Authors from whom I took video fragments for this video compilation:
Thank you all!
Gardens for Life:
Esoteric Agriculture:
Epic Gardening:
EdibleAcres:
Country Living Experience: A Homesteading Journey:
At the Grass Roots:
Earth Works Jax:
Edible America:
The Acadian Garden & Apothecary:
Self Sufficient Me:
GrowVeg:
Eat Simple Food:
Nature’s Always Right:
The Weedy Garden:
Huw Richards:
Feral Foraging:
Agri Buzz:
V87 Garden:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HbiEYxOTx4
EcolClips:
The Sage Tiger:
Gary Pilarchik (The Rusted Garden):
Connor Creates:
Today we’re uncovering one of the strangest stories in agricultural history — the rise, fall, and forced disappearance of a crop so resilient, so nutritious, and so independent that entire industries saw it as a threat. #TranquilGardeners
This plant fed ancient civilizations, restored damaged soils, healed gut health, and multiplied on its own without fertilizers, irrigation, or chemicals. It grew where nothing else survived. It stored for years. It nourished people in times of hunger. And because no one could own it, patent it, or control it, powerful interests quietly pushed it aside and labeled it a “weed.”
Why did a nutrient-dense, drought-proof, self-reproducing food become something farmers were punished for growing?
Why did governments regulate it, restrict it, or bury it under the category of “invasive weeds”?
And more importantly — why are people rediscovering it now, at a moment when the world desperately needs resilient, sustainable crops again?
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45 Comments
Make sure you have a reputable app on your phone that can properly identify these. There’s a dangerously toxic weed that looks like lambs quarters but isn’t.
Nonsense. If plants are good they survive. Please, no conspiracy theories regarding plants
Dad's love eating Jerusalem Fartichokes like crispy sweet slices of any other succulent vegetable. Better than others, though, is the "pull my finger fun" that comes later. Love this video guys. I'm growing it all and trying it out on the family… I've already done the Fartichokes. 😉
People and cultures are easily indoctrinated! Grow some tiger nuts in a city lot and see how fast officials swoop in!
You might want to consider there are very good reasons NOT to cultivate these particular plants. They may just kill every other plant in the area and really screw up the native ecosystem. Kudzu is a HUGE problem in place it's been introduced. Surely some of these others are/can be as well. Please, be sure whatever you choose to plant wont become a problem.
Another AI crap, not a word on how people prepare and eat each mentioned plant.
Jerusalem artichokes have flowers that look like small sunflowers. If you do not want to grow them for food – grow them for aesthetics.
Same with colorful amaranths.
Debo tener mucha mala suerte, en mi jardín no prolifera ninguna de ellas, o a lo mejor tengo demasiada diversidad y no logran competir con todas las otras…
I’m 87 now and remember after the Second World War, when food was scarce, the govt advised people to eat all the edible webs in their gardens, dandelions, dock, fat hen etc naming and illustrating them. I’ve been a forager ever since.
That was then. Times and ecology have shifted. They are weeds that require roundup.
I am in the UK and starting to grow herbs. The more you research the more amazing they become, even the humble dandelion. I want to make a point and have these so called 'weeds' displayed in pots. Nature's 'power houses'. Walking the hedgerows and exploring all the wonderful plants hidden there – just wonderful.
No one should be hungry in this world – plenty of plants to devour and use.
AI crap
Chufa (tiger nuts)
Amaranth
Purslane
Lambs quarters (wild spinach)
Jerusalem artichoke (sunchoke)
Comfrey
Kudzu (water spinach) SE Asia
Bamboo (certain species)
Dandelion – liver healing plant
More AI rubbish with content stolen from other youtubers
I love "weeds". So maligned, so misunderstood, so powerful.
THANK YOU FOR EDUCATIONAL AND ACCURATE INFORMATIONS.🤗😇
Thanks!
The video is a bit messed up with kudzu overlapping water spinach near the middle, so I suspect it is at least AI edited. Since I am in the south where kudzu is out of control, it would have been nice to have a clear section on the use of kudzu.
I just watched another video released within the week clearly what is copping down
The narrative played while showing kudzu plants and roots is incorrect and correct for the next aquatic plant in the video.
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"Weeds" the label for wild flowers the corporations want to sell you chemicals to irradicate because they are beneficial for life on this planet. I wish people would change their thinking & rebuild our connection with nature & what we consume over the brainwashing corporations want you to believe. No plant should be illegal, it's like making having children illegal imho.
Where can u buy them all
Ive just ordered a bag of untreated tiger nuts in the hope of growing some!
I shared about this in our Livestream the other night! It's absolutely amazing! Thank you for sharing for everyone to know!🤗❤️🔥✨🕊️🙏🙋👍
thank you
The Rothchilds would have been behind that. They basically banned anything made by God so they could push their highly addictive petroleum based garbage.
I have a giant lambs quarter growing in my garden. Well it's dead now but loaded with seeds. I will collect some and drop them along my gravel driveway edge and out back. I have a lot of edible plants and medicine growing on my land. I started identifying plants around 2010. I have poke weed, elderberry, black cohosh and about another 30 plants I've identified. And many more to figure out. Very lucky to live where I do.
Why do you show all these pictures of other plants while you are talking about purslane? Stop!
Look like you mixed up water spinach and kudzu
Watching from Mackinac Island Michigan
Kudzu is invasive in the USA. It grows so fast it can choke out a forest. It is edible and nutritious but it's growth rate makes it undesirable.
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i grew up.in Suriname.d country of lots of vegetables..but back in d days vegetables Were more eating..in otber countries but it never declined in Suriname…
Do tiger nuts grow in u.k?
I have about an acre and have trouble getting around because of arthritis so I am looking to wild my property with edibles – things I can plant and forget with minimal effort, these things may be what I am looking for
Conclusion: environmentalists want us to eat weeds and bugs.
Can you eat That type of Bamboo.
Comfrey can also be eaten and is very nutritious.
I liked your vid and sense of humour, much cheers (no mention of mushies though ?
Many plants have been brought in and are invasive . The flowering pear either the Brandford or Cleaveland are quick growing, very weak wood and can take over a field in a few years. The Honeysuckle and olive are very troublesome too.
Chufa is a cancer in the garden. You *can not get rid of it*; it WILL take over your plot and crowd out any legumes or flower bulbs, eventually. There are plenty of other edible weeds that are far easier to control.
Much like the hemp story
Why don't someone plant some of these in the desert