Why cavemen ate these strange berries (and you should too)

Learn how to find and forage Hackberry (Celtis occidentalis/laevigata) using NEW harvesting methods that I developed to make this incredible wild food accessible to more people! 📆 Never miss hackberry season! (& dozens of wild food species) 👇 https://feralforaging.com/calendar 📝 Get my printable Hackberry foraging guide https://feralforaging.com/get-hackberry-guide 📦 Foraging filters in the video https://geni.us/ylNT Hackberry energy bar recipe - Ingredients: - 1 cup of hackberries - 1/2 cup of hickory nuts (or pecans) - Maple syrup or honey (optional) - Chocolate chips (optional) Instructions 1. Roast your hackberries until they are completely dry and brittle on the outside (3-4) hours, use a dehydrator or an oven on low 2. Blend the hackberries until they are a fine powder, optionally filter the powder through at least a 1/40th inch mesh for an extra fine product 3. Blend the hickory nuts until smooth overall 4. Mix the hickory nuts and hackberry powder together 5. Optionally add maple syrup or honey to get everything to stick together better 6. Form the material into a ball or your preferred shape 7. Optionally, melt chocolate chips to dip the hackberry bars for an extra decadent finish Timestamps: - 00:00 - Evidence of early human fruit consumption - 00:31 - Why you should eat hackberries too! - 02:09 - Agenda - 02:41 - What is hackberry? - 03:53 - Identification - 05:17 - Lookalikes - 05:51 - Where to find hackberry - 07:17 - Gathering efficiently (my favorite part) - 10:36 - Process and clean (also my favorite part) - 11:48 - Cleaning the berries - 12:29 - Storing - 13:32 - Hackberry “milk” - 15:25 - Hackberry energy bars (my favorite) - 17:44 - How to get the last ingredient for the bars Archaeology references: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0305440314004233 https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0047248499903834 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/peking-man Nutrition references: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5217915/ Disclaimer: The information on this channel is for educational and information purposes only. None of the information on this channel is medical advice, nor is it intended to diagnose, treat, or cure anything. You are responsible for anything you do related to foraging or the subjects of any of our videos. #foraging #hackberry #survival