Spent the evening foraging for wild food on our homestead in Southern Indiana.
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we are out foraging to see what kind of things we can find on our Homestead that are edible plants um we’ve already found mulberries and there’s a ton of blackberries that’ll be able to harvest later on um but let me show you some of what we found [Music] all right so this is a new find today we found a black cap raspberry um so you can see some of them are starting to turn black hold on some of them are turning black um the red ones are not quite ripe yet um Axel is extremely excited about these ones Mom Mom I found the pink so they look like raspberries look like just black so yeah they’re actually oh did you find one did you check it for bugs no bugs what do you think ooh that one mommy just had it was so sweet yummy we have a black c r did you get a sour one mommy’s first one was a little sour let’s see if we can find more of the black on there they are exciting soon these will all be able to be [Music] picked all right second thing we found is some wild carrot so this is a little difficult cuz it’s currently uh summertime early summer late spring and we need to be able to find um the first year plants and not the second year plants so it’s easier to do in Fall when you can actually see it flower um because if it’s a flowery stem you don’t want that one that’s a second year uh you just want the first year leaves so let’s me show you what got all right so this area used to be a like a solar garden um in the back of our property so there’s a bunch of these shiny blue rocks everywhere uh but we came across some wild carrot so Queen Ann’s lace is also what it’s known as um you got to be careful because they are very similar to Hemlock uh so you got to make sure you know your difference between the two um if you see that hairy stem that means it’s wild carrot and not the hemlock so this looks probably like a second year plant um because it has the thick wild uh the thick stem and it’s probably going to shoot up into um a flower portion here so we’re going to try and find a younger plant and maybe dig it up and see what we got we might not be able to eat it this time around um but I just want to kind of and forage and get an idea for our wild carrots all right so I found some more clean ANL or wild carrot that looks like it’s a younger plant um it’s not stemming up into one shoot this one is a bunch of multiple shoots that kind of meet at the ground so if you can see that um Mom you have one we’re going to dig that up and see if we can find a roote in there so here we go all right so I probably should have brought a better shovel cuz I kind of cut it when I was digging I didn’t dig far down enough but here’s an idea of what it looks like when you get to the root the Root’s white this your daddy one not orange like your carrots natural carrots that you grow but there you have it you got your wild carrot and I’m going to keep looking for a few more of these all right so there’s that white root again on the Queen Ann’s lace make sure you’re looking for those hairs so you’re not picking wild Hemlock um but we got ourselves a little bushel here and we’re going to leave the rest there’s quite a bit growing over here but we’re going to wait till fall cuz then the plant kind of dies back at the pop and all those nutrients go back into the root uh and they become a little less bitter so until then we’ll be back carrot and come fall you’ll definitely know which ones are first year versus second year because the first year uh we kind of look the same in the second year we’ll have those flower shoots uh springing up and those will then seed uh and give you more the next year you ready to go back to the house yeah here we go now before we head back from to the house after picking the carrots I just wanted to show you another edible plant the mulberries from our mulberry tree they are right on top of us and this tree is huge but there you have it the mulberries they got the black fruits berries that you want to pick when they’re kind of white and red you don’t want to pick those yet the black ones or the ripe ones and I have some videos of Mulberry cobbler and I’ve made some mulberry jam and so we’ve had quite our fair share of mulberries so far this season and they just keep coming so that [Music] sometimes uh we’ll pick them but sometimes we’ll leave them out for the bugs cuz the bugs are starting to and birds are starting to really like it you can tell our house has some purple bird poop around it from the birds so they’re definitely eating the berries as well so this area of our property kind of untouched back here uh but you see those black cap raspberries these ones are not ripe yet they’re still growing but they’re mixed in here with these blackberries which are also not ripe yet uh hopefully will come in the fall uh but just a bunch of berries back here uh to give you a closer look of the black berries we are going to have a ridiculous amount once these actually ripen in the fall but I’m excited that these black cap raspberries are also here in the mix cuz those are coming ripe a little sooner than the blackberries [Music] walking around and have found yet another edible plant uh these are wild strawberries also mock called mock strawberries so they’re not as sweet as the regular strawberries that you find or grow um but that you can still pick them you can still eat them they’re just a little Bland and tasteless so let me show you what they look like usually found on the ground covers and they look a lot different than regular strawberries but there’s quite a few out here and these have been popping up everywhere for us let’s see if I can get you a closer look um and yeah you can pick them you can eat them they just don’t have much flavor so I would recommend making Maybe a jam out of them mixing them with other berries that are sweet uh just to use them but um I probably wouldn’t just eat them by themselves so we’re going to actually go ahead and pick these while we’re out here I am standing under another um plant that is important for foraging this is an Autumn Olive Tree also known as uh Japanese silver berry it’s actually considered invasive in the United States but it will produce berries uh that’ll be able to harvest around September or October and those are edible H it smells really good once it blooms but again it’s considered invasive so shouldn’t be too hard to find uh we have a few of them around on the property and it’ll be interesting once I can Harvest these berries cuz I have never tried them before but I hear they’re good in either sweet or savory dishes so that’ll be interesting so yeah that is some of the plants we found uh while foraging along our Homestead I uh do not recommend that you eat anything that you’re not 100% positive is edible and also uh maybe have have somebody that knows what they’re doing before you um start doing this yourself but I hope you enjoyed the video and please like or subscribe [Music]