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I wage fierce war against dandelion outbreaks. Those roots are right bitches. But I use it in tea. I collect wild herbs and dry them out, before placing in a jar. I drink pineneedle tea and am weary of the chemicals running through my blood. Nature heals naturally. Loved the pictures. There are signs of a new fecundity in the air, indeed. 🙏

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Are you trying to maintain a manicured lawn look or something? You can see my Recommendations for Health article for chelators I take and teas I like. Thanks.

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I'm in the Cambridgeshire fenlands. The soil is good agriculturally speaking. I love seeing golden wheat in Summer. But in my back yard it dark grey clay. In its inevitable march, the soils were depleted long ago for subsistence farming and towns have flowered in such places. I've had to keep a good lawn by necessity because if I don't do the work now, on that, then it'll turn to shit quick.

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Mar 20·edited Mar 20Author

If dandelions or other plants are showing up all the time, there are reasons for that: https://youtu.be/bpEy-Mpm6AI?si=dVPHNdmm55RAaIdm . Nature is in perfect balance, equilibrium, like today's equal point, or the next equal Libra point. Hope you're not spraying with petrochemicals, using petrol, using petrofertilizers, that 30 Rockefeller Plaza tells you to use.

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Looking to put up a Nettle beer in the next few days....with some Dandelion whole plant and Ginger, maybe some dried Burdock root too....(Grieve 1931 or Susan Weed recipe).....should be ready in a few weeks....good cuz I drank all of last years at this point....thanks for the connect

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sounds interesting! I have burdock growing wild as well, but not as much as the bitter dock.

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Mar 20·edited Mar 20Liked by CopperVortex

yeah, yellow dock is a gift that is useful, i think it's a land healer, much in my yard as well....i made a molassas and yellow dock syrup, quite good and long lasting. here is a blurb on yellow dock uses...https://www.sawmillherbfarm.com/pages/herb-profile-yellow-dock new edit better yellow dock site....

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yep, that article says it's native to Korea, and we Koreans eat burdock root all the time as ban chan (side dishes). My mom as a kid would forage wild burdock and other plants up in the mountains of Korea.

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Mar 20·edited Mar 20Liked by CopperVortex

gobo is one other word, wonder what the Korean word is...cool you know the plant....such a deep root no wonder it can both gather and keep the land arid...best

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it's called ueong (ooh ong)

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Beautiful photos! Here in Minnesota, even though we've had an unprecedentedly mild winter, only a few things are peeking above ground yet, including nettles and motherwort in my yard. How do you prepare day lilies? Actually they are also showing here now. I've never eaten them though.

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thanks, Betsy! Sorry, I can't imagine living in MN! That's an 'MN' word, you know? I wrote an article about that. I have stinging nettle, which I bought from a permaculture farm, and it has proliferated well, but I don't see it this year yet- strange. I cooked them in soups like you would leeks or ramps.

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A MN word....I'll have to look at your archive for that article! I love nettles--I eat them and dry them for tea and make tinctures. What I don't know how to use is day lilies.

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Sorry, I meant I cook the day lilies in soups like leeks. I steep nettles in teas also.

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I hope your nettles come back. They have chosen to grow in abundance in my small urban lot, and I feel they are there to help me with so many things because they are nutritious with protein and minerals, as well as helpful with digestive and liver issues. They are my favorite plant. Motherwort is also growing all over here, and I love it too. Not so much to eat, but for medicine.

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I recommend you read Secret Life of Plants, if you haven't already, one of my favorite books. You'll then understand that there is a connection between plants and your consciousness. So I'm sure you have cultivated that relationship with nettle and motherwort. I don't think I've seen motherwort in the wild around here. Very striking plant!

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I read that book in the 1970s! Still remember it. I think I’ll look for a used copy and read it again.

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Thanks, CV! You are an inspiration! We are starting to get with the wild food program. We have lots of dandelion leaves, and I will chop them tomorrow into a big salad. After another year of massive autumn/winter rain here in Central California, the plants are busting out everywhere. A neighbor/friend is also teaching us about edible native plants, and he has a source for Chanterelles, the best we've ever tasted 😋😋😋😋😋! We are close to planting our raised beds and tomato containers, but we need to make the beds in our front year "deer-proof." Last year, I caught a six-point stag devouring my deep greens when I stepped outside around 1:00AM to look at the stars. He leaped out and stood on the neighbor's driveway. We stared at each other for about 20 seconds before he bolted. I was like, "You're welcome."

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thanks, Sharine! Yeah, wild is the way to go, since your typical garden vegetables require fertilizers, etc. We love foraging for mushrooms, so fun. I bought $30 of shiitake plugs on etsy a couple of years ago, and they constantly fruit a few a week now. The deer and other critters are a huge problem on my land, so I added a natural deer fence from branchy trees that have fallen or that I saw. This won't be good for the little critters, so we'll need to buy a lot of chicken wire. Last year, they took ALL of the dozens of squash, peaches, and some other plants. I like to share, but they took too much! Yeah, I interact with animals and plants- my animal communication article has a video where I interact with deer for a very long time. Happy gardening and foraging!

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Wonderful photos. Some of those I didn't know were edible. I can't eat the wild onions in my yard, they give me bad indigestion. But if I had those wild chives I could eat them.

You have a nice woodsy location. Here, it started out as an early Spring, then recently we have had two hard freezes, one this morning. I had one clump of daffodils like yours bloom early.

The dandelions in my yard haven't appeared yet. I do like to eat their green leaves.

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thanks! Too bad you can't eat onion grass, since they're everywhere. Maybe try again, unless you have before. Not sure if the chives are wild- got them from someone, but they're a perennial. Yeah it's an early Spring this year. We have enough dandelions and other greens to never buy greens again. You can make dandelion honey with the flowers, and we also dry the roots.

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Oh, and we should be getting morels soon, usually here in April.

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