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00:10You almost can't garden alone because there's too many questions and if you get excited about
00:19gardening you're going to want to find gardeners around you to ask you know about fungus that's
00:24on your leaves or your foot when I lived in another place rural place my neighbors probably politically
00:32we would not get along however we bonded over manure because he had this huge pile of manure
00:42that I coveted his cows manure was really really really something that I cherished
00:53I have a new show called the manure logs puppetry for the penis will be opening for us but please
00:59come see manure logs at the public theater in New York November 17th through the 18th
01:08it's just
01:12do you know there used to be a guy in France in Paris he was a professional farter
01:20the instigators because there's something in the air
01:27we got to get together sooner or later because the revolution's here and you know it's why
01:46we got to get together now
01:52we have got to get together now
02:10Jesus that looks real doesn't it can this devastate my bowels I'm not sure that's we're gonna find out
02:26today we're going foraging
02:40hi Juniper hi can we do a high five you're gonna love this watch this ow ow ow ow okay
02:50have a seat I feel like you and I have the same hair stylist
02:54how are you have a seat nice to meet you I'm Zach I like your hat by the way
03:01hey what's your name hey Lucas come on over so it's part of your school that one day of a
03:07week you just go out into the woods correct
03:11what is foraging I don't know hmm are you sure you're on the right show
03:21what kind of things do you forage for
03:26what do you make tea out of
03:27what do you make tea out of
03:32oh yes
03:37oh my god Lucas that scared me
03:42yeah you ever find a hot dog in the forest
03:45yeah I hear that that you guys sometimes make tea
03:50what do you make the tea with
03:53bark
03:54bark
03:55okay
03:57oh you mean bark from a tree
03:59yes
04:00right okay
04:00well what do you want to talk about if you don't want to talk about foraging
04:03what's your favorite movie
04:04um
04:05forage gump
04:05hi
04:06no
04:08um okay I forgot
04:10oh no
04:14one day I saw a tree actually wearing a sweater
04:19you saw that in the forest school
04:21what is that
04:23that's a lake
04:24do you ever find mushrooms uh when you forage
04:27yes
04:27my kids love mushrooms
04:29do you have children
04:29uh huh
04:30you do
04:33you have children
04:35yes
04:37how many kids do you have
04:39um
04:39eleven
04:44well I guess good for you I mean uh
04:47you look good for your age how old are you
04:49five and a half
04:50how is that
04:51I'm almost turning six
04:52six
04:53oh you're almost turning six okay then that makes sense
04:55do you know what a fungus is
04:56no
04:57well it's what a mushroom is
04:59have you ever heard of turkey tail mushrooms
05:01no
05:02bortobello mushroom
05:03no
05:05chanterelle
05:07no
05:07the next one just say yes okay
05:09yes
05:10have you ever heard of lion's mane mushroom
05:13no
05:15thank you
05:16you've been really helpful
05:18how do you take your mushrooms
05:19how do you take your mushrooms
05:20I take my mushrooms usually burning man
05:22what are the names of your eleven children
05:24I forget the birds
05:28yeah
05:28it's like my mom
05:29by the way do you know this Lucas guy
05:32he told me he has eleven children
05:36do you have kids
05:38you do too
05:40how many do you have
05:41one
05:43what other things in the forest do you find
05:46I found a bear
05:48a live bear
05:49it was a black bear
05:51and were you by yourself
05:52yes
05:53my mom left me in the car
05:57a bear
05:58a bear
05:58up on the roof of the car
06:02and your mom just left you in the car
06:04where was she
06:04she was heading to get possum berries
06:07so the bear just hung out on the car
06:09and you were fine with that
06:11and then your mom's just in the woods getting berries
06:15Lucas you're five and a half
06:17and you have eleven children
06:19and you have a mother that's very comfortable with you around bears
06:23what a life
06:24what a life
06:26what a life
06:27what a life
06:59today we are straying away from the garden
07:01and we're gonna go foraging
07:02and I found some real French people to help us
07:05so you know it's legit
07:08these guys are French
07:10and they got us into Vietnam
07:13they did
07:15they did
07:20nice to meet you I'm Ben
07:21Ben
07:21hi
07:23Celia
07:23Celia nice to meet you
07:25uh so you guys are foraging experts right
07:27uh kind of
07:28yeah
07:28the foraging people that I know that know how to do really good foraging
07:32they're French
07:33a lot of it is like a cultural approach
07:36French cuisine has been developed for a long time
07:38we don't even call it foraging for us it's just like one activity you do on the weekend with your
07:42parents or grandparents
07:43the main question we have at farmer's market is like is this mushroom is gonna kill me here in Canada
07:49wherein France is like how good is this mushroom compared to this one
07:55are you telling me that you will fill all of these in accord
07:57oh yeah
07:57me and Celia two of us would pick 250 pounds a day
08:00would you say 250 pounds
08:02250 pounds
08:03so we I will do three trips
08:04you would take my weight in mushrooms
08:05oh my god I'm so excited
08:07let's go foraging
08:08this is mine
08:09Jesus
08:11and then this one
08:11you might have to adjust that to fat
08:16so this is a gardening show
08:18but I find foraging and gardening very related
08:22this is how humans used to get their food
08:25yeah
08:25but people just slowly with farming forgot about it
08:30like I go to the farmer's market selling wild blueberries
08:34and people like oh they almost look like blueberries
08:36and they say like they're the ancestor of the blueberry
08:38and then people farm them and they got like bigger berries
08:42we always want to get like something better bigger faster
08:47sometimes bigger doesn't mean better
08:48I tell that to my wife
08:56they should have put you guys in charge of finding Ben Laden
08:59one big difference between farming and foraging
09:01is the nutritious value of some of the plants
09:04for example a wild blueberry
09:05would have probably three or four times more antioxidants
09:08than the farm ones
09:10here we are looking at some wild blueberries
09:13there
09:14no I know how to use these things
09:17sorry
09:18you just you know look at where the berries are
09:20and you go slowly with your rakes
09:24foraging can be frustrating
09:25but once you find something it's so rewarding
09:28problem is I want to eat them right away
09:31are these clean?
09:32like the bears pee on this?
09:34it's cold
09:35it's just pee
09:36it doesn't taste bad
09:37I mean you can't tell
09:39a blueberry is from a family called vaccinium
09:42those ones are vaccinium alaskense
09:44which is alaskan wild blueberry
09:46and those ones are the mountain huckleberry
09:48what is the latin name? do we know?
09:51vaccinium membranaceum
09:52I'm glad you said it because I was going to say it
09:53but I didn't want to
09:55we should go try and see if we can find mushrooms
09:57yeah I need to forge me a bathroom
10:02look at this
10:02God
10:04it's nice to be between the ferns again
10:09so we're in a spot now
10:11and if we were lucky
10:13what mushrooms would you be looking for right now
10:15in a place like this?
10:17here I would be definitely looking for chanterelles
10:20and lobster mushroom probably
10:22it's always so much better
10:24to start foraging with somebody that already knows
10:26if you don't have that chance
10:28once again
10:29start with like a few basic spaces
10:31don't try to go too hard too quick
10:33because that's how there is accidents and poisoning and stuff
10:35and get a couple of books
10:37but never rely on any special tip to say
10:40if something is edible or not
10:42you need to learn it properly
10:44oh god
10:46what?
10:47I lost my contacts
10:54so this one is a chanterelles
10:57mushrooms can't do any photosynthesis
10:59so they need to get their food from somewhere
11:01they're going to be relying on trees or plants
11:03to get the food
11:04because the plants are doing the photosynthesis
11:05the mushrooms
11:06they're going to attach themselves
11:07to the roots of a tree
11:10with what is called the mycelium of the mushroom
11:13the mycelium is actually the main organism of the mushroom
11:17so here is a good example actually of some mycelium
11:20that has been like developing into that rotten log
11:23most of the mushroom life is mycelium
11:27imagine that underneath the soil here in the forest
11:30there is a tree with branches
11:33and that tree would be actually the mycelium
11:35the mushroom get food from the tree
11:37and the tree partially get food and water from the mushroom
11:40and what we see as a mushroom
11:42is a reproduction part of the mushroom
11:45the fruit body
11:46and that fruit body is going to really spore
11:51look at this
11:52oh
11:54don't step there
11:55that's quick mud
11:59so here we actually have two different spaces of chanterelles
12:01so this one is a yellow chanterelles
12:04this one is a white chanterelles
12:06you won't find them in supermarkets or anywhere
12:08you will always find the yellow
12:10because the white tend to bruise orange really quickly
12:13so the shelf life is not as good
12:15but the white chanterelles is really like firmer and meatier
12:19and last year we actually tried to do a vegan pulled pork
12:22so you basically shred them
12:24and the texture is really fibrous the same than chicken
12:26so try this one you will see
12:28that's anymore
12:29yeah
12:30but it's kind of peppery
12:31like
12:32i like it though
12:33some mushrooms they find raw
12:35some of them are not
12:36like you can't eat a morel raw
12:38if you eat too many
12:39it's likely you're going to have trouble to digest them
12:42i'm not going to get diarrhea am i
12:44not with one
12:44dang it
12:48i find this about people that garden
12:50or work in nature
12:53it's good for your heart
12:54you guys smile a lot
12:56and there's
12:56it's good for your brain
12:57i think it's because there's like a purpose
12:58you know it's very direct link
13:00you know you find a real mushroom
13:02which is a real food
13:04that is going to really feed someone
13:05yeah it feels tangible
13:08thank you guys very much
13:09i really appreciate it
13:10there's a lot of knowledge
13:11thank you zach
13:12there's a lot of fun
13:12to be had
13:13thanks for coming out to the woods with us guys
13:16the three of us are going to go to Hooters
13:20be a good place for Hooters
13:40many prized edible mushrooms have risky look-alikes like chanterelles
13:45and then there's boss chanterelles king belit
13:49and then there's lilac brown belit
13:52hen of the woods
13:54and of course berkeley's polypore
13:57it's important to never consume anything foraged
14:00unless you are absolutely certain of its identity and edibility
14:07wait a minute this isn't a dorito
14:12let's go find some stuff to make some tea
14:15go go go go find it
14:17even an old lifting bag will work
14:23what is this what is this we're putting in
14:25blackberry leaf
14:27blackberry leaf
14:29arbutus bark
14:31these are rose hips
14:33rose hips oh they're prickly be careful
14:35what are these
14:36i also want pine needles
14:37should we have some tea
14:38yeah
14:39okay
14:39did anybody find any honey
14:41and then maybe any cream any sugar
14:43no
14:44no
14:45pine needles
14:47little bit of that
14:49blackberry leaf going in
14:51got it
14:52native crab apple
14:54and then i found this
14:57should we put this corn dog in there
14:58yeah
14:59ready
15:03too much corn dog
15:04hot
15:05so be careful
15:06delicious
15:07okay
15:07try that
15:08it's gonna be hot
15:09is it
15:10oh that is hot
15:12i touched the uh metal thing to my leg
15:15it really i almost cursed
15:16i almost said a really really a lot of bad words in front of you
15:20all right
15:21chin chin
15:21here here
15:23oh that's good
15:24drink it
15:25thank you
15:26this feels like a covid circle
15:27no no please don't pour that on me
15:28it is scalding hot
15:29okay i'll go please
15:31ah
15:31no
15:32okay we're good
15:34that's a good ending right there
15:35no no
15:35cut
15:37please
15:48hey guys
15:51i think i found a grizzly
15:54oh no it's just a black bear
15:57well the future is oh my god he's coming this way
16:05oh
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16:06oh he just took a chunk out of me
16:15oh my
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16:27oh god what can he do
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