A-Z of Bushcraft- Edible wild plants

[ashleybarton100]

I ve found myself in a survival situation and if it wasnt for me watching these videos then i proberly wouldnt be typing this! I found rosehips great and blackberry leafs i ate .

[guit4r1st97]

6:10 wtf?

[21nature21]

cool...

[cdreid9999]

@adventuresocal people who think you can "survive off the land" by picking wild plants are without exceptions wannabes who dont spend time in the woods. There are some plants you can eat but not many and not enoug hto survive. a lot of them have twins that contain deadly poison. look up Christopher McCandless. a kid but one who knew more about survival than any of these "bushcraft/survivalist" people

[notseymour]

@cdreid9999 erm.. obviously he knew NOTHING about survival. He walked off into the bush, slept in a bus, and died of starvation

[TheCaptainQuinn]

Has anyone ever actually tried to start a fire without a match-that is with a bow and string?

[fauxanarchist]

Isn't this the jack-ass who parodied Bear in a hotel room? No one parodies this POG 'cause he's not worth the oxygen!!

[gaiagale]

1st and last time visiting here ...that ad bomb first thing did it for me

[VernePhilleas]

good vid, mate. You sounded very knowledgeable about edible wilderness plants (something I need to learn more of), but you sounded more like a chef in this one!!

[yeastori]

there is a bunch of the pennyworth in my yard, I swear they make a great drink with sugar and condense milk

[ALETHEIA8881]

Hi there, thank you for this lovely video... at 4:32 the sea holly you say the root was used for sweat dessert, i didnt catch what you called the root, could i bother you for the name... i would like to find some and try....

Thank you

[MrGammonRod]

@ALETHEIA8881 He called it Eryngo, which is just another common name for sea-holly (Although it's used moreso when talking about in-land species of Eryngium) 'Eryngium' is the genus that sea-holly comes from. You'd be better off just asking for sea-holly root if you were going to ask in a market.

[primitiveskills]

Our phobia about wild edibles is largely unfounded. With very few exceptions, plants that contain harmful phyto chemicals give off a bitter or acrid taste. The compounds in plants have evolved for defense agains predation from insects to humans, making taste an important primary defense. In fact, plants that taste good to us and others have evolved t use us as a means of spreading their seeds. If plant toxins were so pervasive, kids would be dropping like flies.

[tyler0896]

In scouts they never told us about that, although it's probably a good idea to tell kids never to eat anything growing outdoors. It's fun imagining all the things we must have eaten over the last few hundreds of thousands of years before industry changed things and limited us to just a relative few different fruits and vegetables.

[tyler0896]

Take a look in a bag of salad Spring Mix and you realize there must be thousands of things you could eat just walking along a trail.

[tyler0896]

Lately I've been sort of fascinated by this type of thing.

[tyler0896]

dddddd

[tyler0896]

I'm surprised Wales has rivers that look like that (I'm american but I've been there). It looks distinctly south american.

[TheSurviver72]

"Rola Cola" LOL!! Great vid.

[anahatabalance]

urine is clean when it comes out... so it's ok to drink, but won't bring much hydration. And as for eating animals or plants when in the wild...plants are easier to catch!!!

[CryatainTribe]

dont you just loveeee how the camera man zooms in on the skimpily dreesed horseback rider ahahaha i love this channel its amazing

[krisUSA111]

what`s the name of the song in the begin of the video

[Argo108]

thanks for this mate

[rodnisimo]

just enough information to be dangerous

[enjoythewildUSA]

Beatiful country.

[babushkee]

where does haxel, hawthorne and holly trees grow?

[LooseLatitude]

I thought you were short.

[thegoldengolem549]

alternative........TV

[helloweenVironmaiden]

rock samphire is actually what its called

[adventuresocal]

I'm confident that I'd end up with a bloated belly, dead in the wild if I attempted to differentiate and eat what I believed to be edible plants. I think you really need to know what you are doing to eat wild plants.

[TheCaptainQuinn]

@adventuresocal Whats your favorite thing about the great outdoors?

[hydrobot2003]

@adventuresocal - I was in the woods following all the tips from these videos... got lost and started to use my survival skills and ate some plants that looked edible, it was a plant that caused the shits and worked ike viagra. Just GREAT!

[XNinjaSebX]

@adventuresocal I've read somewhere that about only 1% plants are poison so there's not much chance of getting poisoned... unless you try to eat random mushroom I guess!

[Will170392]

what is the name of the cola-flavoured plant? I can't catch it....rock what?

[ch33sii33]

i think its rock sand fire.

[starshock01]

o damn garlic mustard i wish that plant never came to america

[dumbvideosproduction]

haha yes, i did eat near fatal plants in my younger days. the reason why is because i imagined i was a monkey....

[eli960]

HAHAHA! I can relate to that

[skelitalmisfit12]

at 3:05 the dude in the front of the camera looks like hes going to pee himself

[lenthesniper]

pennywort is also an aphradiziac, hope i spelt that right!

[pzoxicuv2]

All these bush tucker people make it up as go along

[JEC18159]

agreed... everybody now thinks they're bear grylls

[wackassegyption]

lol

[luvu2luvme]

no one should listen to bear grylls, telling people to drink their own piss if they have to is irresponsible and dangerous,eating live frogs is insane and raw widgety grubs the size of small carrots idiotic at best even the aborigines roast them, he's a showman.Ray mears tells you a little but not all. you want to see what its really like go to a company that hav been dong this fro many years before it all came to the television.

[DrLsw]

i like survivorman better than bear grylls

[Shifticek]

heh if they thought they are Grylls they would eat ugly things like earthworms, drink their pee and jump from rock to rock like Tarzan, ofcourse thats what they dont do they actualy show you whats edible and what could somehow save your life in future, if you get lost for instance and you dont have any food

[boerboeljim2008]

Its a fantastic idea to keep your hands in your poskets when walking, particularly in a stream where the bed is made up of rock and pebble as smacking your head of bedrock and losing a few pints of blood greatly improves your chances of survival and improves morale no end! Only kidding before I get inundated with emails. Andrew is a fantastic instructor and knows what he's talking about. Great to see more people sampling natures supermarket.

[lazman180]

while the thing loads ill tell you a survival tip of my own

porkupine meat is the only meat from mammals that can be eaten raw

[NoirMusic]

How do you figure that?

[bluerocklpx]

so can beef

[deepwatertree]

ever hear of sashimi???

[Curdog]

Who told you that? I have seen porcupine's guts just writhing with worms- ALWAYS cook meat if you can.

[luvu2luvme]

whoever gave you that survival tip is mistaken,rats ,no problem,horse,goat,it all depends on the way they have been killed,personally i wouldn't eat poripine raw as i'm sure its of the hog family and i wouldn't eat raw pork, always eat any meat cooked if you can cook it,it will kill any unseen dangers, cows have worms in the muscle that you could mistake for veins or arteries,always cook your meat to make sure things like this are dead,

[IBOGAINE1]

ALWAY, ALWAYS, ALWAYS EAT furry animals or insects with 6 legs. All furry animals are safe, and 6 leggers are overwhelmingly safe to eat. YOU CANNOT SAY THE SAME FOR PLANTS, NO MATTER WHAT THE MORE SENSITIVE ENVIORNMENTALIST SAY. MUCH bigger chance of getting poisoned from plants than animals. You need both, in the long run, but, as far as poisons go, plants are a TON more dangerous.

[ipoopondeadguysfaces]

Thanks, it reminded me of scotchbroom which has invaded much of my backpacking area in the US. I can see the difference after looking both up. Great video, keep up the good work!

[ipoopondeadguysfaces]

What is the yellow flower from the bush about two minutes in?

[undercurrentspaulo]

Gorse

[8thsinner]

That was quite nice.

[FunnyDigestion]

If I ever shipwreck on Wales after the global-warming-induced apocalypse, I'll be sure to remember this video.

[guiltybystander77]

yup, especially since its real easy to survive on a diet of little flowers and leaves. (sarcasm is hard to convey in text)

[FunnyDigestion]

But they nourish the dapper young laddies of Wales!

A Wales is a whale that wails of whales (and Wales if it is a nationalistic Wales/Whales)

[NoirMusic]

No but a diet of all deer all the time will kill you as surely as trying to only eat little flowers. The point would be to mix high fat, High calorie meat with high vitamin greens. Scurvey is about as fun a way to die as starvation....

[ColectvIndvidulism]

FunnyDigestion, I giggled for minutes at your comment, thanks for the laugh.

[lisalovesthekillers]

gr8 vid i didnt know you could eat thos yellow flowers

[amoose77]

cool vid

[nekcrank]

You could have just asked the ladies on the leisure horseback tour for a half of a chicken salad sandwich.

[nekcrank]

and rabbits have died because they ate only people. and the circle continues...if a tree falls in the woods..does anyone really give a shit? these are the questions we must answer.

[lamnaa]

Yeah people have died because they only ate rabbits.

[7obscenity7]

you can make a bow out of sum long thin material a knife and a peice of yew or other strong flexible woods and arrows with flint wood and some feathers and a bit of fishing wire

[cadet911abc]

hahahahaha lo rola cola peter kay craks me up.

Very good vids keep going!!!.

[mikevino]

great vid. keep up the good work

[matsp]

BRILLIANT! Thank you so much.

[skullcarver]

well if ure stranded somewhere with no weapons and no food ure not gonna go out and shoot a deer with ure finger so u have to make the best of whats around u

[survivor308]

Unlike Bear Grilles this guy actually knows what he's talking about. Great video.

[blakemazzei]

Hazza to that

[theuma]

ye, definatly, one of the few blokes of seen who does these sorta videos, that looks like he knows what hes doing.

[pippaknuckle]

He is a very good presenter. That was really interesting.

[namejacked]

lol im not a vegitarian .. screw this ill shoot me an animal and eat that

[gnorwdaed]

Yeah because you can live on meat alone. You're an idiot.

[7obscenity7]

ye u can u just wont be as nourished get ill more often an exhausted all the time from chasin animals around

[WhindSoull]

What if you're injured?

Anyone can chase down a plant. Also, many vitamins don't occur in animals.

[CptBushMaster]

I sure you know that you shouldn't eat to many gorse or blackthorn flowers etc as they contain polymeric cyanide hence the almond flavour. So I wouldn't encourage the inexperienced to try such plants. Good video otherwise.