Befriending Milkweed - Foraging for Milkweed, cooking with it and learning about it's amazing gifts!

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This video features one of my favorite plants and wild edibles, Asclepia syriaca, or the Common Milkweed. I think you'll agree that there is NOTHING common about this incredible gift!

Watch to learn...
• how to identify Milkweed from it's poisonous look-a-like, Dogbane
• discover when to gather it and what part of the plant to eat
• how to prepare Milkweed all it's stages for food
• learn of it's remarkable giftedness for the weirdest things
• learn how to spread the Milkweed love
• discover the Monarch butterfly and Milkweed connection

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0:00 Intro Video
0:25 Welcome
1:16 Psalm 104:24 Wild Riches
2:03 Herbing Around – Removing Cattail Pith to pickle
3:25 Wild Tea Time – Black tea sweetened with Milkweed honey
4:03 Cooking Demo – Cutting up Milkweed shoots for ‘peas’
4:18 The Monarch Butterfly Milkweed connection
The Monarch migration story, the Super Generation
8:59 Be a mindful forager
9:15 Milkweed’s Name, family
9:42 What do I look like?
Stature, Roots, Branching, Leaves, Stalks, Flowers,
11:53 Milkweed myth of toxicity
13:47 back to what Milkweed looks like. Flower buds, seed pods, seeds
15:03 Where do I live?  Where Milkweed grows best
15:25 Photos of Milkweed stages and edible gifts
Shoots, leaves, flower buds, flowers, seed pods (both stages)
18:43 Milkweed’s medicinal gifts
20:09 Milkweed’s useful gifts
Fluff uses, latex uses, ropes, candle wicks, pesticide, soap, dye
22:16 How to propagate Milkweed – tips and tricks
25:36 How to become a Patreon member
25:58 Milkweed Honey Trick
26:25 Milkweed Pickles, Greenbeans, Asparagus,
27:18 Following the moon cycles in making plant medicine and gardening
27:54 Poke Weed jelly 28:23 Video of Kendall and Poke Jelly
28:57  How to write a plant poem
29:28 The Playfulness of Milkweed – Isaiah 45:3
30:18 Meme spreading the Milkweed life and love
31:12 Smell the flowers when in full bloom
31:44 Milkweed fluff for clouds on a seed scape
32:19 Milkweed seeds for making soap
33:09 Dames’ Rocket
34:08 Red Clover
34:27 Stinging Nettle
35:31 The generosity of Milkweed
35:52 Patreon gratitude
36:08 Get Outside
36:24 Outro video