so i am
at the foodway in the
concrete factory park in the bronx
this place is great it's on the site of
an old concrete factory so you see like
the old
metal structures all throughout the park
there's like an abandoned railway
station when you get in
and there's a beautiful river and they
built this walkway
all the way through this uh through this
area is really nice but along the side
of the
walkway is a foodway and that is
this area here which is all edible
plants
and there's a few in here that i don't
think i've ever had on camera before so
let's take a look at a couple of them
this one here is a
white raspberry it's not
perfectly ready but as you can see here
it's getting like a little bit yellowish
which is kind of like what you want you
want them to be like a little bit of a
golden color
still tastes good it's maybe a little
more tart than you'd want it to be
you know it's flavorful with a berry
flavor
but it's nice tastes like a tart mild
raspberry so i found a better one this
one is a bit small
but you can see that it's got the right
coloring it's a little bit more gold
color
came off easily from the plant
it tastes like a raspberry but milder it
doesn't have as many
flavor components in it as a red
raspberry
the flavor that's there is good it's
almost like a little bit
like peachy sweetness on that a little
bit higher still not very high maybe
like a three
tartness is not as high as the unripe
one still a little bit maybe like a two
it's good and what's better to go with
white raspberries than red ones and
these ones are ready to go
some of these are very very red and
falling off
so let's try a raspberry nothing too
weird or anything but
i don't think i've ever had one like
right off the plant before and that
sometimes makes a lot of difference than
when you that you get at a supermarket
oh yeah it's so fresh tasting
there's not like the tiniest bit of a
stale taste
real sweet it's like a seven out of ten
they're a little bit tart but not that
much
like a two or something and the flavor
is really strong
it tastes like a raspberry you know what
this tastes like but
it's like concentrated it's like a
stronger taste
sweeter more tart it tastes much better
when you pick it straight off the plant
for sure
there are some larger trees here these
are like apple trees and i think i saw a
peach tree in here somewhere
and they are very small
not not fruiting right now but at some
point they will be
and that'll be really nice to have uh
growing here in the bronx it's a nice
little garden over here too
and uh it looks a little neglected
though a lot of the plants
are kind of dried up but you got your
sunflowers there's some
tomato plants and squash plants in there
and it's right by the river here
and they're also american eels
in the bronx river that's fascinating i
saw like a few people on the side here
actually like fishing in there i would
not want to eat any of the fish
in this uh in this river and definitely
wouldn't want to eat the eels
this here is chocolate mint that's these
guys over here
they look like regular mint but maybe a
little bit darker actually
it smells like mint and it does have a
faint chocolatey smell to it
not strong it's more mint than chocolate
there is a little bit of a chocolate
smell to it
the name is is right let's see if it
tastes like chocolate though
it does taste like chocolate it tastes
like chocolate and mint
that's good i mean it's more mint than
anything else
but that little bit of chocolate is
there
oh that's a cool one that is a fun one
that would be like a fun one to grow in
like your backyard or something
or in your garden because that's got the
mint taste that you like but
also that little extra something that
makes it very very unique
this is mountain mint
give this a quick try bees are
definitely a big fan of this one this
thing is just like swarming with them
you gotta be careful don't wanna get
into a fight with a bee they will win
it's a very strong mint but it's like um
the mint that you get with toothpaste an
experiment or something
a little bit herbal strong though you
can see why the bees like it
no indeed i am not using that one
right there you can see a heron kinda
like checking things out looking for
fish
we also saw i think a groundhog
i don't know what it is check this out
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here's a cool one this is the uh the
northern bay berry i think it's what
it's called and what's cool about this
is this is america
fruit they are related to the strawberry
tree fruit the murica rubra
that i had before they're very cool
looking color they almost like glow
they're like a little iridescent looking
but what's neat about these
is that they have a use what people use
these for
not so much anymore i don't think but is
uh to make
wax so i think if you take these and you
like boil them
you can make a wax out of them so i've
got a few of them here i'm not sure if
these are edible or not
honestly they're not usually used
to eat so i can't imagine they're gonna
taste great but
it's probably edible i'm in an edible
garden right now so they should be
edible
when you bite into them these crumble
into dust
they have large seeds in them i mean
comparatively large there's just a
little dust around the outside
and it does taste a bit like taking a
bite
out of a birthday candle don't ask me
how i know that
but it does not much flavor there
there's no sweetness no tartness but
there is a waxy taste to it
so the fact that these are used to make
wax
makes a lot of sense so not the best one
to eat but it's really interesting to
find something that is related to
something that i like
for the flavor that is used so
differently than that fruit
so pretty cool so i think that's about
it over here
at the uh the bronx concrete factory
park
if you live in new york city or if you
happen to be around here check this out
this place is really cool
it's a fun place to walk through and if
you like plants there's a beautiful and
rather large food garden that you can
walk through so um
it's a happy little thing to stumble
across i was planning to come to the
park
but i didn't know about all the plants
being here so this was a
cool thing to come across and uh yeah
check it out
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