I've never seen someone put so much care into their videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.

Common milkweed is one of the prettiest native wildflowers and it's AMAZINGLY FRAGRANT!

Milk weed grew wild and rampant in Wisconsin when I was a little girl. I would go out foraging with my mother as she picked mushrooms, asparagus, etc. She always told me not to eat the milkweed because it was poisonous....but OH they smelled SO GOOD!

Save the milkweed! Save the monarch! Keep planting seeds :)

Awesome. 10/10 on information, close-ups, presentation style and clarity of voice and identification. Keep up the awesome work!!!

Here in Quebec, we have fields of milkweed that are used for the fiber in the pods. That fiber is actually more resistant, waterproof and isolating than any natural or artificial fiber! They are even starting a new line of professional sport clothes for those who are going to very harsh climates like Everest, using that fiber. It also provides a great home for the monarchs all summer since the harvest is only in fall. :)

I never knew this about milk weed. We always thought they were a nuisance plant but now I see they have great value.

When I was little I would eat the silk out of milkweed pods growing on the side of the playground. I ate them regularly for about four years before the plant got removed!

Dogbane can feed you to. Although it is not edible. The stock fibers are strong and can be made into cordage. It has been historically been used for fishing along with every type of milkweed plant.

I love them after boiling and then adding a little butter. Get them in my back yard but I never get enough for how much I like them. I first tried them a year ago after watching this video. Just went outside 5mins ago to get some which brought me back here to where I first found out. ✌️

One of my favorite channels. Info is always spot on.

WOW! Very professional presentation!

Here in Colorado we have the Showy Milkweed. Exactly the same as Common Milkweed except they have larger flower clusters with longer petals on each flower, and they are brighter pink. Edible, with the same processing as Common Milkweed.

I love the way the flowers are scented! And the gorgeous Monarchs that are attracted to them!

Thank you for your video! I was concerned about misidentifying Dogbane vs. Asclepias. This is good information, especially in these shaky times.

👍🏼. This grows like crazy here in Ontario Canada. A LOT of them were planted to attract and maintain the Monarch butterfly population - As mentioned in this great Video !

This video is one of the best video's about a single plant I have seen.

I want to grow these on my garden to attract butterflies. I absolutely looove it when common milkweed blooms, the fragrance lingers in the nearby air when one is close to the plants

I remember trying the "Milk" from these multiple times when I was a kid.

Really enjoyed this video. I often use the seed pods fluff for fire starting and always overlooked the young pods. Thanks for sharing the additional uses

Thank you for your time and effort.

I LOVE growing this. Not only for the butterflies and bees. BUT because they SMELL WONDERFUL !!! They are VERY fragrant !!!

I found this growing in my flower bed, and didn’t know what it was. May have yanked some out ugh. I’ll make sure the seeds fall in the same area for following years. Thank you so much for explaining.

New sub. Fantastic channel mate. Really incredible info and then production quality is incredible

Such great info. We have tons of milkweed in our yard. Can't wait to try your recipe!

Incredible production quality

Common milkweed tastes like a cross between asparagus and cabbage. Love it.

Super awesome video! Always love this kind of stuff. Makes me want to go out and skip work...

I've never heard of this, thanks for the whole preparation and recipe.

Very COMPLICATED intricate plant!

You remind me of Les Stroud! I love you! I hope you get A LOT more subscribers!

Great video I found this plant on my land in Hungary but didn't know what it was, a subscriber identified it hence I found your video...wonderful!

Your videos are fantastic!!!

Just cooked up a half dozen using your recipe. They were excellent! Going to go harvest some more! Thanks!

You videos are so well done being educational and inspirational! Those milkweed seed pods looked tasty when stir fried.

I live in the deep South appreciate your reference to the geography of edible plants. Especially those that grown in the South jungles and forests of the Southeast US. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Excellent tutorial. Thank You. 🎯

Yum to butter and soy sauce! Thank you for all your hard work. ❤️

Very excellent video. I've been eating the pods for a coupe off seasons. I like to batter fry them after parboiling them. FYI: Sometimes the common milkweed does branch out. Whitetail deer like to browse on the common milkweed when the plants are young. If the top of the young plant is cropped, it will branch into two main stems.

I never knew until now there was an edible species of this family. We don't have Monarch butterflies in the UK but I often enjoyed growing A currassavica in the garden. They produce copious amounts of nectar for butterflies and other insects, and provide a great show of colour with their reddish orange outer petals with yellow centres.

Awesome and grateful for your information ✌

Great show, I've always hoped someone would put on some thing exactly like this, beautiful, an for someone who is dyslexic this help one to absorb the info with great advice..thank you, Peace

Awesome video.

My grandmother use to cook up the leaves of milkweed and serve them as greens with a meal. they are particularly good with horseradish. I still eat them to this day.

Great video

Keep it up ..❤❤lovee this

I’m from Australia and enjoy these informative vids. Some plants you describe are the same as those we have although we call them by different names. Regardless, the precautions you outline apply as does the potential. Thanks

I found this article fascinating. Sadly, I have no wild foods expert to confirm what I have in my backyard is milkweed or dog bane. I have to assume that is the latter and not the former. The stems are solid so it is probably dog bane. So I just enjoy the beautiful pink flowers and the heavenly scent which is like honeysuckle. My life is insanely busy and my kitchen a disaster; so I just enjoy not only the monarch butterflies that come to feed but the Ruby throated humming birds too. I pay the ultimate price for enjoying these works of nature in the one section of my suburban lot which I keep natural for a variety of reasons including the fact that the terrain is uneven and not good for the lawn mower and also that I have Queen Ann's lace, violets, strawberries, rhubarb, iron weed, catnip, sweet Annie etc. I have a sadistic building inspector who goes around fining everyone out of existence along with fat cohort, a crooked judge and township commissioner who has nothing better to do but torture me. But to my real point. I recently lost a dear friend to a heart attack. His favorite wild flowers were Queen Ann's lace and milk weed. No cemetery is going to let you plant that on someone's grave. Cut specimens die quickly. Planting in a pot is also impractical. I have found on the internet very high quality examples of Queen Ann's lace for sale at reasonable prices. No problem. The trouble I am finding is finding a company that reproduces faux versions of milkweed specimens. I know this is not your area of expertise but is there somebody out there that is? What do museum exhibits do for crying out loud? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I ORDERED MILKWEED SEEDS FROM AMAZON AND PLANTED THEM 4 YEARS AGO. I ADMIRE THEM FOR THEIR FLOWERS AND THE SCENT. NOW NEXT SPRING I WILL TRY THEM AS A FOOD. AWESOME.

Very nice and educational...thnx for sharing....

I clicked to see if you were going to mention Monarchs and I was happy you did.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: you've got a great channel going on here! You deserve more subscribers!

Love the video

Thanks for the great info

Never fails to amaze me

i love this video. vey interesting and informational. thank you

Thank You for the information, I never knew you could eat the young pods, I'll try them.

5:15. "The cooked silk mimics melted cheese." Can you describe this in more detail? Or demonstrate the cooking technique or recipe for this?

This is awesome!! Thanks for the information!! +1 LIKE

excellent vid bro

I knew you could eat milkweed I just didn't know how THANKS

great video

Awesome video! I see those all the time on my walks in Chicagoland and wondered what they were.

Good Video. So many videos are done by people that seem to want nothing more than get clicks. Their content is incomplete or inaccurate, but because of the exciting title, they get clicks. Yours is informative, accurate and even though you didn't talk about every use for milkweed, you covered what you said you would and ensured people knew to take responsibility for further study. That is responsible work, good job! -Nature's Access

Excellent.... universe knowledge :)

We have so many of these in our backyard every year, I actually didn't know they are edible!

Thanks for sharing.

Very good video

Excellent. Thank You!

I really like how you specified that it was the caterpillar of the monarch butterfly that only ate milkweed. Because I know personally that the butterflies themselves enjoy some of the nectar from the flowers I have in my yard which are not milkweed. I like these type of videos you do, of course I would rather be watching you building your log cabin. I wish you put videos out more often, but I understand. I hope all is well. Thank you

We used the sap/milk as paper glue just for fun. I love this plant! But now I love them more!

That looked so weird when you opened that mature seed pod. The seeds looked like scales. Any way, great video dude! Maybe I can cook some this up when I get around to it.

I love your vids.

Nice video. Good to know

Very well done video I just got some milkweed seeds that after freezing for 3 months I intend to plant next spring. Brian 77

Great video. I had no idea you could eat Milkweed.

I like the new intro, keep it up

That shot at 2:32... wow! What kind of drone did you use?

Another Awesome informative video! 👍

Awesome!

looks good!

Got so excited to see this pop up on my feed. What's the texture like after cooking? Visually it reminded me of okra.

i never knew that it was edible. i have a few common milkweed plants in my backyard. wow

my grandparents had some milkweed in their backyard. i hadn't thought of milkweed in years, but i suddenly remembered opening up the seed pods and looking at the silk. i don't think we ever ate them, though

Very interesting

thanks for the video

I'm currently trying to grow four milkweed plants on my deck. I really liked the idea of creating a home for the monarchs. They have been a little tricky to grow and very slow but I'll keep at it.

I love you, too! However, I'm confused about the rest of the pod; do we only eat the inside, and not the outside?

Was wondering if you had the nutritional value of the milk plant by chance? Love your vidieos!!!

What area of Ontario are you from. I’m from cambrigde Ontario. I’m just curious to differences in plant life. Your videos are amazingly resourceful. Great detail. Cheers LNR

I wanted to see you eat some :( Cool love these videos !

I have seen pickled milkweed pods. I assume the boiling part is the same.

I spent much of this summer collecting monarch eggs to raise caterpillars indoors, and milkweed to feed them. There's a park a couple miles from where I live that goes on for miles along a riverbank. The city intentionally planted common milkweed throughout the park so as to attract monarchs. So it's a great pesticide-free source of milkweed. I did not know that immature milkweed pods are edible. Next year I'll consider gathering some pods and trying them out. Might as well gather some food for myself when I'm out gathering food for the caterpillars.

Ate some fried milkweed pods today. It tasted like cheesy zucchini and honestly 10/10 would recommend

I’m very familiar with my milkweed varieties and I can identify most of them. I didn’t know common was edible if cooked properly. Also I used to call dogbane “fake milkweed” and also I found out that labriform milkweed Asclepias labriformis is the most poisonous milkweed species in North America. Common milkweed is quite distinct compared to most other milkweed species in North America, showy milkweed being its closest cousin, Asclepias speciosa.

Back when WW II was going on.My dad as a child and his friends would gather the seed pods for the war effort. They would make the silk into life vests for the troops.

Cool!

THANK YOU! I nwever knew that milkweed was edible!

Interesting, I always let them grow in my yard, will have to try eating them!

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