Prickly Pear Harvest and Preservation for Winter - ASMR (Season 2, episode 6)

Food preservation for winter and possible future food shortages is an important aspect of life for primitive cultures. Extensive winter and spring rains brought an abundant supply of wild foods in these desert mountains. Now it is the end of summer and the harvest season has begun. Join me as I fill my burden basket with a wild harvest and manually process it into a delicious dried candy-like food product that can be stored for a long time. Watch till the end to see some of the other wild foods I’ve collected and prepared and be sure to see the wild scorpion I eat too. Lots of great information, beautiful views and sounds are to be enjoyed in this video. My social media links: Instagram @chadzuberofficial Facebook @ChadZAdventure --------- Contents of this video ---------- 00:00 Intro 01:18 Harvesting prickly pear fruit 05:32 Eating prickly pears at night in the hut 07:19 Collecting water at the spring 07:40 Using a primitive water filter 08:14 Washing the prickly pear fruit 09:05 Cutting the prickly pears 10:51 Placing prickly pears in sun to dry 12:30 Making a drying bed 14:20 Eating roasted scorpion 15:10 Setting fruit to dry in sun 17:16 Crushing fruit to speed up drying process 21:20 Final step to make dried fruit bars 27:19 Other wild foods I’m collecting and storing If you want a good pair of all terrain adventure sandals then you can help support this channel by following this link to get your own Luna Sandals. These sandals have been my preferred footwear since 2014. (Note: I receive an affiliate commission from any sales derived from clicking on the link above) Drums of the Deep by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.