Foraging Weeds - Wild Field Garlic Scapes

If you can train your vision to key in on the flower stalk and unopened buds of Wild Field Garlic, you are in for a real treat. Wild Field Garlic scapes are delicious. Wild Field Garlic is a common weed, but most people don't even notice it.

This video helps you train your vision to see Wild Field Garlic out in meadows and grassy fields where it is common. They are also common in disturbed and cultivated areas, including yards, parks, and neglected places.

Scapes are the unopened flower buds and flower stalks of garlic, whether they are domestic garlic, Elephant Garlic, or Wild Field Garlic. Wild Field Garlic is a type of Hardneck Garlic. To identify Wild Field Garlic scapes, look for the hollow round leaves that come off the main flower stalk, with leaves alternating where they come off the stem. Each of the hollow leaves had grooves in it.

Wild Field Garlic has another form in the fall through spring, that is often called Wild Chives. Even in that form, you can see the hollow leaves have grooves. And of course, they smell like garlic!

In the kitchen, I show how to sort out the tender garlic. Use the more stout stems in soup. I cook a simple sautee with asparagus stems from my garden, and the stems from a wild Scaly Ink Cap mushroom.
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Plants and Mushrooms identified in the video:
Wild Field Garlic (Allium vineale, Amaryllis Family, Amaryllidaceae)
Poison Hemlock (Conium maculatum, Carrot Family, Apiaceae)
Scaly Ink Cap mushroom (Coprinopsis variegata)

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Other videos for you:
Foraging Wild Chives - https://youtu.be/7nUirr-bEKM
Harvesting and Processing Elephant Garlic Scapes - https://youtu.be/eRuadb28-vA

My channel: Haphazard Homestead - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcZCvPPU9dgxD0yXrc9DaPA/
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My mailbox:
Haphazard Homestead
PO Box 40721
Eugene, OR 97404

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Music:
"Campfire Song" and "Called Upon" from the YouTube Audio Library
"Angel Share" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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