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  • Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:27:10 +0000: Edible Flowers: Part Fifteen - Eat The Weeds and other things, too
    Mango, Catnip, Pignut, Lovage, Salsify, Hairy Cowpea, Fritillary, Mint, Cow Slip, Birch Did you know mangoes and poison ivy  are botanical kissing cousins? And a sensitivity to one can be a sensitivity to the other? In fact there several related species, all in the Anacardiaceae family: Mangoes, poison ivy, poison sumac, Brazilian pepper, cashews, and [...]
  • Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:23:06 +0000: Yaupon Holly, Ilex vomitoria - Eat The Weeds and other things, too
    History has many layers and shades. It’s not a straight timeline of great clarity but more like a meandering muddy river with much confluence, influence and effluents. During the European 100-year war composers wrote a lot of quartets because there weren’t enough musicians around to play the larger symphonies. Carburetors for primitive cars came from [...]
  • Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:37:41 +0000: Edible Flowers: Part Fourteen - Eat The Weeds and other things, too
    Manzanita, Rose of Sharon, Tea, Campanula, Artichoke, Saffron, Samphire, Sage, Parsley, Common Mallow Western states often seem to get short-changed in the foraging realm because most of the edible foreign weeds landed on the east coast. They’ve been slowly working their way west for centuries, which from a botanical point of view is a small [...]
  • Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:21:33 +0000: Tulip Tree - Eat The Weeds and other things, too
    Not every edible plant has to be a nutritional powerhouse. Some are “edible” by the barest of means. A good example is the Tulip Tree, Liriodendron tulipifera, said leer-ee-oh-DEN-drawn too-lih-PIFF-er-uh. What if you read that a native plant was “used to make honey.”  What would you think? Probably that the plant was cultivated for bees [...]
  • Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:56:48 +0000: Edible Flowers: Part Thirteen - Eat The Weeds and other things, too
    Sesbania Grandifolia, Lemon Verbena, Szechaun Buttons, Horseradish, Tea Olive, Tiger Lily, Currants, Honewort, Thyme, Indian Paint Brush Sesbania grandifolia, also called the Vegetable Hummingbird Tree and the Scarlet Wisteria, has managed to work its way into warmer areas of the world. If you have a frost you might be able to pot it but you [...]
Posted by Michael on January 28th, 2012

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