Wild Edible Plant - Birch, Maple, and Pine (Buds)

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Haymitch native survival my father's house barista

we don't do a quick video of opportunity so stick around okay so over here we have a great brunch tree so I just want to talk about some quick foraging tips here at the end of the tree of each twig you have all these little spring growths these are all edible a good thing about it is that there's a lot of them on every single branch you're not going to be new to this resource you just chomp on them all day good quick calories vitamins minerals moisture

and the thing to realize is that the tree is putting all of its energy into this right now so out of all the other parts of the tree this is the most nutritious at this time of year and that's actually a really important rule in foraging it's the timing that you Forge in the spring I want to go for new shoots like this all right so this is great birch

all right so now this tree this is a maple a specific tree is a Mountain maple again we have new growth shadowing there's a bug on it I'll pass on that one

but you can just chop away at this stuff again it's all it's all new growth so this is where all the energy the tree is putting in its going to you know good stuff

I think maple tastes a lot better than Burch Burch tastes just like the rinds of oranges have a bitter E citrus tree taste it's much more mild so and you looking for food when you see new growth on trees most trees aren't poisonous almost every tree is edible so if you know a tree is a maple and oak whatever the case is and that's new growth like this you can absolutely go to town on this new growth pick up some extra calories vitamins and minerals alright so another tree we have here and the last thing I'll be showing you today a couple quick trees is eastern white pine this is the good old standard for for foraging here so this is a easiest thing to eat just pull them off like that it's actually the male cones too little nuts at the end so please chop them up you can collect a lot of these pretty quick but the handful under two minutes on this tree

so I'm out here looking for eggs and stuff in my family and walking around foraging eating food while I'm doing it I thought it'd be kind of fun to shoot a quick bit about it so I'll be talking you guys soon okay I figured I would just add this to this vid here I was actually just driving through a city nearby from my father's house and I saw the sugar maple tree and it is just absolutely loaded

with its new growth just like the other trees and I want to sure the difference is because a sugar maple will be green like this and these are leaves that are just getting started right here see that but you'll see that there's these clusters of flowers they actually come first before the leaves you said I can move one of these down and they are right there there's a piece on the ground all right so this is what they look like before the leaves shoot out from here you can see it the leaf that was just starting like that but it didn't make it before this branch broke let's tweak all right now these are all edible same deal you know this is where all the trees putting its energy right now so this is actually the most nutritious part of the tree at this point in time which is important for which and understand the different cycles of a plant so you know what part to eat so I don't have my my wife with me to to shoot the video for me again this is just on the fly type of video here I don't my tripod or anything with me

so you know you really can't even see me eating them but I'm still gonna eat some of them right now to show you or rather tell you what they taste like so I'm not gonna eat this one on the ground okay so let's start flowers all right so here's some of the flowers of this sugar maple remember the Mountain maple they were red sugar maple of green so I'm gonna chop these up I'll let you guys know hopefully can hear that hmm amazing oh man tastes a little like wheatgrass and lend me some more kind of sweet very alkaline it tastes incredibly healthy incredibly healthy Wow

ma'am you just think of all of the blossoms on this tree I mean there's just thousands right so you know we're talking so many meals it actually would be hard to to calculate all rights now going to go with very young leaves you see it a little sugar maple started so you just just like that okay very young very young and it is they're they're really not sale sales yet they really don't have that like unedible quality yet so let's try them up keeping the camera down because there's some moss down here and Danny lines you're just a better view this would sleep feet was a better view than this wretched City around me I'm driving through cars and pavement and people I just saw this one it's one tree that was just kind of holding down the fort over here amongst all these buildings anyway so he's leaves I would say they taste kind of like the red lettuce that's in your spring mix it's slightly bitter but not disgustingly so it's just slightly bitter doesn't have that overall sweetness taste tastes more acidic - don't taste quite as alkaline and and light one of a little more okay one more handful

okay some more the same definitely edible but I would eat the flowers way before I ate the leaves now they also have what's left when you used to me and break one off here okay when you have the flowers and leaves you have the bud that they started from right here at the end

and you can eat all this stuff the buds way before any of this forms when they're actually kind of maroon looking and you can eat those year-round all right so I'm gonna try some of these buds next see what they taste like cuz that's actually a new one for me but the buds in this and this part of the cycle gone so see they say see what they taste like there's another one so they get that the frame just hanging eat that one too sorry about that guys I would say in the middle between the two not as bitter as the leaves not as sweet as the flowers good happy medium I'll serve my daughter here with me she's in her chair you know I was driving by so I don't to leave in the car so you might have just heard her no okay well that's the sugar maple tree and again it's it's green not red and obviously it's completely edible and there's tons of food here I mean it's just insane amounts of food on this tree