Linda Black Elk Finds 10+ Medicines Growing in 1 City Park!
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- čas přidán 16. 08. 2024
- Want to forage for wild food and medicine in your local city park?
Linda Black Elk takes us on a walk around an urban park in Minneapolis, Minnesota and shows us how we can identify and use different medicines that are commonly found in public spaces!
Linda shows us that food and medicine is growing freely and abundantly all around us. She also shares her perspective on the safety of foraging in urban spaces and tips to get foraging.
Linda Black Elk is an Indigenous ethnobotanist, food sovereignty activist, teacher and a huge source of joy and inspiration. I could not begin to summarize the importance of the work she does both for her close community and our humanity. As a professor of food sovereignty at United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck, North Dakota, she teaches passionately about culturally important plants and their uses as food, medicine and materials. She is empowering her people to relearn their traditional plant knowledge and to regain food sovereignty. As an activist, she stands strong against extractive industries and colonization that threatens our global humanity. No doubt she has inspired thousands to reconnect with Earth and to care for and protect this home that we all share together.
I have followed Linda since I first met her at the Florida herbal Conference in 2018 and am so grateful to have spent time with her this fall at the Midwest Wild Harvest festival and in Minneapolis.
You must Follow Linda and learn from all the knowledge she shares, be empowered by her bold resistance and resilience and gain the skills to be a good relative to all plants and animals and steward of Earth!
Plant List:
1. Dandelion
2. Oak bark
3. Burdock
4. Pine pitch
5. Stinging nettle
6. Catnip
7. Violet
8. Basswood (Tilia)
9. Rose hip
10. Motherwort
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Nature is amazing. Thanks for the tips. Let us cook.
Plants
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Rob, thank you for passing the mic and using your platform to lift up indigenous women and their incredible knowledge! What a beautiful thing.
I love her presentation style. Scientific + holistic with a deep respect for mother nature + she's just so down to earth adorable. Thank you for this very educational video.
Pseudo scientific. Dont let it fool you
Man, Linda is an amazing human being!!! She's articulate, doesn't waste my time with frivolous talk, and is great in front of a camera. Going to check her out on other platforms. Thanks, Rob, for featuring her on your channel. She's such a gift!
I love spotting medicines in city parks
I take my sons out and make them identify the plants I know.
Linda is so cool!! I love her Instagram. Thank you so much for using your platform to elevate indigenous peoples work.
Might be the best "foraging walk" I've been on! Thank you so much, both of you!
Thank you!
Amazing
Amazing video, guys! What a great way for homeschoolers to explore their local city parks. 👍
Thank you So Much for sharing your Fabulous Wisdom so freely
with us !!!❤
Thak you so much to Linda!
Thanks a lot for sharing. It is further proof that when God created the earth (Gen 1:29) it says that the leaves are for healing and the fruit for food.
We have mugwort in our garden. I didn’t think it was going to make it at first and then BAM! It can take over 🤣
Bitter is often from the alkaloids in the plants. Very helpful in small amounts. Can cause issues if used in large amounts. Digestive bitters have been used for decades to help digest foods. Dandelion and burdock is still a drink you can get in the U.K. Asian cultures make great burdock root salad. I have learned a lot from seeing what other cultures use as medicine or eat. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, Linda.
So wonderful!! Thank you Rob for the introduction and thank you Linda for the knowledge!
Thanks my sister! Learning about plant medicine! Much love!
Ahéhee (thank you)
God bless you!
😀😊💖🤗😃😁🙌🌍
The lawn growing around us is full of amazing gifts. Bitter taste seems to be a flavour mentioned a lot when talking of medicinal effects.
Wow Linda was awesome. Love her teaching character ❤ she seems to have a very caring and calm spirit about her. Would definitely watch her more. Much love to you too Rob.
Thank you for introducing us to Linda Black Elk. I have started following her and hope to see more from her.
😍💕👏👏 Amazing
Marvelous! 😍💕👏👏
Thank you to both of you for this video..Linda, you should definitely do more of these. People need to learn so much, and this helps so many people.. this is what mainstream tv should be airing..for sure. Thanks guys!!! ❤️❤️
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It's so amazing to learn that indigenous Americans share the same concept that herbs growing in nature are food and natural medicine and when we eat them, we are healing our bodies and preventing diseases. That's exactly what traditional Chinese food and medicinal theory entails.
Cultures with a long history of foraging and farming usually have a deep connection with nature. Sadly, colonisation destroyed so much civilisation.
Good to see now this knowledge is being shared on social media.
Thank you Linda 💗
I go to city parks and plant medicine plant seeds. Some had disappeared years ago, now they are thriving again. Now everyone can find them again.
This is such a beautiful video. Linda is awesome. I’m in NJ & forage at my local park(formerly an 18 hole golf course). I have the same plants Linda shows us. Thanks Rob for sharing this with us 💚
Hod bless you both! Thanks so much!
Thanks so much Linda for this wonderful information you provided for us! Very appreciated!
This was an incredible video! Thank you, Linda Black Elk. 🙏🏻🌟🙏🏻
Thank you sister!!!!
So amazing ☺️ thank you 🤗
❤❤❤ I just love you and you're so cute. I love lemonade and the colors because it was so garden of Eden, but I am so glad you're going around. Because what's up there. It's not exactly down here. Some of the yellow light mole in them and then like that. But, you know, so thank you again. I love you so much. I appreciate everything you do.🎉
Thanks Rob for Bring Linda to your channel. For some reason I have yet to come across her channel and its a shame because she is great. thanks
How is Linda touching the nettles with her bare hands? I touched nettles once..and I was in so much pain. She is amazing!
Thank you, you are wonderful.
THANK YOU for sharing your wealth of knowledge, Linda! And, I am happy to learn that you have a CZcams channel. ❤️
Magnificent. SO full of information on the beautiful relatives all around us. Nature's Pharmacy indeed! Brilliant. Thanks, Rob!
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This is awesome! The knowledge we can gain from these Native American Indians is worth its price in gold. Since a very small child I have been so fascinated by their way of life. I became proficient w/a bow & arrow bcaz of their influences.
Thank you from Thailand ❤
Amazing video. Food is our medicine!!
Linda answers the question that I was thinking of right when she picks and eats the dandelion leaf at the end of the video. Her perspective just changed mine.
Wonderful! Sending love from here to there!
Thanks for sharing Linda! Learned alot!
Notice the 2020 bat quarter to your left.
Amazing video! Thank you for sharing these knowledges with us.
Blessings
My favorites were always violets and clover!
Thank you
Absolutely love this video. Amazing content and very knowledgeable! I will absolutely try the oak tea salve for poison ivy!
What a lovely knowledgeable lady! I just checked and see she has no audible books - shame, she has a great narrating voice!
So much goodness all around us! Goota find me some of those nettles!
I met Rob yesterday in Laguna Beach, CA…. He seems very cool on the videos, but he’s a lot cooler in person…. Why is he not on the news channels….???? My dude is epic…..!
Thanks!!!
Found lemon balm, catnip and yellow dock with burdock in my park.
Yaaay so happy to see you 2 together 😊😊💚
Great video
Thank you :)!
she’s the coolest
I already started picking dandelion leaves but I didn’t know that about the roots! That’s incredible! I also found out about wood sorrel which has a lot of vitamin C but is pretty sour
Very nice, thank you!
Beautiful share - soul satisfying..
Detailed info, gentle & confident
Really learned a lot. Thank you very much 😘😘😘
Thank you both very much appreciated
Very good knowledge. Thank you!
Wow I love this I was she would have her love to know more on this would be so nice if she had some more videos xox thanks u for this xx
She is amazing.
So Encouraging, God’s Awesome Green Earth Is Amazing! We Give Him Thanks!Thank You for Sharing such a Lovely video with us! Blessings!😇
Careful when foraging in parks and city property, make sure you know if, what and/or when they spray for weed and pest control, and also you never quite know what may have pooped or peed there, so please wash things first!
Great knowledge thank you 😊
Wow fantastic and so so interesting she is so knowledgeable I would love to take lessons from her!! I am definitely gonna be following her!
I just subbed to her CZcams channel. I'm looking forward to learning more.
BLESS YOUR SOUL!!!!! SO BEAUTIFUL TO SEE SOMEONE DOING WHAT YOUR DOING AND HELPING TO TEACH OTHERS. I CRY FOR MOTHER EARTH AND HOW INDUSTRIALIZATION IS DESTROYING HER. THANK YOU FOR TEACHING AWARENESS AND SPREADING THE KNOWLEDGE. MAYBE OUR KIDS WILL START TO WAKE UP AND EVERYONE STOP GOING TO BK, MCD, ARBY'S, WENDY'S, KFC!!!!!!! AND STOP SUPPORTING THE POISON INDUSTRIES!!!!!!!!!!
A lot of new info for me. Thank you for the awesome video.
Ethnobotanist, that's definitely what I want to be when I grow up!
LOVE THISS ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
My concern is animal droppings!! I only use herbs I grow myself. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Thank you for sharing your Knowledge! 😍👌🏻
Love her! Exciting to see you collab
How are you handling the nettle without gloves? I'm impressed!
Great content
Your earrings are breathtaking!❤
Great
One of the things dandelion root can do is increase your red blood cell count. That's awesome if you're anemic! However, my doctors thought for years that I had hemachromatosis because my RBC count was so high...turns out I just needed to cut back on the dandelion root tea! Everything in moderation. 😅 Thanks for this awesome information! One of my family has a poison ivy rash right now, so this was extra timely.
Thanks for the info
great video! thank you so much.
Great info - thank you! Yeah, I was a little concerned about the dog pee, but totally agree that it's safer than anything we're gonna get in the 'company store.' Besides, dog pee will wash off!
I find medicine in Denver all the time and found red clover 🍀
Thank you so much for your videos Miss black elk. We have stinging nettles growing but we are a block away from a very large freeway. Is it safe to use these nettles internally if the nettles are washed off?
Native American's were bomb I miss them so much. I love them I wish they would get their land back. Blessings to the Native American population; be strong, raise your coming youth with pride not with alcohol, drugs, abuse.
Very you left out plantains
The burdock one is great to know too. Every time it gets warm. I get this rash on my nut sack that comes and goes and maybe that'd work best.
Thank you, this is what the corporations want us to forget.
Will oak bark work on poison oak rashes in the west? We have lots of oak.
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Smart gril
Bitter is good 😊
Can you use oak bark as a salve for poison ivy?
I love dandelion leaf 🍃 with my cheese omelette
thank you for the take on toxins in urban foraging at the end.
its interesting that we are okay with buying food that we dont know its source, just because its in a grocery store.
but once we know the source we ask: "what if someone sprayed this lawn?" and "what about the pollution from the busy street nearby?"
so for me it comes down to.... would i rather eat something that was sprayed with chemicals on purpose, or food that was exposed to chemicals on accident?
truth is we live in a toxic world. but theres a consensus that consuming more fresh plant foods the benefits will outwiegh these potential problems.
we cant live in fear but instead must live in celebration of what we do have.