Wild Edible Plant - Sheep Sorrel

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it's mission data survival much of my dad's house for a couple days so probably had some construction of stuff going on through the woods things like that but while I'm here I found some sheep sorrel let's go over it alright so we have a nice little such an immoral and right here it's all zoom in for you

that's what we're looking for a sheep sorrel very easy to identify because it has this Arrowhead like shape so I'll bring that clothes for you guys and show you what I mean alright so as you can see it has Arrowhead like shape oh it has these two little tails at the bottom it was very easy to identify really can't miss it alright so here I have a couple of them maybe like four of them love this stuff tastes almost identical to wood sorrel you might remember that would so taste like I like lemons tastes like apple rinds or Oh lemons things like that it's a very kind of kind of bright flavor you know and you know that's really one of my favorite flavors in the woods is you know you can get a lot of plants that like the clovers and stuff that just taste kind of kind of bland to me you know they don't really taste what is delicious as sorrel it's my wintergreen I'm a huge fan of eating soil a she would saw and I'm really excited today to find some sheep soul and as you can see it's really really easy to identify and it likes to grow in these little clumps where it's almost like a basal rosette almost where they're all kind of in the same the same spot growing from the same area so when you find them you know it's not like one little sprout you eat it and it's gone you know there's a whole bunch there and they usually like to grow in little colonies so you can take you know a bunch from each one and you know they're still thriving

you didn't kill any of them so they're gonna be there tomorrow it sound like you eat them all then small you're hungry alright so when you find them it's a bunch to eat and because they like to grow with so many at a time so many leaves that you can forage quite a bit off of each one just a couple altogether adding up to a good amount of food and good amount of vitamins and all that and it really doesn't hurt the plant alright so just give you an idea we have one right here then we have one right here settle one right here right here right here it's another one right here it's another one right here

so they really do prefer company you know this little area has probably a dozen of them growing all right so look one more thing I want to go over real quick you know I've seen some videos and things about you know winter edibles and you know just eating little bits of plants on the ground like this and it's you know it might be this I think it's that you can eat this don't worry about it things like that no absolutely not if you don't know the plan 100% period you don't eat it pretty sure it's this it might be this yeah yeah I think it's this this is edible what are you basing that on I guess my life is worth more than guess right so never ever ever never ever eat a plant unless you know 100% without a doubt that it's edible now out of all the plants that the human species have categorized and actually know only five percent of them are edible to us ninety-five percent more poison real poison not just you know could be poison as in mildly poison no no poison

95% it's pretty intense five dissent we can eat so keep that in mind you know I think it's this I think it's that I'm pretty sure you can eat that no no thanks I'm gonna stick to things I do know right all right in the book so let's go to page 116 I'm going to see sheep or common soul it's under slender clusters or time I'm sorry of tiny flowers and I went around and found one I wanted to show you as they get older they get a little red on this stuff I want to add that in there I don't think the book mentions that but page 117 right next to it we have a sheep soil right here so you can see our head design with two tails right okay so at the bottom sheep sorrel tender leaves and stems okay sour taste small our shaped leaves all right

let's see

branching Spike's reddish or greenish it's in poor soil thin fields roadsides things like that flowering and June - uh - doctor so it's only funny March right now so that's why it's you know obviously not at that point now you can eat in a salad of course which is just you know raw with a bunch of other stuff cooked green you know basically you can you can do this do this plant pretty much any way that you can eat wood salt which would be you know eating it raw just like it is eating it with other plants obviously you know throwing into a billy can or what-have-you for nice little stew where if you are you know cooking up a rabbit or something and you just kind of stewing it all together you can throw this in there you can steam it if you have the ability to steam or if you know how to do that it's not a problem kind of interesting cold drink cuz they're kind of lemon lemon flavoring like I mentioned you steep it in water it's basically to making a longer infusion so 10 to 15 minutes just like it says and you need to chill and sweetened I've never actually tried that so I think I might have to try that but basically it's it's used the same way as sheeps

I'm sorry as wood sorrel but it's sheep soul okay so it's really delicious it's really accessible when you find it there's a bunch of them that grow together we like to grow a nice thick clumps and they're really identifiable and the cool thing about this plant is that it prefers to be in open area you know in other words you know like fields and and you know just like plains you know it's like where there's with us grass and other things so not in the woods right it's kind of really intense today okay because would sorrow something somebody's processing would do

sorry about that apologize what sorrel is is in the woods and wood sorrel prefers a lot of shade and it prefers to be you know around trees and things like that where the sheep sorrel prefers the opposite I think that's really awesome because you know it gives you two different bioregions to get a plant that's basically the same plant you know it tastes the same and it can be used the same I think this is a great addition and I want to pass it on to you guys today

all right let's mention native survival appreciate your views your comments you sport let's see in the next one take care