Highlander Overnight Camp, Foraging and Medicinal Plants (Gaelic Plant Names, Ancestral Survival)
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- čas přidán 30. 07. 2024
- In this video, I go on an overnight hike with the equipment of an ancient Highlander, and talk about the Gaelic names of edible and medicinal plants in the hope to gain insight on how our ancestors travelled the land and interacted with nature.
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Moorland- Kevin LacLeod
Coisich a Rùin - Kate Langhorne
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Ok, I enjoyed your video. the sight, sounds and music gave me chills. It all made me think of my ancestors. My grandfathers parents immigrated to the USA from Scotland. I am now 70 and it continues to be my dream to visit Scotland. Your video was interesting and so very beautiful. It may be near the end of this life, but I will come home and walk that beautiful land.
Scotland will welcome you home
I hope you make it home
Aye, do it.
For all the books and videos to feast your eyes on, nothing can compare to the experience, for there is so much that speaks to the soul here and the people too are also quite unique in their wry, down to Earth attidude.
Very interesting. I was happy to see that bumble bee escape the spider. 😂
I'm slowly finding videos like this where there's no politics, no arguments, just learning. Thank You
It eases the spirt to watch your treks.
the most feared animal in the United Kingdom is the Scottish midge
Its true! And they got me pretty good on that trip!
@@FandabiDozi what i ask fearfully of a joke is a scottish midge
@@hardwirecars it's a small fly type insect similar to a mosquito
@@hardwirecars Short answer: Midges are nearly microscopic spawn of Satan.
Longer answer: Take your standard issue mosquito. Shrink it down to about 1/4 size, so it's almost impossible to see, and so it can't fly when the wind is blowing. Keep its biting abilities intact, and give it reproductive capabilities beyond what any natural creature has any right to achieve. Instead of swatting individual bugs, one simply wipes them off by the handful.
As an English friend of mine once pointed out, there are only two things wrong with Scotland: Midges, and Irn Bru.
Also: Midges are the main reason that Scots rarely complain about wind. Given a choice, wind is very much preferable.
@@FandabiDozi I think there was some bog myrtle bushes around you there. Its very aromatic and decent insect repellent, even wards off midgies to a degree. It was used in brewing instead of hops, but is potent antiseptic and more than a leaf or two in tea can cause dizziness.
Your videos are really great and enjoyable, my mates and I all grew up in the highlands and would spend most of our childhood and teenage years in the woods. None of us live there anymore but our folks still do. We all enjoyed finding out about plants, foods and survival when we were younger. I speak gaelic myself. Keep up the good work :)
Think of how many random ass plants people shoved in their wounds before figuring out which ones worked
Probably more like, "we need to make a bandage and this is at hand. Oh hey! It healed quicker than normal!"
VVeremoose or, wow that got really infected an I’m about to die
@@zackmiller8153 probably a lot of that too.
Think about how many people died in unethical medical experiments from our recent past before finding out which ones worked.
How much has changed yet how little actually changes about us.
I’m glad you said that. People long ago were as curious as we are. Medical people back then had a huge responsibility to their family and neighbors.
The best part was no lawyers! Of course if your patient died, their family might kill you.
Really cool to see the Gaelic names! I'm an avid forager here in New England, and we have a lot of the same flora. Those chanterelles look delicious!
Fun fact, the Appalachian mountains run through Scotland, Scotland used to be attached to North America.
@@leea8706 well, then, that explains why every time I watch videos of the highlands I feel like I'm looking out my back window back home. And the plants are the same too!
@@mistyrosemcconnell9586 fun fact I wore my plaid during battle axe throwing and drinking ale
Fandabi, thanks for these! As to all of those who gave this sweet wee man an absolutely unwarranted and agitated comment about 'wild' mushrooms and toxicity, remember one thing... for our entire evolution we only had 'wild' mushrooms to eat! For Christ's sake, do you honestly think that our ancestors had no clue about what was edible if it wasn't sold at Tesco's?
@YeOldeScience Most important rule about mushrooms, if you don't know, don't eat it. If you want to know, ask someone who does, there's plenty of mycologist clubs everywhere. Mushrooms can be dangerous, some will just give you an upset stomach, some others will do permanent and important damages to your insides, some others will kill you, even in small quantities.
The same goes for many plants though, the first plant shown in the video (Achillea millefolium) can kind of look like Conium maculatum to the untrained eye, which is what was given to convicts condemn to death in Athens.
As long as you do proper researches before putting things in your mouth, you should be good. But you should not tell people to eat toxic mushrooms "because they might not be that toxic."
In my homeland, Ukraine, it's still a widespread tradition to gather all kinds of these "wild" mushrooms and cook a plethora of tasty dishes with them. Not being an actual mushroom gatherer myself I know a couple of edible mushroom kinds that grow in the area. It was quite a surprise when I was told that wild mushrooms gathering could be actually forbidden in some European countries.
@@MrEricoze in my country you can go to the pharmacy with your mushrooms and ask the pharmacist to identify them for you, free of charge. I understand it's still a tradition to forage for mushrooms or other wild foods in many countries (many people still do in France) but I'm just saying people who are not familiar with wild food should document themselves or even ask for help at first, to avoid dying foolishly.
@@MrEricoze When I lived in Kiev I remember how people loved to go picking wild mushrooms and eat them or pickle or smoke them and how delicious mushroom flavoured potato chips were. I also remember shocking my colleagues when I mentioned that mushrooms have almost no nutritional value. One colleague said that mushrooms had the same nutritional value as meat! I said we all have our cultural misapprehensions - I remember as a Canadian child being told that eating carrots would absolutely improve your night vision. Growing up in Montreal I had a friend who was a member of the Société des mycologues (The Mushroom Society) which had volunteers in many pharmacies, for instance, who would be there on a Saturday so people could bring in wild mushrooms to have them identified safely.
I love mushrooms and get quite a variety in Michigan, United States, but probably the reason Scottish people didn't eat them is that they have almost no nutritional value. www.google.com/search?q=nutritional+value+of+mushrooms&oq=nutritional+value+&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j0l5.3686j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
If those were birch dont forget the inner bark as an anti inflammatory, diuretic, cleanser and aid in cold temperatures.
Yeah its an amazing tree! I'm planning on doing a medicinal plant episode next summer and will include the Gaelic uses of trees :) Thanks for watching
@@FandabiDozi Im looking forward to it! The birch is hands down my favorite tree, especially with the beneficial and easy to identify mushrooms and such that grow on it.
@@turtlewolfpack6061 Wow. You and me both. I knew that they used it like aspirin but not all those things! Wonderful. I have always loved their stately white beauty. Sadly many many people in my neighborhood have them but none are in our yard. Want to try to plant some tho. We do have a very rare form of Wisteria that just started blooming in huge vines a couple years back. County told us it takes YEARS to bloom so that was a lovely surprise. Great for the bumbles as well lol!🐝🌸🍄😀
@@laurametheny1008 not aspirin, there is no ASA occuring in the birch. That is from other shrubs such as willow but anything natural consumed for any purposes must be thoroughly researched, cross referenced and researched again.
@@turtlewolfpack6061 Yes I know I forgot about the willow. Anti-inflammatory was mentioned however. That is where I screwed up. Obviously I am not planning on chopping down a birch OR willow to stock my medicine cabinet! I am sure this young man knows what he is doing as well.😬
👍 its gorgeous country !, and the music brings out my inner Scottish.
What a beautiful area you camped out in! And that song in the background, beautiful!
Greetings from Basque Country! Good to see that Scotish are concerned about their auld traditions. Lovely song btw!
One more mushroom comment … The attitude of the Gaels towards them is clear in the name they chose: 'balgan-buachair', which essentially translates to 'Dung-bubbles'. Most older folk I know, especially islanders, still seem to shun them. Abair deagh streath inntineach a tha seo! Bidh mi a 'coimhead mun cuairt gu cùramach an ath thuras a bhitheas mi anns a' choille. Cùm ort le seo!
Ahh thats interesting. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. It is often difficult to piece all these past knowledge together :)
Scotland is the most beautiful country and so glad I live here now. Thanks for your vids x
Fabulous! And the chanterelles are also medicinal! They have antibacterial and antiviral properties and contain eight useful amino acids. They also have anti-oxidant properties and contains compounds that have been variously reported as helping to improve liver function, reduce cholesterol, treat thrombosis, and suppress cancer-causing agents.
I've a feeling the wool in the old plaids would have had a fair portion of the original lanolin still present so would have repelled rain and ground water better than the refined wools available today. Be interesting to experiment with carding natural fleece, spin and see if a bit of weaving might produce a result like in the real-thing claes? Might be a bit sniffy, but sure you'd soon get used to that; even if your lady wife wasn't just so keen?
Maybe that's going a bit far with authenticity...
Ian Gourlay modern society has a lot of advantages, but traditional natural fibers almost always beat synthetics. We had fabrics that were warm, breathable, and waterproof at the same time, I’ve never found a plastic jacket that can do all that
I love the small of natural wool lol
Am liking these videos ! I often go into the highlands for long times and find myself hungry. Funny you mention the zesty clovers, I used to eat them in primary school because they were “tasty” and everyone thought I was mad 😂. Keep them up, the edibles are really interesting- from Scotland, Deeside.
I used to do that as a child. Was often told off by random adults who believed that clover was poisonous.
Good videos, you should look to get a tv series
I 2nd that !! Please consider doing a series. I think you could build enough material to make several different episodes.
Good to see the land of my ancestors and traditional foraging
Thank you
OK. I have to say it. You are one fine Scottish man! If only I were about 30yrs younger lol!😋 Anyhoo I really love these vids. Mushrooms oats and blueberries YUM! We had a family friend across the field for many years. He was Scottish. Always played the bagpipes in the parades. Loved our collies. We had a couple in different years named Sir Lancelot. Lance for short. We used to fish in his pond. Both he and my Dad are long gone now sadly. Wish I could remember his name!😡 Thank you so much for sharing these. I will likely never make it there, but it's great to find channels where I can watch anyway.✌🌿🍄🍵
STORMONT. THATS MY DADS FRIENDS NAME.😆
Hahahahaha. Yes, he is.
Hey brother, I love your work! I know this is an older video of yours, so you might know this by now, but I want to make sure you know it's best to cut wild mushrooms above the ground rather than pulling them straight out so you don't disturb the mycellium underneath. This ensures that the mushrooms will come back next year, and the mycellium actually keeps the surrounding plants healthy too! Our greatest wealth in this world is good-quality soil, and mushrooms help to preserve that :) Thanks again for all of the wonderful videos!
Everything about this video beautiful.
Thank you for sharing an awesome insight into the Highlands.
Thank you for taking us on a hike of the Highlands and on a medicinal plant walk! I am familiar with some of the plants you introduced to us including Yarrow and a Blueberry species. Enjoyed listening to Gaelic and the lovely song at the end! Thank you both!
Great channel mate. You're totally right about trying to learn from the past by attempting to experience aspects of it. Phenomenology has become a popular current in archaeological discourse in recent years.
Green... So incredibly lush and the greenest of green! Wow!
Love chanterelles, best fresh but on abundant years great to dehydrate.
And the Sphagnum moss works great to keep worms and nightcrawlers fresh for fishing. Keep in the shade, of course.
Thanks for another lovely video - The scenery is awesome and I admire the way you respect your environment
Thank your for sharing. Very informative on the Herbology. Cheers
i live highlands small village so delighted to see something about us THANK YOU
Hello from ElDorado, Kansas USA. Hope you and your family and friends are doing well with all of the political change in the UK.
Fantastic Video!
Thoroughly enjoyed watching this and your wee adventure.
Cant believe some of the negative comments 🙄
I say good for you 👌
Super peaceful, im sacked out under a sagebrush in the columbia basin, WA. State, usa, kept dropping my phone dozing off to that girl's beautiful voice. Thanks for all your videos, they really help.
Interesting to see you mention something that also grows here in Russia, like the sphagnum moss. The mushrooms look familiar as well. :) Thanks for sharing.
Deer, best place for them is the freezer. The amount of damage they do is heartbreaking; they can strip a forest to the bones within a season. Good to see some common sense in your foraging with mushrooms. Yes, some types will kill you but equally there are many more that are native, uniquely identifiable as safe and can make a good filling meal from.
Because sheep have taken the space the deer should have, and that's the real problem.
This is why hunting bans are a terrible idea. We humans have essentially replaced the deer’s natural predators at the top of the food chain, neglecting that duty leads to overpopulation and disastrous consequences for our shrinking forests (another consequence of modern society).
Your country is so very beautiful ! Thank you for sharing . Ive drempt for years , no decades .. to live in Scotland . The people the history and the enviroment are amazing !
Great video, I love this series that you are doing ! Keep up the good work
Just found your channel last night, LOVE it!!
Good information and cool kilt. Thanks and take care.
Excellent video & lovely landscape. You are quite talented as a Gaelic/Scots re-enactor. I look forward to the next video.
Great foraging. You found some epic locations.
Great vid! That was a nice bit of walking and talking about the plants, I enjoyed it! Thank you for sharing!
that was really beautiful. well done all around. thanks so much for making these videos.
Beautiful landscape. I really long for a place where I can look in every direction without seeing any traces of human interferance, to relax.
Loved this one Tom and thank you for all your hard work doing the research
Hi Thanks once again for a well presented, informative and interesting video. Looking forward to the next one! ATB. Nigel
I really enjoy your videos. The background music seriously brings out the clan in me. MANCHU! Keep up the Fire!
Another fantastic, straight to the point and informative video. Well done. So lovely to see the rich, enchanting wilderness of Scotland, its like time stands still out there
your videos are just fantastic. they make me want to drop everything and start an adventure
really cool man.. thanks for sharing your knowledge of the plant life and the highlander life.. J
Wonderful video, great that you are preserving and passing on the old knowledge, thank you!
Amazing work. This is oh so important in preserving our culture for now and generations to come! Thanks you so much!
Didn't know chantarelles grow in Scotland too! Just had a really bad year for "Kanttarelli" here in Finland. Hope next year will be better :)
Bravo!
Plant ID, available tools; excellent. Simply the overall sense of what it took to be out and about in those days.
Well done!
Well done sir
Fandabi Dozi, Most interested in your blogs, as far. Keep them coming personally hooked. Cheers
I think you are doing a real service here. Very educational.
This is such a cool channel. So glad I found it
Brilliant job on your video it does my heart good Tom.
Ed 🇨🇦🍁
Someone's done their homework. A real pleasure to watch. Subbed. And thankyou :)
THNX FOR THE GREAT VID , I DID NOT KNOW SCOTLAND WAS SO BEAUTIFUL.
Good for you on the Gaelic lad.
Thank you for another wonderful video and thank you Kate for your lovely voice . Respect - Peace and Love sent from far away .
I loved watching this video good job on it.
A really really beautiful video. I hope to get to the Scottish highlands in the next year or two. Thank you for making this video.
Wow, just to think that an ancestor of mine probably lived like that...very cool!
Absolutely BEAUTIFUL video lad, thank you so much. The scenery, camera work & editing, your outfit, knowledge of herb lore, the simple, honest way you carry yourself and present yourself; even the attitude of respect to the Wild by using only what's necessary, all incredibly admirable.
The music and the Sean nós singing too: God it was just so richly atmospheric.
I can't emphasise enough what a lovely video it was. Top class produce, go raibh míle maith agat.
Slán
Thank you for the interesting video!! Your singer is wonderful; I love the Gaelic songs in the three I’ve just watched. Subscribed.
Well done video. I like the long shots.
Greetings from Canada:) I recently stumbled on your videos and, man, they are awesome! Thank you for posting. Looking forward to the diving into the rest of your vids!
Love this series :) Massively informative & Scots Gallic is so kin to Irish Gaelic. Well done.
Great info. Great presentation.
Thank you.
That was great! You said "koosty/coustie" when you described your bed. I never did get the proper spelling of that word, nor have I heard it in 20 years. Thanks! Made my day!
Thank you for the knowledge and the beautiful country veiws!it is Awesome!
Das was Du hier zeigst ist wirklich super! Ich liebe Deine Videos! Grüße aus Österreich...Mach weiter so
Really loving these videos
Amazing scenery, helpful knowledge, very interesting video!
It's incredible seeing the increase in production value in your videos.
Great Video...again . I love it and i like to see the amazing nature of Scotland...and hear the songs of the brave !
Odin bless you
Greets from Germany 🤙🏻
This is a superb and insightful little upload sir... Don't know how I have missed your channel so far mate, but I shan't be missing any more... Subbed and belled you... Very cool stuff.
All the best from the Little farmers farm
Guru M
going out camping with my friends in a few days. we’re not planning anything like this, but it definitely peaked our interest! cheers mate 👍
Great video there Fandabi! I found it rather entertaining. I'm a recent subscriber from "across the pond" in the Southern US. I am rather enjoying the channel thus far.
Thank you for yours fantastics videos . Congratulations from Spain.
I don't know how the tick load is in Scotland, or if you simply wear repellent, but in my area in the US, just looking sideways at grass that tall in the late summer will get you a kilt full of ticks... and probably a nasty disease from them, too.
Sick video! Loved it, can't wait to be home
Brilliant series
I love your videos! Thank you very much for sharing!
You're welcome :) thanks for watching
I much enjoyed this video, very nicely shot and presented, really interesting stuff😃🍄🍓
Dude that is a toadstool they are toxic 😄🍄
i am learning gaelic, as well; it is a beautiful language. it is so gorgeous there, and the land provides so much of what the body needs. tapadh leibh. what a lovely video.
Hi Tom, another really enjoyable, interesting & informative video 👏 I could watch all day 🙂 take care my friend, stay safe & ATB 🙏🙂👍 Andy
Thanks this was super educational!
7:48 is really beautiful. Good job! And 13:10 too.
Wow! more from the out back, if this continues I believe I may have found my real interest, learning to survive thanks master Dozi you are gaining an student.
Noting more do i enjoy in the morning before work than starting the day to one of your videos!
Thanks buddy! Glad o know they help start the day well :)
Great job, love the videos
I love you series as soon as I have some money I'm going to make a donation because I really enjoy your videos I was born in Inverness Scotland but grew up in Florida in the United States don't remember anything about it but I know my heritage is from there and you're one of the few channels on CZcams that does anything about Highlanders very interesting thank you so much for your work
Excellent video going to give it a go myself. ✌
I am currently writing a historic romance novel and researching all I can as I write. Your channel has been so helpful, to see and hear the actual experiences of testing highlander and Scottish ancestry things. It's very likely some of the things I've learned from you will influence what I write into the book as I strive to make it as historically accurate as I can. Thank you for these videos! ( I know, this one is old, but I've been watching between spurts of writing.)
This is the best. Thanks!
Excellently put together.
Reminds me of around Pitlochry.