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To: humblegunner

Grew up eating pig weed and dandy lions, the yellow flowers on dandy lions also made a great jellly.


14 posted on 04/18/2017 2:07:03 PM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: rovenstinez

Pig weed is good. About the same nutrition as spinach. It’s a wild amaranth so the seeds are edible and nutritious too if you can stand to winnow them out of the very prickly bracts.


20 posted on 04/18/2017 2:14:49 PM PDT by TigersEye (Make up my mind, NBC,CBS,CNN,ABC. What are the "facts" today?)
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To: rovenstinez

We used to make dandelion wine from the flowers. Never tried the jelly, though.


64 posted on 04/18/2017 6:52:52 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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