“Your fancy pocket rectangle”… made me laugh out loud! Nothing empowers us more than the knowledge indigenous peoples pass down. Knowledge that has been accumulated over MANY centuries. Thank for sharing this!

@BigBodyBiggolo

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Fancy MAGIC pocket rectangle. without its magical lithium it wont do much tho

@tudflupson

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So true.

My mom was an avid gardener when we were little and we would help out (read she made us help as chores) but my adult plant identification journey started several years ago when I realized that I could name every car driving down the street but not a single plant that I was stepping on when I looked down. And that bothered me.

@gryphonprovenzano3156

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That’s honorable I hope you the best of luck on your path to be one with nature

@Dinofaustivoro

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Its shocking to realize that modern knowledge had made us so ignorant

@tudflupson

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A philosophical way of thinking.

@questmicrobiology2688

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Your insight leaves me joyful, knowing others are awakening to similar realizations to ones I too have been realizing that reconnect us to our earth. My Dad and Mom are naturalists. While my dad knows the sciency names, my mom knows the natural beings within their own, loving each.

Great presentation, and I love the landscape you film in.

@doaimanariroll5121

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What’s a noble Englishman such as one, doing speaking with a barbaric highland Scott!

@FandabiDozi

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Thanks very much! :) As i said before i am a big fan of your channel and have seen your video on the rushlamp. Let me know if you are ever interested in doing a collab video sometime. All the best

@ModernKnight

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@@FandabiDozi I'd love to do a collab or two. Not sure how, but let's work something out

@xXScissorHandsXx

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Absolutely love seeing you dropping in on other channels and giving a helping hand as well as insights and such 👍

@BadgerUKvideo

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Maybe you could do a collab involving Scottish fabric. It was widely traded so i'm assuming it was fairly famous back in the day. So i'm assuming it was used by soldiers. The guy at the Crannog centre was saying it was pretty much as high standard as modern denim and found as far as Germany.

The more languages you know a plant’s name in, the more information you have about it within your immediate reach. From Latin you can not only get taxonomic information and a description, but medicinal plants often have the specific name “officinalis”, such as _Calendula officinalis,_ the Latin name for pot marigold, which can be used to make a soothing skin salve. From the vernacular common names you often get other everyday information about the plant. For example, nobody needed to tell me that meadowsweet (mjødurt, literally “mead-herb”, in Norwegian) was traditionally used to flavour mead, or where common sorrel (engsyre, which might’ve translated as “field-sour”) grows and what it tastes like. Likewise, it shouldn’t be too hard to guess what scurvy grass was used as a treatment for.

@BronzeTheSling

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Yep, till you guess wrong and eat something called "fever leaf" or something only to then find out that it GIVES you fever. . . XD

It's worth mentioning there's a serious health risk involved with using bracken for bedding - it's a favourite hangout of deer ticks, whose bites can carry Lyme disease. It's more of an issue in modern times since the deer that host the ticks have no natural predators left, so they're much more numerous.

@Goldenhawk583

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Would the ticks leave if you dry the bracken? It would most likely be dried for use as animal bedding.

@astralax

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@@Goldenhawk583 I'm no arachnologist, but my guess is thet can tolerate drying out. They can go dormant for decades to survive extreme conditions, to be woken up by a mammal's body heat.

@Goldenhawk583

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@@astralax I guess I eill need to look unto that, thank you.

Greetings from Ireland, thank you for the Gaidhlig names in this great video, tapaidh leat. In Irish/Gaeilge the Wood Sorrel is Seamsóg. -- Bracken is Raithneach mhór --- Bog Myrtle is Raideog. -- Soft Rush is Geataire ( but luachra means rushes in general) -- Sphagnum Moss is Caonach Móna ( I have also seen it as Sfagnum in more modern Irish/Gaeilge) Coinnigh suas an dea obair a mhic (Keep up the good work young man)

Much respect to you! The world needs more young men like you learning, teaching and spreading knowledge.

@fredflintstone6163

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Thanks awesome my brothers

With regards to the world's oldest tree: A team of scientists, sent to study the tree, looked around to find others of its type (Bristlecone Pine). They found another ancient one and cut it down, to enable more detailed study. They discovered that it had actually been older than the "oldest" they had gone to study. Doh!

@wakeoftheflood2

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The story I heard was that the scientists tried to take a bore/core of the tree, but the boring tool broke off. The tool was expensive so they cut the tree to retrieve it. 🙄 Not sure which version is true, or if we’ll ever know

@Freiya2011

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Mankind is stupid

@BronzeTheSling

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If they could tell how old the first one was without cutting it down, why couldn't they tell how old the second one was?

@ragnkja

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@@BronzeTheSling The reply above you explains why.

@jerrymacklow1452

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@@BronzeTheSling The story I heard was that they presumed the tree to be younger, the other being the oldest, and didn't bother checking, until it was too late. I heard all this many years ago, when studying at uni, I think. It may be that more information has come to light since. Under the circumstances, I'd say; like whichever story you like. The tree probably won't care.

По-русски эти растения называются 4:00 - Кислица/Kisliza (A small sour plant) 5:21 - Орляк/Orlyak (A plant in the form of an eagle) 7:50 - Восковница/Voskovniza (Wax Plant) 9:28 - Ситник/Sitnik (A plant for making a sieve) 13:50 - Болотник/Bolotnik (Swamp moss) Приятно видеть знакомые растения)

@AlphaKnight-hg2jq

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Cease your silly vodka runes you communist

Sphagnum moss was in the dark crystal movie. They used it as a bandage.

@raymondg.rienks9906

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Doc Martin (TVShow) had to treat someone who used the moss as a wound dressing, getting a serious infection. Thoughts?

Loved the vid. Thinking that if I remember aright both soft rush and bracken are single clonal forms brought into the country by our ancient ancestors as a part of their economy. Bracken is seemingly still used in the Basque country to insulate the houses in winter, stuffing the roof spaces with large bundles of bracken. As for rush lamps I found that a limpet shell works great as a tea light plus since cattle were so much the core of the economy (bog butter as the product of summer pasture - there was no milk board driving tankers up the Glen's every morning) butter was a key commodity for not just cooking but treating leather and very possibly the most readily available fuel for rush lights. Much like Tibet and their yak butter :)

Yes--love to see a rush lamp being made!

He must have been watching demo ranch with that intro

@FandabiDozi

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Haha! I do like that channel :)

Watching on my magic pocket rectangle. The bazooka bit was funny. You seem so excited to tell us we can wipe our bums with moss. Demonstration of uses, like the oil lamp, might be good video ideas. It's amazing how much we could actually be using natural methods even in the modern day.

Great video! I live in Norway and we have those five plants over here as well. I knew of them but not nearly to the level of detail presented in this video. Will be sure to watch it again and go out to look for the plants. Love your way of showing how knowledge of plants, skills and the surroundings is deeply connected to the local culture of your country. Good job! :)

That opening was solid. Been trying to learn my plants in New Zealand.. it kind of makes you look at the bush harder.

By boiling fiddleheads from bracken ferns you can remove the toxicity and eat a lot more! People sell them all the time here in Canada for eating purposes

@adymode

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I think a mistake was made here and the 'fiddlehead' is really a different kind of fern, which is also common where bracken grows. It looks a lot more like its name than bracken does. Bracken has a main stalk with branches growing off, whereas fiddleheads have non-branching stalks which can grow in a sort of rosette from the ground. Bracken is regarded as exceptionally toxic even to specialist grazers. Livestock, deer and even goats wont eat it unless starving.

@LadyVineXIII

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The fern you're thinking of is a different, native Fern I think and yes, it's not toxic. Bracken is a different fern. It looks fairly similar and has a similar growth pattern. It was endangered for a while due to overharvesting.

@AlphaKnight-hg2jq

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@@LadyVineXIII shame they didn't finish it off when they had the chance, fucking hate bracken

@LadyVineXIII

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@@AlphaKnight-hg2jq You weren't reading. It isn't bracken and behaves completely differently. It is actually a true fern that is highly valued in forested and shade gardens. Don't be so quick to hate on a supposed weed as many have value to their ecosystems.

@pemo2676

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@@AlphaKnight-hg2jq your thought process is exactly what is destroying biodiversity and natural ecosystems

The plants growing around my house, I let them grow as they will. The amount of useful herbs and medicinal plants around my house, is fascinating. It’s good to know what grows around you.

Well chosen plants. I like it a lot! I love the bracken, especially when it gets its rust colour. The spores of bracken are actually carcinogenic and although it was used as bedding, it was probably not a great idea. But it's rhizomes are a delicacy for wild boar and other pigs. There may not be much wild boar about in the Highlands of Scotland but its one of the reasons why bracken is on the red list on mainland Europe as they have lots of the beasts. Bog myrtle smells lovely and keeps the moths out of the woollens, for midgies I find incense works better. But in the old days it was used for brewing beer instead of hops for a longer shelf life. Love how you give the less known and less liked plants the lime light. By the way was the very first plant woodruff? That is a very interesting one 😊 's math a rinn thu!

Oh need more modern Tom meets historical Tom as a way to teach

Would love a rush light video, traditional and modern!

Thanks to parents and grandparents I know a lot of the local plants here in Latvia but I need to expand my knowledge, my dream is to one day be like you, I want to know the ways of my Latvian ancestors like you.

Great episode Sir. I actually don't know where the sphagnum moss from our local market came from. It's nice to know other use for it. That fern like plant is quite similar to one we have here, my elders use it as vegetable stew with coconut milk. The reed, saw an episode from another creator on how the Scotts use it as light. And your coat/robe, we have a similar version called Malong but thinner as an all purpose garment/cloth. Greetings from the Philippines!!!

@OPKieranVR

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It's just Scot's 😊 no need for the extra t

In the American Southwest Yucca is one of the more useful plants. I haven't really looked into it too much, but just in passing I've picked up that Yucca root is a natural soap - in fact, if memory serves it's used for that in Navajo ritual practices - and the thin, fibrous leaves have been used for centuries to make cordage and even footwear. Pretty sure there's several more uses that I've missed.

@backwoodstrails

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Yes, food is another use of yucca, also some species work well for friction fire.

@josiahtheblacksmith467

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Yucca is extremely useful. One of my favorite plants growing up in the southwest. Prickly pear is another good one, both the pads and the fruit are edible.

@carolynellis387

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if you visit the Native American Museum there's loads of information about yucca etc and demonstrations of how to use it Requires much patience

@kjw1856

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The root of the non-flowering plant is used to make medicine. Yucca is used for osteoarthritis, high blood pressure, migraine headaches, inflammation of the intestine (colitis), high cholesterol, stomach disorders, diabetes, and liver and gallbladder disorders

@raymondg.rienks9906

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Lance shafts were made by the tribal people from the flower spire you see rising above the main body of the plant.

Your sense of humour is fantastic. I love the rush bazooka to the backdrop of the highlands. I’d love to see your modern rush lamp video! Thank you for everything you do :)

4:11 Full immersion! The real nails of the 15 century!

my mother is scottish and my father is ute (Native american) so it makes me a crazy blend and i love learning about both sides and your videos have been very useful for understanding myself

Excellent video....Learning about local plants for food, medicine or utility can be extremely interesting. Wood Sorrel (Oxalis) has several medicinal uses, some Native American tribes even used it as an aphrodisiac (just in case you had that "feeling" after eating it).

It's fun to learn about plants and the many uses for them. I wish it was more common understanding but society has lost touch of reality and care less about the more important things in life. Great video Tom thanks for your hard work. We appreciate what you do plus your kit rocks....lol. 😁👍

As a herbalist and forager, the beginning scenario has happened to me once on a tour. It was like two worlds meeting for the first time xD

It creates a feeling of connection to our earth, a sense of belonging...

Wonderful video Tom, as a young man to another I really respect the journey you're on. You've not only answered so many questions for yourself but you've helped families like mine gain a better understanding of our heritage. Big love from Canada Sláinte!

@seanogallchoir3237

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Slainte mor as Eire.

Nice. Although Gaelic is more a product of Latin and Germanic influence. I think you would find the more ancient traditional names by translating them into Basque 👍

I love rush lamps I would love to see a follow up video involving that.

Wonderful. Took me back to rural Northumberland (not too far from Scotland which is just over the border) with my parents in the 60s and 70s. Sphagnum moss - my mother gathered to line her handing baskets (today I am glad when it grows on my very large lawn and grass areas as it absorbs water so well and so much better than just the grass). The reeds - as we called them - I used to plait and waived into 3 or even 8 strand corn dolly type head bands when we were on our country walks. I have two pots them here I water every day. , Bracken - yes long walks with that all around were very memorable. Bilberries (not featured) as we called them were a nice treat. I have some in the garden now although they are bigger more cultivated blueberries and the same with wild strawberries - a nice treat when out and about and of course blackberries too and if we were very lucky raspberries in the wilds. I hope my children hav e learned as much of what you can an cannot eat in the same way from me and my grandchildren are similarly learning. For some reason my mother's girls' school did botany not physics nor chemistry so she knew both the English and all the latin names.

I used have a habit of eating the wood sorrel when I was very little. I had no idea what it was. I just thought it tasted good and liked eating them if I ever came across them.

@alikamal3464

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I tried it and it really does taste like an apple.

Great video! I live in Scotland and recognised all the plants as I see them nearly every day, but I had no idea how useful they can be! Be careful eating wood sorrel near paths as dogs sometimes like to pee on them!

What a great video! The section on bracken really made me smile. I recently moved from a stony acreage where all garden space had to be wrested from the bracken. The kids loved playing in the bracken field.

Even if I may never use this information as I live Downunder I still loved the way you presented it keep up the good work!

@raymondg.rienks9906

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You are surrounded by ancient history and knowledge. Find a kindly abbo and ask.

very interesting content - good luck man

It has been at least three years since I last watched one of your videos, and it is nice to see that you are still about and thriving.

Your voice and how you speak are very easy on the ears. I also like your sense of humor. Makes me pay attention to what you are trying to teach.

Thanks for another great video!

i love how ive never learned scottish gaelic but i can understand so much from knowing irish gaelic

We don't have most of the plants in this video where I live, but we do have wood sorrel! And it is such a pleasant little tangy snack!

agreed,even better this world needs more scottish ninjas like you ,legend!glad you back man!

Sphagnum is one of the most amazing plants to ever appear and has a greater effect on global climate than any other living species that is not us. While peatland covers only 3% of earth's surface, it holds about 46% of the soil carbon, being orders of magnitude more effective than forests. The fastest route to a greenhouse earth would be drying the peatlands. I've used it as a sponge for camp showers and it's very effective in a grease trap for waste water. Thanks for all the Gaelic pronunciations!

Tapadh leat for sharing this like so many of your other videos. Wood sorrel was used here in the Americas as a way of staving off nausea and cramping, and some tribes even say it can be used as an aphrodisiac. Thank you also for sharing a window into a shared past, as a Lamont it’s nice getting to see such things through a fantastic field anthropologist lens

Wonderful show. Another use for bracken - my Grandmother used to cut bunches and hang them 8n the kitchen- it smells lovely- and then burn them in the wood stove - it was a way of catching house flies- they rest in the bracken in the day and then you burn the bunches.

"...explore the plants in your area through the lens of the indigenous language..." - 🧡from🐢🏝

i live in coastal Oregon, USA. our local biome is a rare one (temperate rainforest); there are only a few pockets of it around the world. one of them is in the Scottish highlands. it's so cool to see plants that i grew up around in a whole 'nother context! (this is pretty localized, but when i was young we used to call Feada Coille "appleweed.")

Cool stuff brother

Hi there...great video!!!! I love plants and gardening...but what I loved the best is your lovely accent of highlander...my ancestors came from Scotland Morayshire, and settled in Argentina, South America....I'm in love with Scotland and hope to go one day. Thanks again pal. Beautifull my Scotland.

that intro 😆 I don't use smart phones, and from now on I am calling them "fancy magic pocket rectangles" when my friends insist on using them ;) rush lamp video: yes please !!!

Nice Tom. i remember when I got bitten by an ant as a child and someone picked some bracken here in Australia and applied it to the bite and it healed really quickly. Mum, who was a McBurney, was into all of that too.

Wonderful as always Tom. Fin and I really enjoyed it. Slainte Mhath, Andy

Your presentation style mixed with comedy is the best education! The herbal info I learned from you is unforgettable, thank you! Fiddleheads are also high is estrogen. That's why Korean Buddhist monks eat this daily to curb their libido. I avoid it and only eat it when I'm in dire straits.

Thank you for the dedication that you put into your videos. Thank you for teaching us about Scotland's history and the landscape. I will also enjoy the plants😂

This was fascinating. I'm not very plant aware, but this is amazing to know and will be useful in future for sure.

I feel a bit dumb not knowing this when I see most of these plants several times a week. Thanks for enlightening me. 😄

Glad to catch this video early!

I knew 4 of the 5, i live in lennoxtown and I make amadou flies from hoof fungus, it's also great for beekeeping and as tinder, you can even make hats out of it, it's not super labour intensive ethier, if you come across any I'd love to see more videos on it

I grew up about 100 miles from the oldest tree (located in Great Basin National Park on the Utah/Nevada border). It's not on the beaten path, but I highly recommend visiting. I really appreciate your content. Thank you sir

You talking to yourself really gives me Atun-Shei vibes, I approve of it, and this very nifty herbalism video!

Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum) is carcinogenic. Also its spores. The tip is used as a pickle in Japan, the root as a staple in Neolithic times. Bracken grows on places with a relatively high water-table, often dried out places, or between drier and wetter areas.

the bog myrtle is a lifesafer! definitely gonna use that if i'm out on a walk

I love how this video is just you having fun in the woods and teaching forgotten facts about plants

Excellent opening sequence! The whole video was very engagingly presented. Congratulations on a FANDABULOUS video!

Thanks

Bracken makes good potash, most likely it evolves as natural fertilizer for the land. It can be heaped, turned similar to a compost heap and when broken down used to improve the soil.

Wood sorrel- was known as Bread. And Cheese locally in Furness- excellent in salads or as a herb with fish or cheese

Thank you

Yes! Rush lamp and other methods of house lighting, please!

Wow! Each presentation gets so much better. Thank you.

Yess! Great topic, beautiful scenery all around you, and of course I always love the historical accuracy you bring. Thank you! I find it interesting that bog myrtle smells a bit like lavender and also repels insects, because for years I've used lavender as a mosquito repellant, so I'd guess the common factor might be shared terpenes. Now if I find myself without any lavender in my pocket, I can also look for bog myrtle...if it grows here....hmm I'd better get to googling... :D

Your videos are brilliant...thank you very much xxx

Returning lost knowledge, excellent! It would be great to see the method used to create the many items you mentioned from these plants.

Here in germany, im allways happy and go around, when the Blackberrys(? Brombeeren) are fully developed. They grow here around my village on mass, as well as some raspberrys.

This is fantastic, I myself am from the highlands of Scotland and was cringing at the fact I never knew a lot of this🙈 you make it fun and my son loves watching your videos - do you do talks to schools as the kids would definitely be engaged as you make it interesting 😊

Nothing like the smell of bog myrtle, such a fresh and calming smell associated with all the best things. Does seem to keep ticks off your legs and socks somewhat if you crush and rub it all over your hems, couple springs tucked in your socks never hurts either. Only found it to work a little with the midges though.

Thanks agin!

Random compliment, but you are very good at making outdoor lighting look good even in direct broadday-sunlight.

Love the opening skit. Definitely looking forward to the brush lamp video

5:20 In Japanese name 蕨. It's important edible plant. It is boiled and soaked in water for several hours to remove poison before eating.

Very informative and humorous. I love learning about plants and past lifeway's. Thank you! 🌷

We have a kind of wood sorrel that grows to be the size of my hand here in East Texas. It’s kind of overwhelming to eat the whole damn thing but also we have a thistle that grows here to be taller than me. I think we may be irradiated. Also we have a plant called beautyberry that, supposedly, produces a chemical compound similar to deet that keeps the mosquitoes away, as well as a kind of tiny purple berry with a generally mild taste. You should visit our area, you’d have the time of your life.

This is fantastic! I wish I knew about the roid when I was camping in the highlands last week. Thank you Fandabi Dozi!

Sphagnum moss has also been used to remove hydrocarbons from water and air. For example, removing dissolved gasoline or diesel.

Blessed are Scotland

Love see how you make soft rush wick... please. I really really enjoying learning the practical knowledge of our ancestors from your videos. Thank you

Wood sorrel! The homestead I work at has so much wood sorrel, I’m always monching on some while I work ^-^ Bracken! Tons at the area I share with my family. I did not know it was used, although my mother loves eating fiddleheads ^-^. I’m going to keep bracken bedding in mind for when I get goats. Bog myrtle: I don’t know if we have any around here, I will be on the lookout for it or the NB equivalent. We do have marshes, but I don’t explore them much because of ticks, mosquitos, blackflies, gnats…. Soft rush: So much fun heh, again, I don’t think we have it but I’ll be looking around for it! The pith would be really great to use for incense oil infusers. Sphagnum moss: oh man I love this moss! Well, I love any moss XD mosses are so versatile and beautiful and I’m always excited to use it. We don’t have large quantities, so I’m starting a moss garden next year so I can safely harvest moss here. Great video, thanks for the fun lil bite of exploration and information on my lil electronic magic box ^-^

Interesting use for Braken ferns in my country where they are an invasive weed is if you crush up the fern leaves and rub them on a bull ant sting it will make the pain feel no worse than a honey bee sting.

Man, you knowledgable folks seem to live only in Europe. Us down here in the tropics don't have much a chance to learn of these plants and ancient methods and plants. Glad you are keepin the traditions alive in the Highlands!

Yes, please, do the video on rush lamps and other period devices, tools, etc.

I was brought up in central Scotland (Perthshire) and we called wood sorrel sourachs

Fandabi Dozi, you are a lot of fun, very interesting topics too. Plants were always important to my family too. And one needs to know what you can use for what should anything bad happen.

Great sharing! Thanks 🌱

Enjoyed learning about native plants in Scotland from your video. Entertaining useful and clearly have an interest in the subject.

‘’The Highlander preferred the common nettle in his broth, and appears to have regarded the use of kail as a symptom of effeminacy.” From Florence Marian McNeill’s The Scots Kitchen: Its Lore and Recipes. 1929.

I know you’re in Scotland and focused on that but I would find it very interesting to watch you do some outdoorsmanship in a place with scorching heat, which is more the issue to deal with where I live