ByJen
Every spring my yard fills up with dandelions. For years I pulled them — now I make syrup. With just 3 ingredients and under an hour, you can turn those weeds into golden syrup.
ByJen
Yes, you can eat sunflower petals — they’re completely edible and safe for most people when they come from untreated plants.
ByJen
You’ve probably walked right past curly dock a hundred times. It grows along fence lines, at the edges of garden beds, in vacant lots — and it’s edible.
ByJen
I had honeysuckle climbing along my back fence for three years before it occurred to me to do anything with it — turns out it’s been a cornerstone herb in Traditional Chinese Medicine for over a thousand years.
ByJen
Jewelweed salve is one of the most useful things you can make from a plant that grows wild in shaded spots all over the Midwest and Eastern US.
ByJen
Every spring, a low-growing, purple-tinged plant takes over the bare spots in my garden beds before I’ve even made my seed order.
