stuff! Spread it to your freinds!

Came looking here for ways to eat the berries other than jam; I think I will explore myself and then post something. I have a yard filled with stoppers. They're so beautiful! By the way, the bark of my stoppers peeled after 4th of July when all near neighbors let off numerous and industrial fireworks, so I think it is sensitive to the arsenic, nitrates, copper, lead - who knows? When I saw the stripped tree, I thought it could be a frightened animal clawing, but ALL my stopper had masses of peels at their base on July 5. Ever since I saw your video on that climbing vine which overtakes everything all of a sudden (last year, this year), those greens have been a staple of my diet. Thanks!

Love your videos.. Thank you...

@microiguana I thought it might be an interesting way to start a video. I have another in mind when the plant is in season.

Please make videos again. Thanks!

Planning on it... my new website and Green Dean Forum and newsletter and conventions are taking up a lot of time. As soon as I can get a couple of days free I will.

@rushianokun It has them because it has them... they are distributed ramdomly, but there does seem to be more pointed ones than round ones and more round ones than notched ones.

Excellent stuff. This type of REAL work and research is completely overlooked in the "fast" and "super-efficient" mega-agricultural age of over-production. I learned last year that the "peas" in a Black Locust "pea pod" were edible (as was the flowers), and you could make beer supposedly with the pods. That said...I made no beer, but I certainly fought off the bumblebees for the flowers and later this year, the peas. Quite tasty.

@EatTheWeeds Thanks for the info. I take it his foraging guide book covers the wild edibles in my region of easter ontario? Thanks again!

@WesternBushcraft And I was lucky. There's two Amaranths growing here, one with spines and one without. This one didn't have the spines.

Thanks for the good video!

whoa... i was like at the beginning i thought it was upside down, and then i got confused since it wasn't and then it actually WAS!!!!

WE NEED NEW VIDEOS! IT'S ALMOST SPRING! Recaps, general tips, etc. would all be great! Also any info on brewing beer or whatever would be cool as well!

Hey Dean it's been 4 months I hope your holiday's were great how about a new vid we miss ya!!!!!

Thank You for the fun video :)

@RainbowLogic No rides per se but I do ride down to West Palm Beach and Port Charlotte, couple of hundred miles each, usually up at 4 down for a class at 9 then ride back in the late afternoon.

Please make more videos, please!

Great video GreenDean! I remember this small tree from when I lived in Miami. Are the other stoppers you mentioned more cold hardy? Tootles!

Please make videos again

@LKathyRunkle The Carissa is alsoa armed with large double thorns.

I just graduated from Green Deane university. At least the first the 133 videos. 😂

Long haired green Dean 😎

Are the spots the same structures as what is in St John's Wort?

By the way, earlier, springtime, I did the Blue Ridge ride! What rides have you done this year??

wooao, why does it have 3 lave shapes? so yo find them like on ceirtain parts of the plant or are they distributed randomly?

is it easy to grow from seeds ?

Thansk for the video. Do you know where i can find a good book on wild edibles for my area of the world. I am located in the Ottawa Valley region of Ontario Canada. Thnaks!

@charronfamilyconnect Look into the foraging books of Samuel Thayer.

Interesting. I just had a huge struggle here trying to figure out the difference between Spanish Stopper and Simpson Stopper. I found both documents from the University of Florida and compared the fruit. It looks like the fruit you are using is the Spanish instead of the Simpson. I just tried eating it for the first time and wanted to be sure. Here are the documents I'm referring to. You might be right though about the egos though. Eugenia foetida, or Spanish Topper: edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fp200 and the Myrcianthes fragans, or Simpson Stopper: edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fp418 Notice the fruit on the Simpson.. they are darker... almost burgundy in color.

@r3bol You might contact henriettesherbal. She might know and she is Scandinavian. I am the most watched forager in the world and in that regard I think I am unique, so to speak. There are quite a few videos also done in England which shares most of your plants as well. They are eatweeds whereas I am eattheweeds.

@powrxplor69 The Eugenia myrtifolia is good down to zero. It's nearly identical exept it has only pointed leaves.

Botonical Egos are Huge, 50 years ago I learned the botanical names of many tropical ornamentals and about 10 years ago the next generation of botanists turned much of my hard earned knowledge into outdated, inaccurate and hence useless information. Thanks guys. Lol