Comments on: Eating your weeds

By: Jacqui MacNeill (Escents Aromatherapy Essential Oils)

Jacqui MacNeill (Escents Aromatherapy Essential Oils) — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 18:37:08 +0000

It’s great to encourage people to eat their weeds rather than just pulling them and throwing them out. This is sustainable living at its best! :)

By: betsy

betsy — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 23:25:08 +0000

I have to say dandelions and the like are quite tasty in spring! I used to teach an edible and medicinal plants class at a camp I ran and to entice kids to eat the dandelion greens, we’d bring some ranch dressing on the walk. The comments I loved the most were ” I’m never going to let my dad kill the dandelions in our yard again!” and “wow, can I have another?”
Granted, the ranch dressing helped, but it was great to get kids thinking outside the “produce section” and there are a lot of tasty treats to be had right in your own back yard (yes, we did cover the poisonous ones, too…safety first!).
Love this!
thanks for the post!

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:01:42 +0000

I have an affinity for eating weeds. IMHO a weed is only a weed if it is not edible. I just ate a chickweed and baby lettuce salad!

By: jake

jake — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:54:58 +0000

Great blog, envious of the left-coasters here in the Alberta foothils. Earliest outdoor planting i never before the end of April here, but the indoor seeding can start.

I agree with Yan, I dried a tray of dandelion roots last spring when I was cleaning up a patch in the garden – it seemed a waste to just toss them in the compost. Then I roasted them (dark) and ground them in a coffee grinder – a nice toasty, rich, earthy flavour. I love coffee, but nice to have a small stash of local, organic, free beverages – mint, bergamot, chamomile tisanes, and dandelion root coffee. I ordered seed for root chicory to try this year…

By: Erin

Erin — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:35:40 +0000

Andrea, I just got your book at the library it is great. I have the soil experiment going with my grandson. I entered to win a copy of “Sugar snaps and Strawberries”, but if I don’t its on my wish list! If I have time at the kids nap time I’m going to put a picture of our experiment and a link to your give away on my blog. In part I don’t want to share this I want to win! But that is selfish so I’ll try and find time to spread the news. A new reader from the Oregon Coast, Erin

By: Andrea Bellamy

Andrea Bellamy — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:59:26 +0000

Meemsnyc – Eating them: it’s the ultimate revenge!

Yan – You’ve convinced me! I’ll try it. :)

By: Yan

Yan — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:28:18 +0000

try the dandelion roots Andrea! trust me! …just toss a few in your oven while you’re baking something else and pull them out to grind when your house fills with the most AMAZING chocolaty smell. the good smell alone will convince you! mmm

By: meemsnyc

meemsnyc — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 05:57:27 +0000

For some reason, for me, I just can’t get over the fact that they are pests / weeds in my garden.