When you think of edible nuts, you probably never think of acorns. Squirrels love them, and farmers feed them to their hogs, but not too many people today think of eating these nuts that were once a staple of many Native American diets long before the domestication of maize.
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Everybody knows the plucky little weed we call dandelion: the bane of any homeowner’s existence, the mark of an unkempt lawn. Industry experts estimate that half a billion dollars a year are spent on eradicating this little yellow flower from residential lawns alone.[1] But what if we put down the pesticide for a moment and take a look at this plant before we kill it?
My place of work has started a periodic newsletter. I don’t know yet how often they will publish it, but they have asked me to contribute a column on wild plants. Some of the material will likely duplicate other things on my blog or on the REWILD.info Field Guide. Nonetheless, I decided to publish them here as well. I think they can work well as a friendly introduction to different plants.
Look for the first one tomorrow entitled ”Dandy Lions.”
| Plant Profiles |
| The Plant Profiles series comes from a periodic newsletter that my current job produces. I write contributions on plants to put in the newsletter. These contributions differ from the majority of my blogging material in that they do not use e-prime and that I wrote them for an audience that has little to no familiarity with edible and medicinal plants |
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