🌿 30 Wild Edibles To Forage On The Appalachian Trail!

🌱 There are many edible plants all along your journey through the Appalachian Trail! In this video we will quickly cover 30 of them to help you on your foraging adventures! Please research further into each plant if you decide eat any plants in this video. Proper identification is key and always be safe and diligent harvesting out in the wild!

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0:00 Introduction
0:01 Daylily
0:33 Pine Needles
1:04 Rock Tripe
1:45 Huckleberry
2:07 Wintergreen
2:35 Ramps
3:12 Sassafras
3:39 Lamb's Quarters
4:09 Wild Strawberry
4:46 Chanterelle
5:18 Wild Blackberry
5:52 Wood Sorrel
6:34 White Water Lily
6:54 Milk Thistle
7:13 Mulberry
7:26 Cattail
8:06 Henbit
8:35 Chicken Of The Woods
8:57 Wineberry
9:28 Chickweed
10:01 Wild Blueberry
10:39 Plantain
11:23 Wild Grapes
11:41 Dandelion
12:15 Oyster Mushroom
12:47 Ostrich Fern
13:16 Bittercress
13:49 Wild Cherry
14:13 Wild Onion
14:40 Chicory

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[daylight]

As an Appalachian American, these are my favorite foods

[KNOTSNPOTS]

Thank you for this! Love your style of quick to the point info and clear narration. Always helps me learn the plants faster! 🌿🌿

[fw]

While there are wild blackberries, you showed a video of wild black RASPberries, which we also have. Wild red ones, too.
Blackberries have a star shaped stem. Black raspberries have a round, green stem that have a powdery coating that makes them look blu-ish. Red have a round, green stem with maroon thorns & no powdery coating.

[christopheradrift]

My mountain shares a valley with roan mt but sadly it doesn't have any blueberries. It's filled with blackberries, water lettuce, and ramps.

[chrissouthard]

You should boil fiddleheads in salt water for 10 min before sautéing them. You can get big sick if they’re undercooked

[NationalistCoalition]

You can also make bread from the cattail root by ringing it out like a rag and filtering the white starch that comes out

[momo-bu]

Two pictures of water lilly are actually of the flower and root of lotus

[toocleanpappas]

Very cool! I've been collecting all the edible plants I've found on the trails I've hiked. But I didn't really do it for the AT, so glad I found this! I have a good collection from the PCT and the CDT, what was surprising to me is that the desert was the place were almost everything was edible! ( I grew up in VA.) Also, just a heads up if anyone is going to hike in New Zealand. On the Te Araroa trail you can't just cook up young ferns. They actually have a few poisonous versions. Thanks again!

[klkw]

6:00 always thought wood sorrel was butterbup! I love the tangy stuff! When i was in 5th grade, i went on a field trip. A trail guide whom i still remember, taught us they were edible. When i heard that buttercup is toxic, i thought the trail guide was crazy...now i know better, i guess! I was ccrazy for mistaking them for another plant!

[thisbushnell]

My grummaw made root beer from the stand of sassafras behind her cabin.

[ChelseaChii]

Great video, thanks so much for covering the entire part of the plant!

[Artistwithpurplehair]

Next to the wild onions was some Purple Dead Nettle which is both edible and medicinal.

[MichaelR]

Good informational video , thanks for sharing , God bless !

[georgemcduffey]

Couple of tips for beginners: Edible mushrooms don't agree with everybody (think of it like lactose intolerance). Firstly, always make sure they're cooked thoroughly (like you'd cook chicken). If you're going to try oysters or chicken of the woods for the first time you should only eat 2-3 bites and wait 24 hours to make sure you're not one of the people they give explosive diarrhea to...Also, with Ramps/Leeks you can harvest bulbs when they're in a dense colony. They also reproduce by seed but tend not to go to seed when they're packed tight. "Thinning" them out, like you would with a plant you seeded in your home garden, will aid both bulb-splitting and seeding. Samuel Thayer (Foraging God, author of "Forager's Harvest" and "Nature's Garden" (both I highly recommend if you want to get into foraging)) recently put out a great video on the sustainable harvesting of ramps on the youtube.

[freakyflow]

Little tip from someone native And has had plant foraging And uses handed down to them. Pine, Sumac etc with Vitamin C is pointless to have other than just a flavor in boiled tea There is no Vitamin C content if you boil it..Vitamin C breaks down in boiling water Melting point: (190^C) (374^F) The smart way of doing it is let the items steep in cold/lukewarm/hot overnight with cold or a hour min at lukewarm 30 mins at hot...Or therm in your boiling water under 140C..Also having a cheese cloth handy rids and bugs And little bits Grandfather use to make a drink using birch water, Sumac, spruce buds, smashed blueberries And Ginger *not local And it would sit in a closed pail over night Then filtered thru a cheese cloth And the cloth was pressed Added Honey And the drink was chilled And you drank a cup The taste was actually pretty good He would tell you "People go to these health stores And buy Vitamin pills Where do you think these doctors go the idea Only this is the source of it They use chemicals to make it"

[durtwizzerd]

Black cherry is common in CT. Smaller fruits than that one though

[bobbymills]

Watch for copper heads near the blackberry bushes

[Alec-xl]

I hiked the Appalachian trail and I never saw that first one.

[normalhuman]

I had no idea daylilies were edible. I thought all lilies were toxic