36 Wild Edibles & Medicinal Plants In 15 Minutes

This video contains a mistake on wild lettuce. IT DOES NOT CONTAIN OPIATES. This mistake was made by my using outdated information, and has been corrected in newer videos talking about this plant. I sincerely apologize for any confusion this may have caused.

Please go into more detail on one plant at a time so we know how to use it and how to identify it

As a fellow forager I enjoyed your video, especially how you show people how densely everything grows together. There's a garden beneath our feet, we just need to stop mowing it.

Be careful with wild carrots, they can look very similar to poison hemlock to the untrained eyes.

Thanks for the info! This is the kind stuff the educational system should focus on! Teach kids about the real world around them!

Don' forget to warn people about dangerous lookalikes! Like Poisonous Hemlock! Sometimes mistaken for wild carrot or yarrow.

A note about jewelweed, this plant really shines as a treatment for nettle stings and in my area they grow in the same habitat. My story, I got a pretty good nettle sting by accidentally grabbing one. It was hurting pretty bad, ruining my day, and I remembered about jewelweed. I only had to look for 5 mins and I found some plants. What you want is the juice, so I took a handful of leaves and rolled them between my hands, really beating it up. Once it started to feel wet from the juice, I put it on the nettle sting. I did not expect this to work as well as it did, almost immediately I felt the pain subsiding. I kept working the leaves, rolling them, and tearing at them, getting more juice and applying it, and unbelievably it nearly cured my sting, afterwards, all that was left of the pain was a slight tenderness to the skin, almost nothing. I don't think I'd use it for poison ivy, since that's an oil, best thing is dawn dish soap, maybe after that it might help. But it works like magic on a nettle sting

Ive been harvesting and studying wild plants for 50 years.This is absolutely excellent quick study vid on various wild plants.

Indiana seems to be one of the most prolific areas for wild plants for food and medicine. I am sure there are many of them here in New England that I have not had a chance to encounter. Thank you for this quick overview of the wonderful plants the Lord has created for our use.

Very good enthusiasm, but it would have been better to spend more time with the plants. It's not helpful to folks to point at a plant and say it is edible without explaining what part is good to eat or cautions on the time of year to harvest. For example you gave no warnings about the toxins in Jack-in-the-Pulpit. I'm glad you enjoy the wild edibles and that you are spreading the fun we can all have with them. It is important that we all provide accurate information. - Kathy D.

I was @ my friend's house, he had Elderberries growing in his backyard. I asked him if they knew what they were, I told him they were a medicinal plant... He thought it wasn't in his interest he was going to mow it down! Thanks to him just listening my friend now has a new way to look @ the way his Father looked @ the Land.

Nature is incredible isn't it? This is awesome

Nice to hear from someone that doesn’t react to poison ivy.

Thanks to you Josh your contagious excitement has me collecting wild edibles again

Thanks. I know some planys from growing up, so much to still grasp.

Wow, thank you so much for this video. I’ve been buying all these herbs 🌿 for example, boneset, blue vervain, Mullien, stinging nettle etc Not even realizing that it’s growing (literally) in my backyard. 😱 This is so shocking that I’m about to faint lol. I’ve been spending hundreds of dollars for food that I can pick for free.

Raspberry, Blackberry, Strawberry, or Rose, Leaves make EXCELLENT Tea!

So many of these plants were eaten or used by me and my Family when I was a kid. I didn't remember all of them but you have been a big help. I used to love helping my mother pick wild greens In the early spring. I Always love the flavor of the tasty Greens cooked with a little butter and salt.

Thank you SO MUCH! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🥰🥰🥰🥰. MORE MORE MORE. PLEASE MORE VIDEOS!!!!

This is amazing! Thanks for covering everything in a broad sweep, informative and interesting, leaving plenty of information for researching more on each item on our own. THANK YOU AGAIN! Excellent vid.