What most disconnected people dont understand is that, we are connected to everything, including the plante and when we give thanks to them, they truly do hear us and understand

Happy to jump in and comment on any questions or thoughts you have on Elder. Hope you enjoy this one. I'm trying to make a little longer format videos this year so that we can go a bit deeper with the herbs we are looking at..

Shout out to Yarrow for recognizing the traditional people and territory of the area he calls home 💪🏻

I have 10 elderberry trees growing. I've made elderberry tincture, honey and moonshine. I can't wait to work with the flowers 🕊️

I think the world needs to understand we came from nature. We're not the only ones who need cared for. Everything has its place. Thank you for your videos

I'm so happy you're making vids again. My journey with Elder began shortly after my bestest friend died in the spring of 2020. an elderberry appeared near my front door. It wasn't there, nothing was there(previous owners piled concrete blocks,stones in that area), and then suddenly, this large,lively,majestic plant was draping the front door of my home. I didn't know what it was but was drawn to it& compelled to save it from harm so I forbade hubby&lawn people from cutting her.This is when I saw your vid & the picture looked like my newly gifted tree plant. We have the cadensis variety & you taught me about her antiviral properties. I made a syrup(yumyum). Fast forward to present times that little tree is thriving. she gifted me two more babies in places where the garden desperately needed shade. She(&mugwort) accompanied me through a dark night of the soul. Here I am now, transformed. Thank you, herbal jedi. Love to you,your famfam,your friends. You're much appreciated.

Yes! Herbs are a gift, a connection to the Divine! And we shall give thanks!

In the UK Elder was traditionally regarded as protection from witches and anything evil in general.A cross made from Elder branches would be hung over the door to the barn where livestock was kept to keep them from harm.

Im from danmark. And i actually doesnt give a gift. But i always give the tree love in a hug and take al the trash around it. ❤ Thanks for your video and sharing ❤

Seeing you giving thanks to the plants makes me feel good saying thanks to my chickens daily for the eggs.🙂 Thank you for the video. 🙂

Elder Berry and flowers have been part of my apothecary for over 30 years. I love it! I make syrup from the berries and tea from the flowers. I like to keep them on hand for seasonal remedies.

I love Elder tree and from the flowers I make a drink which goes perfect with the season keeping warming outside. I dry flowers for tea, making this drink with spring water, lemons , flowers and sometimes mint, lemon balm , some strawberries and of course honey. I also made a flower essence. Now is so abundant here in Romania. And from the berries I am making tincture and elixir.

I've used elder teas and tinctures during cold & flu season, as well as commercialized cough syrups with elder added. Was unaware of the red variety. Very helpful content; the longer format is appreciated, even if I'm new to your channel. This whole field of knowledge is part of what should be communicated to us as we become children and take our place in the world.

Don't forget to thank the creator of every herb that heals us. Also, do you have a recipe for that mead?

i found an old recipe using elder leaf, boiled in lard until crios, strained and added a little beeswax. I used it as a salve for my neighbours dog, worked a treat.

I am in need of smiles that he brings ❣️

Super love ❤❤ the connection you demonstrate and honoring of elder. The gifts offered! You are a blessing. Thank you! The sacred request too ( I usually get an over whelming yes also! ) it’s rare to get a no but amazing and of course respected if I do. Thank you for teaching leaving some for the animals!

The flower champagne is beautiful,I still have many bottles of elderberry wine left from NZ 2017 season!

Thank you so much! We make a sugar sirup from the flowers for the summer, with some ice and also dandelion sirup and fresh mint and lemmon juice. Also we do a berry tincture, ours is a black variety, which is amazing for the flu season :)

I cook red elderberries for about 10 minutes and freeze the filtered juice into icecubes. When I feel a sickness coming on, one icecube of elder will usually stop it in its tracks.

I’m so glad your videos came across my feed! Thank you! I’m closer to the Cowichan valley. Grateful you teach about our local west coast plants. 🙏🏻❣️

Elderberries make wonderful Fire Cider [from basic Gladstar/Mountain Rose recipe add 1.5 cups or more]. Try it you will LOVE it.....fantastic as a tonic or in vinaigrette or sauce on whatever....delicious as is.

I have lately entered into the world of using herbs and wild plants in my health regimen. For example , I just used helichrysm, strawflower, for treating my bout with poison ivy. My daughter makes a tincture of Jewel weed for the same purpose.. We are given plants that can help just about any health issue. . Thank you for your work.

Nice, very nice! Thank you. I m in France now , been picking up the flowers , made fritters and limonade also called : fairies champagne. So delicious. Here we tell people not to confuse that small tree with a plant that looks the same, that we call black sureau, where there is no bark as it is a plant! Can't wait to come back to the USA to start my foraging there too . Thanks again and keep enjoying life !

Thank you for another beautiful and informative video 💚

I appreciate your energy ✨️

🦋the forest of magic and wonder, and the only place i'm ever at peace. Love your videos so glad to see you again. Thanks for the information. I have only been tincturing elderberries, well I have a kind of elixir going with brandy, elderberries that i had frozen from last season and honey which i'm keeping in the fridge till summer then will strain and add drops to my drinks.

I make elderflower cordial eveŕy year from my pink flowered elder, the colour is outrageous. I also collect the white flowers from the wild to make skin creams and put dried flowers in a little muslim bag to use in a face and body wash. Ive yet to collect the berries to make a rob for winter use, hopefully latet this year insha'Allah

OH YEAH!!! Adore my elderflower & berry harvesting. A labour of love & SO worth it! Also got 7 little cuttings slowly doing their 'thing' Wonderfully huge amount of information Thank You 💜🙏💜

I have both kind of elder, red & purple but not the European type. Grows wild all over my Taylor County, WI. Property.

Hey! Love your channel. Elderberries are blooming now in my area. Time to gather flowers.

Ahhh wonderful to seee you in real time!!

Very good man. I’ll have to nail down my ID on this one before I attempt to use it. I haven’t gotten deep into my shrubs and flowers or berries just yet. Thanks for laying some ground work here for me Yarrow.

I don't give thanks to the plants. I give thanks to God who gave us the plants and the knowledge to use them.

I love your videos, thanks!🌱💯🍉✌🏼💜

One of my favorite medicines and food❤

Just made my elderflower syrup with a combination of flowers from Sambucus nigra and Sambucus Nigra black lace the black lace flowers are pink and give a pink hue to the syrup, which is quite lovely.

Blessing from Michigan

Thanks! I learned so much from your videos. ❤❤❤

Thanks very much for this comprehensive info on the elder tree. Very interesting.

Very happy your back making new vids. You've been my favorite herbalist to watch. Really appreciate your sharing your knowledge and wisdom.

Ireland here !! Elderflower jam (jelly to Americans) is the best you will ever taste !! Also in Celtic mythology if you fell asleep under an elder tree you would be taken away to the other world by the fairies !! 😂

Beautiful video

Thank you for such an informative video!

Thank you for sharing your knowledge about this plant with us!.. I just learnt about this plant today and I’m grateful for all the details that you shared on here! 💚✨

The elderberry is not poisonous if you cook the berries, I grow them and make my own elderberry syrup, its wonderful for coughing, also I make a cough syrup with the flowers , set them in honey for 6-8 weeks at least and strain

😁 Thank you fir all the wisdom you share✨

Thank you for another wonderful video, your connection to the plants is inspiring, your respect for them is wonderful. I have several elderberry bushes in our yard, with more popping up and so i wanted to get connected to this plant and learn more. I believe i may have Sambucus canedensis, i need to look up if those berries are toxic as well, i'd like to try my hand at the oh so famous elderberry syrup this fall and you've planted the idea of turning this months kombucha into an elderflower flavor!

oh brother, praying to plants

I made some Kombucha with Elder Flower and Ginger and it was the most refreshing drink, I have ever had.

Thanks for sharing this is very helpful and I love ur spirit 💪🏿💙💙💙🔥🔥🔥

I have the black lace one in my yard, its beautiful, does it have the same properties?

Love learning from you 🎉

Elderflower is my favorite!! Tastes delicious

Praise Yah for the medicine! Amen

So what I did was harvest the berries and I kept them on the vine and I brought them indoors, and I let them finish their development off the vine and slowly dry up. When the berries were completely dry, I waited. I waited till around December 1 and then I planted 27,000 berries in individual pots I do have them growing right now they take a long time they’re very slow. I will be patient with them but I also will be preparing their next size pot because they are like a hermit crab. They always need a new shell Until they finally go into the ground permanently somewhere

Hi chat! And fellow herb nerdssss

We have taken a blend of elderberry and propolis and a little honey since the plandemic started and we have made it through!

awesome can't wait 😁

The ice storm this year in my area decimated most of our elder plants!

Love your knowledge and philosophy. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for your knowledge. You are appreciated.

Wow…love ALL the info, thank you!!!

Gift is a video on how you make elderflower kombucha!!! Please, please.

Hey man, turn the volume down on the music. Who needs complaints from the neighbors? :) On another note, from 9 seasons on fire towers in Alberta (your dad's book was gold out there), I learned that intention in the forest is everything. Keep the vibe going. The forest knows.

Love your videos, so informing and beautiful. well done. I cannot find information if the ornamental 'Black Lace' has comparable benefits. Do you know?

Just planted 3 elderberries plants in my back yard had no idea how important they are,, I'll look to take very good care of them

Thank you for your wisdom and reverence. I love elder flower. I have made flower essence, and tincture. I am wondering if there is a way to do the flowers in honey?

i like your stories a lot

I always love your videos ! ❤

What about hot flash heat..?? Can it help with that?

What do you do about the super tiny white bugs on the Elderflowers when dehydrating in a dehydrator?

Great, that was a treat to listen to, thank you! Is there any relevance or difference whether to use the fresh flower or the dried flower for tea? Love

You sais red elder are more toxic and I want to know if golden elderberry (SAMBUCUS CANADENSIS ‘AUREA’) is edible and medicinal. I just buy one for my garden and you make me doubt! Your videos are awesome treasures for me as a student to become a clinical herbalist. Thank you for this content!

Watching this video was the closest thing to be out in nature itself!

Blessings brother. Do you know of anyone that does Work Shops to teach face to face for this?

We generally put it at the base of the plant

I've used the berries to die leather.

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Can you macerate the flower in honeys?

but....the pollen from the red elder is okay to ingest?

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HOW do we identify the red elderberry tree? For safety's sake

Chaltumay!

Nice. However, the good greenwitch puts the offerings to the roots near the stem/trunk. You can share the libation but never as cheat as you did. Good to see a herbert in the woods here, though.

Which elderberry plant is the one that makes cough syrup? And what’s the difference in the plants? Thank you

Are all Elderberry stems hollow or just the red?

@9:35 Audio artifact. 😁

Aho !

LOL if I gave myself a new name, like Yarrow for instance, I would call myself "Sambuca" and if I ever can get a cat the name will be 'Tartuffe'

Can you harvest the flowers but save the berry growth?

is this going to be live?

Praise the Lord Jesus for creating this wonderful plant! God bless you Sir.

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Oh man it smells like cat pee?!? How do you get so into the smell brother Yarrow?

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Only the roots and stems are poisonous. The leaves have the most medicine do your research better. You are correct about the red berries though.

Put some fresh flowers just now in my homemade ginger 🫚 ale. Potent protection

Is it anthraquinones, not anthocyanins? Anthocyanins are the pigments in fruits like bilberry (and probably Sambucus nigra, the BLACK elderberry).

Are those red elderberry plants? We have a lot of red berry elderberries around Bellingham, WA and I worry that these are very toxic.