It's my favorite green.. Goes well with potatoes, eggs and sauces.. I eat it fresh, raw, frozen and dried.. ..... My Dad also called it horseweed..

For my widowed grandmother during the depression raising 3 children, knowing which wild plants were edible was a matter of survival. There were times when that is ALL they had to eat. As a child, I remember my mother pointing out lambs quarters, plantains, etc. and telling me how to cook it. She always said she hoped it wouldn't be a necessity for me, but wanted me to know "just in case". Now I see it not as a necessity (yet) but as an adventure! And when it becomes a necessity, I'm ready.

Hands down the most informative video about this plant I've seen. I have a few stalks of this stuff growing in my spice garden and was wondering what it was, after further research I found it is not only edible but it has good nutritional value. Thank you for the information and the cooking tutorial. I live in Alaska where the land is plentiful with wild nutritious plants like these, its just a matter of identifying the edible ones.

I was today years old when I found this channel. This plant i grew up with, and continue to cultivate and eat today. I can't wait to see some other videos and learn what else I can eat in my backyard!

I love how you use the magnifying glass to show the really tiny detail of the plant. That's a brilliant idea. Also, the method you use for getting the seeds is also great. I always wondered how people collected tiny seeds like that. Thanks! :)

First off thank you for taking the time to look at our video maybe the new video to you is a better one! Please take a look at it if you have time.

We grew up eating this plant from the harvesting in the yard. its very much like a spinach in flavor. Delicious in flavor, very healthy!

Hi Deane, I once brought in a large pile of compost in from somewhere, no doubt barnyard stuff, and left it to sit until needed. By the time I got around to spreading the stuff, there were pigweeds growing all over the pile, some with stems thick and woody enough to make a walking stick, most 5-6 foot tall.

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I know this video is old, but, I had to add to it. The stem of Lambsquarters have vertical maroon/red lines. If it doesn't have it, put it down. Saute like you would spinach, or just dump in salads. Lamb's Quarters and Epizote are ancient foods, and you should be growing and eating them! Epizote have been growing since pre-Mayan times, and Lambsquarters have been introduced since the Spanish contact.

I like Lamb's Quarters when they're very young but don't care for the older plant, gets tougher and stronger in flavor. Also, you might want to mention that due to its oxalic acid content, people with rheumatism, arthritis, gout, kidney stones or hyperacidity shouldn't eat it because the oxalic acid can aggravate those conditions.

Wild Spinach is a must have favorite..! 🙂

This is called myeong-aju in Korean. Apparently, when lambquarters get very tall and woody the stalks were traditionally used as walking sticks .

I remember my Mom went wild over seeing an old corral full of it. (in the '70's) I thought she was nuts, out there picking it until I sat down to eat. Wow! It was yummy! I had forgotten what it looked like so I googled it and ended up at your video. Can't wait to pick my own.

If you mean Amaranthus retroflexus, yes it is edible. The only caution is that amaranth and chenopodiums can be high in nitrates, which if you are to avoid creates an issue. For most folks it is not an issue.

By the way, you don't have to cook it. I've made salads with goose foot, wild chives and baby dandelion leaves. Very very yummy.

I live in southwest ontario and I displaced my veggie garden for a large lambsquarter patch. I love it! I also love purslane and borage flowers are awesome in salads. Thanks for the info!

In the United States there are at least 18 different species of plant called "pig weed" some edible some deadly. This is why botanical names are important. Purselane (portulaca), amaranth (amaranthus) and lambs quarters (chinopodium) are all called pig weed.

I've had some appear in my raised beds and have started eating it. Mine are shorties though. Some are going to seed at half a foot high. There isn't a lot so I've mixed it with my other steamed greens for now. I'm letting it reseed and I'll be waiting for a new batch. It's so good!

Damn it I've been pulling it out from the spud patch looks a lot like hauazontle I'm growing for the 1st time this year, good video 👍🏻

thank you! I have so much growing in the outskirts of my own organic garden - score!

I gathered a few bags and dehydrated it for adding to smoothies. Wow, did it stink while drying!!

First time I've watched a video of yours. Guess i'm hooked now. I have found lamb's quarter in between my flowers (in a pot) ... didnt know what it was so i pulled it out and in a few weeks, more appeared. They cant stay in my flower pot too long as my flowers are stunning and already a bit crowded so will be harvesting my pigweeds in a week or two. Interesting that its a cousin of quinoa.

"Not insane ground". Love the humor. It's like the vinegar in the oil. Nicely done Deane. Thanks for everything.

I loved this video. Very informative and fun to watch. Thank you.

i was looking for something about lamb's quarters after reading michael pollan's 'food rules'. i thoroughly enjoyed this. subscribed!

I go hunting for goosefoot a lot these days in The Netherlands. Yummy! Was curious to see if there 's any stuff on youtube about this edible plant. And wow, so much! Thanks Green Deane, am going to watch all your vids! Notice that the older and lower leaves typically look like the goosefoot, but the upper and young ones can be much more stretched and look different.

Still people learning from you in 2021 man, thanks

There's apparently some evidence that consuming raw Lambs Quarters leaves in large quantities can cause photosensitivity, so use caution when eating raw Lamb's Quarters.

First video of yours that I've seen. I recently picked up a book called "Eat the Weeds" by Ben Charles Harris, which brought me to researching more content such as this.

I love this plant. It tastes way better than spinach and better for you. And it grows all around me l; like crazy. The leaf and plant size can be very small or very big.

My mother grew up in the depression and Lambs Quarters, along with Plantain, and Crease Salad were staples of their diet. As kids, we feed Lambs Quarters to our rabbits, because they were so nutritious. Now I am trying to find some to transplant into my garden.

We have a TON of this growing in the midrows of the pepper fields at the farm where I work right now. You should come eat it all.

thank you so much for this beautiful video.

If you go to my website and type rumex into the archival search window you'll get a lot of info. The particular plant is probably Rumex hastatulus.

EXACTLY!!! I checked your site... you even have the sorrel soup recipe!!! And in case you've never eaten (which you probably have) I can vouch that is just superb. Now I just have to go find some sorrel....

you are the coolest guy in the world , i love eating weeds ive got sumac trees lots of dandilion , pig weed , and even sasafras, now i even make pipes out of the sasafras trees. again your the best.

Thanks... I had fun with that video but I think you're the first one to mention it. Much appreciated.

so glad, today i found this in my yard. for sure the same thing. gonna study some more for a while to make sure before i try it.

Thank you so much Green Deane

Yeah... in the temperate north on good ground it can easily reach 6 feet.

YEs! Fantastic! I am using your videos to reinforce stuff I learn on tours with Steve Brill.

Green Deane is the best teacher of edibles and how to cook after, which makes me hungry.

WOW!!! What a THOROUGH presentation!!! TYVM!!! Liked & subscribed :-D

it is great that you show them the plant so they can actually learn how to find them. This is better than petersons guides I think.

great info, I am glad I found you, thanks for posting

So many wild edibles are merely edible but lamb's quarters is outright deliciously satisfying. I did a little research to find out why and discovered it's 24% protein. No wonder shepherds grew lambs big and strong on it.

thanks for showing us how to collect the seed. sometimes i am afraid of taking too much from the small forest we have in my area without replanting.

I thank you ... Gus... ah... Augusta thanks you.... You grew up in Maine, too. Where? I was in Freeport, LLBean town.

Thanks... yep, oil, vincegar, pepper and salt. Butter is good too but it is easier to show olive oil than butter. So, you have a lot of these frozen.... like a visitor?

Thank you so much for the nice video. Love those edible weeds.

We have about 2 acres of the weed. It was about 4' high. Did not know people ate the stuff.

Thank you so much for this!! I am so grateful for this!!

@rayme4raw There has been some problems with a particular chinoposium in Georgia et ali that has grown resistant to Round Up. As for smoothies... I've never had one.

Good. It grows all over the place here. I've never been able to get past the smell of a fresh leaf. To me it smells just like spar varnish, but I know a lot of folks who use it in cooking.

This is always growing in our garden, I knew what it was, but I did not know it was edible! I'll be sampling it this year instead of just pulling it out.

Green Deane's video's are just full of great info and fun and knowledge. He,s like Captane Kangaroo for the grown-up,s!Dig it!!!

I really like you videos. Now I have to learn more about edibles

Chenopodium can have some purple coloring but there will be white, particularly on young leaves at the top. One possibility is Solanum ptycanthum .

Sylvers Berry Veggie Saute' 1/4 cup raisins 1/4 cup Cranberries 1/2 small wild apple chopped 1/4 small red onion diced Heat 2 tbs Olive Oil & 1/4 cup water in pan add fruit & onion ~ simmer for 5 minutes. Add 1/2 tsp garlic, 1/4 tsp black pepper & 2 or 3 dash of sea salt. Add 1 or 2 cup Lambs Quarters ~ 1 cup Mallow including tender shoots, green 'cheese' pods & flowers - chopped. Add 1/4 cup of raspberry dressing (or Russian) steam until cooked. Sprinkle Parmesan cheese & serve

One of the best-tasting greens I've ever eaten. I just steamed it thoroughly. I thought it had a slightly salty flavor, very nice. And it can be abundant in favorable locations so you can have a lot of it. Someday, I wanna try the species that was cultivated by eastern indigenous people, Chenopodium berlandieri, but I've heard it requires more cooking.

@EatTheWeeds A lot of raw fooders are becoming interested in eating the weeds. I loved Green for Life by Victoria Boutenko which explained very simply why everyone needs to increase the greens in their diets and why green smoothies are a quick, efficient and easy way to do that. I try to have a green smoothie every day.

Had to subscribe...your information is great indeed.

I have a lot of lambsquarters in my yard so I have transplanted some across the road so I can get them out of my yard. and they take to transplant well.

Thanks for the vids...awesome

Is that fiddle fingers growing behind you? Another thorough video! Thank you!

And a relative to Quinoa too! Fantastic plants. Is it true that chickens love the seeds? There are several Fat hen plants growing close to where I live, albeit with smaller leaves than those in this video.

Luv ur spirit :) Thanks so much for sharing ur world and wisdom

It was a fowl thing Gus did.

Does this plant have a variety that is a variegated color of leaf? I have them growing in my yard, they start out green like you show, but later in summer they get the white variations to the leaves.

I just tried some from my backyard where I've been pulling it out for years. Your right, it does indeed resemble spinach. I live in a southern California high desert. I wish I hadn't pulled them up a couple of weeks ago. As a weed I prefer pulling it as early as possible, because it's amazingly deep rooted. It's one of the last weeds to emerge here. Mustard is the first. I submitted this video to a subreddit of reddit, a social news website like digg, but with a much better comment system.

I've been wondering why I can no longer find it in Florida. Yeah, a plant here or there, but not big disturbed ground sites loaded with Chenopodium album. C. Ambroisiodes yeah, but not C. Album. Maybe we'll find more this summer because of the light freezes we had this past winter. Here's hoping.

nice video. We grew up with lambsquarters. We used to use them in soups or stews, instead of spinach. like in egg-drop soup. it grew wild all over in kansas. And now i live in southern california and i have a few growing in my backyard. is it possible to dig up the root and transplant it to be a container plant? and does it only come back up by seed? or is its recurrance root-based? (not sure of the proper terms for all that).

Thanks camboy.... the opening and closing bird is an American Goldfinch. All the other birds sounds are as they happen.

Are you around central florida, I am south of Ocala. I would love to go with you sometime and gather your wisdom. Thank you & God Bless.

Great if made with chopped bacon, red pepper flakes and chili seeds and chopped onion- easy on the salt. Remember to slightly boil and chop before frying

These seems to be this growing in huge abundance here (UK Fenland) especially around farmed land (disturbed soil) if it worth gathering these by choice rather than necessity? and what green would you most liken it to? love your videos! keep going. ~mors

Hey Green Deane, growing amount of talk these days about plants that tend to accumulate and concentrate radio nuclides. Apparently spinach is one of the plants that gathers and concentrates radioactive material in the environment. Do you have any idea if lambsquarters also has this characteristic? Thanks.

It's really a great plant to have around and it is disappointing that is not common hereabouts. The seeds of its relative have been a mainstay for many people for many years and these are just as good. They do have saponins so they do have to be soaked first. I would not be surprised that they are viable for many years.

Free food is not quite free, it does take some study if not a book or two... but the price is right and the nutrition is excellent and immediate. Our ancient ancestors did not have to fret about nutrition because all their food was fresh and prime....And if I get to Kentucky again, you're on.

@Writersinthesky Yes

This is why the botanical names are important. I suspect three of the smelly ones in each genus are called the same name (Quelite) and used the same way as a spice. But the amaranth, coriander and chenopodium are three different genuses though amaranthus and chenopodium are distantly related. Coriander is not related at all. The smelly versions of Amaranthus and chenopodium tend to smell like spare varnish. Doesn't strike me as tasty at all. Look up Epazote.

I have a weed like that growing every where here....but I'm not sure it's the same plant. Still I'm gonna check it out! thanks for the vid.

Spinach has Oxalic acid as well. A little cheese with with the Lamb's Quarters keeps the Oxalic Acid out of your kidneys. Same rule goes with spinach - The perfect dish: lambs quarter dip - Prepare it like spinach dip.

Lambsquarters and pigweed are 2 different plants. Lambsquarters has yellow flower-kind of like a small sunflower look but the center is also yellow not black like a sunflower. Pigweed doesn’t have flowers-it gets the tops that look a little like quinoa. At least mine does! Both are very edible. They are some of the most common edibles.

This spring i thought i found a variant of goosefoot without the white dusting that had very pronounced wider leaves and thicker. I tasted one and it was a mix between a malabar spinach leaf and goosefoot. Are variants without the white dusting also edible?

I remember the leaf because I found it when I was a teenager - I grew beneath our willow oak in the side yard. The leaf was medium small, somewhat narrow, and bright green. It looked like an elongated arrow head. Maybe that attempt at describing it will help you. :))

Just wondering how you know all this stuff. You know so much about, haha wild edibles. I love your video's. I wish you had a show for kids on TV. You would be awesome.

Goose Egg on the humor attempt, Deane, but the rest is pure gold ! ... Thankyou very much for DRILLING the classification into my head (redundantly) ... I sure do hope this plant is very common to Central Texas. I am also wanting to cultivate some Jerusalem Artichoke ... ... You know, Deane ... I **REALLY** wish you had an insiders SEED SUBSCRIPTION CLUB where you would send me/us packets of seasonally appropriate "weed mixes", that could be broadcast into prepared soil (Along with web links).

Yes, it is a relative of spinach and should taste that way. And yes it is a hurdle, and each new plant will be the same way.... it is one thing to be ill from random chance, it is another to be ill because one made a mistake. So, be careful.

Deane - enjoy your videos. Informative and entertaining! The leaves don't look like a goose (or swan) foot to us; different shape... (Name suggestion for your pal: 'Tim the Trumpeter'.) You mention the waxy/ powdery undersides of the leaves, but do not mention how that they have a silver-metallic appearance when submerged. Not certain if other plants in the same range do as well, but is seems to be a fairly distinctive feature. Thanks!

So cook like collards, cook and and fry in a little oil with seasoning. Can I add a lil bacon or side meat? Thanks for the video.

@ManTheBush Midle to the End of summer, or early fall depending on the weather.

Green Dean I managed to find some Lambsquarters while walking about. Do these plants fair well if transplanted to a new soil, in my garden parhaps... Have you ever tried growing 'em. Big fan, thanx for the video.

Good to know. Thanks.

@jeremiah3754 Yes. It grows nearly everywhere in the world.

What is the best way to store wild greens if it will be a few hours before you get home (also assuming just taking clippings of leaves and not pulling out by roots)? Plastic bag?Best way to store in the fridge?

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I've been reading that conventional agriculture is failing due to round up resistant pigweed. I didn't realize that pigweed was also lambsquarters. I have some lambsquarters growing in my garden that I planted from seed. I going to use it for some of my green smoothies. Have you ever had a green smoothie?

Are there different species of lambs quarter because I have tons of a plant that looks like lambs quarters but the leaves are thinner and smaller.