Can you find food and medicine growing in your city? Rob Greenfield’s answer… YES!
To show you, he led a foraging walk in Central Park, in the heart of New York City, one of the most urban cities in the United States. Here he found food and medicine growing at every step.
In this video Rob introduces you to approximately 10 common edible and medicinal plants and shares tips on how to get started foraging and overcome the anxiety and fear, foraging safety, ethical foraging and how to become a plant wizard!
For one month Rob Greenfield foraged 100% of his food, over 100 different foods from the land. At the same time he traveled from city to city, leading foraging walks connecting helping to reconnect his Dear Friend with Earth. We recorded this plant walk in Central Park for YOU!
Inspired to learn the foods and medicines growing freely and abundantly around you?
See Rob’s foraging guide for beginners: https://robgreenfield.org/foraging
(For links to all resources mentioned in this plant walk, see the above link).
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Here is a list of the plants we met at the US Capitol and timestamps so you can click right to meeting that plant:
wild rice (Zizania aquatica) – 1:05
sea salt – 6:50
Staghorn sumac (Rhus typhina) – 11:00
clover (Trifolium pratense, T. repens) – 12:50
creeping Charlie (Glechoma hederacea) – 15:20
violet (Viola spp.) – 17:40
goldenrod (Solidago canadensis) – 18:25
dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) – 19:15
dandelion, chicory, burdock, dock – 26:00
reishi, Lion’s mane, turkey tail, maitake – 26:45
yaupon holly (Ilex vomitoria) – 27:30
Peppercress (Lepidium spp.) – 36:35
black nightshade (Solanum nigrum) – 41:40
sugar maple (Acer saccharum) – 46:15
wood sorrel (Oxalis acetosella) – 48:20
Plantago (Plantago spp.) – 49:00
Oak (Quercus spp.) – 56:40
Black Walnut (Juglans nigra) – 1:00:00
Japanese Knotweed (Reynoutria japonica) – 1:03:12
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12 Comments
First comment ☺️
Did the Geriatric lawn taste bitter? I can't even imagine the smell.
This is great but whenever I watch your video I try to imagine 330 million people trying to forage. It’s not sustainable.
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https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/food-freedom-book
Here is a list of the plants we met at the US Capitol and timestamps so you can click right to meeting that plant:
wild rice (Zizania aquatica) – 1:05
sea salt – 6:50
Staghorn sumac (Rhus typhina) – 11:00
clover (Trifolium pratense, T. repens) – 12:50
creeping Charlie (Glechoma hederacea) – 15:20
violet (Viola spp.) – 17:40
goldenrod (Solidago canadensis) – 18:25
dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) – 19:15
dandelion, chicory, burdock, dock – 26:00
reishi, Lion’s mane, turkey tail, maitake – 26:45
yaupon holly (Ilex vomitoria) – 27:30
Peppercress (Lepidium spp.) – 36:35
black nightshade (Solanum nigrum) – 41:40
sugar maple (Acer saccharum) – 46:15
wood sorrel (Oxalis acetosella) – 48:20
Plantago (Plantago spp.) – 49:00
Oak (Quercus spp.) – 56:40
Black Walnut (Juglans nigra) – 1:00:00
Japanese Knotweed (Reynoutria japonica) – 1:03:12
That's probably the one place you can go and fall upon Deaf ears. Their priorities aren't health, the Earth, and helping people. Their priority is profit.
Thank you Rob for these videos! A few years back I started to teach my children how to identify plants around our yard. They now look forward to spring to enjoy the spruce tips & excitedly look into our mushroom patch where I inoculated the hardwood mulch with Wine Cap mushrooms. We harvest and dry out our staghorn sumac to use as a lemony seasoning as well! I never knew that Clover was edible, and will certainly try the nectar next spring!! Hopefully you are able to come up to the Toronto area!
Keep up the amazing work!
A friend I used to have, she was a walking encycolpedia of plants, and she showed me how around the city we are there are edible plants, leaves of trees, etc everywhere you look at, its amazing!💜
I find ground ivy a bit sage-like. I've only used it as a seasoning, though, not as a potherb or in salads so I'll have to try that. I love it as an herb.
(stunned that you've never had knotweed before this! it's such a versatile vegetable and I always feel like I've stocked up for the year but I always run out well before the season is coming back.)
Hey Rob we in South India also use chicory to make coffee, and my father foraged in his village I have went once when I was 6 years old we harvested mushrooms and last year I went early morning(in village) with my uncle to just have a morning walk we ended up Foraging few edible leaves. 😀
After I finish my education I will work for 5 or more for buying a piece of land and l will settle in my village.
Learned a new plant today ground ivy.Thanks
Thank you for this! I work in DC all the time! Can’t wait to do some foraging there
Barefooted and wholesomely standing tall with truthful, considerate and compassionate mindfulness in gratitude. Sharing and caring about Earth and nature and society. Living as a new kind of messenger. Not describing a single person in a representative position in that town of murky lies and selfishness. Rob to the rescue! 👍 Going strong.