In Austin, Texas, 40 acres of greenbelt were recently bulldozed by my house. I describe the edible and useful species there, show their destruction, and comment upon changes in the land here over my lifetime.
CHAPTERS
0:00 intro
0:19 background
1:41 hackberry, elm
3:46 paloverde
4:14 mesquite
4:34 green ash
5:12 black willow
5:33 sugarberry
5:53 juniper
6:26 boxelder
7:25 roadrunner
7:54 wild oat
8:44 floodplain & land
10:08 sunflower
10:32 animals
11:44 goldenrod
12:06 Austin development
15:42 greenbrier
16:10 post oak
16:36 Ashe juniper
17:30 final remarks
#Austin #environment #foraging #urbanforaging #realestate
21 Comments
Greed is not only destroying our planet, but is also polluting our soul.
This video will get so many thousands of views. So many tens of thousands…..
Why didn’t you buy it? It was for sale.
but its ok when you live here? this land was never protected anyways and this was always going to happen eventually
So is your solution not to develop land? People need to live places and there are 29000 other protected acres, or about 15% of city land.
Dewberries were the first plant I learned to forage as a kid. Sad that land was scraped.
This always happens to hunter-gatherers.
Sad but not surprising
This is very upsetting. I'm so sorrry for you with what they did to your local ferngully.
This is not progress.
That lone carpenter ant ; I have wondered what pollinators would feel upon encountering almost unending hectares of sterile, green grass lawns.
It’s insane how it’s to normal to separate ourselves from nature. It’s not possible. I think more people are waking up to that fact now more than ever. We need to move on to a more humane economic system within our lifetime
Kinda fitting that tech workers like living in giant external hard drives
That's why, if you don't own the land, you pick a place very unlikely to ever be developed & stock of plants you forage from around the area, there.
Austin is being swallowed whole. Thanks to you and crime pays, at least we have proof that there was unpaved paradise before they put up the parking lot…
I used to roam and hunt some remnant forests where I grew up . There were 3 one is a dealership now , one is a Costco ,dealership , and battery factory, one thank the great spirit was turned into a park but disturbed bone the less. I get physically ill when I go back there now.
Bro they've been killing Austin for years now
Aha moment $$$ Those little communities are everywhere in good ole America 🇺🇸 Self serving corporate culture $$$
Wow that place looks like a war zone. We lived in ATX for 18 years before moving near to Durango CO 4 years ago. Austin has turned into a big city with big city problems. What a change we saw!
That's the literally history of Texas. Private property. Government never respected federal share green space
You’ve hit the nail on its head with land being conserved for hunting. There just needs to be a similar energy directed toward foraging, good chunks of central and northern Europe still have a strong culture of foraging. If there were more of a collective desire to preserve these places it wouldn’t be so easy to destroy them.
If I were to make a suggestion buy up some rural land, possibly even depleted agricultural land and make it a haven for native species. It’s been the most gratifying thing I’ve ever done.
Capital Excavation just destroyed a beautiful forrest and meadow with a creek right across from my neighborhood. It was my favorite place to go walk