Wilderness Wednesday: Early Spring Foraging with the Herbal Prepper

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If you call in, please remember to dial one when you hear the greetings so that we know that you are waiting on the line and too. Nice topic is early spring foraging and wild pressing. I know I've been away for a couple of weeks. There's a little family matter that's kept me occupied and it's kind of impeded a few things. But this is still a good topic for this time here. Depending where you are in the US, some of these plants may be available right now, some of them it might be a few more weeks here. I know that we're expecting snow coming in Monday night to Tuesday, so yay for more snow coming. I guess, you know, we're getting most of our winter dumped sort of within like a few weeks. Anyway, before we get started, there's a couple of things that I that I want to mention. Normally I do a little housekeeping saying first and get through some of the business. But I wanted to kind of highlight something that took place in one of my courses weekly online meetings, and it was just mentioned again in the chat room here. Not mentioning names. Everyone keeps their privacy and all of that, but one of my uh, one of the students in one of my courses, has been working with an individual as part of the as part of the course, that's their their clinical UH portion of of of of course. And the person has made so much improvement in these past two months. It's really incredible. He went from having really high blood pressures on all kinds of medications, had lots of pain, very you know, trouble sleeping, as someone who could not work because of the pain. It's been so bad. And you know, within these within these two months here he's gone from being unable to work. He just started a brand new job. And in the chat room it was mentioned that, you know, he's doing great at his first week at his new job, and he was thirty minutes early every day and and you know, I mean that it's it's really amazing what just adding a few herbs to this individual, you know, daily routine was able to do for him. You know, he's got I mean, going from being unable to work because you're in so much pain, you can't sleep and you you know you and you're on you know, a slew of maintenance medications, and now he's he's got it under control. Not just under control, because obviously he was on all these maintenance meds and he was still in pain, the you know, the situation and not really being managed. Well, there's no life there. And you know what this student was able to do for him was, uh, you know, I mean it's huge. You know he's got is you know, he's on his way to getting his life back. So you know, I mean, it's it's humbling and it's amazing, and I wanted to pass that pass that along. So anyway, if when people say, oh, herbs don't work, it's like you have no idea what you're talking about. They do, but you do have to know what you're doing with urbs, you do have to have, you know, be able to pick the right ones and be able to follow through with a client. And I mean, it is more to it than just looking at let's say, if Facebook means you know that claims that you know cinnamon does you know twenty thousand different things, it takes a little bit more effort than that. But it's actually really easy to learn how to work with herbs. So let me get back to some of these announcements real quick, and then we'll get into tonight's topic. I just couldn't let that go without mentioning that because I had such a huge change. I mean, the guy is now getting you know, he's getting out of a group housing situation, moving into you know, his own place, got a job again. I mean, that's that someone getting their life back as they didn't have before. 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We are talking tonight about early spring foraging and wild crafting, and basically that means foraging is when it's a ternally even go out to look for wild edibles. And wild crafting is a term that's used when we go out to talk, we go out to look for wild medicinals. Why there isn't one term for both, I don't know, but you'll find that a lot of primitive skills people and survivalists. To talk about foraging, they're going out to look for, you know, something to eat. And when we talk about wild crafting among herbalists, we're looking for our wild medicinals. Either way, we're going out and we're looking for wild plants. And springtime, you know this is you know, everything's coming to life. You know, their plants that are popping up through the snow, and you know this was in the days prior to refrigeration of Welcome site to start seeing the green life come back. If we think about food storage, if we think about being able to you know, have food all year long without relying upon these systems of you know, corporate farms and the shipping food all over the planet and getting food from these giant warehouses out to grocery stores and by the time we get it, I mean the stuff picked early before they're ripe and then shift and by the time it gets it, they got to They got to put plants through various processes. Either they throw wax on them, sometimes they gas them to force them to ripe in or make them look ripe when they're really not. They put paraffin over them. They I already mentioned the wax thing, but there's a number of processes that food goes through in order to look good at the grocery store. You know, meat gets all sorts of red dye injected into it. If you've ever like seen meat that has not had the red dye injected into it, you can spot that stuff from the mile away. It's like this weird kind of like the meat looks just way too bright, like natural meat doesn't look like that. It's just it's ridiculous. I don't really, I don't know. But anyway, if we think about detached from that type of unsustainable system, and if you think about all the different ways that a system like that can fail, everything from contaminating the foods to you know, just the delivery simply being stopped anywhere along the process. It's you know, whether that's let's say, oh, what was that that computer virus that went around that stopped a number of companies, including this shipping giant Marisk. You know, we could certainly see ransomware and other types of cyber attacks effects. Oh, let's say something like, oh, shipping for any of these large farms bringing food to these warehouses, any of that could happen. And so we could also see like a trucker's strike and a good luck getting food from all over that way. So you know, it's our our food system is not sustainable. So if we start thinking about how could we sustain ourselves long term, Obviously we've got lots of different ways that we can do this. We can, of course buy lots of food and stock up on it in the shelf stable stuff. But a lot of us, you know, we we grow our own and and that that forms at least some significant portion of our our our and take our storage and what have you. Now, when it comes to these wild plants, these are these these are plants that they're they're quite special. One, they're more vigorous than like if you were to grow the same plant in your yard and you were to get seeds and grow them yourself. You'll you're going to find that the tendency is that their wild cousins are are stronger, so stronger medicines are made from these wilder plants. The slavors that they have are stronger. And the other thing to keep in mind is that when you're out looking for these wild plants. The other thing that I think that makes them quite special is that you didn't have to do anything for them to appear. There's no labor involved except to go out and harvest them. You didn't have to plant them ahead of time. You didn't have to plan for that. Well. You do have to have some idea of where to find them, though, and if you can locate them, let's say, at other times of the year, because sometimes you know you have If you're harvesting them in early spring with plants very young, you may not they may not be as easily recognizable as they are later on in the season, but maybe they're a little less desirable later on in the season. What is going on in that chat room talking about nutcases at wally World? You know what, I can't even get into a Walmart discussion because they are those people. Are those wal Martians are they are a species all unto themselves as they you know, go shop in their Walmart with their pajamas on and such. I can't, I can't quite, you know, I want to get I don't want to go down that road. But you never know what you're going to see in the chat room anyway, Yes, other things from the chat room. A plant that has grown locally is definitely better suited to the area. And you know that's that's absolutely true. These wild plants, you know, they're they're volunteers though they're growing there without you having to do anything. So I think that's that's pretty special to me. Anyway, some of the plants that you're going to find right now would fall into the category of bidders. And that's kind of important actually if you if you think about it, you know, earlier generation, they would have what would they have for food over the winter, you know, they would they have lots of meat, maybe you know, some type of preserved meat, so you're preserving them in salt or with smoke or with sugar or something is dried meat unless they're being stored on the animal itself. But there's a lot of heavy foods, a lot of fat, which of course is fine for the winter. That's that's no big deal. You've got lots of root vegetables, lots of starchyet vegetables, which as long as you know, as long as you don't have let's say, diabetes or some issue with blood sugar, all those star cheese vegetables are perfect for winter time. That's that's fine. And so we've got you know, our potatoes and our sweet potatoes and carrots and all those that that we have over the winter. We used to also preserve foods, not just through canning, but through fermentation, and that's where we get you know, things like cavas and sour kraut and all of that. But by this time, you know, this time of year, there's really only so much pickled foods that you know, you can stand. You know, the sour kraut's getting low end way, some of those pickled beets they're getting well, other pickled vegetables you know as well, and to go along with your dried meats, and you know, maybe some mashed up potatoes or whatever else. And so I think by the end of that eating a very heavy winter diet. If you're eating with the seasons, that kind of a thing. Then by the end of that, your body will be very happy for these bitters, these bitter greens, because what they do is they stimulate the digestive process and they they they trigger salivation and the digestion begins in the mouth and so'll you'll get that taste of bitter and preserved potato. Make broadca true. Absolutely that that is a great way to save potatoes for long, long term store and as well as for making your herbal tinctures. Absolutely make that podcast. So anyway, these bitter greens will help stimulate the digestion which has been you know, you've been throwing these heavy foods at it all winter. Now we need to kind of lighten up that load. We need to help out that liver and get it get it started again. So that's what traditionally people have bidders for. And that's what the spring the talks thing, you know, came from the origins of it, where these you know, the change in diets to these bitters. So the number one bidder that most people are going to think of would be dandelions. And we all I think I don't really have to go through a big description of what a dandelion looks like. I think everyone is familiar with what a dandelion looks like. Would you got these really spiky leaves, and you know you've got the you know you've got these you know, bright yellow flowers on them. I think everyone's familiar with with dandelions. Nice big puff of a yellow flower on top, and the roots go so deep, and these roots they spread and it's the roots that you're looking for early in the spring. But you don't want to take all of your danda lines. Hopefully, hopefully you live somewhere where they haven't decided to kill all dandelions everywhere with round up that dandelions are not such a bad thing. If so, you may have to find like a you know, a section of your yard somewhere that you can actually, you know, reserve for your dandelions and let them grow there, plant them. I know it like seems, you know, crazy to some people. Why would you ever plant dandelions? I know that all of my neighbors are I mean, they roll their eyes, you know, and they look at my backyard because my backyard is loaded with dandelions, and I'm thrilled for that. But you have to you have to dig deep for these roots, and you don't want to dig up all of them because obviously if you dig up the root, that one's not going to grow again. Of course, it shoots off all kinds of other roots from that, so it's very difficult to get all of the root out, so you may end up with one growing there again. But if you if they have these little devices, you can just like step on and it goes. It goes all the way down. It's like a little cylinder thing and it pulls everything up, including the dandelion roots. So if you're going to be forging for dandelion roots or any of these roots, those little gizmos are very handy to have. But leaves some because the after that, right now, all the energy is in the root of the plant. That's where all the growth is happening. Right now. Once the leaves start to grow, the energy is a plant is now moving up from the root and going into the leaves, and that's where the medicine is going to be found. So these bitterer greens that come up through these dandelion leads, especially these early ones, you can use those right in salad. They are quite bitter, but you can put them in a salad as the season goes on, though I know that some people like, oh, I don't want to use, you know, dandelion leaves past, you know, the early spring, because they get too better. I cook them. I mean, I make them just like I would spinach or kale or any of those other dark greens, and you know, I chop them up and I put them in there with some nice salty bacon. And there's something really nice about those really bitter bitter greens with that salty, fatty bacon. It's just it works really well. And that bitter flavor. It triggers the digestive process. It triggers the release of vial to help break down fasts. It helps your digestive system work more efficiently. So you can certainly continue to eat those leaves throughout the season. They're going to get bigger and so on, and they're going to get more bitter. But I just use the earlier ones for salads and the more bitter ones that come later, and I cook with those. And the other thing, of course, that you can do is you can get those dandelion flowers and you can do a couple of things. You can either make jelly from them, and mentioned in the chat whom you can make jelly. You can also make dandelion wine from that, so if you're into wine making, it's always a lovely thing to add. Now there's a lot of different uses for dandlion you caud certainly you can use this as a digestive. Is you can also use this for oh, as a diuretic. Dandelion root is known as a diuretic, So if you do have something where some situation going on where you're retaining fluid, you've got extra fluid. Dandelion root is one of those really excellent herbals eyeoretics because there's nutrition with it, and if you're consuming this, you know it's not just that you are taking a diuretic, but you're also getting some of the nutrients that you would lose through your nation. Because if you if you've ever taken a diuretic and you've and you've gone through that process and you've found yourself with an electrolyte imbalance, if you use dandelion instead, that doesn't happen because it's replacing those missing minerals. So, oh, that's another great option mentioned in the chat room that dandelions flowers can be used to make twitters, and you can put them in pancakes. So I dandalize. They're just such a happy looking flower. I don't understand why people hate them so much, but I look at them, and there's medicine and there's food, and they should be everywhere. I mean, they are not native to the US. Our you know, our first settlers from your brought them with them because they were that important. So and yes, also that was the final thing that I wanted to mention. Also mentioned in the chat room is that you can get the roots and if you roast then they they can make a fairly decent coffee substitute. It's not gonna taste like coffee. So don't think, oh, if I roast dandelion roots, they're gonna taste like coffee. It doesn't taste like coffee, but it has some similar some similarities to coffee, and that it's bitter and it's earthy, and if you're the only thing is it's actually far more friendly to your liver and your body than coffee is. So you can also mix dandelion roots with roasted chickory roots. That's another bitter. That's another plant that you should be on the lookout for. And you know when you mix these too. I mean a lot of people will recognize the flavor of roasted chickery because it's in a lot of coffee blends, especially around New Orleans, they have a lot of chickory in their coffee blends. But if you mix the two dandelion root and chickery roots, you do get a very similar kind of an earthy, bitter beverage. And once you add some kind of a fat to it, some you know, cream or whatever, then you get that mouth seel because coffee does have a certain mouthfeel that you know, just a hot cup of tea is not going to emulate. I like to add some milky oat tops to that because it kind of gives it a kind of gives it a little bit of that mouth feel as well, and it doesn't really add a flavor to it. So that's and the other thing you could add to that, Although this has nothing to do with spring foraging, but since we're talking about dandelion coffee substitutes, if you add a little chaga in there, then certainly that also has another earthy, deep, much bitter kind of flavor going on. Not necessarily is so much bitter, but it chad has got an interesting flavor. It's kind of reminiscent of coffee, kind of reminiscent of Vanillah. Oh. I mentioned chickory root Highlander. That's what I was just talking about where I said there's a lot of that's a lot of chickery root in coffee blends from around New Orleans. So when you when you get roasted chickery root roasted dandelion root together, there is sort of a very coffee light thing there going on. But if you are someone who needs their coffee fixed in the morning, this isn't going to give you the caffeine though. But if you're looking for that, you're looking for something that's a little more friendly to the body and actually has some nutrients and is going to be strengthening to your body overall, you may wish to transition off of it. There are a number of different commercial varieties on you can get Amazon at your local natural food store or whatever. But I usually just make my own, all right, But dandelions they're coming out. Look, you say you're gonna want to use some portion of your dandelions for getting the dandelion roots for either tinctures or dandelion roots for making a coffee substitute. You're gonna want to leave some of them to grow so that you can collect the leaves so that you can add those to salads and then later on that you're gonna cook with. And those are excellent for digestion any and anytime you add dandelion to the things that we're looking at digestive issues, and we're looking at health of the urinary tracts, we're looking at at herbal diuretics, that kind of a thing. So something else to go along with that is Burdock and Burdock. You may not recognize it until you actually see the big birds on them, which come later on in the uh in the year anywhere from June to October, you're going to see Burdock has these purple flowers that come on there. They're these spiky flowers that come on the end of the very prickly ball of well, it's birds, you know, I mean, it's it's they're not comfortable to uh, to the touch, and they will stick to everything. But once you've seen them, then remember where that is, because they're going to be growing right now the leaves. Those they're large, they're wavy, they are heart shaped, and they're going to be green on top. The bottom is going to have it's going to be more whitish in color. And they can get very large. The leaves can get very large. So if you see that, if you see these leaves, and you can also look up pictures excuse me, of burdock leaves and you you can recognize ify that. But the real telltale sign comes later in the year with those those big birds. And if you, like I said, if you if you can't recognize them. Now, oh wait, there's a question. What kinds of things only come out and are usual this time of year? Uh, well, some of the things that I'm talking about today, they're only going to come out. They're either only going to come out this time of year, or there are parts of the plants that you use at this time of year, and then different parts of the plant you use at different times of the year, and so and so forth. But some of these really early first plants like dandelions, burdock, we're going to talk about metal Japanese, not wed violets. These are things that chick weeds, These are things that come up really early in the year, so sorry about burdock. This is there's this. The serve has so many uses again it is this is a nutrient sense herbs. You're using the roots here. It's it's often used for liver support, but also for the health of the skin, health of the hair. If you have. Oh gosh, should I put this issues with sweating, this can help to regulate that because it's anything to do with the liver and the skin and liver, skin and hair, I would say, And it was often used. The traditional use of burdock is as uh like a a cleanser, like in order for to assist the body to detox, which is sort of a big steam in the spring. So let's see here when you can find this along riverbanks, wet areas like that. You can also find it along roadsides or let's say you've you've got a parking lot that's been like if you go to the very edges of the parking lot, like wherever a parking lot like kind of turns over into sort of like a overgrown area, you'd be very surprised at all the different orbs that you can find in along road spots of a of a parking lot, try to go a foot or two in, you know, get away from where cars may have been, because you know you don't want those chemicals in your herbs and stuff. But if you if you drive over to these remote parts of parking lots where they meet up with fort of wild overgrown areas, you'll find all sorts of things from like Burdock. You'll find horsetail, you'll find mug war, you'll find red raspberries. You'll find oh, oh, oh, I'm trying to think of the name of it now, oh jewelry, which, of course, if you find jewel weed, then there's probably some poison ivy kicking around there somewhere. But tons of oh I've found I've found tons of Saint John's wart and mullin all along the edges of parking lots. And these are usually the real far away spots where nobody parks because nobody wants to walk that fox. So in in general, you know you're you're probably okay with that. So Burdock, this is a time of year that you're gonna want to be looking for that. So if you have riverbanks or brooks, you might find these along those banks. If you find like roadsides or the edges of the parking lot. If you you can also just look in vacant lots like Unfortunately, there are still quite a few homes that you can tell nobody's occupied them for a while, nobody's been taking care of the lawn. You see areas like that, then definitely go check them out. You'll find them. And anywhere there's been like disturbed ground, you'll find a lot of medicinal weeds growing and disturbed ground, there's some of the first plants that come in. But yeah, burdock is one of those, and it grows everywhere, like around the country, so you shouldn't have too much difficulty finding that. But again you're gonna want the first year route. Those would be the ones that you're looking for. Then, I mean you can you can cook them just like you would a potato. You peel them and you can cook them that it's actually very common in Japanese cooking. If you can't find these and you want to try eating uh, if you want you want to try testing them out in your kitchen, you can go to various Asian markets and it shouldn't be too difficult to find burdocks there. But you should if you if you have any state parks nearby, it shouldn't be too difficult. I'd be a little, you know, find out what their policies are when it comes to harvesting plants and be a little discreet about it. But again, you can plant these in your garden too, so that way you have your own sort of stash of them. But keep in mind that the stuff that you grow in your yard generally is not going to be as potent or as strong as as its wild cousins. All right, So when you see the next one that I want to mention here is stinging metals, and this is this is one of those plants that is going to be popping up this time of year and singing metal. Oh. This this plant is loaded with so many minerals, vitamins and minerals that when it comes to superfoods from these far flung places all around the world, it's like you don't need any of that. You just find some metals. And the netal roots, the netal leaves, and the metal seeds all have different uses. You can use the stems to make cordage if you're into that, and you can use the leaves to make everything from soup to pesto. The only thing is that you either have to cook the leaves or you have to dry the leaves, one of the two because you don't want to have They're called stinging metals for a reason. And if you don't handle them carefully, either with gloves or you know, you have to sort of list the leaves very carefully when you when you got to pick them. Is if you don't, then you're probably going to get stung, which if I need to before we go any further into this here, let me let's take a quick break and then I'll come back and we'll talk more about metal. All right, we'll be right back. It shouldn't be all about outdoor survival, think prospering outdoors. Prospering outdoors is more than just getting by prospering outdoors. It's about having the quality gear or supplies you want when you need it. From camping and hunting supplies to prepping and survival kits. You will find it all at prosperingoutdoors dot com. You don't have to search for that hard to find item with over thirty five categories to choose from Prospering Outdoors has it, or we'll find it save time and money. Surprise yourself with lower prices on quality brand names and Prospering Outdoors. 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We have to be a little careful when you when you pick them, because you don't want to get stung by them, unless, of course, you have arthritis, and actually being stung by metal it was a legitimate arthritis treatment back in the Middle Ages, because it actually will It does hurt when when you get stung, and they will close the little welt. But after that you'll find that the arthritis pain has diminished significantly. But anyway, you can eat the leaves once they're cooked or once they're dried. The younger leaves are you know, favored more so. But don't forget to come back to this plant. Don't take all of it, don't you know, don't pick everything, leave some because you want some to go to speed, because you also want to come back later on and collect the seeds. But where you'll find these, they're going to they tend to be. They come back in the exact same spot every single year. They're very if you find them once to be able to find them again, and they they do very well in the woods. They do very well in sort of partially shaded areas. So definitely check out your walking trails definitely. You know, look for like along the edges of brooks, along the edges of rivers and while and along the edges of walking trails out in the woods. They like that sort of partially shaded area and they go these little white flowers too, but you want to kind of get them before that, so be on the lookout for nettles. They have sort of very uh they have capered leaves. There's kind of hard shaped, but not quite they're they're a little too long for me to just say they're heart shaped. They've got little teeth along the edges of the of the leaves. Very green. And let's see. They other distinguishing features. I think they have the little tiny hairs all along the plant, So along the stalk underneath the leaves, they're going to find these little, these little singing little hairs. So being able to look out for those, cook them, drive them that that neutralizes the sting that they have. That you can use this for all sorts of things again from meeting a diuretic. It is very helpful for things like eggsma, arthritis, and it is a major source of chlorophyll, which if you if you really need to you know, how should I put this delicately, Yeah, forget delicately. It chlorophyll acts like an internal deodorizer. So if you've got someone who has really strong body odor, see if you can't get them to take something that's loaded with chlorophyll, like metal, the metal, tea, metal, soup, metal, uh, metal, anything just about. But it's it's a good substitute for things like spinach or kale. So that is popping up right about now in some areas. And look, see chickweed is another one that you should start to see very very soon. It's got very little, small white flowers, and it's it is a tiny little plant. It's got very like I should I put this, I mean like a half an inch tall to you know, a couple of inches. Maybe it's often found in lawns, but you can find it in the fields. You can find it many many areas, whether the soil is rich or whether it's poor. Chick weed is kind of everywhere. It's the flowers are very daisy like. So if you see these flowers that are really close to the ground and they look like a daisy, chances are probably chick weed. Some of the other things too, I mean they're a little bit more like, how should I put it? The stems have a very thin white sort of a hair that grows through them, and you should be able to recognize it fairly, quickly and easily. It is something that it's very hearty. It grows in a bunch of different places every single year. It's loaded with vitamins and minerals. So you can add these to salad, add them the soups. Add them the soup. You know, if you find it, certainly go out there and collect that. Violets are another one. I shouldn't have to describe too too much about violets. Yes, Highlander, there was a bad breath remedy the chlorophyll. I assume that violets are another one that are going to be there early. And I think most people recognize them as the heart shaped leaves. And you either will see like the deep violet bluish color flowers, or you'll find the sweet ones, which are sort of the white with the little purple, little purple spots on them. Those are the sweet violet. And certainly you can use even use these for all sorts of things. You can use the leaves in skincare. They're edible. Use the early ones, though after a while they're not so good for edible purposes. They can also be used to as a sickener. So let's say, if if you are someone who cannot put wheat in something in order to sticken it up, like into a soup, to stick it up, like you know, you make a ru and then you like you make a sauce from there, you can add violets and violet leaves to to a suit. That way it'll sticken it up a little bit. You can certainly eat the flowers raw in salads. They have a number of different uses. You can make poultices out of violets, and you can use these. They're supposed to get rid of headache. I'm going to tell you right now, I haven't had any success getting rid of a headache with a violet poultice. But it's one of those uses that people said, maybe it's just me, so I'll pass that along. But I haven't had any success with that. For boils, so I like serious skin eruptions like that. You know, it's not just the not just a pimple that's just a little bit of acme. It's it's a real big inflamed boil. You can use a pultie of violets for that. They are supposed to help with kidney problems if you make tea out of it, and also for as a remedy for colds and coughs. So if you want to use those fresh for a cold or a cost, because you know fu season is still kind of lingering for a little bit longer, you may catch them. Otherwise, you know, harvest the leaves now and you're gonna have to drive them and then say them for next year. So even though you may not consume them right now, this would be the time of year to collect them and then you know you can save them for later. The roots not so much. You don't use the roots too too much. So let me see here anything else I want to mention about violets. They are again just for a dry hacking coughs or just for bronchitis and whooping cloth. And you know you can certainly mix them with something like marshmallow or licorice or slippery elm or something like that makes a really really good remedy for severe cough, good for skin abrasions, eggs and that kind of thing. It's anti inflammatory, so it goes and do a lot of skincare. Let's see here. I want to wrap up real quick because we're just about out of time with a plant. We're going to talk more about it next time, but we're gonna we're gonna end off tonight talking about Japanese not weed because it's going to tie into next week's show online, and Japanese not weed is generally not welcome because it's it's an invasive it's it's we don't like invasive plants. They take over, you know, they they're not you know, they can displace local plants, and and that's all well and good. However they are you you would want to find your companies not withold now here in the spring and collect your plant material and then you can make tinctures from the roots. You can eat the leaves, but when you made the tincture from the roots, this is what this is like one of those key plants when it comes to herbal lime treatments. So let me see what am I looking at here in the chatroom. You forgot one thing not so great? So well, yeah, I mean obviously not they are I mean so I mean, if you've got nuts that are that are ready to be picked now at this point of the year, then fine, you know, grab them, But let me see what else here. I mean, in different parts of the country, you're going to have different plants available to so trying to trying to reach most areas here. But Japanese not weed. And I want to make sure that this is not confused with Japanese barberries. So we've got these two invasive plants here. Japanese barberies often used as an ornamental and it does have benefits for as it can be used as medicine. Japanese barbary does contain burberine. It can be used for making herbal antibiotic things and so on. But Japanese barbary also provides territory. It provides the environment that picks really really love, and there there are some there's there's a study done showing that, you know that when you remove the Japanese barbary from the area number of ticks, the tick population drops significantly. So we can get our burberine from other plants. And you know, I mean, I don't want to wage war on a specific plant, but I think lime is probably a bit more serious than that. And anyway, so Japanese barbary is not Japanese not we They're two different plants entirely. But if this would be the time that you want to yeah, Japanese not we will grow right through the pavement, just like dandelions. These are these really vigorous roots. They Okay, there's a meme that I just posted on a Facebook page, I think yesterday, whereas we've got to like a rower is on top and saying, oh the the the pH and my soil is off, I'm going to die, and been right underneath there was a dandelion that was a yeah, concrete and it's like growing right up through the concrete. So these are very if these are very tenacious, very strong plants. But anyway you can you certainly hands eat the leaves and you can get the roots. This time of year, all the medicine and the energy of the plant is down there in the roots. So we're going to talk more about that later. But you can you can certainly add it to your cooking. It's it's that's another way that you can add your erbal medicine in there. But all right, you had about three minutes, so we're we are at the end of the show. Remember next week, we're starting a conversation about line probably going to go more than one show, just warning me ahead of that, you know, ahead of time. 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