COME FORAGE WITH ME! SO MUCH FREE FOOD!
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- čas přidán 28. 05. 2024
- Why forage? Simple. You don't have to plant it, feed it, water it, weed it or protect it.
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I volunteer 2 to 4 days a week at ST. Vincent de Paul and St. Mary's food banks in Northern Arizona. We get huge 500 pound boxes of Oranges, lemons and grapefruits. They are donated from the back yards of residents living in the Phoenix area. We divide and bag it and distribute it with our emergency food boxes to people who are in need. Such a wonderful gift from the residents that have a bounty to share that would otherwise most likely be thrown away.
Yes I gave to the food bank and will again. Too many oranges
@@PrepperPrincess That's awesome!
i stopped trimming the shrubs in my backyard and would you believe I now have delicious raspberries !
Such a blessing to be able to get fruit or nuts and possibly veggies for free.😊
Native Pueblo and Yaqui. We make breakfast with the cactus mixed with egg. Served with green salsa or pico de gallo. With the lemon we make a simple skin scrub for home made gifts year around.
That is absolutely delicious!
Share the skin scrub recipe, please 😊
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I stayed at a bed and breakfast years ago where the owner was native Pueblo and she served us cactus and eggs for breakfast!
Those lemons have alot of juice. Yum.
Dear PP, No matter where someone lives, there are going to be good and bad things about it. But over the years I've noticed that no matter where you live you have a knack in finding the good. And you always DO WHAT YOU CAN WITH WHAT YOU'VE GOT! 😍
I call chickens "our recycling machines". We feed them with bran, which is a waste at the grain mill, cooked potatoes that are too small or have an odd shape to be sold and old bread that experied and we get it from the large supermarket. In return we get fresh eggs, meat for soup and poo for compost. And they are funny and sociable animals too. A bit stupid sometimes. :) 15-25 hens eat aproximately 400 kg of potato, 400 kg of old bread and the rest is bran, whole weat, chicken fodder etc. In winter they need much more food to maintain body temperature. Thats a lot of food that would otherwise go to waste.
I love the town we live in too in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Hubby is building me a she-shed and we have been looking for a few windows. We stopped at the antique/thrift store and were able to find a couple that we liked and got them for $5 each! I got to talking to a woman in the store and she is also from the west coast and her husband is also a retired Army Vet. Yesterday hubby was working on the she-shed and I had just finished mowing the yard and a truck pulled in our driveway. It was the woman I met. She had 3 beautiful working windows that all matched and were 4.5 feet x 3.5 feet. We didn't need any more windows for the she shed but they will work perfect to enclose our back porch! What a blessing!
Those are cherry plums and Martha Stewart soaks them in vodka and uses them in cocktails. They are supposed to be great for weight loss and diabetes but they are normally sweet.
They are not cherry plums. Those are different and I pick those too.
People are idiots, why I love being home in my little circle. They rather food rot on trees. Don’t explain yourself. Thanks for sharing. I appreciate you. Also let my friend know I miss her and hope they are well. Coffee lady 😂.
Isn't Prepper Princess beautiful 😍❤️
What a variety. Love your yard. You should be so proud of your accomplishments and i see how thankful you are for community. It’s nice to see. Nala and a Rocky 🥰
This gives me memories of my childhood in Puerto Rico. I lived in a duplex and my next door neighbors had a huge mango tree. They would throw many bags full of mangoes in our back yard. The mangoes were always appreciated. We made lots of tasty mango juice.
We lived in a duplex too on PR and our landlord lived downstairs. We also had mangos, papayas, and avocados. I love avocados but not the other two.
Mulberry cobbler!!!!!
Yessss!!!
I have the same dehydrator. My grandmother gave it to me as a wedding gift in 91. It is a well used appliance. From fruit leathers to venison jerky.
Dried figs are wonderful.
Oh Man! So much food! I used to live by an empty lot. One time I noticed some asparigus growing. I would harvest it. Nobody seemed to know or care about it. My mom had a mulberry tree in her yard... the fruit was marvelous. We picked berries and chestnuts. Now I have a Black Walut tree and harvested about 900 walnuts last fall. They take alot of work, but we have some lovely nuts.
I buy one fruit tree a year and hopefully in time will have a food forest in my backyard plus grow my own lettuce tomatoes cucumber a and green beans , and some herbs
My son has gifted and planted a lot of fruit trees in my yard over the last 2 years. He planted a Mulberry tree and 2 ice cream banana trees and four Cavendish banana trees, two Carey Mango, two lime trees, one lemon tree, two peach trees, two Moringa trees, one tangelo, a variety of 24 blueberry shrubs, one Barbados Cherry tree in a large container. I already have a Loquat and a grapefruit tree in the yard.. We are trying to take out the invasive Cape Town Honeysuckle that I allowed to get out of control (sadly) to put in more fruit trees. Between his yard and my yard we are also growing veggies and trade as we harvest.
I don't know why more people do not have edible gardens with the cost of produce and all the chemical spraying it is downright scary not to make good use of your available space as a food resource. Thank you for promoting these habits for more self reliance and to share with family and friends.
That was sweet of your neighbor! Such a great way to supplement a grocery bill and stock up on fruit.
We live on a mountain and there are many wild apple, cherry & mulberry trees. When they are ripened we’ll go walking and picking!
Fun fact maybe many don’t know. Back in “the day” the government had an abundance of apple trees planted all over the nation (along side of roads, highways etc) to supplement the American grocery bill. Well looks like we can take advantage of that again!
Mulberries are really easy to gather. Lay a blanket/sheet/towel on ground. Shake tree branch and the ripe ones will fall! They come with the stem and make really good jam!
Get those cherries and dry them
I can see her in your sunglasses. 😊 Thank you neighbor. ❤
Playing with your dogs is the happiest thing I have seen all week. Thank you for sharing that.
Those apricots look sooo good! I lived in Silicon Valley for 12 years, and there were 2 things about it that I really loved (besides the friends I made): first, I had an apricot tree and a fig tree in my back yard, and second, at my office people would often bring in big bags of fruit from their trees (lemons, oranges, grapefruit, persimmons, etc.), they'd leave them in the break room and you could take as much as you wanted. It was amazing. I'm in Maine now and we don't have that much fruit growing wild (except blueberries!), but there's still plenty of vegetables and mushrooms to forage.
I think you should buy a couple coffee plants. That would eventually help offset the cost of buying coffee. They take awhile to produce a good crop and I think each plant produces about a pound of beans. In your area they should do quite well. I would also add a few plants that attract pollinators to help your gardening efforts along and it’s so amazing to watch butterflies and bees buzz around the yard. I have passion fruit and it’s a host plant for butterflies and they love it and I also don’t spray any chemicals that can harm them so this helps. I loved watching this video by the way. I wish more people would invest in their own food security by planting trees and seeking out ways to barter and forage. But I find that most people are incredibly lazy and they just think the grocery stores will always be stocked so why bother. I try to educate but it falls on deaf ears.
Dehydrated fruit nice gift
We have 6 baby hens in a unused bedroom upstairs right now lol They are about a month old now and soon will be able to go into the house outside. In a few months will wont have to buy eggs any longer!
That’s about right in Maryland! How blessed you are not having to buy fruit and vegetables! What a great neighbor too😊
Dried apricots, & apricot nectar are the best
Wow! I am jealous that you have so much free food...it is a cornucopia!!
Im jelly
Worth its weight in gold
What a beautiful day to gather fruit! Thanks for taking us along. :)
My parents grew up during the Great Depression and I feel so very blessed because they taught me how to thrive on very little. We picked cherries, apples and grapes from a friend's yard, blackberries and mulberries from the local reservoir (as well as fished from it) and we grew oh-so many veggies and fruits too. Mom was a seamstress and made a lot of our clothes and I feel like we never did without. Watching you reminds of my parent's way of living. Thank you for sharing these awesome and practical tips to help others survive. God bless!
Dehydrated cherries are great in my oatmeal…it looked like your cherry was A Rainier…yummy
That second cherry tree is a Rainier cherries. Native to Washington state around Mt Rainier. They are easily 10-15 dollars a pond. Don’t eat a lot, it will clean your guts like exlax
Look at those beautiful babies. I remember the day you found our little one behind the air- conditioner outside. Look what we have now. What a happy and healthy baby boy. Thank you my CZcams friend for sharing such happiness with us.
Nala is a girl. Rocky is a boy.
Your videos are great, if more people were as grateful as you life would be a lot nicer for them x
I love it when you go foraging! Too cool!
You could dry the cherries naturally in that hot California climate. Just set them out. I accidentally dried some store bought cherries in my kitchen because I forgot about them. They are extremely delicious.
Oh, and those apricots looked wonderful
LOL! We had loquats in my childhood backyard and our neighbor’s across the street had a kumquat tree. As a little kid, I always would confuse the two. You can make and can some delicious jam with the kumquats. When I turned 8, we moved to another street lined with pomegranate trees. They make a delicious jelly, too! Mint makes a very healthy and delicious tea. You could smoke and dry the fish you catch, too. I’m glad you are so happy where you are. ❤ Traveling this week and passed through Laughlin and thought of you! 102°F and dry….Such a difference where you live now.
I follow someone on CZcams who lives part of the year in her native Thailand. Between her house, her mom’s house and other relatives, they have about every fruit and vegetable I’ve ever heard of - and some I never knew existed.
Once I threw some peach pits in my garden. I got three peach trees that gave fruit. My neighbor could not believe his eyes. That was in Stockholm 30 years ago.
Your lucky you have all those fruit
Yes I cook Nogales with eggs for breakfast ot honeybees with tuna.
Rocky just lays they’re not wanting his nap disturbed. Rough life Rocky! 😂
I'm excited to see you turn your backyard into a food forest!! This is fun!
Lol 😂 as you’re speaking of what you buy “meat & coffee” and that’s what I’m eating for breakfast. 😄
Sweet Rocky is in resting mode!❤️
We used to have dewberries everywhere but they are extinct with all the field spraying. Sure do miss them!
Grew up on a SMALL FARM (5 cows/milk, 300 chickens/eggs, various fruit trees/pears/peaches/cherries/concord grapes/rasberries/goose berries/apricotts) and a large GARDEN where we grew veggies(corn/beans/radishes/lettuce/potatoes) - my mom made pickles,,tomatoes, carrots, etc. in glass Mason jars which we stores in the basement in a cool dark shelf room ! I remember her telling me to go get a jar of ???? for dinner and we never went without anything !!! :-) ,
Make some apricot jam; when you make it brew a bag of Twinings Earl Grey tea and add to the mixture while cooking.
Adds a fantastic depth of flavor.
Then you can gift back some jam to the source of apricots
Those sour cherries make great preserves, chutneys, and compotes, too.
LMAO!!! THE FACE YOU MADE WHEN YOU ATE THE SOUR CHERRY WAS PRICELESS!😂😅😊
Oh my goodness…apricots! My aunt Margaret made the best apricots that were cooked up in a sauce pan with sugar and poured over vanilla ice cream…yummm😋
Also, I’m so happy for you that you are feeling so grateful! It’s contagious for sure and will definitely only bring in more and more blessings to you❤
You could add sour cherries to vodka with a little sugar? And over time you’d get the flavour and sweetness from the sugar.
Apricots;
Face mask
Pie
Frozen for smoothies
Blended up and frozen for natural ice cream? Or ice cream lollies.
Jam
If you have loads of lemons or your neighbour does; you could try making limoncello together.
I wish I could get free fruit! Lucky you.
Ohhh for the mint; mint tea, steep it in water and drink, you could add it to a non alcoholic or alcoholic mojito.
Banana ice cream (nice cream) does taste like ice cream but you get that banana flavour and even when adding different flavours you still get the strong banana flavour.
Ohhhh pecan pie 🖐🏼😋
If you slice the apricots and take the stones out; freeze and then you can add it to the banana ice cream?
Apricot sauce for pancakes? Could try making an apricot syrup? Then try and grow the stones into apricot trees?
Nice cream is wonderful! We mix in chocolate chips, strawberries, or bananas.
Mulberries are really great to dehydrate also. Make sure the mint stays contained in a pot as mine escaped and has taken over a portion of the back yard.
So blessed to be able to forage and grow easily with good weather like that. I would fill up my back yard.
A good neighbor is better than a far friend. You really live in paradise with all the forgaging possibilities. Good for you!!
Apricot chicken in a slow cooker served with rice
Moroccan dish of lamb with ras-el-hout spice nix and apricots, done with onions in a tagine pot or slow cooker is fabulous. You can use small amounts of the cheapest cuts of lamb and add chickpeas to bulk it out for extra value.
You have the perfect climate for so many different things. I tried to explain to someone that farmland in the Midwest is no substitute for farmland in California. The growing season is relatively short, and the climate is unsuitable for apricots, citrus, etc.
in south africa we know it as prickly peers. Delicous
U r so lucky t pick fresh free fruit
Sour cherry face & face gestures were GREAT!!!!! Other cherries might be Rainier.
How awesome to have all of that free food around you! Enjoy! 🥰Blessings from South Australia💕🐨
Those sweet cherries look like Rainer cherries.
I’ve never had them before. They were good though. Still prefer bing as my favorite
Agree! Rainiers are my favorite too.
Glad you know how to forage for food. I wouldn't have a clue. I do have a vegetable garden.
Some typical weeds are edible.
we had mullberry trees as a kid
I have chickens...lol. Most expensive eggs you'll have.
Looks like you are eating some delicious Rainier Cherries, YUM!
Your yard is so lovely & sunny 🌞
I grew up on a farm in South Dakota with tons of mulberry trees. My sisters and I would climb them and our mouths, hands and feet would always be dark purple after. A bath couldn't always get the stains out either. That's how Mom and Dad knew we were eating mulberries before supper even when they told us not too. 😂 They were so good though! We'd sprinkle them on top of vanilla ice cream. A tip for picking - spread an old, clean sheet or blanket under the tree branch and shake the branch, and the ripe berries will fall down easily.
I love this video! 🫐🍋🍊🌵
Fellow forager here. I pick hundreds of pounds of apples every year. Save me so much money
I love figs!
Love it - I’m in Ontario Canada and have got a variety of vegetables and cherry tree, apricot tree, peach tree , pears, strawberry, raspberries, gooseberries , red currants and mulberry in my backyard (thanks to my green thumb husband who loves to garden ) . Not only saves us money on groceries, all organic
I love this video sooooooooooooo much!! We have nuts for protein, fruits for vitamin CCCC
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So amazing how much wonderful fruit u have all around u😊I live in Florida and the heat is torturing everything right now. Lack of rain 🌧️ Awesome neighbors btw and I’m sure they say the same about u too❤️
Love that you said 90 degrees is beautiful! I agree. Enjoying summer temps seems to be a lost art.
After living in AZ with 120 degrees for 6 months out of the year, 90 is practically paradise!
I admire you so much! Your channel is one of my favorites. Thank you!
Your lucky has all the fruit and vegetables free
Prepper princess you rock and I just saw apricots for 4.50 a lb. So you scored also I want to thank you for not promoting alcohol on your videos since I'm finally free from the addiction of the demon that seems to be in your face every where thanks for great videos 😊❤
I am so happy you are free of it. It’s the hardest one to quit.
I didn't know you have those berries in the US. Here in Hungary we have this black version and a white version too, and it's so common that it's everywhere, even in cities too. They are super healthy, and we eat them fresh or make jam, though making jam is a lot of work since you have too remove all the grean parts.
Many great comments on here. Love❤ when you forage.
Luv foraging
The pads are nopales. The fruit is prickly pear, or in Spanish, "tunas". Not "tuna", "tunas". All very healthful.
Awesome post! I love that you love your little town and neighbors. Free fruits and veggies are a great plus too! Thank you PP!!!
Did you save the apricot pits? Once they dry out, you can use a nutcracker to open them. The nut inside is like a tiny almond.
I didn’t know that but will next time. I still have about 20 left so I will with those. Correction: apricot seeds have cyanide and eating just 3 can kill an adult. I’ll pass.
Not any ok apricot. Sweetheart apricots have a safe seed inside
I live in Northern California- I also love how people on Facebook and buy nothing groups just share their fruit as well! It means a lot.
I am very interested in the fruit that is going to rot. I live in Ohio and have never seen any of that fruit in any store. When we see fruit it is priced out of budget. Maybe, something can be done to bring food waste and food need together. Just a thought!
Great idea you go girl
I forage to. It started with morel mushrooms, then wild asparagus, now my gooseberries are coming in and mullyberies. God is good. I'm glad you did this video. Im waiting on my wild plums. Alas, I'm like you. One person gets so much. I give a lot out to the senior center. Many older people than me can't get out and forage anymore.
Papaya trees have a gestation period of 8months(seed to fruit) Fruit trees everywhere!!
Rocky and Nala ❤ too cute!!
Yum!
When people make generalizations about California it’s because they don’t realize how large and geographically diverse we are. Most people that haven’t extensively explored California tend to think of coastal Southern California, where property is very expensive.
Mulberries are delicious! They make lovely jam (google a recipe). 😊
Fruit grows everywhere in Florida too!!
Yep putting up food in the summer for winter is very smart & God has provided wonderfully
Ha. I see your neighbor's reflection in your sunglasses. 😍
Great neighbors is what makes a good community‼️
Maybe make fruit leather with some berries so in the middle of winter you could have some 😊
I usually make them into juice or freeze them whole to put in my oatmeal.
Louquats are delicious!
Nopales and scrambled eggs