Tuesday eating from your yard ~ dandelion flowers are the most abundant in the spring. Collecting enough dandelion flowers and removing the petals in large enough quantities to make dandelion wine or syrup takes some time~making the current pandemic lockdown the ideal time. My most favorite use of dandelion flowers is to make dandelion syrup. …
Spring is the prime time to eat dandelion leaves, as the season progresses the leaves are still edible, but they become more bitter. Dandelion leaves are one of the most nutritious green vegetables with vitamin A and C, magnesium, potassium, calcium and iron etc etc. Reaching back to last week’s Tuesday Eating from your Yard …
“My Dad and My Dandelions!” A Tribute to Hank Kipp A little over six years ago, on April 29th, 2012 to be precise, I quite spontaneously decided to weed a dense patch of dandelions in front of the townhouse complex where I’d been living for the previous two years. The front of said complex—along the …
Tuesday eating from your yard tip~Dandelions are a treasure trove of potassium, calcium, iron, magnesium, vitamin A,C,K and B6. The flowers, leaves and roots are edible. The green parts are bitter, but the yellow of the flower is not. I throw several young dandelion leaves in my daily salad. The bitter of the leaves stimulates …