I am in love. Wild tarragon. It is the same species as the cultivated herb, but grows wild as a native species throughout much of the U.S. and Canada. I can’t believe I didn’t notice it sooner. According to the USDA range map, wild tarragon is concentrated in the western … [Read more...]
Shasta Daisy & Dandelion Greens with Yucca Antipasto
Daisy and dandelion greens each have strong flavors, one sweet and unusual, the other tending toward bitter. This recipe balances those flavors with each other in addition to a tart, spicy antipasto. Since I have a lot of yucca flower antipasto on hand--made earlier this year by … [Read more...]
A Tale of Four Daisies
My class and I were invited to forage some edible noxious weeds on a public trail in Breckenridge, Colorado a couple years ago. We saw no signs of herbicide spraying there, and I had seen none in past years at that spot, so a couple of us took home nice bags of budding ox-eye … [Read more...]
Katrina Blair’s Wild Wisdom of Weeds
Perhaps the hot springs had something to do with it, but when I sat down to review Katrina Blair’s book, The Wild Wisdom of Weeds: 13 Essential Plants for Human Survival (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2014), I found myself enjoying a sort of inner peace. The book features chapters … [Read more...]
You’re My Candytuft
I am occasionally guilty of paging through plant books to find humorous epithets for my better half. For example, he has been called "bristly hawksbeard," "spiny cocklebur," "Western sticktight," and "Mexican sprangletop." Today, however, he took a page out of my book and … [Read more...]
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