Savage in the Wild: Episode 9 - Appalachian Plant Retreat

Sunny Savage spends some time in the Appalachian Mountains with Doug Elliott and Frank Cook at an absolutely wonderful wild plant retreat with these gentle giants of the plant world and learns so much from them both. Doug is a gifted mountain man who, in addition to his knowledge of the natural world, shares his enthusiasm for it through stories and song. He is a national treasurekeeping the stories and songs alive. Visit his website http://dougelliott.com/ to see the wide range of CDs and books he has available. Doug is a tender-hearted man, with a lifetime of experience living off the land and staying attuned to the plant world.

This video features highlights of a guided plant walk on Bluff Mountain, North Carolina. Discover the multitude of edible wild spring greens growing there: toothwart, phacilia, saxifrage, branch lettuce, gall ot the earth, lady's thumb, giant chickweed, sweet cicely, wild leeks, spiderwort, oxalis (wood sorrel), wood nettle, blue violet, wild cucumber and Pennsylvania winter cress (creasy greens). What a feast!

Sunny's wild food television series Hot on the Trail with Sunny Savage airs on Veria Network (DISH channel 218 and Verizon FIOS channel 162).
See http://veria.com/hot-on-the-trail.html for show times and more information.

Learn more about wild food plants:

Sunny's web blog at http://sunnysavage.com

Sunny's wild food site at http://wildfoodplants.com

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[sunnysavage]

super fun day....have changed all the video titles...thanks for the input on that! Trilliums are one of my all-time favorite flowers...and we did eat ramps and morels...no fiddleheads that I remember.

Still haven't seen The Piano! :)

aloha*sunny

[DeteriA]

mhhhhmmm mmhmmmm mhhhmmm mhhhhhmm lol

[johnmonk66]

Does she have to hum "mmm hmmm" after every freaking sentence anyone else says? Nature is about silence, but she hasn't learned this one, simple truth.

[RightWingCon81]

nice position on your back, you could get fucked and nice in the woods like that, looks like you're used to that, hippy.

[musclesmatthews]

Wish I was there! That was great...

[Khono]

Hah, I forgot that this wpisode had The Piano music. A pleasant re-surprise :)

[kwikflikz]

as soon as i saw those trilliums, i thought you would be finding some ramps and morels and fiddleheads...come visit us here in southern ontario if you would like to discover these delicious wild edibles.

i like your vids, but could i make a suggestion? in addition to numbering the title, maybe you could give us a hint of what the video contains. just a thought. keep em' coming!

[Khono]

*grin* about 4:30 and 5:15 in it sounds like the theme music from the movie The Piano :)

[kwldh2]

Awesome Sunny! Thanks for posting! Doug is one of my favorite storytellers. The vids made me miss the Appalachians.