Autumn Olive

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follow me into the woods where i am with my kids teaching them autumn olive

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it is economizing minutes outdoors today you're going to learn about autumn ball alright guys so you see this big bush here okay not really very tall at all this is autumn olive okay see the leaves how nice and green they are on top nice and Ripley kind of curly almost a really really easy way to tell this plant from all the other plants out there is if you look at the bottom of the leaf up see how shiny silver that is it's almost like flashy they catch the Sun with it use it for signaling this tree is really really well Bush i should say it's really really important because it creates a nice berry and all I maulik fairy and Connor you've had them before right you remember how they taste they taste really good don't they sour it tastes really really good and if we get over here you can see the berries are just now starting to form so they're real small and the real green yeah there's one right there they're real small yet will show you in though yeah you want over there they're real real small this one this all the yellow one let's see this is an autumn all up to this is almost a chi is she nothing can't in it yet and still drain you got away Soph over here come over here alright so and you'll see right now is almost july and you can see they're just now starting to get little berries on my toes 1c mulberry and those aren't edible yet they're not going once taste very good

okay it's pretty much nothing but seated there but later on and about august/september even later into the fall november october they're going to get a red berry on and when they first start to get that red berry the real tart real real real sour but if we let them go for maybe a couple weeks they're going to get really really nice and sweet a little bit on the sour side they make grape juice they have you can actually use for medicine too but you'll need to worry about that you're nice and healthy I'll teach you that later we already ate some last year right did you like them yeah we're gonna get some this year too we're going to get bunch and we're gonna make we're going to make fruit leather we're gonna make a big thing is juice so we can drink it alright guys so that was just me teaching my kids about all them all here's one right here and like I said one of the key identifier to that is the leaf you can see how nice and wavy that is and then on the other side is very very bright silver hope that's get in camera can I get behind the Sun here a little bit see all nice and green it is on one side and then bright silver on the other side you know there are things that you can mistake this tree for Buffalo berry and other berries but they're also edible so you just got to be careful when you're identifying it you see that silver side right there you know you see the berries are nice brown they have silver flakes on see if I can't find out some of the berries that are starting here here's some there's a cluster of berries that are starting get my hand behind their get focused you know they're that color right now later in the in the fall they're being nice and round and they're going to get red with kind of silver flaking silver dots all thrown so really really good Barry all right guys well not only is this a really really good edible but it has some medicinal values as well in fact some scientific evidence has shown that our olive is really good for promoting prostate health for you guys out there have any kind of issues or worries about that but I mean furthermore this is a great plant because everything else is pretty much gone y'all in all is just now getting started the woods pretty nice its bark strips off pretty good for cordage I can't tell you how many times I've used the autumn olive or feather sticks works pretty good for that and you see little thorns there alright guys well that was all involve all right guys this has been William Myers mess outdoors and this is Connor Myers leftovers future mass outdoors guy and this is called admirers from an ass outdoors my big guy future staff man south doors we appreciate you guys following us on this venture out in the woods with my kids here showing them about all them all off if you liked the video appreciate it if you click Subscribe like in the video helps me and my channel out a lot appreciate all reviews comments and sport hopefully see ya ok see in the woods tells Rick ah haha

Connor you stood start Connor this is Carter for me is our doors running outdoors