⚠ Small correction: Near the end of the video, I mentioned groundnuts, but the images shown were of regular peanuts. Sorry for the confusion. I’m not able to change that part of the video now, so I wanted to pin this here as a quick clarification. Thanks so much for your understanding.

wild garlic, ginger, curcumin, turmeric, spinach, mushrooms, miners lettuce, sorrel, hostas!  Wasabi, cardamom, ground nuts, pawpaw.

Props to EPIC GARDENING for much of your footage

I appreciate hearing you stumble over your words while reading your script .
It's proof of life

You forgot my favourite shadow championing, fast growing and highly productive fruit tree: mulberry!

Wonderful. Don't let this knowledge die. We may need these foods to survive one day.

I was stunned to learn that the shaded corners I thought were useless could grow Wasabi worth up to $160 per pound!. Knowing that 99% of restaurant wasabi is just colored horseradish makes me want to grow the real thing even more. I'm also planning to start a patch of Ramps, especially since they have a 10,000-year track record with indigenous peoples. Thanks for showing us how to turn shade into a serious advantage!

What? No ginseng?  That's the one shaded crop I've been growing, and its health purposes are astounding

Thank you so much! I actually was a professional gardener and I’m just one class shy of having a certificate in ornamental gardening but I hate to say it was literally like 50 years ago. Oh my gosh! Well, I love all this information and of course the food and the plants in the history, but I also feel a strong urge to be prepared for well like she mentioned when things aren’t as we’re used to them. I wish there was like a gardening club or a Facebook page or something you have where we could build a little community I would buy my seeds from you or something or support your sponsors. I listened to that one commercial about sees your great grandparents crew or something all right well I hope we can stay connected. I’m in a lot of life transition right now, but I do have some land literally with 250 feet of year-round Creek on it and the sea of foothills of California, and I also have some land in Santa Rosa and I also have some man just little you know Domestic lots LOT6 basically the Creek gland is just shy of an acre and I have a lot of shade there but I want to build community and I want us to have food all right thank you so much
Great video great information. In fact my land had minor lettuce on it.

I always find paw paw trees growing by hickory trees on my land.  Sometimes they don't look like a tree at all,  more like a bush. I find muscadine value vines in areas that get dappled afternoon shade too, and they produce well.

A note on turmeric: It can take MONTHS to send up shoots! Don't assume it's dead. It's just very much on it's own schedule. I grow these, along with ginger, indoors, in a window that only gets a little bit of indirect sunlight, especially in winter. Very pretty plants.

There's a paw paw Festival in Paw Paw West Virginia every fall

(1) Ramps [wild leeks]
(2) Ginger
(3) Turmeric
(4) Spinach
(5) Mushrooms
(6) Miners lettuce
(7) Sorrel
(8) Hostas
(9) Wasabi
(10) Cardamom
(11) Ground nuts
(12) Paw Paw

In Florida some things grow better in the shade then in Florida sun it took me two years to figure out the sun is intense here and learned to grow in the shade

We have a nursery that only sells native plants and I snatched up my paw paw tree and a native persimmon tree.

The Michigan extension services giving out pawpaw trees this year so we're going to put two of them in

Ramsons and sorrel is partially what ascended noma to become the worlds best restaurant when I worked there 15 years ago. The hype was crazy 😂

I watched this twice to give you that sweet sweet watch time, because this is great stuff. I was taking notes!

When I was very young, maybe 6 yo, back in the 40's, my father brought home two fruits that he said were paw-paws.  He said they tasted kind of like bananas but different.  I ate part of one; it did taste somewhat like banana but the rest of the flavor was completely new to me.  I have to say I wasn't impressed with the taste, though.  I wish I'd known about these shade-loving food plants where I lived before, where there was an ideal small shady patch.

I have ramps in my yard.. such a lovely unexpected gift