SC - Edible weeds
Ron and Laurene Wells
tinyzoo at aracnet.com
Tue Jul 18 10:21:45 PDT 2000
At 11:44 PM 7/17/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 22:23:57 EDT
>From: LrdRas at aol.com
>Subject: SC - KUDZU-OOP
>
>In a message dated 7/15/00 12:13:34 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>DianaFiona at aol.com writes:
>
><< Somewhere I have bookmarked an interesting website on Kudzu >>
>
>Recipes can be found at:
>
>http://home.att.net/~ejlinton/jelly.html
I'll have to have a look at this! Thanks for posting it publicly.
>This plant is truly one of the most useful plants on the planet. The reason
>it is not being used is that commercial enterprise and big agribusiness chose
>not to run with the ball when it was originally introduced.
I've noticed the same phenomenon with Blackberries here in the
Northwest. They are considered WEEDS here in Oregon. People buy poisons
and hire Landscape Specialists with heavy equipment to kill them. Even
farms do this! they make such wonderful fruit!!! Why don't they use the
local gift fruit? Because it is too easy, is the only thing I can think
of. Why allow something to grow naturally, when you can spend thousands of
dollars eradicating it and planting something else that is not native and
needs more nurturing instead?
>Of course, this does not surprise me because even my neighbors try to
>eradicate the extremely useful dandelion from their yard for whatever bizarre
>reasons instead of using it.
Earlier this spring I fed my family a salad which included young dandelion
leaves. (I never use poisons in my yard, so I thought after a year of
living here without poisons it would probably be safe to eat.) My husband
spotted them, and with a look on his face that must have resembled Socrates
after he drank poison said, "Are these WEEDS in my salad?!" I got the
distinct feeling that he did not want me harvesting the dandelions for our
dinner table anymore. It was so funny though, the look on his face, that I
just couldn't help laughing. I still giggle when I think about
it. :) Dandelions are one of the most healthful plants growing on the
planet, and they are so abundant making sure that there is nutrition enough
for EVERYONE, and yet our society supports and encourages companies to
formulate stronger and stronger poisons to kill them. It seems to me that
God has provided plenty of food for the entire world - there SHOULD not be
anyone starving. Yet greed and confused values have perpetrated an global
society that allows millions of people to starve every day.
Maybe we should send packets of Dandelion seeds to Ethiopia and Calcutta,
and the starving nations of the world? Dandelions seem to survive
ANYTHING! Maybe there would not be so many starving people? Of course,
the governments might arrest us for importing noxious weeds... SIGH...
I once had a recipe for Dandelion Wine also. I think it was written by
someone who was downing a bottle of it while they wrote though, it's kinda
long and wordy!
- -Laurene
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