This is for you, Ruth, after we talking about how to eat on a budget. ;) We have been waiting for the lamb’s quarters to come up and have not seen any yet. I did , however, notice a beautiful bunch of chickweed(stellaria media). I picked some and smelled it, then tried a little bit careful so no one saw me. 
It was quite yummy. I want to get acquainted with more edible plants in our area, just for fun. Jessica made a lovely pine needle tea a few nights ago from our Western White Pine for dinner and it was delish, very high in vitamin C, but I am sure I will blog that later. 
That leads me to chickweed. It grows everywhere in the US, right now it is up full force and blooming with tiny white flowers. We found plenty for a big salad bowl of it. Even though my hubby looked at me with one eye brow raised, he put up with me and munched a little for dinner, then he took a helping! The children even said they PREFER it over common lettuce.
It really does have great flavor, is pretty, easy for anyone to find and best of all…it is FREE! It will be on our table regularly. Yum. Try it!
Our 2010 Petting Zoo was great. We had 32 visitors, hokey pete! Will blog about that soon, too, but family comes first. ;)
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You can't beat free greens in my mind. Ofcourse I don't know if I could figure out what was okay and what was deadly. Jeff thought it was a plate of cilontro. Maybe I could just trick him into eating it. :)
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