🍃 Wild Spinach: Foraging, Harvesting, Cooking & More!

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Ever think to yourself that adding healthy greens to your diet is something that normal people just can't afford? Well think again! Wild spinach is one of the most abundant wild resources to fulfill your leafy green needs out there. From empty lots, to forests, to your backyard- this delicious and nutritious plant can be found about anywhere! Join us as we discuss foraging, harvesting, and cooking wild spinach!
0:00 Intro
0:34 Wild Spinach History
1:12 Finding and Identifying
4:26 Lookalikes for Wild Spinach
5:22 Harvesting
6:28 SAFETY NOTE
7:52 Cooking
9:40 Conclusion
Resources:
Insteading Article: insteading.com/foraging-wild-...
C. Berlandiari Info: archaeology.uiowa.edu/goosefoot
C. Hybridum Info: plants.jstor.org/compilation/...
Practical Self Reliance: practicalselfreliance.com/che...
Nutritional Assessment of Chenopodium Album L. (Imbikicane) Young Shoots and Mature Plant-Leaves Consumed in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa: ipcbee.com/vol53/019-ICNFS2013...
Samuel Thayer: www.foragersharvest.com/#/

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@joshuagarrett4879 2 жыл бұрын

Production quality, and execution of every video on this channel is jaw dropping. Not to mention the thought and research. This channel is a valuable resource already, and it can only get better from here. Can't wait to see more.

@ronaldroller7176 Жыл бұрын

Just two additional suggestions that I have tested. Chopped leaves raw in a salad adds wonderful flavor and texture. Chopped course and it adds effective fiber to your diet. If you hang up the plant and allow it to dry, the leaves will then crumble in your hands. What results is an oregano like spice. It can be eaten like that and has a wonderful taste and texture. It can be substituted as wild oregano in anything you would use oregano for. My wonderful Aunt Fern Caludis would cook the leaves, drain, then just add olive oil, red wine vinegar, salt and pepper. It is wonderful. Your presentations are great. Keep up the great videos.

@lamatrea 2 жыл бұрын

Yea I'm pretty sure I've pulled this out of my vegetable garden to grow leafy greens lol

@emeraldsoda4059 2 жыл бұрын

I want to forage but after so many years of conditioning, I'm hesitant in jumping in. I hope you continue posting these videos as they are entertaining in addition to informative. Thanks for posting!

@lamatrea 2 жыл бұрын

I like this video. I've recently been learning about the Dutch famine during war. City folk were hit harder than country folk who could rely on their homestead. The country folk had more knowledge of wild things to eat such as acorns too. My family on both sides were huge but no one went skinny even though they were also eating tulip bulbs to get by. It's good to have knowledge of wild food and what's edible. I'm slowly starting to learn what should have been taught to me as a kid.

@jacksoneflin6006 2 жыл бұрын

Ah! My gods! I've had this growing in my yard forever and keep tossing it aside, EVEN IN MY SPINNACH RAISED BEDS. I'm so excited to try foraging it when it comes back in the spring!

@mayamachine 4 ай бұрын

this is one of my favorite wild edibles, it's among the top 3 most nutritious plants on earth.

@wendyyang7846 Жыл бұрын

Today I successfully found some on my property because of this video! Thank you for always sharing such great informative videos❤❤sending lots loves from New Zealand

@earthwyrm6756 Ай бұрын

Lambsquarter (aka wild spinach) is a spinach relative and likewise very high in oxalic acid/oxalates. Right up there with spinach, chard and beets. You can still eat it but a) rotate with other low oxalic greens such as any cabbage family plants, b) serve with a rich source of calcium like cheese or sour cream so it binds in your digestive system & moves on out, and c) cook in water and draining that off will substantially reduce the oxalic content before adding it to other dishes.

@chesterjones5704 2 жыл бұрын

Love your message and admire your dedication to living right with the earth and radically approaching society's foolish notions of alienation when it comes to food options.

@tristansober-blodgett4335 3 ай бұрын

I've never eaten this plant but am excited to try it this year. I have collected it in the past to make fabric dye. It is a useful "weed"

@likebutton3136 2 жыл бұрын

Your videos are well put together. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge and keeping traditional methods alive. We have forgotten so much.

@MichaelBacaArtist 2 жыл бұрын

Wild Spinach and scrambled eggs tastes like magic. :)

@sweaterdoll Жыл бұрын

Just harvested half a pound of lamb's quarters from my yard. I'm glad to have watched this because I had a newcomer to the yard and it looks like c. hybridism or c. simplex. I'll be watching it grow this year to make sure that's what it is based on the flowers and seeds. But what a nice addition if that's what it is! I wouldn't have know without this video. Thanks!

@coolbuffdad 2 жыл бұрын

just found this channel and binge watching now, very informative content, thank you

@elizabethlusher9667 2 жыл бұрын

I've known this as Fathen and always toss it to my birds when I see it growing. I've never eaten it but now I will!

@loryndabenson2118 2 жыл бұрын

I just started picking wild herbs, wild spinach is the first that we've harvested and cooked. It is amazing we even felt like a a little rush of energy boost after eating only a little bit. Sauteed with garlic and a tad of salt is perfect. I will def learn the other greens in this chinapodeum (i can't spell) family. Thanks for this video

@uni5396. 2 жыл бұрын

chenopodium.

@loryndabenson2118 2 жыл бұрын

@@uni5396. lol thanks

@KutkuMegsann Жыл бұрын

I appreciate your videos very much. The passion and energy you devote to your content is amazing and very much recognized. Thank you ^_^

@Lotuslaful 2 жыл бұрын

Omg palak paneer is my fav Cant wait! Great video!!!

@learntocrochet1 2 жыл бұрын

A friend from rural Mexico showed me how to add a small handful of dried epazote to a pot of cooking beans. It is used as a gas preventative.

@tristansober-blodgett4335 3 ай бұрын

and adds a LOT of flavor if you wate to add it till the last 15 minutes (so yummy)

@michelemcneill3652 Жыл бұрын

I will be watching for this, it's one I haven't tried.

@This_is_my_real_name Жыл бұрын

I began eating C. album about fifty years ago, but a few years ago I read that it was quite high in Oxalic acid, and I became very wary of it, due to the known risks of consumption of that chem. If there is contrary evidence I'd _really_ like to learn about it, as this plant grows (ahem) "like a weed" all around our rural house. BTW, my understanding is that unlike the "New Zealand Spinach" sold in the produce section, C. album is a _true_ spinach.

@julietamcginty7263 Жыл бұрын

I like this video more than The rest of them

@seaturtleslastname8286 2 жыл бұрын

These videos are amazing! Good well informed and produced awesomely!

@kerryl4031 Жыл бұрын

Always have had lots of this around - my chickens (and ducks) won't touch it though! LOL! Spoilt brats they are! I did try eating a raw leaf once but found it slightly bitter - but considering the cooking of it. I knew it was edible, but how to eat was another matter, so many thanks for the cooking tips - I think we'll have some of this in our dinner today!

@entrepreneursfinest 2 жыл бұрын

I like lambsquarter much better than store spinach. Don't eat it if it's growing on farmland because it pulls a lot of nitrates from the industrial fertilizer.

@whitefarms3274 Жыл бұрын

🥩which makes it great for composting & mulch for plants but beware likes to reroot ! 🕊

@chrishynes6091 2 жыл бұрын

Sub'd... can't wait for more ..

@andreamoscoso4065 2 жыл бұрын

Very helpful tips TY!

@bernie6956 2 жыл бұрын

I just found your channel and so glad I did. Thank you

@yanj111 Жыл бұрын

yes, we harvest this in China, it is delicious, it can be made in soup or soak it in boiling water for about a minute or two, and make a salad of it.

@sofiatrincao4093 Жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for sharing❤ and for this great video...in portugal we have it a lot😊

@ferferiify 2 жыл бұрын

Love it

@endtimeprophecynews3730 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent 😊👌....

@jenniferlroberts5994 Жыл бұрын

I have let mine take over too!

@kristinregine4798 Жыл бұрын

thank you very much

@hands2hearts-seeds2feedamu83 2 жыл бұрын

@instead What do you think of plantain wild/bloomsdale tamed spinach ? And can be made into a balm for skin and injuries.

@amathonn 2 жыл бұрын

We used to call it "lamb's tongue." Tastes just like spinach.

@Insteading 2 жыл бұрын

Yes! So many different names for this one.

@samwilliams1142 Ай бұрын

I have never seen Lamb's quarters seed as prolifically as another relative amaranth or redroot pigweed.

@ql2ku 2 жыл бұрын

Lambs quarters...I actually track down "weeds" like this and add them to my garden

@whitefarms3274 Жыл бұрын

🥩Yep 🍀& let a plant reseed every year🌱 🕊

@Turdfergusen382 8 ай бұрын

This is also known as Lamb’s Quarter.

@helenboula3538 2 жыл бұрын

I love Spanish but I have never heard of wow Spanish I have folk salad have ate it many many times a lot of Chris have a fat many many times sour grass so they fit many times that I've never heard a while Spanish you and me.

@barbarajanejones5958 2 жыл бұрын

🐝💟🐝☮️

@msb8013 2 жыл бұрын

I found one of these but it had thorns on the stalk. It only got 1 ft tall. Did I find it? Please help

@ksbrook1430 Жыл бұрын

If the plant had thorns, then it is not the correct plant.

@whitefarms3274 Жыл бұрын

🥩Most likely Wild Amaranth We call red root pig weed Leave tasty when young 🌱 🕊

@gphx Жыл бұрын

You were only eating the leaves. Maybe it was late in the season when they're tough and you already know young, tender, bendy stems cook up like broccoli only better.

@FlashToso Жыл бұрын

Try saving seeds & grow indoors as sprouts, microgreens, baby greens or in garden when desired, like winter! Why depend on nature?

@PatriciaStratton-zz8hl 6 ай бұрын

Eggs and what?

@rachelwickart275 8 ай бұрын

I agree with being able to use the scientific names, but just a niggle: the phonetic pronunciation of the genus is actually "ken-oh-POH-dee-um". The amaranth family also contains other tasty foods, and they are in the same botanical order as cacti, beets, carnations and some carnivorous plants!

@ekurunet Жыл бұрын

Very helpful info ruined with music and audio-visual effects. This is second video from this channel I tried hard but could not watch.

@madinamazari6442 2 жыл бұрын

This is not wild spinach.

@reginabayles1169 Жыл бұрын

I DON'T KNOW WHY THIS WEBSITE POPPED UP TO WATCH BUT I'M REALLY PLEASED THAT IT DID. BY THE LITTLE THUMBS-UP "STAMP" THAT IS PART OF YOUR VIDEO I'M GUESSING YOUR NAME IS WREN, IF THIS IS SO YOU ARE THE THIRD PERSON THAT I HAVE BEEN MADE AWARE OF. THE 1st IS MY DAUGHTER, THE 2nd WAS A YOUNG LADY THAT MY SISTER-IN-LAW MET WHEN THEY WERE CONTESTANTS IN THE MISS ALABAMA WHEELCHAIR BEAUTY CONTEST BUT SHE SPELLED HER NAME WITH TWO 'N's, WHICH I THINK IS A SPELLING I WISHED I HAD THOUGHT OF MYSELF. I LIKED ALL THE NAMES THAT I NAMED MY CHILDREN AND CALLED THEM BY THEIR MIDDLE NAMES AS MUCH AS I CALLED THEIR FIRST NAMES EXCEPT I CALLED MY YOUNGEST "THE WREN"" I'LL HAVE TO SEND YOUR WEBSITE INFORMATION TO HER THOUGH SHE'S NOT INTERESTED IN PLANTS BECAUSE SHE SAID SHE WAS NOT GOING TO HAVE PLANTS AT HER HOUSE BECAUSE SHE LIVED IN A JUNGLE GROWING UP AND HAS HAD HER FILL OF PLANTS. THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR KNOWLEDGE WITH US THIS IS AN INTEREST I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED, AGAIN THANK YOU FOR SHARING ❣️