Why Are These Foods Unfarmable?
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You need to redo your research on truffles. There is a company near where I live who has developped methods of cultivating truffles by combining the "mycelium" with oak "saplings" (don't know the exact terms)
THE SPICE MUST FLOW
You guys left out sturgeons
@@bradbradson4543 He's gotta be, lel. I was just wondering what was up with that, myself
It's great to see Hank!!
"We've almost eaten the species to death-let's eat more before they're gone!" -Humanity
That's funny because it's true.
I know! We'll call am popplers!
Sad, but true
That’s humans for you.
well, individual humans, yes. Also sometimes called "free market capitalism"
Hey! I actually am one of those researchers who studied tuna in captivity!
Fake news! This guy is a paid actor!
@@thedude2131 Don't think so. It was in uni, I was just a student working on the project. I'm not even sure what the title of the research was in the end, I only did field research.
I can confirm though, tuna breeding doesn't work; they need too much space, the food input barely makes the tuna output worth it in the first place and the young all eat eachother; about 80% died of cannibalism...
Sounds awful, I hope they have set you free already
Kiki University in Japan has closed the cycle on Bluefin Tuna. The issue is not whether it can be done but whether it is economically viable to do at commercial scale.
At first glance I thought your name was Ricky Gervais
There is *one person* who just got their first (small) harvest of truffles, twenty years after starting the project.
If you count farming a tree then yes
20 years is too much time for a mushroom man
@@Devit42 I guess you haven't heard of permaculture farming
Farming truffles has been a thing for a surprising amount of time, now. You can buy Hazelnuts, and a couple other species of tree, already inoculated with the truffle. 3-5 years to harvest.
@@diggysoze2897 and now we are understanding what truffles and another fungus do to the plants around them that can be useful to protect and farm with less effort, pesticides and other resources!
The $3,000,000 tuna was because it was New Year. The extraordinary price was paid by a sushi bar chain during what is called hatsu seri, or literally, first auction, to wish a prosperous year.
So, the jaw dropping bid was driven mostly by Japanese beliefs, rather than by supply and demand.
If $3M was the regular price paid for each catch, tuna sushi would be EXTREMELY expensive 🙂
5 Jan 2021 update: the highest bid this year was for a meager $200K😞
Perhaps, but even still, that sounds like it’s got a pretty high base price tag
@@spindash64 I agree in that it does have a high base price, particularly for the Pacific Bluefin from Oma.
But we can all agree that $3M was WAY off the charts (about 250 times the current rate.)
The bid was also a PR stunt by the sushi bar chain.
suplly and demand is still intanct. the reasons for the demand don't affect this. But of course it's a special case like you pointed out. whatever drives suplly and demmand causes it, rather than overruling it.
@@AlexTrusk91
A cynical view is that demand for attention (by the sushi bar) drove up the price :-)
My opinion is that ”shūgi sōba” was the key factor here (shūgi = celebration; sōba=market price.)
Its either a PR stunt or the one making the purchase gets the money in a suspicious way. That's what is happening to so called Art exhibitions now. They make ridiculous prices and a dirty money suddenly is transformed into an abstract shenanigans which the seller most likely returns to the buyer as new fresh laundry. minus the commision of course
TIL huckleberry is a real berry and not just a made up surname
they make they best pie and jam you've ever had and due to overharvesting they've become really expensive. One pie is normally about $20-$30 for a "mixed berry" pie that's only half huckleberry and i've seen pure huckleberry pies between $30-$50 for a kind of small pie.
You mean Huckleberry Finn because in that case Finn is the surname.
I'd work on your own grammar first.
I'd work on your own grammar first.
TIL what TIL means as an acronym
Out of the tens of thousands of types of terrestrial mushrooms, we probably can grow less than 40! It's pretty amazing if you think of it!
Surprising its as low as 40
There are quite a variety we can and do grow
Button mushrooms
Various species of oyster
Shitake
Lions mane
Some morel species
Enoki
Beech mushroom
Reishi (although thats not edible, only decorative or as traditional medicine)
Others could be grown but arent because they aren't useful, or because they aren't transportable/storable (shaggy mane grows like weeds)
Because many of them are in a symbiotic or parasitic relationship with another fungi or plants. Either it is too expensive to raise the symbiotic plants or we haven't figured out which one that needs to be planted.
@@minhducnguyen9276 And marveling at the mystery and complexity of it all is about as spiritual as I ever get.
Don't take everything Sideshow says at its face value they spread misinformation routinely but it's in line with the mainstream propaganda notice how when you first starts talking about truffles he goes right to climate change meanwhile 10 minutes down the road from me is a truffle Farm because yes they can Farm it
And 32 of those are psilocybe variants because humans gunna human 😅
"Curiosity is the spice of life. That's why our show's sponsor is... Not Curiosity Stream."
How much did they pay you for saying that? Just curious...
@@kcvriess Eh, nice one!
Just how strange that transition was, considering other popular sponsors.
Also considering that Brilliant focuses on training people's problem-solving skills, and a lot of developing farming or sustainable food is about solving problems....
"curiosity stream: am I a joke to you?"
"everyone else: Oh, you're living up to your name!"
Brilliant comment!
In the Southern United States we have a fruit called the PawPaw. Its actually the largest native fruit found in the United States. But because it rots so fast during transport it can only be harvested in the wild.
What about the MawMaws?
"Well when you pick a pawpaw or a prickly pear, don't use a raw paw, next time beware. Don't pick the prickly pear by the paw, when you pick the pear you gotta use the claw" -Baloo
Apparently some farms cultivate it, but you’ll only find it at farmers markets. If you’re really lucky.
You gotta be kidding me. I had never heard of the paw paw fruit until today. Saw it on a youtube channel (Townsends) and said, "Hmm, I wonder what that is." And from what I read on it after watching Townsends video about it, it sounds like it is delicious. And now, same day, I see it in the comments section of this video. Ironic.
@Real Donald Trump you're... Just stupid.
I had huckleberries growing in my berry patch-
We had just moved there and thought they were blueberries... until we ate them
You were mostly right. Huckleberries and blueberries are all in the genus Vaccinium so are really closely related, and often very similar in appearance. I prefer the tart taste of huckleberries to the more gentle blueberry flavours, but my favourite is red huckleberries, which aside from the characteristic 'dimple' on the bottom are somewhat different in appearance from their cousins, the blueberries.
Had?
@@gabrielgarcia9822 we moved away
@@survivedandthriving are they really called vaccinium (sounds like vaccine)? Then they must be very healthy 😂
@@science75902 Yes, they really are called Vaccinium and yes, they really are healthy 😁.
I admit, I had not thought about how much the word sounds like vaccines, which are also healthy😁
Thank you for the good chuckle. I needed one today 😂
What he didn't mention about huckleberries is that black bears love them passionately and you have a fair chance to encounter one or several while picking berries. Give them some room, they need the berries more than you do.
Oh, yeah, I’ll give a grizzly bear more huckleberries because he’s needy, forget about those claws and teeth and that he could probably run down Usain Bolt to eat him over those berries (although he would be a little bit stringy, compared to me :-).
As the manager of an aquaponic greenhouse i can tell you that “larvae of one species of [ANY FISH] are packed in tightly, they grow more slowly, and fewer survive”. It is quite literally the FIRST rule of livestock... the biggest issue for bluefin farming is that any farms would need to be open water farms that require vast tracts of ocean with graded nets forming concentric circles with the inner nets smallest and outer nets widest, allowing larvae and and prey fish to swim freely in and out and only preventing eacape of larger fish as they grow from feeding. The issue with this is that it requires a huge operation and typically in non-coastal waters or out in international waters. This provides both a massive risk to the operation as it leaves them
Out of jurisdiction of most protectionist policies as well as leaves them without public funding
Kind of confused about the truffles not being farmable. As a truffle farmer, I happened to know they they can be farmed quite easily given a grid of mature trees.
"Truffle farming is impossible"
Truffle farmers: "Gee guess I'm out of a job huh"
truffle farming is not scalable
The soil is the key factor yep !
We have truffle farms all over the place in Australia, I think they just used the segment to throw in a bit of climate fear.
@@VeggieRice visit Sarrion or Soria in Spain bro
I’ve been planting cash for years and it still doesn’t grow on trees
It's actually a fungi so a whole different type of life.
I heard it was the root of all evil... so I assumed it was a symbiotic fungi
Where?
*Did you forget to water it?*
Pablo escobar wants to know your location
Tuna sounds like a clear cut candidate for cloned meat, then we won't have to hunt them and their numbers can hopefully recover.
@@kevo300 not only japanese eat tuna. Besidds it's delicious
kevo300 have you ever tried sushi. You'd understand why bluefin is so popular if you did
@@vidanmai166 No other country comes CLOSE to how much fish Japanese people eat
( that is relative to its size, obviously there's china, etc. )
People that have giant fallout shelters farm tilapia for its yield to resource cost
Weird to hear young fish referred to as "larvae", but alright.
Also funge-eye....for reasons
Apparently, and this is adorable. But Baby fish are called Fries. Like, French fries. And that's just a nice thing to know.
@Mia Basqua
But that means...
fingerling potatoes...
XO~
If you search up a picture, it’ll become obvious why
It isn't weird for me. been keeping and raising them since i was 14
I can confirm that, when I remain in my house for a long time, I do indeed have trouble reproducing.
Hey Rsa? We moving to level 3....
@@rsamom how’s level 6 treating ya?
What I took from this:
Want more truffles?
Plant more trees.
I don't care much for truffles, but I'll do the second part anyway.
Rather, sue deforesters (big companies)
Need old growth forests.
@@JeanTralala Yes because world governments will definitely sue the companies that help make them money, yes totally.
help the ecosystem to eat the ecosystem
humans: can we grow you?
food: no, we don't like you
Nijin Konai?
Hello, fruit?
Fruit machine broke.
Understandable, have a great day.
People have been on the moon yet we don’t know how to cultivate chanterelles
Aziryse you’re a dumbass. Lmao
@Aziryse ?
Chanterelles are more complicated than orbital mechanics
So you want to dump a good portion of our best minds, billions of $$$, full national support for a decade or two into a quest to farm chantarelles?
Human civilization has tended to develop technology that separates us from our environment, rather than developing technology from the environment itself.
Just use a silk touch shovel to transport them along with the soil.
What, the tuna?
Stop with the Minecraft jokes...
Please...
And when you get to the vendor use the fortune lll pick
western jester Nah
@@NathanTAK its annoying as hell, Minecraft is overrated af
I know it’s not wrong, but “funji” makes me feel deeply sad inside
thats just wrong
the pronounciation
Why is "fungus" pronounced with a hard G and "fungi" with a soft G? I've literally never heard it pronounced that way before and I'm not going to change even if that's correct.
@@Eric_Hunt194 this is unrelated, but in my language ga-go-gu have hard g sounds, while ge and gi have soft g sounds so it makes sense to me
@@magk2524 If your language shares etymological roots with "fungus/fungi", then it arguably is in fact related.
@@neolexiousneolexian6079 ah, then it is related
Truffles CAN be farmed, PHD scientist is growing them in orchards in the south of the UK, item on local news earlier 2019
He said it was costly, not impossible.
Wikipedia said it was actually cultivated in French before WW1. Then, you know, Great War happened.
@@AuntieDawnsKitchen still the rate of success is very low
@@AuntieDawnsKitchen I have considered morels, but my business is growing mostly oyster varieties and medicinal mushrooms, I just don't do well with not knowing
@@AuntieDawnsKitchen @Aaron Ramsden : For morels, try elm wood mulch, inoculate with morel spawn, wait ~5 years (maintaining moisture conditions & such, of course). Seems some of the bigger issues are the correct growth medium, and the _time_ required for the mycellium to properly set.
There are several farms near me that grow huckleberry bushes commercially for both “pick your own” and commercial harvest. Yes, they take awhile to mature but growing them in their native habitat isn’t hard, it’s only when people want to grow them in other places they have problems.
Good to know we'll all have more truffles once the ice caps have melted. :)
Who need icecaps?
Hopefully the giant waves do not wash them away anyways
It’s cool we’ll come back as fish people
@@rsamom people don't need ice caps, but we need land. If the ice caps melted, then it would be a big problem for coastal cities. (you sounded serious don't woosh me)
@@mrchocolatebean8878 You also gain farmable land from where the ice was (floating ice does not rise sea level). Not arguing in favor of melting ice, but reasoning is more because of submerging coastal cities than because of losing land (I think)
*Blue fin tuna fish are almost extinct*
Philippines: *sweats nervously*
A store we used to visit for barracuda now only sells small, grey looking juveniles that do not even freeze well. The region has been heavily hammered by hurricanes. Fish cowboys may not be science fiction anymore (A.C. Clarke: ships that shepherd schools/herds of high-value fish, factory trawlers) and people have to feed their own country first.
@@cherylm2C6671 I know it's terrible how mankind has destroyed the environment! A store I used to visit to get rhino horn and tiger bones only sell small horns and brittle little pieces of bone. You used to be able to get a whole tiger femur at under $100 per kg.
@@samoak123 wtf
@@samoak123 WEEEEY NOOOOOOOO
@@samoak123 try viagra
Whenever I visited Montana as a kid, I always looked forward to three things: Going-to-the-Sun Road, catch-and-cook Rainbow Trout, and Huckleberry syrup on pancakes.
I'm jealous. As an Australian everything wants to eat or hurt you here.
About truffles: one of my older uncles here in Italy told me that when he was young (1950s), truffle was extremely common and found almost everywhere in the country-side. It was not considered fancy and when they found one, it was used to feed the pigs. Truffles started to disappear after the post-war industrialization, when machinery to work the fields and pesticides became more common.
Your uncle is very misinformed , truffles have been a delicacy for hundreds of year if not thousands and have been hunted to a point where the low supply due to over hunting paired with the same demand creates outrageous prices . Simple economics I don’t know what your uncle was smoking
They were training those pigs to Look for truffles.
Wasn't there a tasting similar to the French wine debacle that showed people can't tell the difference between tuna?
I believe it. People are stupid. Just like when people bought $600 payless shoes because they changed the name to sound more rich. So stupid.
I disagree. I worked in a fish market for a few years and have had many different fish. The lighter fish like cod and snapper often are very similar, but dark fish like tuna, Jack and salmon all have wide taste differences not just between species but also with different diets. And blue fin is pretty bomb. It's like ahi but less acidic and therefore softer on the palate.
People who ACTUALLY know their craft or can tell the slight or even significant differences know how to value its taste..
I had a fatty tuna once and it tasted way different than the tuna from a different sushi place. It was chewy but the taste was very delicate.
What does it even matter? Like maybe just dont eat critically endangered animals regardless of how good they taste?
I heard from a farmer that human remains are very good manure for growing huckleberry
Are you volunteering ? "Bury me on a sandy mountainside."
i mean the body is dead either way, why not use it for a good cause ? unless you have millions of $ to be frozen and then ( potentionally ) unfrozen at some point
Are you Finnished?
Not yew berries? I never heard of that bit of folklore.
@@befer well, because the concern of transmittable disease.
This is the reason why people stopped using human fecal matter as fertilizers.
I remember the first time I heard the word berries I thought it was the most tasty thing in the world then I tried them and was not impressed they taste like a weak grape
Wild ones are way better
Black berries are the best
Mulberries
What kind of grapes and berries?
mini cluster of strong tasting grapes yum
Huckleberry, "Blåbär" in Swedish, is very common natively in pine forest here in Sweden.
Daily picking them in the forest as we pass them to the preschool during summer/autumn, right now starting to get very few on the bushes with morning temperature nearing zero Celsius here in the early hours.
Do swedes not have different names for blueberries and huckleberries?
@@-CG It seems our blueberries, usually referred to as "European blueberries" or "Bilberries" are the species Vaccinium myrtillus, while the huckleberries refferd to in this episode are Vaccinium deliciosum. But it's quite confusing, as the everyday names such as "blueberry", "huckleberry", and "bilberry" all can refer to different species in the same genus or family. I cannot speak for Swedish, but in Norway we do have different names for our native species of blueberry.
@@-CG We used to have blueberry bushes in our garden. We always called them “Amerikanska blåbär” so American blueberries. The ones in the forest are just “blåbär” or blueberries. Sometimes they sell fresh blueberries at the grocery store and I’ve seen American blueberries there being marketed as just blueberries. I think the general notion here is that the American blueberries are just another type of blueberry and not a whole other berry like blueberries and huckleberries are in the US.
Here in Spain we actually have truffle crops in some Mediterranean mountain locations -with a cooler climate than the coast. They're cultivated conjoined to juniper trees.
But you need those locations to grow them which are very specific and hard to recreate.
@@22espec There is no need to recreate anything, those places actually exist. I don't understand your comment.
@@MPBirds I think he means that the available farm land for truffle is scarce, unlike something like wheat, so global production is very limited.
Why he gotta say “funji” tho 💀💀🤒
It's so weird cus he says fungus normally too lmao. so why is fungi different???
serpentarius fungus is singular, fungi is plural.
@@Justaperson354 Your point being? Both words still have "fung". I don't think I've ever heard someone pronounce it like funji until now.
serpentarius I thought that’s what you were confused about no need to get so hostile. Also, some people pronounce the plural of fungus like he did in the video. Words are weird that way in the sense that people can pronunce it differently it doesn’t make one way right and one way wrong.
justaperson he’s saying funji tho ☠️
I remember one of truffle varient being taught to cultivate under trees... in my younger years by my grandfather.
I think i take about 1 month before we can harvest them. They are less valuable varient but at least it is a start.
Yes even black truffles are farmed in Australia, the video is just propaganda promoting climate change paranoia.
He never said it was impossible to grow truffles, just extremely difficult. Most of the growers here in Australia produce very little yeild, especially considering the investment they have put into their farms in the first place
@@devo3243 but but the title say unfarmable XD
@@Catzillator We share the exact same story! 😊
My grandfather is a mushroom expert (professional) in France and grew all sorts of mushrooms in his backyard and all. And once told me that he injected the parasite responsible for the growth of truffles into the oak of his garden and how I should look for truffles. And by the roots of the oak, under a little bush, I discovered a realllllllyy big truffle (from memory, it had to be handled with two adults hands) and few little ones around. I was more than happy and all the family around, appreciated them in dinner in all forms. (from saucisson (dried sausages), to chicken, to chocolate).
But I don't know if it was a lesser variant. Just remember it was black truffle, not white.
@Shaun Folk You are a hypocrite for pretending that a pathetic insult like that is a valid argument. I know more about science than you ever will.
Q: Why does John pronounce the G in “Fungus” and “Fungi” differently?
English speakers insist on mispronouncing most Greek and Latin words.
I was going to comment the exact same thing. Every time he mispronounces 'fungi' as 'fun-Ji' it is extremely jarring. I can get when some folks pronounce the 'I' at the end as either a 'ai' or 'ee' (the latter sounds weird but not too wrong), pronouncing the 'G' as a 'J' sound is just so deeply wrong. I can't tell if it's just a weird accent that I'm yet to hear anyone else have or if it's just some weird quirk the guy has.
I dunno, why do you pronounce Hank like John
Generally speaking, the g in Ecclesiastical/Medieval Latin makes a softer sound when it precedes the vowels i and e. The letter c does the same thing, making a ch- sound instead of the Latin standard k-. G does the same thing in Italian and some dialects of French, if I'm not mistaken.
Fungus is Latin, so it would have originally been pronounced "fungjee" for its nominative plural form that English just uses for all plural derivatives. Although Classical Latin would have kept the hard g instead, but Classical Latin was out of style before people even acknowledged that was the case.
That's the crazy of English. I would really hate to learn English as an adult.
I never knew that huckleberries were hard to farm. They're extremely common where I live and I've eaten a lot of them over the years. I usually associate them with bears as they are a major food source for them
"biodiversity is the spice of life"
got yourself a t-shirt right there
Cloudberries! Delicious and beautiful but so. freaking. hard to grow.
They grow in the landscaped bits of parking lots in Corvallis Oregon.
Took a while to properly identify them because they aren't native to that part of the world, but they're there now.
@@kaisersose5549 Damn, that's awesome! Too bad I live in the armpit that is South Carolina
They grow pretty well in British Columbia :) not farmable still tho
@@pellaw8011 Ahh, that'd explain why it's so hard for you to grow 'em... Have you considered a greenhouse or indoors with a grow light?
Strawberries, while farmable, are also very difficult to farm due to their sensitivity to soil moisture and innumerable other factors it's almost always a loss for a farmer to reserve area for strawberry growing
Ceps are a fungus that are also in high demand. Farmers have tried growing these in areas with large populations of oaks and birch trees. This is where they like to grow in a very similar way to truffles, except that they have a fruiting body that comes out of the ground as a mushroom.
However all efforts to make ceps commercially viable have failed. All ceps that you get in restaurants and stores are all harvested in the wild. However, if managed correctly, the forests of Europe and North America produce an abundance of these fungi .
Baby bluefin tunas are called “larvae?” I thought that was a term for young insects
every baby animal that isnt basically a miniature of an adult animal of the same species an be called a larva. this definition isnt really the best though, and its more like a I know it when I see it kind of thing, but all sorts of animals have larva.
@@herrschmidt5477 uhmmm ye^^
I believe the correct term for baby fish is "fry." Larva implies a sort of fundamental transformation (shedding an exoskeleton, growing legs, sprouting wings, etc) that fish don't do. Yes, the proportions of the fry are different from the adult, but for the most part, they simply grow.
@@gabriel300010 So a tadpole would technically be a frog larva? I've never heard it said this way.
@@GyroCoder yes
We grow truffles over here. You actually grow hazelnut and plant truffles on the root. It doesn't grow all the time but hey it's a bonus if it does
Huckleberry Finn and Huckleberry Hound are the only ones able to farm huckleberries
I don’t like these jokes very much they’re not too good. Please stop thanks huys
@@KA-vs7nl no
Dan Ryan stupid
What about dingleberries? We can cultivate those in abundance.
K M no u
Well Hank, you can't farm muscles either, but still you got those GAINZ
mussels can be farmed tho
Browneeentertainment *r/wooosh*
What happened to muscle hank?
Futuristic Bot You might want a mirror
@@futuristicbot r/wooosh to you too, dummy. Mussels are a mollusc.
Loved this video, was very interesting to hear about the huckleberries. I live off grid on a small island off the coast of BC. We have a red huckleberry here, I am blessed with numerous wild plants on my property. We don't get much snow here as its right on the ocean, they grow very fast and are numerous, the older plants definitely yield the most. I made a first nation's style berry comb and harvested a good crop this year for my seasons worth of jam😋
your life sounds so peaceful
@@mmmmmmmmaria thank you, it is very peaceful, there's only about 20 people living here year-round. Now I just need a great partner to share it with 😌
Now I understand the expression "I'll be your hucklberry" a bit better. I knew it meant having a unique and usefull skill set for a situation, but now I see why they chose hucklberry as it requires a unique and specific situation to thrive.
it come from huckleberry and finn…
@@pAst4 ikr this dude
Hey!!! I used to huckleberry hunt when I lived in Idaho!! Those things are too delicious for their own good.
Everyone else: fungi
This guy: "FUNJI"
Bluefin Tuna: I am at the top of the food chain.
Humans: Hold my sake.
Huckleberries do have a lesser known red variant that grow in lower elevations.
Would “breed and release” practices help tuna? Idk I’m not a marine biologist
The main issue with tuna is that it is overfished. The more you breed, fishing quotas would get larger to adjust. The best thing would be to stop overfishing
@@mightytidy4065 maybe outlaw commercial tuna fishing for a few seasons ?
@@hardrockrelics2157 If you outlaw commercial tuna fishing, then that would cause the black market for them to explode. Legal action can only go so far in curbing human desire.
There's a risk there of introducing new diseases from captive populations. Think transplanting a wild betta born and raised in a tank setting back into its native rice patty; they'd die in competition with wild born fish and introduce bacteria from your tank while they're at it. Breeding larvae and then releasing them could cause some of the same issues, plus with yield getting smaller each year as ocean predators realize where your dumping sites are. Dolphins already follow fishing trawlers waiting for carnage.
@@hardrockrelics2157 outlawing anythiong doesnt mean people will stop actually it will be seen as even rarer and the price and demand will go up
So glad you mentioned the climate change concerning the truffles, 20years ago you couldn't find one in my region in Switzerland but it's getting more and more common
Mulberries grow in a lot of places but they are tedious to pick because unlike other fruits the berries on the tree do not all ripen at the same time. So if you pick by hand you have to go out each day to get the latest berries to ripen.
Another one is the termite mushroom/omajova that grows on huge termite heaps here in Namibia. Only during a certain time of the year. And only a specific type of termite that farms the fungi.
Also, I was stationed in Japan before the bluefin tuna became so critical and what Hank said is true, bluefin is the pinnacle of the sushi dining experience, in the hands of a skilled chef it was the best sushi I'd ever had!
Here in Croatia tuna are caught small and grown the rest of the way in captivity.
Apparently it works fine.
@@TRC2002 It does make a difference, it being you don't need to kill as many of them to fulfil the demands.
If you are to revisit this topic in future episodes, could you also talk about the species of eel that are used for “unagi” in sushi? They are also endangered and impossible to farm despite decades of efforts, but there is little public awareness to the fact.
What about "wild rice", i.e., a N.A. grain found in lakes? I love this because it can't tolerate pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers.
He's actually a type of wild rice native to my hometown called St Mary's wild Rice. I'm not sure if the species is actually native around here but it grows in the shallow lake areas and swamps if you can call them that around here. it's almost like eating a pine needle but the glycemic rating is extremely low and it's great for you. It's also $7 a box lol
@@BJETNT A "box" contains what weight?
Bluefin tuna ARE farmed though, it's just a small percentage of the overall harvest. They've been bred in captivity too, and these have been raised to eat. There is a low survival rate for these eggs, but with more research, this may increase It's started in Japan, but it may take off on the West Coast of the US too.
asia.nikkei.com/Business/Business-trends/Fully-farmed-bluefin-tuna-ready-for-wider-sales-beyond-Japan
www.aquaculturenorthamerica.com/tuna-farming-in-us-waters-moves-closer-to-reality-2283/
As for huckleberries, there's some success in research. This has lead to some clones that do well and produce in cultivation-
www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/sep/21/wsu-researchers-taming-the-wild-huckleberry/
Also, truffles have been grown in cultivation for over a century in France. It's just the World Wars wiped out oak trees that were used to grow them, and production hasn't recovered since... They just haven't been able to get them to grow too well in North America for some reason.
blog.mycology.cornell.edu/2008/04/08/so-you-want-to-be-a-truffle-farmer-part-2/
discovermagazine.com/2000/nov/featbiology
@empbac Well, it looks like, somehow, the economics aren't in favor of farming for lobsters.
bangordailynews.com/2010/07/16/opinion/the-lobster-farming-fad/
There is this too though-
modernfarmer.com/2014/12/maines-accidental-lobster-farmers/
I didn’t know we had to cite our scorces
@@saphhiro1999 I mean, Scishow did. So i figured I'd cite mine too.
Ah thanks, didn't see your comment until after making my own lol.
They farm tuna in Australia
I honestly thought that with curiosity being important for life, the sponsor would be curiosity stream!
Thank you for this very interesting video! I remember there's an online store in Germany that sells young trees treated with truffle spores/mycelium. It's not a scam but they write themselves that it takes a few years before the first fruit bodies show up.
Even common everyday plants like cherry trees, grapes, garlic, coffee take a long time to develop before anything can be harvested.
and olives take decades as well
Hey Hank, no need to worry about the truffle. There are tens of thousands of new acres of “truffière” planted each year in France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. Each acre will produce about 70-80 pounds of truffles each year.
Great White Sharks die in captivity. If you somehow manage to farm them (or tame in this case), prepare to rule the seven seas with an army of loyal and ruthless sharks!
and mount lasers to their foreheads
Hear a trick to kept great white in captivity. DON'T USE METAL TO BUIlD YOUR SHARK TANK. IT MESS WITH THERE ELECTRIC SENSERY ORGAN. IT LIKE LOOKING AT THE SUN 24/7 OR GET STRAPPED ON A BIG ROCKET AND YOU HAVE TO LISTEN ALL DAY EVERY DAY. IT'S DISORIENTING OR OVER STIMULATING, IT'S DAMAGING OVER TIME.
I know, right.😁
You are all wrong.
To tame a Great White you have to knock it unconscious and then stuff meat into its butt.
@@AymaKon ... do I smell an Ark reference?
Seems a bit off the track really - there are truffieres here in NZ, and Bluefin Tuna farms in Australia, though they don't handle breeding.
ive harvested truffles in Libya (North Africa) and it was an experience like no other, you can spot them with. little cracks and rises in the sand/dirt. They were surprisingly common in some areas/regions.
That moment when you realize how many of the nerdy shows you like are trending
There is a white hair on the bottom middle pastry, looks curly. Too late.
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I looked back after reading your comment and saw it. Looks like my dog’s fur. LOL
Timestamp?
@@kylestanley7843 00:09 It starts out just to the right and below of the very center of the screen.
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I had to set the quality to HD in order to see it...
Americans' idea of farming is planting hundreds of acres of the same crop and spraying it with fertilizer and pesticides until the soil is dead. Nature thrives in and is balanced by diversity. Americans seem to have forgotten this.
That's what artificial forest china found out. Britian doesn't have any natural foests left. Everything there was planted.
#permaculture
Mass production is the only way for a the few to feed the many. Otherwise we wouldn't have time to comment on CZcams videos. We'd be out hunting and gathering.
At first I read UNFLAMMABLES
my next thought was "challenge accepted"
water
simple
they're in the "undiscovered" egg group
I have huckleberries in my yard out on the Atlantic side, and I care for them myself. I prune them, trim the bushes back into paths as some are taller than I am, and then I make them into freezer jam. I've always loved them, and while we also grow high bush blueberries, it seems that huckleberries have more demands for where they grow. Often near water or on hills with shallow soil, and they don't seem to like being moved. My challenge is getting some before the birds eat them all.
I hope we'll keep an archive of a diverse selection of genome sequences in case these things go extinct
They used to grow around the sand hills when I was a kid. I lived on the Oregon coast. Sadly them and the sand hills we played on are gone
Is it now a sub division next to the golf course?
If so, the berries are still there in patches by the park and bike path.
It's so fascinating to watch an informative CZcams channel and just hearing a voice instead of funky background music.
At first I was a bit confused, if something is odd about this channel, then I realized what it is and now I love it.
Some CZcamsrs would also benefit from less music.
We can farm anything, we've come to point we can replicate any environment for a plant or animal. BUT the problem is doing so in a profitable way.
If we can’t farm it more efficiently then it’s grown in nature, then we haven’t been able to farm it.
No, the problem is thinking it needs to be profitable to be worth cultivating.
He looked so pleased with himself when he said "spice of life" 😄😄😄
Huckleberries - especially evergreen huckleberries, grow wild everywhere on public land near my house. I have successfully transplanted many of them so I now have an entire huckleberry thicket along my fence lines. We also have red huckleberries growing like weeds around here. They thrive at sea level, in partial shade, in moist but well-drained acid soil - just like my blueberries. I live in the temperate rainforest of the PNW coast.
....I think I might be dislexic.....I read the title as "unfair marbles" and that's what got me curious enough to click...
You click baited yourself...
Bruh
So, unfair marbles.
Is that when somebody's shooter marble is bigger than their competitors?
Or are the marbles magnetic, perhaps?
I feel like Brilliant, Curiosity Stream, Audible and Nord VPN are the only thing keeping CZcamsrs afloat currently.
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Was surprised you didn't mention the main thing that makes huckleberries pretty much impossible to grow on your own! Which is that the seeds won't germinate unless they've been pooped out by the bears that eat them. The bears determine where and when the huckleberries will grow, which means it's pretty important to not fully deplete the bushes, otherwise the bears might stop coming around
As someone who lives in the PNW, most people here would rather die than giveaway their huckleberry spots.
As someone else who lives in the PNW, I didn't even realize that huckleberries were a big thing up here. How did I miss this?
Second that! I know more than a few in Schmidtz park...
As someone from the pnw, they're just a plant that grows around different properties. Much like you might see a raspberry or salmonberry plant.
I’ve wondered about this many times!!! I haven’t watched this video yet though. Don’t let me down!
I’ve wondered about certain mushrooms & herbs. I hope they are talked about 👍🏽
The mass production of some certain foods is certainly not convenient for the retailer that has the monopoly of said food. So often some of these are just bailed out of mass production to keep the price up. Like everything really.
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Truffles were cultivated for decades before the war...
which war?
@@davidjacobs8558 the great war, ww1. That and French rural populations moving to cities en masse right before it basically annihilated a century of work in the field of truffle cultivation and it has never recovered.
Makes sense actually...
Forests have been much more closely managed since medieval days, so it makes sense to have the fungi cultivated along side trees...
Huckleberries grow prolifically in my area which is very low elevation and in very thin soil - practically bare rock (Halifax, Nova Scotia). I hardly ever see anyone picking them, though they are yummy.
Why does he look like Dwight's smart cousin we never saw until now???
No one's gonna talk about how he pronounces "fungi"?
Hank please D:
Exactly
omg yes i pointed it out too. and larvae is pronounced wrong!
@@im_so_bored3896 It's not pronounced wrong. It's just a different pronunciation.
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Based on the Latin, it could be pronounced fun-gee, or fung-jee. Anything else is heresy.
I grew up picking huckleberries in the north eastern part of Canada! I didn’t realize how high the demand was for them lol
Nobody:
Him: funji
Some corrections for the huckleberry segment(I think I forgot to post my first attempt? Or it got eaten by youtube glitchiness). Pacific huckleberries are not blue(as shown at 0:38), they're red or pink.
Huckleberries in this region are also not a primarily high altitude thing, and are just as common or more so at low elevations(even/especially in snow free regions)
The tidbit about them taking "up to 15 years" to bear fruit is also a tad misleading. While some cultivars might, the pacific red types tend to be closer to blueberries in growing time.
There are a couple types. Pink here in Vancouver but if you head up higher the more rare ones are blue.
@@dylanwilliams5230 Hmm... that might explain a bush I saw up near Verlot.
Growing out of a stump, looked for all the world like blueberries and was growing side by side with the more common red/pink huckleberries.
Had assumed it was some kind of wild blueberry(though, admittedly, I'm unsure of what sort of range those have), but a blue huckleberry might very well be what it was if we do have those around here.
I can't say how many times I do to Google stuff for more info, during all of these videos. I always learn something new. Thanks
Quick answer:
Cause noone would make Profit. Its doable but it would be a nuller
"oh yeah lets tie our agricultural system to profit margins that will never be a bad thing" said the venture capitalists in the 20th century.
Food *is being called a hobby*
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Yes Africa is a joke A real $#17 hole country.
@@mustanguy10 da fuq is a $17 country? Only the US can be an anything $ country
My grandpa literally grew huckleberries in a small patch of dirt for 15 years and every year we pick it, this is right next to a salt water beach on the pacific.
"I'll be your huckleberry"
"I'm your huckleberry." *
I’m curious what huckleberry tastes like as well as truffles! Where would I go to taste both of these items????
Huckleberries are native to the southern region of the USA, I am sure you can buy them online, or at a specialty store. Truffles can usually be bought online, or, you can try a high end restaurant. They tend to have truffles on the menu in creative ways.
Truffles just taste kind of mushroomy, earthy and savory. A lot of times if you go to Italian places (nice ones, not a mom-and-pops restaurant or a chain) they'll have truffle-glazed pasta that isn't too expensive.
Huckleberries are only native to the Pacific Northwest where there is enough moisture, cold temperatures, and consistent snow pack. Personally, I don't see the big deal - to me, they just taste like a more tart blueberry and the skin tends to be a bit thicker. But some people truly do go crazy over them, hence the need for the picking regulations nowadays.
Now after hearing that, I really want to try huckleberry for at least once. I wonder how much difference it taste from regular blue berry.
There’s a pretty stark difference in my opinion. They are quite tart and have a strong punch of flavor, whereas I find blueberries to be kinda of bland.. I would highly recommend it. If you come to the NW area, you’ll be able to find huckleberry flavored things pretty easily. You can find food that has huckleberries, like cobblers and shakes. You can buy the berries at farmers markets and sometimes grocery stores, if the store takes them from someone who had collected them, but they will be expensive. My family would sell them for $75 a gallon, which is pretty average in my area. If you are hiking, you can come across them. They tend to be on steep hillsides in mixed shade/sun, and will be very dark in color and pretty glossy(at least the kind around me).