chickweed flowers have 5 split petals, also a good indicator

While I don't know what cornsilk taste like, but to me chickweed tastes like butter lettuce. Great video👍😍

The state of Florida say knotweed and stinging nettle grow in this state but I've never seen them. It is too warm for minors' lettuce though I can get some to grow in a spring garden. Dandelions are here and there but not anywhere near as common as they are in northern climes.

I just found some of this. It does have a nice herbal quality evident by just how it smells and is quite succulent. The hair lines and the pull test are very useful in identity and reassuring. It seems like a nice foundation green for a salad but this one has a succulent flavor than say a violet green. Very nice. Thank you again for reacquainting us with our old friends. Speaking of nettles I wish I could find wood nettles which sounds worth risking a sting.

Your video was incredibly helpful. I really like the itemized approach. I just went to your website - very informational. Thank you for the list of foraging teachers. I have found one in my area from your website and am going to sign up for some classes! Thanks again!

@123JumpingJacks I was a latchkey kid and spent most of my time in the woods growing up.

Thanks....remember, raw it does kind of taste like corn silk... as for nettles, they often find you!

Now the question is...what does corn silk taste like??

@ohiofarmboy77 Thanks... at video 101 I changed the format and dropped the bird call at the beginning.

@auggiedoggy All of the chickweed above ground is edible. As for ferns... it depends on what fern it might be. Some are edible, many are not.

With such enthusiastic comments I just might have to...thank you...

Nice video's to refresh my knowledge base...hard to forage living on the outskirts of the city here, no idea how safe plants might be due to road grim, slag dumps and etc

i have tons of this in my yard

Chickweed will fill in my garden it given a chance... if you disturb the soil the seeds are rearing to go... so yeah why fight it! free food, nutritious, usually organic lol I have learned the best chickweed grows on the north side of shade. Either shade from other plants, north side of the house or in my case I drape black plastic over a piece of garden fence so that it grows in the shadow. Leaves get much larger, juicier and more tender. I then grab handfuls and juice it .

Your welcome... chickweed and usnea are I think the only two edibles with a stretchy white core.

Actually we eat a lot of grasses, or at least their grain: rice, wheat, rye, corn, oats, barley, millet and sorghum. Sugar cane is a grass and bamboo. While there's only a couple of toxic grasses for humans, we just don't have the stomach to digest them, and the flavor tends to not be palatable. We can eat clover when young or boiled when older, but the flavor is not great.

What does corn silk taste like? I'm dying to try this weed!

i eat this stuff along with miners lettuce,dandlion,japanese knotweeds,and stinging nettle

a latchkey is one who must take care of him or herself until someone gets home from work...they have their own key to the house, and are usually too young to work, but are trusted by the parent or guardian to handle the "alone" time...

i like to ask the bud or flower of chick weed is it a littil sticky cus i think i have some and it stick to my socks all the time

HAve you spent extensive time in the woods? If so under what circumstances? Camping?

Sorry for my ignorance but what is a latchkey kid?