Wild Edible Plant - Cattail (Roots)

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hey Smits wobble get some cathy lanier bye

let's go click some routes alright so in front me is a large stand of cattail that's all cattail you see absolutely loaded right there okay it's at the base of these plants I'm starting to find the connective tissues underneath she has one right here

I'm just following the rise on as it goes to each plant all connected there's another one right here what I do is I just already have a couple here just find a plant dig down around it I keep going down until I reach some roots sticking out from it there's a really large one right here then I just worked slowly unearth it and follow it back to the plant on each side it looks like it goes to this one over here possibly we'll see that's a good one all right make the progress got a bunch of these up it's working on another one right now

you're that one man goes off in this direction monster

and they just jumping out at me now you just just rip them up yeah so once you get down this deep you can just so expose you can just pull them right up through the mana this one is huge connected to this plant right here all right shape help come with me there we go all right says what I got I've been at it for maybe 20 minutes something like that I haven't washed them off or anything yet huge one another large one somewhere here

it's something that broke off while I was pulling on then last one the base so all in all good mass of roots right there that's a pile I have of just roots

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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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