Today I’m joined by the amazing Aimèe from Peggy Farm and Forage (link below!) and we step beyond the boarder of the garden to discover the world of free abundance growing everywhere. Aimèe is such a wealth of knowledge, which comes in handy when you accidentally discover the most poisonous plant in the UK growing right next to your garden!
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42 Comments
Very interesting!
It is like a brand new world innit?
Wonderful episode, thank you!
Foraging can be deadly
Brilliant video
I LOVE foraging info, ever since the first woodland foraging class I was able to take at 14. Thanks so much for this! Though I'm in NY, still so fun for me to learn and see what flora we have in common.
She has amazing hair
Very interesting. Does she have a book ?
Really loving these Diaries series! They feel like a very natural and authentic insight into your life, even if they probably are still well researched and thought out. Aimee has great knowledge too, learning about foraging is such a great addition to gardening!
Is squigle(sp?) the technical term there;)?
In seriousness though, this was a great video, you guys have good energy for a video together:)!
Thank you, thank you, thank you for the English – and most of all the Latin – plant names!
I'm German and I'm so often going through all kinds of research to find out what some plants you show in your videos might be called in German. 😅 The botanical term makes tjis so much easier to grasp for me. 😍
Awesome to see Aimèe on here 😎👌
He's so adorable around a girl
This was very interesting and fun. Great guest. 🙂
That was great and very informative. I have Hogweed in my garden and know not to touch it but I didn't know about all the smaller similar plants. I've never seen hemlock before. Knowledge is everything. A relative got blistered badly by digging up a fig tree in Spain. Id never heard of that before either. I see you are growing willow Huw. Perhaps you might do a video sometime on growing willow. I bought some cut willow and it is growing happily in pots but I don't know what to do next. Many thanks.
Thanks for inviting Aimee! This was so informative and useful. What a beautiful day it was.🐇
Really enjoyed this, thanks for sharing!!
Such a knowledgeable girl! This was so interesting.
Love this!!!! Informative. Pumpkins, grapes, broccoli and cauliflower are for me (simple). Have a lovely day always 😃
If, instead of pronouncing the letter /t/ you insert a glottal stop, then you should pronounce the word 'aromatic' with a glottal stop too /aroma-ic/
lmao they should call the hemlock dropwort plant the joker plant
Wonderful
Huw, that chick was into you. You don't need that sticky grass drink – My wife thinks you're cute too. 😆
I don't know how many of these plants made the trip into the states, but we definitely have the narrowleaf (ribwort) plantain. I've used it to relieve the swelling from fire ant bites. It leaves a little green stain behind, but I'd rather have that than the freaking bites. Those ants are vicious. I wonder if it bonded with a different fungus here, or if the spores of the native one came along for the ride.
We have that Dock as well. I use both that and the plantain as chop and drop mulch because they grow so abundantly here.
The first plant in the video is the narrow-leaved cypress (Chamaenerion angustifolium (L.), Epilobium angustifolium L), from which in Russia they make an amazingly tasty and healthy tea drink – Ivan-chai.
Lets perhaps be wary of any Auzzies offering us foraged mushrooms with beef wellington though eh 😉😉🤣
Ribwort plantain drunk everyday as a tea in the months proceeding hayfever season helps – apparently. I've never tried it despite my horrendous hayfever, as I always forget until the hayfever arrives, at which point it is too late. Perhaps next year!
We have a little aloe plant bulbinella with gelatinous sap in the leaves. Very good for sunburn, burns and scalds, rashes and pulling closed cuts. With a drop of honey and a drop of olive oil a good ointment for any minor wounds.
She’s fun:)
It is not caffeine but caffeine acids in those seeds
That rosemary willow herb looks like fireweed, a common flower in Canada.
Well… that was interesting 😂 Slightly freaked out now 😅
Aimee was great, so knowledgeable!
Please don't encourage foraging… Everyone seems to be either at it or promoting it, including wildlife organisations. I think there is general agreement that many humans living in the modern world have lost their connection to nature. The argument most organisations put forward when organising foraging events is that they are ‘reconnecting’ people with nature. Some thoughts: do we have to consume nature in order to value it? We have lost most of nature and the ecosystems in which we live are in a state of collapse. It would be wonderful to graze wild food from the land as we would have done in our evolutionary past but the world is not in the same pristine state it was then. The context has changed. We have destroyed almost everything, taking and taking and taking some more. Now the challenge is to give back, to leave alone, to rewild, no more taking. The idea that you can forage and just take a little, when everyone else is doing the same is pointless. Leave wild foods for nature and the creatures that desperately depend on it!
This is how gardeners go on a dinner date.
What a delightful guest.
Oh we need more of this duo! Informative and entertaining
Great video – just a note on the hemlock vs parsley… If you look very closely at the tip, hemlock is red and parsley is white. This is very minute, say the tip of a pin size.
Thank you Huw (that's funny) for this and everything else you have produced. This episode you add a lovely spirited young lady (I can say these things I am 63 no 62 1/2 not that it matters age is a concept) showing us the lovely things plants can do for us speaking for myself I would like you to do more stuff on natural remedies thanks again.
Aimee was very cool & utterly bonkers 👍😁 as the saying goes…if in doubt etc lol
Delicious or death … That escalated quickly 😅
Fantastic episode! I learned a great deal, thank you! From North Florida 🇺🇸🦋
Plantain is great for bee stings …our lawns and fields are full of it … when we get stung …we just snap a few leaves off , chew on the leaves for a few seconds and then hold it on bee stink and it helps pull out the sting quickly …great for kids to know how to do when they are playing outside