If you want to learn the edible and useful plants of the Arizona desert, you’ve come to the right place! In this video Matthew covers 8 edible trees, shrubs, and cacti that are common in the Sonoran Desert of Southern Arizona. You’ll learn about mesquite beans, palo verde beans, barrel cactus fruit, cholla buds, wolfberries, prickly pear cactus fruit, the edible saguaro fruit, and Sonoran scrub oak!
Be on the lookout for future videos where each individual plant is covered in more detail. This video is just an introduction to edible desert plants to peak your curiosity!
To download our FREE ebook on Sonoran Desert foraging, check out this link: https://www.legacywildernessacademy.com/sonoran-desert-ebook
Check out our online video course, Sonoran Desert Foraging here: https://www.legacywildernessacademy.com/sonoran-desert-foraging
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Hi Matthew! This is Liam Maes! I am happy to see you posting videos again!😃
Thanks for showing us plants when they're not flowering/fruiting! Now if we see them in the Winter months we can take note of the location and come back in the Spring and Summer to harvest their edible parts! Downloading your ebook now!
Excellent Video! Thank you
Thank you so much for such a great video. Can't wait to see your future videos!
Where do you get this book
NOT every may! This year I only see one saguaro flower out of hundreds here in South Phoenix, and it didn't become a fruit….
This is awesome
Love this! Your videos have been my favorite for foraging AZ so far. I love the historical facts you add in.
uhh thank you.
Thank you for making these videos . They can truly be a life saver for all that watch
Cochineal bugs are used today for food coloring, they are grown on prickly pear cacti farms, their dye is known as carmine, also produced by some other similar bugs.
"Today, carmine is primarily used as a colorant in food and in lipstick (E120 or Natural Red 4)."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochineal
Consider leftcutter ant-farms planted with whole dragonfruits directly into the ground for a better ecosystem.
Fantastic, thank you!
Downloaded the ebook and it is very informative and well written. Would love to see more desert edible plants and how to use 👍🏻
Could you do time stamps please?
To turn prickly pear juice into wine it has to be in an air tight distiller with added sugar and wine yeast
Really informative video. Thank you
Great information, I had no idea you could eat the fruit of barrel cactus or saguaro
Have you heard of making a coffee type drink with the barrel cactus seeds?
This is so interesting, thank you!
Excellent video! Thank you for the details and knowledge. We're planning on planting Palo Verde trees for low water landscaping. We already have several cactus varities for tunas.
I have some suggestions for masqi pad.
We can make various recipe.
You don't dry it, you scok in water, after that you take sugar, add but if water, add masqi pod stir fry in sugar syrup.
It must be covered with sugar. Let it dry.
We will get very nice masqi candy.
It will be sweet and sour.
Second is make pickle using fermentation method.
You add salt and water.
Using fermentation processes, bitterness of masqi will disappear.
You can make sugar candy or you eat fermented as pickle.
You don't need any spices for this.
Anything bitter can be made sour and sweet by fermentation.
You can make small business out of it.
You can also make pickle of red pepper using fermentation method.
Jay shree ram.
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You must use young tender red peeper.
Jay shree ram.
https://youtu.be/GeC38BMIYxU