I believe that it is the responsibility of the current generation to educate the next.
In the past few generations, it seems that many families have left the country lifestyle and moved into the cities. Along with leaving the land, they left a plethora of how-to knowledge that this current generation is completely ignorant of, for the most part. Even simple skills like knowing which wild plants you can eat and which ones are dangerous have for the most part fallen by the wayside.
This knowledge used to be crucial to life itself, but the times have changed. Now, we leave our families to go to work, whatever income isn't taken from us in taxes or paid out in bills we spend at the supermarket for over-processed "food-stuffs" that fill us up but leave us empty. I think that it is a fantastic thought to realize that many people who attempt to include more wild edibles in their diet can actually have negative effects as their bodies attempt to adjust to a nutrient and vitamin rich diet.
For @papa-pepper, foraging is not just a hobby, but it is becoming a lifestyle. Who wouldn't want to enjoy an incredible variety of healthy food for free? In the upcoming video, I show my oldest daughter a whole handful of common wild edibles in just a few minutes, and we don't even walk that far.
It is incredible to me how much food the common man tramples underfoot without ever realizing the potential of the plants at his feet. You'll have to watch the video to check out everything that we find, especially what we find to enjoy as "dessert", but the photos here show a sneak peek of some of the wonderful wild edibles that we found. To find out why I tagged this one #funny, you'll have to watch it. Enjoy the video!
TEACHING THE NEXT GENERATION TO FORAGE
I strongly believe that having a good understanding of the wild edibles in your area it some excellent information to have in your head. If things get really bad, that info could save your life. If things don't get bad, you'll still have some great knowledge to supplement your diet with some healthy food for free!
As always, I'm @papa-pepper and here's the proof:
proof-of-wild-edibles
Until next time…
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I agree with everything here as you know with our off grid type interests, and have said the same thing for a few years now.
It was also smart when you said this:
Stuff growing in my yard or my driveway I used to swear at and tear out, like common plantain - I know smile at, encourage and harvest LOL
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Yeah, if you really want it gone, I'd suggest eating it! LOL!
Thanks Barry!
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the weed you pulled .. I just got rid of a lot of those tonight
so you could actually eat that?
I love goose berries papa!
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Very tasty too!
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Lost, the skills you are sharing are mostly lost!
We need to be teaching theses things. Thank you Papa for raising awareness!!
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You are welcome!
Thank you!
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Congratulations @papa-pepper!
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Some wild sammich in the woods!!
Thanks for giving me a much needed chuckle, definitely justify the funny tag.
Although I must say I'm amazed at all the greens that you can literally put into your mouth right there and then when normally it's all "weeds and grass" to the untrained eye. I'm a fan of eating "microgreens" in the restaurant because of the obvious health benefit but goodness gracious do we pay a premium for it!
Perhaps you already have that in your future plans.. But I think it will be fantastic if you run a homestay business in your homestead when your dreams towards one has been achieved. Us Steemians would definitely love to hangout with you and you can even teach a course in foraging and homesteading!
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Good idea. Thanks for that, and I'm glad you got a laugh.
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Teaching the previous generation as well. would really love to seem more posts like this one. I love the other stuff you do to but people with foraging skills, horticulture, survival, these are in short supply. Thank you so much.
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The previous generation too! Good point! Thanks @aaronmda!
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Keep your diamonds, and accompany her to your daughter. Do not let him alone in his career.
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Okay, thank you.
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Love this post papa pepper!! I couldn't agree with you more! You can even make a bit of cash depending on what you're foraging!!
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Interesting! Good idea @meowmeow!
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nice....your post deserve upvote and resteem....
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Thanks once again, and congrats on your followers milestone!
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u r welcome...thanks...
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The closer to the nature, our Mother, the better! Important efforts you are making, few more generations and plastic world will be able conquer us…
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Pinky-pepper: Are there any chocolate-flavored plants that Grandpa would like?
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We have some chocolate mint... and chocolate Ghost Peppers... but they are not wild.
Also, where are you at? All the way home by now?
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Got home yesterday around 4 pm. Still mowing grass with the pusher. Too tall for the rider which flattens wider tire tracks. Ok, then just Dove dark chocolates for my secret private stash, right Pinky-pepper?
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That sounds good Grandpa!
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great points & post. i would humbly add to avoid areas close to highways.
nature rules \m/
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Right, anywhere a lot of people are can be contaminated and polluted. Good advice!
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Great skill to teach your kid.
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Yes they are!
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Just don't move too far away just before things "get really bad", too much to re-learn. Found that out the hard way on survival trips. It's a good thing to have some procedures handy for testing what is edible and what not as well.
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Very good point!
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Good stuff, I don't know anyone experienced natural foods and foraging and am afraid to just try stuff I see online :D
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Oh no! I'm sure that someone out there could teach you. Maybe one day.
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Hehe, the papery husk revealing the goodness inside! That is the kind of foraging my daughter would love!
You got up that tree with a camera in your hand really fast!
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Yeah, it was a good dessert for a foraging adventure.
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Great post ,I agree these are very valuable skills , that every father should past down to his children. You gotta bring me one of those dried ice cream trees next time you come up!
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Perhaps I will!
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Nice
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Thanks!
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Kids can learn foraging skills at a young age. My dad had us kids picking pokeweed, lambs quarters, dock, and other wild food once we were seven years old. We were each given big paper grocery sacks to fill, all through the spring and summer, but we only picked one kind of plant at a time. That helped us focus and learn that plant really well! And it made it easy for my parents to check that we were picking clean and not getting other plants mixed in. Kids like contributing to the food supply that their family eats.
There's an artificial distinction between city-folk and country-folk, though. I know plenty of people in town that know more about wild edible plants than folks living in the countryside these days. It's more about people that are connected to their outdoor surroundings, or they are not. There is plenty of free-growing wild food in town - and lots of city people producing a lot of food in their gardens and overall yard landscaping, too.
Happy foraging and here's to a lifetime of foraging fun for your kids, too!
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Thanks, and I agree about that artificial distinction. My point was that when many people left their farms and went to the cities, they did not pass down much about canning, foraging, or other skills down to their children. At least that is what happened in my family tree, and I know many others who say the same.
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I'm sorry you didn't get that passed down through your family. It's great to see you bringing it back to your kids! I'm fortunate that my family and my extended family never lost that through the years, whether they've been in big cities, small towns, or out in the country. I've watched rural folks become more dependent than ever on the corporate supply chain and urban folks gardening and foraging large parts of their food and sharing their skills. The farmers where I grew up are not gardening or foraging these days - and many are not even hunting or fishing for food, just for recreation. Like you, though, I've seen folks go the other way, for sure. The more folks that are connected to the land and plants around them, the better, no matter where they are at!
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amazing very nice photography
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Cool, thank you!
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"It was a fun time Papa" - Pinkie Pepper
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Yes it was!
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Thank you for this. It is a topic close to my heart . I spent Summer (it is now the 2nd day of Winter here) using common weeds for making green smoothies, a powerhouse of goodness. Also just to quickly mention, look for information on how the Indigenous people of your area have used the plants for nutrition and medicine in ancient times. Great video too!
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Glad that you liked it. Thank you!
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Good stuff! This kind of thinking could definitely help to curb the impending global food shortage.
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It sure could!
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meep
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meep meep
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I LOVE this!!
Just follow dad up a tree. No 'careful you might fall down' or 'girls shouldn't do this sort of thing', or 'you can't come up here'.
When you are long in your rest @papa-pepper (many decades from now) your kids will remember and treasure days like this.
They will become stories of legend.
You are doing an awesome job of being an awesome dad, and I look forward to more adventures in foraging from you and the @little-peppers.
Hmmm......... I sense a story coming on......... ;-)
Pinky Pepper and the wild edible icecream sandwiches
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Sounds like a great story!
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I thought i was watching a survival video.. YOU SHOULD MAKE ONE or a parody of one. WOuld be good. Freeze dried icecream yumm. I need a tree like that
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Perhaps I will. I was thinking something similar.
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Thanks for this post and video @papa-pepper. I'm always trying learn more about the wild edibles in my area. Used to know a lot more when I was young and in the Boy Scouts (back when they actually taught kids real survival skills)
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You are welcome! They are great skills to have!
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Smart
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Thank you.
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Great post @papa-pepper
It's not just wild edibles.
I was just commenting to my wife the other day that schools don't teach Home Economics any more. Nobody is teaching them how to cook or sew or wash clothes or make a household budget!!!
Is it because they don't want anyone to understand any kind of economic theory?
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Right!
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Thanks for posting it.
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Edibles growing in the wild is so interesting to learn. When I was a child we looked forward to the spring dewberries and black berries growing along fence lines in the wild. You just can't beat those delicious cobblers made from these.
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That sounds wonderful!
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She's so lucky to be gaining this knowledge at such a young age.
It's prime serviceberry season around me. That's my favorite thing to forage -- better than blueberries!
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We've got 100 Serviceberry seedlings to fit into our landscape! Very cool!
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Too few people are doing it. Your children will be prepared when the time comes that we must return to the old ways.
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That they will.
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Also happy "pepper day"
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"Pepper Day?"
Is that really a thing?
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The Beatles Sgt. Pepper Day today. I was watching your video when it came on the news. We celebrate you today. Or everyday
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LOL - Thanks!
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Excellent post, now more than ever I feel the overiding importance of re-discovering our connection to nature, if that can be done at the same time as learning such invaluable skills it's a double win. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
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You are welcome. We are too disconnected from creation these days.
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Thats one of the ways forward. You are doing a good job
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Thank you @pai-ciens.
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I learned one survival tip, that you can sustain yourself in the woods by eating tree bark. And if I don't land a gig soon I may be nibbling at maples sooner rather than later!
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At least it'll work out if you don't get a gig soon.
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If you teach them Force choking, they can get others to forage for them.
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I'm working on that too, but in a nice way.
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Good papa with good advice. We know that many children busy with their gadget and sometimes they dont care about the environment and nature.
I wanna follow ur step to teach my son and daughter about nature.
Very useful article @papa-pepper.
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Thank you. We like to keep our children unplugged.
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Are there any plants that mimic the ones you highlighted, that are dangerous? It might be good to do a segment on them, to keep people from having a nasty experience on their first forage.
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There can be some dangerous lookalikes. It is important to know what you are dealing with.
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Keep watering and fertilizing that tree. You may have to make steps for the littler peppers to harvest that crop.
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We sure will. A precious and rare thing!
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Very nice post. It's definitely a plus to have that knowledge. Still trying to learn more about that myself. But hey, you can never stop learning these things. Thank you for the knowledge sir. Resteem.
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Glad to hear it. I'm still learning a lot myself. Keep it up and thanks for the resteem!
Now following you!
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Thank you kindly. I'll keep checking out your stuff. I love learning real life knowledge. Who needs Algebra? lol
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Algebra can help too, it's just not edible!
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lol. Ok well I'll think of something better. Haha
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nice post @papa-pepper,thanks for sharing,upvote and followed
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Good to hear! Thank you!
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You are well done, you need to teach children the skills of life
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Yes I do, thanks!
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In the future, your daughter will remember this time with you with gratitude) @papa-pepper
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Thank you so much for that!
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Love this, best class I ever took in college was Forestry where we learned to identify plants by their leaves, buds, flowers, bark, etc. Still use it today!
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It is excellent knowledge! Glad to hear you've still got it!
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It can be amazing to blow someone's mind when they are wondering what plant they are looking at and you have the answer right there, not to mention useful to keep people away from poisonous plants. Still amazes me how many people can't identify Poison Ivy or Oak...
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I remember once when a man told me that I could eat some food in his garden. I picked about 5 kinds of "weeds" and chowed down, to his amazement.
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My brother did this same thing actually...only he was 4 at the time, didn't have permission to go in a garden, and had to have his stomach pumped afterwards. I'm sure you were much more successful ;)
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Much more!
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Absolutely endearing! If by chance you create, "Papa and Pinky-Peppers Pocket Guide of Wild Edibles", I will buy a copy!
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Wow man. We need more content like this on Steemit. The idea of peoples bodies almost reacting negatively to healthy diets is something I have seen and experienced myself when transitioning from periods of neglecting my body to hyper focusing only on super healthy raw foods. Its real and it is something people need to understand. If you transition from a lifetime of Cheetos and oreos, your body wont know how to function on kale and kombucha. It will take weeks or even months for the lethargy and brain fog to fade away and let the benefits of a nutrient full diet fill you with energy. Thank you and keep it up! I live in a relatively small town and I am only starting to begin what the local flora is. Keep it up man!
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