Eat The Weeds: Episode 96: Wild Apples

http://www.eattheweeds.com/apples-wild-crabapples/

Learn about wild food with Green Deane. In this video, we'll look at an often over looked common food, wild apples, or crabapples.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• bushcraft
• edible
• wild
• foods
• Foraging
• herbs
• medicine
• malus
• sylvestris
• permaculture
• plants
• raw
• apples
• crabapples
• survival

[thermax292]

Can you eat a pond apple like we have in the swamp? thanks for your videos

[EatTheWeeds]

@thermax292 It would depend upon which pond apple it is. 

[disan06]

I live in Utah and I have access to beautiful wild apple trees, but I'm a little afraid of eating them because of worms. What are your thoughts on this?

[EatTheWeeds]

@disan06 The worms are edible and nutritious.

[chargermopar]

Better beware of the manchieel tree. Apple scented but highly poisonous fruit

[EatTheWeeds]

@chargermopar Not too much of a problem here in that apples don't go wild in Florida. But, if you do find a wild "apple" tree in south Florida beward, it could be the manchieel.

[sethzky77]

Can you do one on Marijuana?

[DANGJOS]

@chargermopar You can probably tell the difference from the flowers

[purity4all]

What kind of apples were the ones that looked like green beans, and the ones that look like little jalapenos? @ 3:34

[jordanartuso]

@EatTheWeeds After watching the mealworm video I knew the answer to disan06's question before I read it.

[her1337ness]

Great video, as always. Thank you!

[phrankus2009]

I would eat them if I better knew how to recognize and exactly when and where to look. I suppose I have come across them, before, but was "afraid" that they might not really be ok to eat ... that they might be some OTHER sort of fruit, that might be poisonous. Same goes with berries. I know that birds can eat many bright and pretty berries that I cannot. The apple STAR PATTERN sounds like one sure-fire ID method.

[eyechubcunt]

I always make cider from them(hard cider as you say in the US) But unfortunate the wild apples I find are sweet, I'm always on the search for some bitter sweet to give my cider character. Also make cider vinegar and apple balsamic. Also perry from wild pears. The best wild harvest.

[sethzky77]

Do you know if there are any wild apples in the midwest? Oklahoma specifically.

[thermax292]

@EatTheWeeds Like this one

rjwiley.smugmug.com/A-day-in-t­he-swamp-Stock/Flowers-Ferns-a­nd-Fungus/10277719_4xnXt6#7096­73376_JzQcT

[BerylBite]

you are awesome.