Milkweed & Dogbane — Identification & Sustainable Foraging with Adam Haritan

Excellent work! I really appreciate the time and effort explaining this subject. Thank you.

Great information! Well done video.

We should all have a polyamorous relationship with milkweed

Thanks for this as I am learning to raise monarchs and discerning milkweed from dogbane was very helpful.

I've started planting milkweed, but after doing some research found that common milkweed is not so common in California 😆 esp here in the intensely hot southern region. We have half a dozen unique local species though. I'm planting some California milkweed, a couple varieties of narrow leaf milkweed (3 leaf cream flower and 4 leaf pink flower), butterfly milkweed, and woollypod milkweed. I found some swamp milkweed at the local nursery, so I'll be experimenting with that as well. Would also be great to get some woolly milkweed, which doesn't seem to be so common in my area. Mojave milkweed is also pretty cool, but that's way out in the desert alone with desert milkweed. And some northern varieties include heart leaf milkweed and showy milkweed.

I really wonder how delicious common milkweed is with all these recommendations

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When I was a kid, I helped my friends pull milkweed from their horse pasture after school so it wouldn’t make their horses sick.

Now, I am a grown-up & my family has a TON of milkweed growing in the meadow behind our house!

We used to run a preschool program & summer day camp. Our students loved harvesting milk weed pods!

It sometimes grows in our horse pasture but our horses never ate it.

Butterflies have always had a special place in my heart, so I enjoy having milkweed around !

Thanks for another wonderful video! Peace be with you! Stay safe! Keep learning! Enjoy the adventure!

Thanks for pointing out dogbane! I always thought it was a milkweed species- and it is very invasive! I am forever ripping it ou!

This is a clear explanation of distinguishing between milk weed and dogbane. I see common milk weed often when out hunting upland birds and outside edges of waterfowl sloughs. I have sometimes taken a few mature pods and shared with neighbors kids who planted around the edge of yard. Monarch 🦋🦋 do show up and do what they do. Now I know how to forage some of the parts and still leave plenty for the 🦋🦋🦋. Thank you. Peace to you. John

Milkweed no matter how I prepare it . And discard cooking water . It always makes me vomit ? Is thair any reason why ?

I am looking for the flowers, right now. I want to make a syrup.or flower honey with it. I would not cut the plant! Only take a flower cluster.

I raise Monarch Butterflies. You can use scissors to cut off half way, and two new shoots will come out from the next set of leaves, Good show, thanks!

Dog bane is also an important plant for polinators.

Excellent!

I'm ready for a milkweed receipe

Hi Adam, I'm so glad I happened upon this video today! I focus on milkweed this time of year and also have lots of dogbane. These are extremely valuable to my honey bees and other local pollinators, a source of a serious nectar flow. I appreciate your channel, you have a new subscriber :) Thank you! Great information!

What an Awesome informative VIEDO!

I want to grow milkweed for the butterfly 🦋

I thought milkweed was poisonous. I've seen a few other references that state that they contain cardiac glycosides.

We love you Adam you are so knowledgeable thank you for teaching us about these plants.

Thank you!!

I live in South Western Pennsylvania, and have a dedicated area on my property for the Monarch Butterfly! Right now the Milkweed is flowering out and the scent is heavenly!

Thank you Adam for another informative video! I've been transplanting and blowing seeds of milkweed unsuccessfully, (I thought) until this year of rain! Yeah, finally!

I have always heard that milkweed was toxic, and that monarch butterflies were toxic because the caterpillar eats milkweed. Is this true? Or, is it only toxic raw and in large quantities?

timely info. i just had this question the other day while inventorying the trees and plants on my place. i got a lot of one of those, i just need to go see if the stalk is hollow or not.

Right beside my garage I have a Beautiful milkweed area that I usually have close to a hundred monarch butterflies had shout every single year If I see a lot of bad bugs out there I bring them in and have a bunch of the little butterfly housing units and I hatch them out and then release them in my rose garden

The milkweed plants in my yard are just now flowering and they have a lovely scent. The bees absolutely love it, though I have never seen Monarchs here (CO). I had no idea you could eat milkweed.

Every year I have such an excess of seed pods. I was thinking of taking the seeds and throwing them in the wild near lakes and fields.

I watched a video of @rewilduniversity tasting/spitting out dogbane- he wanted to ensure he was giving first hand information and not only repeating what he has heard. None of the dogbane he and his partner tasted and spat was bitter, so that is actually NOT a reliable indicator.

Oh and it's much better seeing you WITH the plant other than just keep putting in the pictures explaining. There's something about seeing YOUR real 'hands on' showing us. It becomes more real personal with you. That's what some of us want. Up personal. Thanks. I hope u understand.

To help...just a little less of viewing you and just a little bit more on the plants ect you are talking about. Put just a tiny more effort on that and your videos be more perfect. Other than that ..thumbs up.

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wait, don't monarch caterpillars eat milkweed or is it just a particular species of milkweed?

Thanks, I always enjoy your useful information

Always thought milkweed was toxic, because monarch butterflies consumed it to make themselves toxic to predators. Good to know it can be cooked and eaten.

I think you need to move to the pnw. Alot more like minded people out here. We also have a bigger variety of plants.

WOW..I had no idea milkweed was edible..

This guy is awesome. He's like America's David Attenborough.

I want both of these plants for cordage and fibers for clothes.

I like to cook Milkweed flowers but a few years ago my Woodchuk neighbor ate the colony; I am nurturing a new colony still and can not yet harvest... The flowers are wonderful. Thank you for your great advice!

Dog fennel?

I am find out milk weed seed in my area ..

Hi friend.

It sounds delicious, but I will save it for the butterflies, but it is nice to know for survival situations.

Love these videos! Very informative

Plant it everywhere!!! Monarchs are in trouble!!!

dude. wish u were my neighbour. u know soooo much. awesome

Dogbane is consumed by many other butterfly types, but not Monarches. Lots of these "amaranth" socies are. Lots have been wiped out by herbicides ... just leave the stuff outside for the butterflies. Ever consider a butterfy/bee/hummingbird garden??? Yeah, we are not starving ... we have killed off enough of it with our pesticides. Leave it for the butterflies.

Just leave the milkweed for the Monarchs... I mean really they can use all they can get. Too many people.

I had no idea Milkweed was edible. Thank you for this interesting information.

Is milk weed also called thorn apple?

Better to leave the milkweed for the Monarchs. They are having a rough time. OK, you addressed this. Thank you for telling people to sow the milkweed seeds and have a stewardship mentality.