Wild Greens: Turn Weeds into a Great Salad in Winter or Spring
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Published 2019-04-02
I pick 16 weeds from my yard. I give you tips for making a great wild salad. I top my salad with plants from the wild and from my garden -- even homegrown ripe tomatoes on December 31! And I have a New Year's Eve cocktail made from my Black Locust Flower Gin. Have a great year of foraging and eating!
I made this salad as part of my annual personal challenge to make a wild salad on the last day of every year.
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Wild Plant List (in order of appearance)
Cats-ear - Hypochaeris radicata
Yellow Archangel or Yellow Dead-nettle - Lamiastrum galeobdolon
Cleavers - Galium aparine
Nipplewort - Lapsana communis
Narrowleaf plantain - Plantago lanceolate
Purple deadnettle - Lamium purpureum
Borage - Borago officinalis
Common sowthistle - Sonchus oleraceus
Lemon balm - Melissa officinalis
Hedge mustard - Sisymbrium officinale
Chickweed - Stellaria media
Curly dock - Rumex crispus
Common mallow - Malva neglecta
Wild field mustard – Brassica rapa
Wild chives – Allium vinale
Dandelion - Taraxacum officinale
Yucca – Yucca gloriosa
Black locust - Robinia pseudoacacia
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Videos on specific plants mentioned in this video:
Hedge Mustard - • Picking Hedge Mustard: with cooking tips
Wild Field Mustard - • Wild Field Mustard: How to Pick and P...
Wild Chives - • Foraging Wild Chives - Yard Weeds You...
Black Locust Flower Cocktails - • Black Locust Gin Cocktails
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Like Wild Salads? Here's a whole playlist of wild salads:
Wild Salads - • Wild Salads: Foraging Wild Edible Pla...
If you like your cooked wild greens, here's a playlist about preparing your harvest:
Cooking Wild Greens - • Wild Greens Recipes: You Can Cook Del...
If you want to improve your foraging skills, here's my playlist - Foraging: Real Food for Regular People - • In the Garden
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Here are my playlists about specific wild plants:
Dandelions - • Dandelions: Foraging Wild Edible Plants
Wild Mustard Plants - • Wild Mustard Plants: Great Wild Edibl...
Elderberry - • Elderberry Bushes, Flowers and Berrie...
Spruce Trees - • Spruce Trees: Foraging Wild Edible Pl...
Pine Trees - • Pine Trees: Foraging Wild Edible Plants
Redbud Trees - • Redbud Trees: Foraging Wild Edible Pl...
Detailed ID of Wild Mushrooms - • Wild Mushrooms - Deep Dive into Ident...
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My channel:
youtube.com/c/HaphazardHomestead
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Haphazard Homestead
PO Box 40721
Eugene, OR 97404
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Music
One Fine Day by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Artist: audionautix.com/
Plain Loafer Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Auld Lang Syne (Instrumental) by Jingle Punks, Touching Moment by Wayne Jones, You Are My Rainbow by Unicorn Heads, all from YouTube Audio Library
All Comments (21)
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In all my 70 years, I've never seen a wild greens salad. Beautiful! I recognize the dandelions and chives, but am unfamiliar with the rest. WOW do I have a lot to learn. Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful salad. :)
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4:10 Hi kitty! " Hey, I want some!" Cat said.
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THANK YOU! Please continue to present the same weeds over and over again. It helps because they always seem to look a little different. Great teaching for us newbies!
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Please upload more videos. I absolutely love them. Thank you
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I love when you make salad out of everything that you found. It's so fun. I've watched your wild edible plant salad at least 5 times.
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I can recognize many of them my friend. Some I not even imagined they were edible. Nice how you keep them organized. The salad looks very tasty. Thanks for sharing. 👍👍
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I love this. I pick a lot of Purslane and Dandelions here in Florida. Love the taste and crispy texture of Purslane, and it is so hearty here all year. Thanks so much for the really informative video. Learned a lot.
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Even though we only have the dandelion and chives here in South Central Alaska, I still enjoyed your video. Very well done. We will be experiencing Spring growth explosion of the greens soon here and I'm looking forward to it. Like you, I really enjoy being able to wild forage.
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Haha kitty in the chickweed <3
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Thank you very much=awesome information=I love foraging for my greens-used to do that when I lived in Germany-but when I lived in AZ that was not possible ( Dessert Climate ) now I live in N Cal and have a yard/garden. There is nothing better than harvesting from God's plentiful provision. I am so grateful.
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Thank you. You are amazing!!
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Watching this makes me hungry for a nice big salad! Boy that salad disappeared quick! Have a great day Aunt Holly Chris. :)
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THAT is a georgeous salad packed with 20 plus anti-oxidants and vitamins in the middle of the winter!!! If we ALL ate our weeds, Covid 19, or whatever you call the scourge, would be a NON-issue! Thanks for the info and wisdom!
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I love your vintage fork.
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I just came across your channel. Thank you so much for your info and time. I hope you start making videos again.
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Wow, where have you been all my life?!🤗
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Thank you for sharing your wisdom with us! 💐
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All the fresh baby plants are the most delicious in salads
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You're my favorite forager, thanks for another great video 🍀. Only yellow rocket makes it through the winter here, but thistles and clovers are back already.
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While I'm no expert at foraging, I've gathered the odd wild edible over the years. I really appreciate what you did here, and the salad looked amazing. Thank you for sharing this.
