When you’re weeding in your yard or garden, are you keeping the edible ones and tossing them in your smoothie?
My GS today is made 100% from volunteer greens: volunteer chard and spinach, greens regrown on beets I overwintered from last year, and . . . MORNING GLORY and DANDELION.
If you don’t know what purslane looks like, google it. It’s my favorite weed to use. Morning glory, I won’t lie, tastes . . . well, WEEDY. Dandelion is best before it flowers with those familiar yellowheads–about that point, the greens get bitter. I use them all, anyway, but just keep amounts small.
Don’t use weeds in fields that are sprayed or next to roadways!
I’m going to give Craig a pint of Weed Smoothie tonight and see how openminded he is. He’s buried at work, but maybe I can get him to register on this blog and comment, later . . .
p.s. Update on the chemotherapy story from a few days ago: Daniel’s mother is going to be arrested, just like Parker Jensen’s father was. (He took his family, including Parker, to a pre-planned family reunion in Idaho, and the State of Utah called it kidnapping and sent HELICOPTERS to the family’s ranch there, and actually put him in an orange jumpsuit in the jail in Idaho.) What a blessing that Parker never got nuked half to death and is a healthy teenager now. No other family I have worked with in advocating for families-against-the-state-in-cancer-treatment-cases has been so fortunate.
I think these kind of stories make me want to just avoid doctors altogether.
I’m a little scared to use weeks. I need to become more educated about what is edible and what is not and find pictures of them. I need like a kindergarten flip chart :) I tried dandelions the other day, but I think I got them too bitter. I’ll try using them before they flower next time. I’ve converted 10 people to green smoothies in the past month! (three of us have bought blendtecs)
I made soup the other night (not in the blendtec) and rolls, and my husband asked if we were going to blend everything up. I told him just because we have the best blender in the world sitting on our counter doesn’t mean we have to blend EVERYTHING!!
Thanks for everything you do!
But you COULD . . . if you WANTED to!
I love that you’re converting everybody!!
I just saw a news blip regarding Daniel’s mom and how she was being sought-after. Sad. We have too much gov’t. control!
I feel like Tiffany! The kindergarten flip chart sounds like a great idea to me. I don’t know what is what and what is actually safe to eat. Morning Glory, for example, is something I had no idea was edible! It grows all over my area. We have honey suckle too….Grows wild here, but I don’t know if the greens are edible. (I know about the flower part).
If anyone knows some great web-sites with good, clear pictures, I am interested.
Blessings,
Vanetta
Indeed, there are so many options & opinions in health care & cancer treatment – sad for this family!
I recently read that women who had mameograms every two years were much more likely to be diganosed as having cancer (& recieve treatment) than those with testing done less frequently – the assumption being (by the writer? the researchers??) that they often go into remission on their own!!
Re: morning glory – the seeds of many species are hallucinogenic (similar properties to LSD) & laxative. (& might cause miscarriage)
One species, Ipomoea aquatica, or ‘water spinach’ is widely used (E & SE Asia, & TX) . . . which sounds interesting ! I haven’t thought of Morning Glory as edible – & can’t find any refrences (in a quick search) to ones that are – would be interested in the source for the info :)
I have the Department of the Army’s The Illustrated Guide to Edible Wild Plants. It’s cheap on Amazon.
I am interested in wild edibles also and discovered a site you might want to take a look at http://www.harmonyhikes.com/wild.htm It is by Victoria Boutenko’s son, Sergei.