Ending and Beginning

I’m looking out the window at 6″ of new snow and looking forward to Spring, especially to trying some of the edible lawn weeds we have:

• Dandelion (Flowers, leaves, roots)
• Burdock (roots, foliage is toxic)
• Plantain, buckhorn and broadleaf (leaves)
• Purslane (leaves)

Those are the ones I know we have, and there are undoubtedly others. We picked and ate some dandelion leaves last Spring — can’t wait to try the roots.

What little I’ve found to read about these indicates what you’d expect: smaller and younger leaves and roots are better, and sometimes is the difference between edible and inedible. This is one resource I’ve found: http://www.eattheweeds.com.

I’m glad we don’t use chemicals on our lawn.

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