Unlock the secrets of chicory! This unassuming plant, often overlooked, boasts edible leaves, a caffeine-free coffee alternative, and traditional uses for digestion and liver support. Discover its hidden potential! “Nature does provide if you just know what you’re looking at.” #chicory #wildfood #medicinalplants #caffeinefree #foraging #herbalremedies
You may have walked past this plant a thousand times, not realize what it can do for you. This is chory, Latin name, and man, I’m gonna butcher this one, I think. Kakorium Intabus. Don’t hold that against me if I got it wrong. This plant is awesome. Its leaves are edible, but they’re best when they’re young, raw, or cooked like greens. You can roast the root and grind it, and you got a caffeine-free coffee alternative. That’s how some people get by at times when real coffee isn’t available. Chory has been used traditionally to support digestion, liver function, and even reduce inflammation. You can usually find it blooming from summer to late fall along roadsides like I found here today in sunny pastures, in open fields. I mentioned before, I don’t harvest on roadways, but nature does provide. You just know what you’re looking at. And now you know what you’re looking at with chory. So come get wild with Maximus, Desmus, Meridius, and Craig Cuddle in NRS Nation at Nature Reliance
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Awesome video❤
My parents mentioned that during the Great Depression they used chicory because they couldn't afford coffee.
I just saved some seeds a couple of days ago😊
Thank you again Craig.
All those benefits with a pretty little flower to boot.
I wish so bad to plant herbs but we have a mosquito truck that comes by weekly
I want to take your class! Where does chickory grow. Not montans
Reminds me of childhood. I always thought it was so pretty
Do you sell a book? And I’ve heard you speak about a school?
Love this! Chicory root is also a type of polysaccharide (a fructan—watch it FODMAPPERS!), where most inulin (not insulin) comes from, along with Jerusalem artichokes (another fructan, causing FODMAP issues for those with fructose malabsorption, a problem not having enough or any of the GLUT5 transporter (not to be confused with fructose intolerance, a deadly disease where you may never have just about any plant). Sorry. So excited when I found this.😬
I enjoy coffee ☕️
You remind me of my grandma. She and my grandpa grew up in Appalachia but moved to Washington state in the ‘40’s. I miss her so much every day was an adventure. She taught us all sorts of plants, insects, snakes, lizards, animals, etc. We were never afraid. Ty for the memories. ❤