If you know the details, you can enjoy eating the leaves and roots of a common garden weed – Pigweed Amaranth. I have Redroot Pigweed in my garden — a lot of it! I eat the young leaves raw in smoothies and salads. And I eat the roots, too, raw and cooked. I like it so much that I freeze a lot of amaranth, too. Don’t despair of this garden weed — eat it!
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Redroot Pig Weed, Amaranthus retroflexus, Family Amaranthaceae (the amaranth family)
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INTERESTED IN COOKING WILD FOOD? I have a lot of videos about foraging specific plants, and about cooking them, too. Here’s a selection:
Here are two videos about Redroot Pigweed Amaranth, Amaranthus retroflexus, that I used in this video:
Garden Weeds You Can Eat – Pigweed Amaranth – https://youtu.be/9HwfZN-ri0Q
Are My Lambs Quarter Too Old To Eat? – https://youtu.be/uhrrw0OZGRM
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If you want to improve your foraging skills, here’s my playlist – Foraging: Real Food for Regular People – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEGN8kE_KnjC46uuOaLL0UtCV0TUQXzbW
If you want to eat what you forage, here are playlists about preparing your harvests:
Cooking Wild Greens – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEGN8kE_KnjDsPNTAOuzlyBCCcKTvsF6L
Wild Salads – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEGN8kE_KnjDPp18Eo0HbMT8x3FvGhBhY
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If you like to garden, too, here are my gardening playlists:
Potatoes – An easy and productive garden crop – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEGN8kE_KnjASbYda3uBGHFH57edZLEYQ
Elephant Garlic: How to get the most out of growing Elephant Garlic – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEGN8kE_KnjD6dEWNXksaTcnAbkS1kV7v
Collards: How To Grow and Use ALL of Your Collard Plants – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEGN8kE_KnjBIqUqGKeLPykAxctUzkjHs
Hops: How To Grow and Use ALL of Your Hop Plants – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEGN8kE_KnjCCTnFEJA5-dw6TcrrHVhUY
In the Garden – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEGN8kE_KnjC46uuOaLL0UtCV0TUQXzbW
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35 Comments
Thrilled to see you again! You've been missed ❤ Red leaf amaranth seedlings are popping up here in Australia, looking gorgeous and even a little showy among all the green 🌿
Very Nice to see and hear from you and learning even more from your experiences and knowledge
Eat plants?
You're kidding, right?
Humans do not produce the enzyme, celulose, which is REQUIRED to digest plant materials.
Ruminate animals eat plants and humans eat animal products.
The leaves look like tomato and lamb's quarters. Thank you God bless you MARANATHA
Glad to have you back! I couldn't believe it when I saw it pop up on my notification. I am on cape cod! Didn't know you were in MA
The amount of seeds that they produce should be able to collect and eat as sprouts.
Yay you're back!
I've had one of the worst weeks. This lightened my day hearing from you. Hope you have more videos coming soon too!
Want all the free greens you could ever eat? Do this – when you come across a good edible wild plant let a few plants go to seed and toss them, seeds and all into your compost bin. Now whenever you use that infested compost, all these great greens will just volunteer. I do this with Red Root Amaranth, Goosefoot and Purslane. Being native, the only care they take is…..don’t kill them. Leave a couple plants to form seeds and you’ll never be without greens.
You think this is how agriculture got started?
😃😃😃😃😃😃can you tell I'm happy to see another Haphazard Homestead video?
Well I am, 😃.
Yay! I am so glad to have found this new post! After watching all your previous posts I discovered that I have a world of food growing in my woods and I have gathered it and educated my family on it as well. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Welcome back! An old farmer I know used yo say "If pigweed don't grow in that soil there ain't nothing that will grow there." He didn't know he was looking at real food.
I know that Cambodian culture eats them. I've watched videos of them harvesting it.
Oh my~!
So happy, excited and relieved to see a post from you, Holly!
Ahhhhhhh~~~
So happy to see you❤❤❤❤
I really like pigweed. I call it goose foot spinach. It grows as a weed all around where I live. When one takes root in my garden I water it along with everything else. It'll grow seven feet tall in my garden but only a couple feet outside. I eat it like spinach. It tastes better than spinach. Plus it's organic and free. What's not to like. Thank you for making this video.
I've never eaten the roots so far. But I'll give them a try next spring.
❤OMG ! I clicked so fast!😂🥰
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Yay!!!! I’m so glad to see you again.
I have a 6 foot amaranth beside the corner of the house and I pick the young leaves to add in any meal. I pick the new leaves again after 3 days.
I really missed you!! You have the best foraging channel. I have been away from the Northwest for a few years starting with covid I live on the big island in Hawaii now which is a wonderful foraging adventure learning so many things but I so miss the beautiful wild plants in the northwest that you talk about. The pigweed amaranth in this tropical climate I have been familiar with that since I was a child it is a wonderful plant! Thank you for this video!!
Glad you're back again!
Maybe I'll have to try some redroot, pigweed, or amaranth. Whatever the stuff is that grows all over my garden. And make sure to get smaller, younger plants cause when I've tried a few leaves before I thought it was too tough and bitter to bother with!
Are these the same as plants called pigweed with pink stalk of round flowers?
I was just Googling pigweeds trying to find the red one I saw you harvest in a video. Couldn't find it so i decided to come search your channel and lo and behold you just made this video. Glad you are well, J
So glad to see you! I missed you!!!
Seems like it’s been forever since I’ve seen you.
Wow! Love this educational videos! I have those in my raise bed but I am hesitant to eat. After watching this video, I will try looking for amaranth if they are still growing. Thank you!
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When my allergy dr did the skin allergy tests, pigweed was the one I reacted to most, then ragweed.
Love your garden👍😋😋👌
Thanks! I see this growing everywhere in Maryland along with other greens I already knew. Next Year!
You have been missed. Hugs
Huh! I didn't know about harvesting the whole plant!
I brought in bagged soil for my raised garden beds. This weed was growing throughout the beds. I was pulling & discarding. This year I realized it was the red root amaranth. Now I know the whole plant is edible & next year will take a different approach.
Thanks for the heads up!
Congratulations
Madecinal plants is goddll