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Eat The Weeds: Episode 105: Skunk Vine
Eat The Weeds: Episode 104: The Perseas
Eat The Weeds: Episode 103: Podocarpus macrophyllus
 
 
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Dinos, Dean in English
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EatTheWeeds is a site dedicated to enjoying wild edibles around the world.
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I'm a life-long Greek bachelor with a degree in music and graduate studies in communications and photography. In short, I'm paid to play, write and click. I'm the author of many articles and two books — under my English name — 1001 Facts Somebody Screwed up and 1001 More Facts Somebody Screwed up. Odd personal facts: I don't own or watch television, and I am, through one grandparent, a descendant of a Salem witch -- Susanna North Martin -- and a member of the Mayflower Society and Mensa.

I inherited foraging from both sides of the family. On my father's side rural Greeks still forage regularly and on my mother's side she, my grandmother and great grandmother all foraged. As a child I was often given a knife and sent out into the woods or fields to collect this or that for supper. I can still remember my mother walking through the woods nibbling on various plants, as her mother taught her, and her mother's mother taught her.
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United States
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professional musician & writer
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Hobbies include gardening, cooking, dancing, canoeing, public speaking, kayaking, cast netting, fishing, biking, and hiking in Greece when ever possible, and of course foraging for wild foods and other unusual edibles
Movies:
don't follow movies and don't own a TV
Music:
Jazz
Books:
Anything by Joseph Campbell
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Channel Comments (227)
Ivrit007 (7 hours ago)
Shalom luvtheearth1,
Do try the iPhone/iTouch for your on the go needs. I am a bit of a Tech myself and have been for many years.
If you have a iPhone/iTouch search for an app called "DocsToGo" it will allow you to make, import and edit Micro$oft Word, Excel spreadsheets and view many other formats like PDF.
I have never used an Apple Product much until recently. This iTouch is incredable. When they say "there's an app for that" they are not kidding.

I am going to (once I have collected enough data) compile a Word or Excel Document with all I can find on Florida's secret yummy grocery store ^__^. I wanna make it easy to search by season and or category of plant. this document could very well work on anyone's Home PC via Micro$oft Office, but having this iTouch makes everything right at hand.
I carry it as much as my wallet.....hmmm, maybe I should get one of those solar chargers for the next Exodus, nu?
luvtheearth1 (1 week ago)
Thank you Deane for the book referal. I'll be sure to get it. I did see your archives and they are very detailed and informative with great pictures. I hope some day soon you can get it all published since there is a need for it. In the in the mean time I will have to be inovative like our friend Ivrit007 when I go on my walks. Thank you again for putting out all this useful information. I acutally was refered to you by one of my fellow Permaculture students back in Chicago that knows about your site. Just came back from a course up there and was the only one from FL! LOL
Ivrit007 (1 week ago)
Gotta just say I love it!
What you are doing with your detailed videos on YouTube.
I am ripping them all and adding them to my Apple iTouch in the Survival section I have. Your videos will help a lot when I am walking around our woods and yard. I carry My iTouch everywhere the way it is and this will be a happy addition to my Bug-out-pack ^__^
Thanx Dinos
EatTheWeeds (1 week ago)
There is no good foraging book for the southeast, despite my efforts to get a publisher interested said. The articles on my website, as they are, are about as close as one will get to a Southeast foraging book. That said, a good all around book is Edible Plants of North America by Elias and Dykeman 2008 edition. The 2008 edition is very important, as it is an update of a long ago edition. You can find it in most large books stores or on line.
luvtheearth1 (1 week ago)
Thank you Green Deane for your videos and website. I am currently learning about Permaculture and creating an intensive design garden for my home using those principles. I am just learning about all these things and identifying wild edibles and non-edibles I believe is an invaluable skill. I am unaware of a book I can take with me on my walks to help practice. Do you know of any? I live in FL too. Tampa Bay area. You rock! Keep those videos coming. Thanks again and many blessings to you.
unclewooly (1 week ago)
I have just started a website based on survival called survivlaltube. It's a site that you can join, interact with other like minded people, post videos, pictures and it also has a chat room for members. Would like to see you there sharing your skills and learn from others. All the best. Wooly
pedalpusher101 (1 week ago)
Hi Dean, I made some sumac aid and added a little sugar and it was surprisingly very very good. I'll go back and grab some more. Thanks for a very tasteful summer.
EatTheWeeds (2 weeks ago)
Some clovers are edibles, some are not. White and pink usually, and mostly the blossoms for tea though the greenery is also edible. It is not prime foraging food. If you use any clover you have to use fresh or absolutely dry, but not in between, or femented clover. Wilted and or fermented clover can kill you.
EndlessChris (2 weeks ago)
I also want to ask, are Clovers edible? I seem them all around my house.
MushuPork13 (2 weeks ago)
Thank you for helping me get an A  on a science project, you rock!!
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