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Every spring, billions of dollars are spent eradicating plants that fed civilizations for thousands of years. Plants the Puritans packed on the Mayflower. Plants the Aztecs died to protect. Plants clinical trials have now documented doing what forty-dollar supplements claim to do.
This vault covers 10 plants growing in your yard right now that the lawn care industry, the pharmaceutical industry, and in one case a 16th-century Spanish conquistador, spent centuries trying to erase. Not because they failed. Because they worked, and they could not be owned.
One was formally banned by Hernán Cortés in 1521 after the fall of Tenochtitlán, when the Spanish empire recognized it as a rival sacred food and ordered its fields burned and its seeds destroyed. It is currently growing through the cracks in your garden beds.
One was deliberately brought to North America by Puritan settlers as a food and medicine crop, then systematically reclassified as a weed by Scotts Miracle-Gro in the postwar era to generate recurring herbicide revenue. A pound of it now sells for seven dollars at premium grocery stores.
One has been the subject of peer-reviewed randomized controlled trials showing a 78 percent reduction in menopausal symptoms, results that outperform placebo by a factor of three. A bottle of its extract costs forty dollars at a health food store. The plant itself grows free in every temperate lawn on Earth.
These are not exotic plants. They require no seed catalog, no prepared soil, no irrigation. They are already there. The only thing standing between you and a permanent free food system is knowing what to look for.
📚 Sources:
– Rutto, L.K., Xu, Y., Brandt, E., and Iqbal, M. “Mineral Properties and Dietary Value of Raw and Processed Stinging Nettle (Urtica dioica L.).” International Journal of Food Science, 2013.
– Simopoulos, A.P. “Omega-3 fatty acids in wild plants, nuts and seeds.” Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition 11, no. S6 (2002): S163–S173.
– Edwards, E.J., et al. “The origins of C4 grasslands: integrating evolutionary and ecosystem science.” Science Advances, 2022.
– Hidalgo, L.A., et al. “The effect of red clover isoflavones on menopausal symptoms, lipids and vaginal cytology in menopausal women.” Gynecological Endocrinology 21, no. 5 (2005): 257–264.
– Ghazanfarpour, M., et al. “Red clover for treatment of hot flushes and menopausal symptoms.” Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 36, no. 4 (2016): 506–511.
– Berkeley Food Institute. “The Promise of Amaranth.” University of California, Berkeley, 2022.
– Gaitán, María Elena. “Foods of the Américas: Amaranth, the Outlaw Grain.” Ethnobotanical accounts of Aztec cultivation and Spanish prohibition, 2022.
– Priest, A.V. “Chenopodium berlandieri in Pre-Columbian Eastern North America.” Journal of Ethnobiology 12, no. 2 (1992): 209–227.
– Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. Milkweed Editions, 2013.
– Wichtl, Max, ed. Herbal Drugs and Phytopharmaceuticals: A Handbook for Practice on a Scientific Basis. Medpharm Scientific Publishers, 2004.
– Tobyn, Graeme, Alison Denham, and Margaret Whitelegg. The Western Herbal Tradition: 2000 Years of Medicinal Plant Knowledge. Churchill Livingstone, 2011.
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17 Comments
Is Ground Ivy also called Creeping Charlie? I ordered your book. Thank you.
And we seem to have reduced intelligence as a result of this loss of plant knowledge & use, making us even easier to be manipulated by industry & 'progress' 😔
Dandelion & plantain tea removed my moles and skin tag. Plantain is my go to for stings and wounds.
Red clover stopped my hot flashes and helped me sleep.
Stinging nettle gives me energy and eradicates allergies. Stinging yourself heals nerve damage.
I replaced spinach with lambs quarters.
I eat chickweed salads every spring.
I collect seeds just incase.
Your content is priceless. Those around me think I'm crazy. They're all suffering and medicated. I'll be 56 this month, haven't been to a doctor in over 10 years and feel better than ever. I'm also highly meditated and in love with nature.
Thank you🙏
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I still pick wood sorrel and eat it…my nephew niece and me all do. Before I even showed them it was food I walked over to a patch and they both picked it then I did and ate it then they did too, after brushing it off. I make sure to inspect to make sure no spiders are under the leaves or poop on them. Always watch for the poop on forage food
I remember having nettle stings as a child and my mom told me to grab one of the plantain leaves, crush it and rub and hold it on the stings. It really did work! She told me those plants never grow far away from each other in Europe. I've always remembered this and done it many times over, as these weeds grow along so many paths, it's never far away. Such knowledge cannot just be lost. Also, nettle tea is very delicious.
How do you tell the difference on sight between non-flowering wood sorrel and three-leaf clovers?
I have been absorbing the knowledge for awhile. Ordered your Channel's book, this book will last longer and have better use than youtube's normal doom and gloom content.
I drink dandelion, and nettle teas and they are delicious with nothing added to them. We moved from the suburbs years ago. I didn't use herbicides (agent orange) in my yard there, but the neighbors did. I had beautiful dandelions grow up in the low calcium areas each year. The neighbor was so intrusive they delivered round up jugs to those of us who didn't murder our medicine. I put it back on their doorstep just so they knew I knew where it came from. I never trusted using my own dandelions and things there because I was certain they probably sprayed them for me. People don't realize how ill this stuff makes them. And if a foreager picks one from a yard they can get seriously ill. Our neighbor and dear friend who lives on the ten acres next to ours used to spray that stuff. He is a veitnam vet. Many years ago when we moved in, he promised me he wouldn't spray it anymore when I told him it was the same thing they doused him with back in nam. Our part of the deal is my husband weed eats the fenceline between us and him. These videos are great to inform people who don't know. Love your channel.
P.S. I just bought your book! Look forward to it getting here.
Every single one of those plants grow in my yard n flower beds. Plus several other's that weren't mentioned. I've never had one of those pristine yards. Some of this I already new. About improving the soil, but didn't know the chemistry and the nutritional value. So now I'm going to start eating my weeds. Thank you❤️🤠
They convince you to spend money on their product to kill your valuable weeds, and then they will also take your money to sell you invasive plants like Morning Glory that will take over everything in your garden.
Thanks
You are showing crimson clover, not the same as red clover.
Please take care that images shown are actually the plants you are talking about. Also provide latin names, not just a common name. Good info, but so much would be gained by helping people get the right plant
Dandelion is a super food not a weed
The only two weeds I kill with homemade weed killer is poison ivy and Virginia creeper. I am allergic and they have to go. The rest I harvest and dry for later use