A fellow advocate of eating wild! I loved this Keith. I use chickweed as often as I can, especially in salads and skin tonics, I also wilt it for a day for feeding my hens!
Chickens are very smart about what they eat. Chickweed is loaded with vitamins, including zinc and calcium (I think). It's likely good for everyone - and I am pretty sure it's got anti-itch or at least anti-inflammatory properties, a part of why it's used in salves. I usually make at least one batch a year.
I have a smallish landing where I grow herbs and small veggies - I’m now challenged to add some of the weeds you mention. I frequently (almost daily) make mixed green leafy salads from my potted garden and these weeds would supplement perfectly. My type of gardening. And… I’ll look out for these when out, to enhance my foraged collections.
If you can, I'd suggest starting with some flowers - violets are edible, give a nice flavor (in France, the US ones seem nearly flavorless), dandelion bits and, if you use them quickly, clover flowers. Something about clover flower get weird when you don't eat them right away.
It's also worth mentioning that with our weird early spring here, things I was seeing at the start of April are already up and growing.
We have that Fugain CD -- our daughters used to love it, and it was a long-standing family listen. It's actually pretty good pop, although kind of quirky. You just inspired me to put it on -- I had been meaning to listen to some CDs this weekend anyway. They represent music I often forget about.
I don’t hate to say it, but my wife is long been an advocate of making sure to save all our analog music. She’s right, of course.
There’s something beautiful about a rediscovery of music.
At a certain point, it gets a little frustrating to keep paying rent for the music that you listen to, like with Spotify and such.
Probably one of the only things that I really miss about New York is that we used to have this beautiful vintage stereo set up with all of my our records. I’m trying to convince a friend of mine to lug over our absolutely massive vintage receiver because I think I've figured out how it can be adapted for local current. But the thing weighs about 25 or 30 kg.
A fellow advocate of eating wild! I loved this Keith. I use chickweed as often as I can, especially in salads and skin tonics, I also wilt it for a day for feeding my hens!
Ha! Fabulous. But I don’t have hens ;)
Judy x
Chickens are very smart about what they eat. Chickweed is loaded with vitamins, including zinc and calcium (I think). It's likely good for everyone - and I am pretty sure it's got anti-itch or at least anti-inflammatory properties, a part of why it's used in salves. I usually make at least one batch a year.
I have a smallish landing where I grow herbs and small veggies - I’m now challenged to add some of the weeds you mention. I frequently (almost daily) make mixed green leafy salads from my potted garden and these weeds would supplement perfectly. My type of gardening. And… I’ll look out for these when out, to enhance my foraged collections.
Judy
If you can, I'd suggest starting with some flowers - violets are edible, give a nice flavor (in France, the US ones seem nearly flavorless), dandelion bits and, if you use them quickly, clover flowers. Something about clover flower get weird when you don't eat them right away.
It's also worth mentioning that with our weird early spring here, things I was seeing at the start of April are already up and growing.
Thanks Keith I’ll do that.
We have that Fugain CD -- our daughters used to love it, and it was a long-standing family listen. It's actually pretty good pop, although kind of quirky. You just inspired me to put it on -- I had been meaning to listen to some CDs this weekend anyway. They represent music I often forget about.
I don’t hate to say it, but my wife is long been an advocate of making sure to save all our analog music. She’s right, of course.
There’s something beautiful about a rediscovery of music.
At a certain point, it gets a little frustrating to keep paying rent for the music that you listen to, like with Spotify and such.
Probably one of the only things that I really miss about New York is that we used to have this beautiful vintage stereo set up with all of my our records. I’m trying to convince a friend of mine to lug over our absolutely massive vintage receiver because I think I've figured out how it can be adapted for local current. But the thing weighs about 25 or 30 kg.
Well… if you buy his ticket… ;)
Ha! That’s great.