These Plants Only Grow Where Gold Is — Learn to Read Them Before Your Next Trip

👉 The Second Pan — what your own box is handing back to the river: https://thesecondpan.com There's a whole layer of reading ground that has nothing to do with rocks, and most men walk right over it because it's green. Certain plants only thrive where the soil chemistry is odd, and the soil chemistry goes odd for the same reasons that put gold there in the first place. In this video I go through the plants prospectors in the West have been watching for generations and why they actually work — which isn't the reason most people think. Horsetail is the famous one, and the story everybody repeats about it turned out to be wrong; what it really does is worth knowing, because it still leads you to the same ground. I also cover desert trumpet in the Southwest, saltbush and sagebrush, what a patch of stunted or missing vegetation is telling you, and how to use any of it without wasting a weekend chasing weeds.