If you got lost or hurt out in the bush could you survive on wild foods and medicine? In this video we take a deeper look at wild foods and their potential Nutrional values, as well as some plant medicines which could save you from things like infection.
Edible Gardening
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Sweet vid, subscribed.
Listen kiwis , don’t be sweet .
Be honest !
All your fancy pants technology isn’t real in Australia , yes I’m picking a fight .
Try harder mate .
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Amazing video bro. Stupidly, this is something I've never thought of learning about before. I now feel a lot more confident about our awesome back yard 🙂
Fantastic information, but more, your video is so clear! Thanks so much, and I look forward to more.
Awesome video bro! Just come across your channel. Great for you to share your information on wild edibles in Kiwi bush! Cheers!
Chur Boi, mean as.
Love this bro ❤❤❤
Mean my Bro good that you sharing Ancient Maori Knowledge of the Land and Bush…that u2 are most definitely Kaitiaki (Guardian) and Tangata Whenua (People of the Land) of Our Beautiful Country Aotearoa New Zealand We call home. Cher kHz Tihei Mauri Ora.
Awesome video mate.
Canterbury outdoors enjoyer here , didnt even know about half of these Tree's/Fruits etc in our own backyard .. This is what our kids should be learning, not this other gender crap… Awesome stuff
Awesome video
Mate would ya find most of these in Oz as well?
Mamaku heart looks exactly like taro! Taro is slimy too, gotta boil the slime off. I wonder if it tastes the same. Great video
Everyone who goes into the NZFS bush should know some of this , a lot of these plants are introduced ,so are well known as food Herbal plants ,
Solid
Choice bro.
Thank you for uploading!
Brix is just sugar. What would be really interesting is the starch content
Plantain juice and calamine lotion works great for chicken pox too.
great video man, always looking for new things to forage in the bush. keep it up bro
Thanks for the knowledge man! I already now a lot about those wild plants from Brazil, now with this video I grow my self knowledge about wild here in NZ! Keep doing this! Cheers!
Nice gathering of bush food ,you should go for a dive some day
Maori knowledge
I bought David crowes book on native edible wild plants. It's a good reference. But I agree with everyone. Make your own man. Just use real pictures. In Dave's book it's all drawings so can never be too sure lol
Great video, just as a side note.
Cabbage tree/tī kōuka
Introduction
The cabbage tree is one of the most distinctive trees in the New Zealand landscape, especially on farms. They grow all over the country, but prefer wet, open areas like swamps.
Growing 12 to 20 metres high, cabbage trees (Cordyline australis) have long narrow leaves that may be up to a metre long. It has lovely scented flowers in early summer, which turn into bluish-white berries that birds love to eat.
As the plant gets old, the stems may die but new shoots grow from any part of the trunk. The bark is thick and tough like cork, and a huge fleshy taproot anchors the tree firmly into the ground.
Quick facts
The trunk of the cabbage tree is so fire-resistant that early European settlers used it to make chimneys for their huts. Conveniently, too, the leaves made fine kindling. They also brewed beer from the root.
Cabbage trees are one of the most widely cultivated New Zealand natives and are very popular in Europe, Britain and the U.S. In the U.K. they are known as Torquay palm.
Cabbage trees are good colonising species, growing happily on bare ground or exposed places.
Their strong root system helps stop soil erosion on steep slopes and because they tolerate wet soil, they are a useful species for planting along stream banks.
Māori used cabbage trees as a food, fibre and medicine. The root, stem and top are all edible, a good source of starch and sugar. The fibre is separated by long cooking or by breaking up before cooking.
The leaves were woven into baskets, sandals, rope, rain capes and other items and were also made into tea to cure diarrhoea and dysentery.
Cabbage trees were also planted to mark trails, boundaries, urupā (cemeteries) and births, since they are generally long-lived.
Above info taken from DOC (department of conservation) website
What you waited.
Bro no joke yours is the best YouTube show of this type going
I'm part Indigenous to Cairns man and yours blows every other show out of the water
Way to go showing us how it's done
Is there any supplements of these or are you please able to get your own made up?
Thank you so much for this info, I have some of these in my garden and i recognise all of the plants you have mentioned, I had no idea. Love the bush.
Thanks 😊👍 Your awesome!
whats wrong with old fashion screaming for help
Brilliant mate, loved it. If you write a book about edibles I'd drive into town to get it and there's very little I'd ever go there for. Big thanks and best wishes.
OMG. Date me
Wait, buttercup is poisonous!!!
When I was a in primary school one of my teachers told me it was eatable and sometimes would do dare us to eat some… Where they trying to kill me??
What about all the juicy bugs!
Very cool. Cheers for info.
Wow!
The ‘noise deduction’ effect in your video editing program should help to reduce the bug sounds
Fellow Kiwi. The answer is, you don't need food for two weeks, people can live for between one and two months without any food at all.
If you can stay dry, and have water, you can walk out of the bush ANYWHERE in New Zealand by going down hill carefully. You would be out on the shore long before you starve to death. We are no further from the sea than 150 miles ANYWHERE in the country.
The only reason people die in the bush here, is because they panic and stop thinking.
Thankyou so much