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
Yes, sunflower petals are edible — raw, dried, or steeped into tea. Here’s what they taste like, which ones to avoid, and simple ways to use them from your garden.
ByJen
Stinging nettles grow along the edges of my property every spring, and for a long time I just pulled them and moved on.
ByJen
If you’ve got goldenrod growing along your fence line or in a nearby field, you’ve been walking past a really useful medicinal plant.
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
I was already headed toward the shed to grab the mower when I stopped at the edge of our back yard. The whole lower corner was covered in dandelions — hundreds of them, open and yellow, right at their peak.
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.
