[Diana in Wisconsin]

Dig up Chicory from along the roadside, dry and roast the roots and you have poor man’s ‘coffee.’

Snip the blooms of Elderberry and let them dry in a paper bag. Makes a nice tea.

Elderberry berries are good for you when you’re sick, so save them, too!

You probably shouldn’t eat anything you find laying in the road - unless you just freshly ran it over yourself, LOL!

[Pollard]

Wild Edibles of Missouri by Jan Phillips 1979 -- https://mdc.mo.gov/sites/default/files/2022-01/WildEdibles.pdf

She tried them all and also used her family as guinea pigs. Taught herself how to illustrate too. Best used when the plant is flowering since that's much of the ID, plus the book is arranged by flower color.

Yay for me. Got my tanks rearranged before it got hot. Now at 10, it's pushing 90 with a heat index pushing 100. Did some scrubbing on the inside of the dirty one. Mostly algae along with some remnants of the original food ingredient, soy lecithin. Will be spic and span by the Tues.

Happy Birthday!