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Canada Trip 13 - Plant ID Hike

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Hiking, scouting, foraging and laughs with my good buddy Dave (Soulmirrors)

Tags: hike,hiking,bushcraft,woodcraft,survival,trip,forage,foraging,plant,plants,herb,herbalism,edible,berry,berries,cape,breton,ocean,soulmirrors

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you got here man I was right what does it go hi bright I'm right yeah you get a close-up with a blossom it's awesome and then looks like we have yarrow skulking around

I forget what a stirrer this is but it's like one of the purple asters smooth purple asterism like it's the first time we did it straight across to cross the Atlantic it's ok Glenn ish yeah he's definitely a mouse there it's calling it something tiny mouse lock me away every day this cat has brought a mouse what's that the ground has a bunch of amazing sheds and such a yard old maritime putts oh my god I'll say these things the foot the the grounds actually coming through the floor okay this woman will just be like a the dirt floor shed No

well you built the woodshed the other one that would store the purple inside all that

oh yeah it's funny people like I see pictures

what's an Amish man those are all horse toes what is it horse tails it's horse do you know a ton of stuff I don't have closer than me it has yellow berries red [Music]

we own this on what everything side of the road

Aspen he said let's you Jared Harris Virginie on Audrina Paris prominence doll junipers Cedars no such thing as a seat of on North America and the Western Cedars Island gang to overlap on even dream throws either totally different type of tree cool but they're both no scissors but neither unless you [Laughter]

look there's things like flying all around the yard with this like a park was the sick somebody's house that's the spot a touch-me-not well I see it right over here to the right there's one with a blossom yeah Oh Julie nice what's it hanging out with yeah oh it's hanging out with bitter Sweeting vici yeah you know I did the age-old road on my poison ivy gels and the nobs spot watering branches off write the notes yeah okay well I've learned to now crushed all that up pressure that's the whole plant that crush it up inside a bandana a piece of cloth catch it hold it's okay put that on and pat it on gently because it was still it doesn't break down the oil the or soil or the poison ivy so if you take that stuff pump it up and like oh this is like bleach for that stuff it's gonna destroy it you're gonna just spread it you can push the oil around because it's a liquid now you're spreading poison ivy with jewelry because it doesn't destroy the poison ivy it helps with the pain and stuff I was like what the cooling exactly but it doesn't like break down and cut through the oil and destroy it does a problem nice you start to throw me Oh randomly just sit in my back good I didn't think to bring it come on nice slim aim I have a sec I just keep a headlamp in there Wow I'll get this birch huh was that bunchberry yeah yeah we're gonna see in there these woods blackness fetters and hunters and such they're coming I can't you're bringing to you I better back howdy we saw [Laughter]

exactly think now that we can't see the road when we turn around we realize we're deep in the forest oh yeah it's awesome

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what oh my god dude I want to brought it with me butter oh that Oh tell me you know like quotes from all of them at this point please I really don't we ever discussed those know I like fair warned best bet that's the proper thing to start with [Applause]

that's something we have to remedy then isn't it there you go this whole few yet over there cap back here a lot of clothes to have yeah what your family's okay this is kind of true this is kind of Sherwood then for you yeah effort creatures follow away from the civil tone I feel like it's yackin imagines welcome to the floor through the to the forest and I want to see like with wooden carts yeah the church on the hill on the right the big stone one that's many time Oh yep do uniquely yeah look like or Thank You or thanks do like him in the Castlevania or something

I gave the Chico okay I didn't scratch with my initials sweet night from there to Miss Palmer Scandinavian berry heaven huh Wow raisin come you familiar with baby bear no no it's like these berries get like covered in wax with this oh that's the one that you can make wax other or do it's also called wax myrtle I'm like really far north on an island in the ocean so none of these plants are life-threatening even though I live near the ocean

none of us doesn't like flowers leaves this camera makes like x-files shots I'll come off the path just walking through the field here it's all a bunch of plants that's like scooby Doo delicious wrap himself a shelter get sunny awesome the best one I'm gonna end it on the best one mmm-hmm I'm not sure what constellation is but I love it up here awesome the Big Dipper the Little Dipper even see it now vaguely but I can see it Cassiopeia

you know me that's what he meant by [Music]

alright maybe and then also maybe viola yeah and he creates like stories out of I mean yeah if you want to put it plainly yes yes very heaven man so what kind of birds you fought up here blueberries raspberries blackberries cherries sorry

service berry yep yeah sure they found autumn all's I don't there's a although there's a tree that grows on my marsh and it bears like red berries and it looks similar too cranberries cranberry awesome Oh what was that little de berry bayberry and this does think it's called huckleberry but I'm not sure look dry look at the yarrow over here all these all of the small stuff it's good stuff right there that's the mastery yeah

yeah so sweet like little corner of the graveyard my god break to my grandmother's I just yeah okay this is crazy man it's like pitch dark right now I'm walking by feeling with my feet yeah if those kind of bizarre Wow damn you have fireweed right yes I do

there's the church from the back dude that's crazy

hmm oh wow we're in the cemetery right now oh geez I smell that as well mmm brimstone that's who this came from so little nothing it leads me the little Knight into a cemetery after eating delicious berries

at that time an interesting character man yeah

what is this that's gold this is all st. John's work that's a that's a golden right hands out the one one on these two yeah

this is so Jones what you can't in fire [Laughter]

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there's like holes in the leaves that's one of the IDs is it no movies Ephraim we should you can't see it because like looking through your life yeah it's time we renew an old custom monocular and that's an idea sire is it oh yeah dead dead metal dead no no don't sting this is dead I think hmm Kate threatened plants are awesome that's why we'd write down I think you make quarter try to fire me oh yeah Natalie here they use the motion it's libera co this this is what you use oh you mean I broke your specimen to try [Music]

[Laughter]

mash them up and liquefy the photo form inside

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the desert of the real yes indeed violate way to point it out to defend yourself I get it oh look at the several look at several adults and adolescents all around us very healthy resilient colony they root some so robust Annette's

little cemetery forage supernormal another path one right crazy bosses great white didn't have this [Laughter]

Pearson says it proved in Germany for prostate health adjusting young Cherrytree

scurrying away from us Jesus fast shit like gap right there [Music]

rabbit always doing that Fox is it that was last night like one of someone threw up and you work yeah this morning yeah it was just like a jockey you don't I will see if it's even the highest setting

there it is his high say like like like lights at the church look at that to the roof okay

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life-size trim exactly yeah yeah they had to carve that like in would like as recess I'll take that thank you very much lies like the Milky Way right there

About the Author

NativeSurvival

NativeSurvival

Mitch is a Wilderness Living Skills Instructor, he has been featured on The History Channel's program "ALONE" and written articles for Outdoor Magazines; he owns and operates The Native Survival School which provides woodland living and survival classes, as well as offering quality outdoor gear he's designed. Defintely, he is a master at bushcraft's techniques.

You can find all his videos on his YouTube channel.

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