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Best Tasting Edible Weed? Lambsquarters aka Goosefoot is Amazing!



Best Tasting Edible Weed? Lambsquarters aka Goosefoot is Amazing!

This edible weed goes by a lot of names: lambsquarters, goosefoot, wild spinach, are just a few. It is grows all over the place where we are in zone 5 Wisconsin, and fortunately for us, it is delicious!

This weed is a part of the same family as quinoa and spinach and swiss chard (the amaranth family), and the taste follows many of those same vegetables – just plain delicious.

In this video we talk about identifying lambsquarters, the taste of lambs quarters, different methods of preparing lambsquarters, health benefits of lambs quarters, nutritional value of lambsquarters, and much more.

We also talk about the presence of oxalates, and saponin in the plant.

We think you have probably seen this plant many times before but may not have not known that it is an edible weed.

We hope this video adds another foraging plant to your list! We think you’ll love this lambs quarters wild spinach.
Thank you for watching!

#Lambsquarters #Goosefoot #EdibleWeeds

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Some information comes from here: https://www.mayernikkitchen.com/medicinal-plants/lambs-quarters
And from here: http://docs-do-not-link.udc.edu/causes/Fact-Sheet-Lambsquarters-Chenopodium-album-is-a-Nutrient-Packed-Edible-Weed-final.pdf

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19 Comments

  3. HT6

    Love lambs quarters, leading a foraging class in two weeks, there are so many wild greens.

  4. Rebecca Watson

    I mix lambs quarter, purslane, dandelion, and wild chicory into our salads. Last spring, I made my daughter a completely wild salad, including clover and the above-mentioned. It wasn't her favorite, but we needed some fresh food! 😂❤

  7. IWantTo Believe

    I had several plants that popped up in my garden containers and I used an app and it said Wild Cabbage. They looked like my collards though and then they started looking like Broccoli. So I wasn't sure if they were bolting or not. And then they started to flower and I pulled them and tasted the leaves and knew they were Turnips. They taste like turnips and I could see a thin root ball. I had just picked turnips I had grown so I knew what they were. I cooked them and tasted them and yep they were turnip greens. I was still petrified because I had never eaten greens I hadn't grown. I had fried fish, turnip greens and cornbread for dinner and had some for the next day. And I gave some of the uncooked leaves to my chickens. But that was really scary but delicious. Thank you Birds and Squirrels.

  9. Haphazard Homestead

    Lambs quarter is one of my most favorite wild greens of all. In the garden, it has fewer pests than spinach or chard, especially no leaf miners! It's very compatible with corn, because both like fertile soil. I harvest most of the lambs quarter as the corn is growing, but leave a couple plants to produce seed (to eat and to let reseed the garden). I blanch and freeze it for year-round use. Enjoy your garden weeds and happy growing!

  11. Scott Fraser

    Im in zone 5 in ontairo i dont think ive ever seen them but thanks to you ill keep and eye out for them. Plus its great if the birds like them

  13. Frosty Sustainable

    I have lambs quarter at my property, but as a weed, when it spreads, it's impossible to control, as it's very hard to chop with trimmer, and if left for more than a month, it grows 3-4m into height, as a tree.. I use it as main green in compost

  14. Bita S.

    I absolutely love your videos, short and informative!!!! love them ❤ thank you for sharing🙏

  15. Dreamingrightnow

    These pictures are great; by far the most helpful for id purposes. I've had trouble figuring out if it's growing in my yard and have considered looking for seeds, lol. I think I have other things sprouting up that look very similar.

  16. David

    Sometimes I let things just grow in the garden to see what will become of it. Oddly, I found this growing in my bed this year. Interesting video. Now, let's go try taste it.

  17. Hoon Sol

    Oxalate consumption is only dangerous when it's free oxalic acid, because only that will bind to calcium in the blood and produce kidney stones. Oxalic acid which is already bound to calcium in the form of calcium oxalate will never pass through to the bloodstream, and can actually become liberated by the microbiome to yield even more calcium for the body to use.

    The way to know if there's a lot of free oxalic acid is simply to taste it; if there's a lot of free oxalic acid it will taste very acidic, like wood sorrel (which has among the highest levels of free oxalic acid found in any plant). You will taste this acidic taste in a species that's related to goosefoot, which is common orache (Atriplex patula), but from my experience goosefoot itseld tends to hardly ever taste acidic at all except if growing under very harsh conditions. I can literally eat a pound of the stuff raw without any issue, it just tastes savory and delicious and has an excellent peppery aftertaste.

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