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March 19, 2018 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
09:40
Saguaro Cactus Fruit picking with David Wolfe and the Health Ranger
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Hi everybody this is Mike Adams the Health Ranger the editor of naturalnews.com Here in the desert of southern Arizona, the Sonoran Desert ecosystem where we have saguaro and manzanita berries and all kinds of wild foods that we're harvesting now here.
I'm here with David Wolfe from sunfood.com and Raw CEO and several other fascinating individuals.
We're all into raw foods, living foods, and wild foods.
And we're here harvesting the saguaro cactus fruit.
That is nature's candy.
We've got some poles and some buckets and the will to go out there and get this fruit for ourselves.
Don't know if we got another one up there.
The way you harvest this, Dave, this makes it like an action video.
This is a sport.
And we're here in the wild tracking the famous cactus fruit.
Isn't she a beauty?
This is a beauty.
This is what you want.
Ladies and gentlemen watching from home, here's what we're looking for right here.
Like this.
Look at that.
Let's just have a close look at that one.
Oh nice.
Yeah.
Here's your ants.
Get your vitamin B12. It's all good.
This stuff is the devil's own brood.
Watch this.
Watch how this stuff jumps.
Watch.
See how it just jumps out at you?
Now, you get any of that stuff in you?
It is like barbed.
So you try to pull it out, it goes in deeper.
I mean, it is literally the worst ever.
Let's do a demo.
Here, I'll use my arm.
Will you really?
Sure, yeah.
Okay.
Let's do a demo.
Okay.
We have a willing victim.
Just drop it.
Drop it on my arm.
Here it is.
You ready?
Yeah.
Wow.
Now, look at that.
That stuff, it's in there.
This is like tasers or something where you just get the volunteer to...
Okay, you ready?
Yeah.
Uh-oh.
These things are barbed.
Look at that.
Now watch this.
Sometimes the outer covering comes off even.
See that?
Look at that.
See that?
Oh man, it's pulling the skin right off.
I know.
It's crazy.
And then look, it's in me now.
Ow!
That was just from one little tap.
Yeah, that wasn't even a fully barbed piece.
Okay, we're going to get all these at once.
You ready?
Yep.
Look at that.
Wow.
God!
Oh, keep going.
Oh, yeah!
Woo!
You okay?
Yeah, you want to play Toya Hacky Sack?
Okay, man.
Whole new meaning to acupuncture over here.
Alright.
Actually, they don't really hurt that much going in.
It's coming out.
It's coming out that they hurt.
Yeah.
And they've got a little bit of a toxin in them too.
So like if you get hit by a Cholla heavy, you're going to be feeling it for like three or four hours.
See now the key is you'll see that I missed the actual shell but got the meat.
See that?
So that's the whole key.
That's the part you want.
Now the system that we work here is two things that we're talking about inside.
The system involves pulling down all the wet and the dry.
Sometimes you'll even see the dry on the ground.
And then you'll take this, put it in a bag or in some kind of a bowl or glass, and then that becomes your candy.
And then the wet stuff, we freeze because it traps all that hydrogen.
There's a super hydration factor about this fruit.
And if you just blend it and strain it and get the juice out of it and you start drinking it, first of all, it turns your urine orange, which is amazing.
Second of all, it's super hydrating.
So you can be out here all day and just lick a little bit of this stuff and get all kinds of Like benefits of like feeling like oh I can keep going I can keep going I can keep going and then at the end of the day you can feel like well you know I can have a glass of water and you feel pretty good.
It's pretty awesome.
These are the Palo Verde trees right here.
Chaparral.
Everybody watching you should know we're walking right by cures for cancer all around us here.
Cures for diabetes, heart disease, In fact, there's nothing out here that isn't medicine.
Yeah, this is what kills the diabetes right here.
That's got ten of the most powerful anti-tumor alkaloids, anti-cancer alkaloids ever right there.
All you have to do, you don't even have to make a tea out of it.
You just stick it in your water and it naturally extract.
I want to say something else too that's really amazing being out here.
We've been on a liquid diet for the last three or four days.
It is amazing.
I mean, just to be out here eating wild food, be on a liquid diet, it's like the best news ever.
And for everyone who knows about fasting, The more you fast, the higher you get, and the better you feel.
And it's really, you finally realize that this is why people take drugs, is they're trying to get high, and you can get high just by not eating once you've detoxified yourself, once you've cleaned yourself out.
And what a great way to do it.
Right out here, while we're picking saguaros, we're doing the juice of the saguaro, a little bit of fruit, you know, oranges, lemons, that kind of stuff, and watermelon and goji berries.
Outrageous.
But you notice how resilient the saguaro is so that when you're pushing on it, it's actually just vibrating gently.
It doesn't break, it doesn't shatter like something man-made.
Yeah.
Just like everything in nature, it bends and then recovers.
This tree is just, the way it's constructed, it's the most unique thing I've ever seen because it has its outer...
Like shell, okay?
But that's not what's holding the tree up.
There are ribs on the inside that we saw the other day, and those create the tools that you can use to pick the fruit.
And then on the inside of that is another thick bark.
And we'll probably see it, I've seen them quite a few times on this trip so far, where the tree has been hit by lightning or something, and the whole middle has just exploded.
But then the tree recovered.
It's just amazing.
Okay, here's a bit of Southern Arizona trivia for you.
You take a saguaro like this, right now you can tell it's not loaded with water.
You see the pleats?
They're kind of close together.
This might weigh 1,000 kilos.
After a heavy rain, you know how much it will weigh?
Up to 10,000 kilos.
It'll soak up 9,000 kilograms of water.
These are water tanks.
There's your water tank.
They're like vertical water tanks with fruit!
Here it is.
Did we catch it?
Yeah.
Here it is.
Oh, yeah!
Bye.
Thank you.
So as you can see, it takes a lot of work to harvest the saguaro cactus fruit that we're eating and enjoying here today.
These fruits, it's amazing that they even exist at all, because if you think about it, this is a very dry climate.
There are only a few inches of rain here a year.
I mean, the ground is completely dry.
It's just dirt, gravel, rock.
And yet, every one of these saguaro develops multiple fruits, sometimes hundreds of fruits on just one plant, like the one here behind me.
So this is what this journey is all about, is being able to eat this saguaro cactus fruit right out here in the Sonoran Desert.
It's just a magical place.
It has so much energy.
It's a unique ecosystem.
And this is food that is so rare and so good for you.
That you've got to make a journey out here and get some of this for yourself someday.
Now remember one thing, it's not legal to pick this on public lands because these plants are protected by the state of Arizona.
You can, however, pick them on private land, which is what we're doing here today, with the permission of the landowner.
So make sure you do that before you come out and start picking these for yourself.
Make sure you pick enough, too, for the whole year, because you'll want to enjoy these all year long.
Thanks for listening.
This is Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, reporting for naturalnews.com.
Living logged and in charge in Arizona.
In charge.
Large and in charge.
I love that.
Cheers.
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