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  1. Hi. So today I'm going to be talking about wild
  2. leeks. Um or, uh, what Barbara had said that they
  3. are called, um is also big watch gg Gagosian.
  4. Um and she had also mentioned in lecture that they
  5. are reflective of the medicine colors, Um, which is a
  6. traditional teaching or knowledge that she shared with us, Which
  7. is that that white to the kind of purposely read
  8. to the nice bright green.
  9. So leaks grow in spring and usually in, like, rich
  10. mosaic woods like, uh, deciduous.
  11. Uh, generally, they like moist soil.
  12. They don't mind being cold civil, growing like north north
  13. sides of slopes a lot.
  14. Um, and they are, in my experience, the first to
  15. kind of pop up in spring, the first green that
  16. just covers the landscape.
  17. It's really, really quite quite beautiful.
  18. Um, so my relationship to these leaks, uh, I grew
  19. up on the weekends at my cottage in Haliburton, which
  20. is what it is called to settlers.
  21. I lived on my squad, the lake, which is known
  22. as Miss Quimby Nish to the indigenous peoples of that
  23. land. Um, and these were the first plantings that I
  24. could identify as edible.
  25. But not only this.
  26. They were integral to my well being after I had
  27. come back from India to Canada and I was looking
  28. for healing after that experience and relationship with land once
  29. again. So what did I do?
  30. I went to the woods, and I built a relationship
  31. again with these leaks that I had learned from childhood.
  32. Um, my mom taught me how to go into the
  33. woods C and harvest these leaks.
  34. My parents got divorced in 2018.
  35. So these are my mother's photos from 2016.
  36. You can see she harvested about five washed and cut
  37. them and cook them with pork.
  38. Um, but she doesn't go to the cottage anymore because
  39. it's now my dad's.
  40. So I almost felt like I was taking up a
  41. tradition that I had been taught in a relationship that
  42. I almost had to keep having with these beings.
  43. But more than that, I also want to acknowledge that
  44. I was never taught to give a gift in return.
  45. I was always just quite grateful.
  46. Which brings me to this question of Robin Cameron braiding
  47. sweetgrass and she asks, kind of, and it's stuck with
  48. me like um, can we can gratitude be enough?
  49. Um, and that's always stuck with me.
  50. Can gratitude be enough?
  51. I'm not sure.
  52. Where do wild leeks grow?
  53. So you can see in the image on the left
  54. that they grow all over kind of eastern Canada, Eastern
  55. United States?
  56. Um, but particularly they're known for being in the Appalachian
  57. Mountains, and I think that that actually has a lot
  58. to do with traditional uses.
  59. There's a lot of festivals in that area.
  60. A Scottish biologist, actually, by the name of William A
  61. Ton actually named Wild Leeks ramps.
  62. Um, so he's a botanist, and he named it in
  63. 17 89.
  64. The French call Wild Leeks and Dubois, which the literal
  65. translation means garlic of wood.
  66. Or, I would like to think, you know, garlic's of
  67. the woods focuses in the Appalachian Mountains have been to
  68. eat them raw, whole fried, um, and to essentially clean
  69. the blood or treat colds.
  70. Indigenous usage is that I have found is for Barbara
  71. had mentioned their spring tonic after winter.
  72. So I they have high vitamin C blood cleansing properties.
  73. The Cherokee consumed ramps to treat colds.
  74. They use juice, the juice to treat your ex Earthquake
  75. created a tonic to treat intestinal worms.
  76. I've also found mention of Pottawatomie, Cree Honasan Unconscionable.
  77. All using leaks, even the mark.
  78. Um but it's important to note that I couldn't find
  79. extra information on that, Um, just to mention that they
  80. had used it, but not necessarily What for?
  81. Barbara has mentioned that it was used as a spring
  82. tonic for the initial.
  83. Maybe, but, um yeah, so environmental, social and political issues
  84. So environmental issues, uh, involved over harvesting.
  85. So leaks are being over harvested, actually, um, they are
  86. being over harvested in Quebec and Ontario and in all
  87. over the place in the United States, particularly.
  88. I've read about New York, North Carolina, especially in the
  89. Appalachian regions, which is a bunch of states, um, in
  90. relationship with that.
  91. There's also a toxicity that is, uh, a concern with
  92. eating wild leeks if they are in toxic areas where
  93. there is industry that is harming the land.
  94. But that's quite obvious if you eat anything in that
  95. area, I'm sure it would not be good for you.
  96. Um, in terms of a social social reason to this,
  97. there's this call of the wild there this return to
  98. land movement that seems to have really influenced this edible
  99. wild like wild edibles, um, to eat.
  100. And so it's actually funny.
  101. Quebec banned wildly harvesting since 1995.
  102. It's still to this day because they're still considered endangered.
  103. But only 50 plants are allowed per season for per
  104. person, which is funny because that's still detrimental for the
  105. populations. But it just prevents commercial use right now.
  106. There's actually kind of this black market going on between
  107. Ontario and Quebec in terms of because Ontario hasn't banned
  108. it in terms of kind of getting leaks over there.
  109. Um, which is important to note, Um, but there's also
  110. another social aspect, which is festivals, especially in the Appalachians.
  111. So, um, there's festivals that occur where they basically come
  112. together and eat wild leeks.
  113. So in Rapson, which you know funny, it's called Ramps
  114. in. There's a ramp.
  115. Festival is happening this year on the 15th of May.
  116. You can see in this photo of the past, um,
  117. someone just holding ramps at this festival with lots of
  118. people in the background.
  119. So it looks to be like a community event where
  120. everyone gets together to cook and eat wild leeks.
  121. So talking about about macro and micro nutrients or the
  122. health of wild leeks, um, I had mentioned that they
  123. were spring tonic.
  124. Um, but getting into the specifics they have vitamin A
  125. C B nine source called fully um, and 2.6 times
  126. the amount of vitamin C as oranges for the same
  127. mass. So lots of vitamin C.
  128. They have coleene, which is a B complex vitamin and
  129. supports cognitive function.
  130. Your brain Generally there's 9% protein, 5% fat in 86%
  131. carbohydrates, and they're a source of fiber.
  132. Um, I had read in one paper that they were
  133. found a source of fiber and also having zinc, but
  134. that they weren't significant necessarily for, um what the what
  135. the study was trying to find, which was, um, kind
  136. of there.
  137. What can they be used in comparison to conventional vegetables
  138. for, um, kind of a greater capacity for health and
  139. whatnot? The study said no, which I think is funny.
  140. But it is important to note that perhaps them being
  141. a spring tonic does not mean that they should be
  142. eaten all of the time, but rather kind of that
  143. getting the body ready for eating other other things and
  144. other nutrients.
  145. Um, although I have found that ramps or wild leagues
  146. create Ellison and sulfur compounds, which prevents cancer in humans,
  147. camp for all, which is a flavonoid that protects blood
  148. vessels from roos, which is reactive oxygen species biology kind
  149. of topic.
  150. Um, it assists in nitric oxide production, which dilates blood
  151. vessels, lower systemic blood pressure.
  152. And they are an antioxidant, which was one of the
  153. readings that Barbara had actually suggested for wild leeks, which
  154. protects from roos and cancer.
  155. So it's important to note that wild leeks are very
  156. beneficial for health and especially as that as that spring
  157. tonic. I've mentioned a bunch of times to essentially kind
  158. of get your body ready for summer.
  159. So, um, my references are in the corner there, Um,
  160. but thank you so much for watching my video about
  161. wild leeks, and I hope that you have a great
  162. rest of your day