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Stinging Nettle Plant: The Underappreciated Green of the Wild

Stinging Nettle Plant: The Underappreciated Green of the Wild, don't sniff them. It will sting/burn your nose!

AWESOME!!!!!Dehydrated Stinging Nettles, Why?: Wild Edibles. @Bill n Amy Clements
All about eating lambsquarter (Chenopodium album)

Lamb's quarter

chickweed - the whole plant is edible. Add to salads! Eat the sprout, it's highly nutritious and tastes great!!

Chickweed flower - Chickweed is multi-functional because its presence decreases insect damage to other plants. This plant has a lot of health benefits and is full of vitamins, minerals and other essential nutrients.

Noxious weed known as goosegrass aka muttonchops aka sticky willy. Weed or natural remedy? Chickens and dogs love to eat them. Can be used as a strainer and to treat UTIs.

Noxious weed known as goosegrass aka muttonchops aka sticky willy. Can be used as a strainer and to treat UTIs.

How to harvest nettle seeds for culinary use

I can't wait For seed season! Nettle Seed Harvesting Nettle Seeds, interesting and useful

The garden you never knew you had part 2: this is a link to a site that talks about all you can do with kudzu and other "1000 wild edibles"! very informative, very interesting:)

caption id& align& width& Kudzu, Pueraria montana var. lobata, the vine people love to hate.& The government tells me that which grows up the

salsify (goatsbeard)... The whole plant can be eaten raw the whole year long. It would appear to be bitter, but it is not, neither is the milky white sap, which usually is an indicator to stay away, but in this case is good to eat. The bloomed flower buds are very mild and sweet. Premature flowerbuds have a radish flavor. The root can be eaten raw, or cooked like a yam or potato. They look like giant carrots, and break easily when pulled. A shovel is useful in harvesting the roots.

The whole plant can be eaten raw the whole year long. It would appear to be bitter, but it is not, neither is the milky white sap, which usually is an indicator to stay away, but in this case is good to eat. The bloomed flower buds

photo 100_6302_zpsc254a970.jpg Look for a tiny line of hairs going down one side of the stem. It will occasionally alternate from one side of the stem to the other. If that line of hairs is there, you've got chickweed. No need for further identification needed. No hairs, and no white sap- its scarlet pimpernel. No hairs and white sap- spurge.
Foraging for wild vegetables - plant identification and recipes! @Holly Elkins Elkins Elkins Elkins Elkins Drake
Peppergrass: Potent Pipsqueak | Eat The Weeds and other things, too
crepis japonica basal rosette: edible and good for you!
wild carrot plant (Queen Anne's Lace)

Queen Anne's Lace (wild carrot) GF carrot cake - let's do some wild edibles! (also on this site using Queen Anne's Lace: jelly, homemade paper, fabric dye, cognac cocktail

Purslane - A nutritious edible weed

Purslane: A Nutritious and Edible Weed

Purslane - we call it a weed. This web page brings you purslane facts and purslane recipes to bolster your appreciation of this virtuous wild plant. A nutritious edible weed absolutely delicious when mixed with yogurt and garlic!

a treasured high-vitamin edible and medicinal herb. Brought it with me from Queens, set it into the large raised bed at side yard. Haven't taken it out of the planter yet though.

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