Food from the yard and the woods.....

 I have a interest in edible weeds. Been taking a little notes from the internet,and a few specimens from my yard :) Wood Sorrel and some Chickweed...I believe! The wood sorrel is also called sour weed,or sour grass. If you chew on it ...you will know why. If you look close enough you can see how I chewed on the bottom of my sour weed. It was a favorite of mine when I was a child. The white stones I found in the yard. I am going to wash them and write a word of worth on each.
Here's Jaxon chewing on a bit of the sourweed himself. This picture was taken last Spring!

And the chickens love the chickweed...thus the name!

 Some blackberries from our woods a few summers ago.

This is Purslane in my yard last summer....its very healthy for you...it can be eaten raw in a salad or sauteed in olive oil with some seasoning.

Polk Salad or Polk Weed...to cook this..you must boil it and drain the water several times before eating it. Otherwise,you may get a belly cramp. I boil and drain it about three times. It looks a bit like Spinach after it is cooked.

 So do you have a interest in edible weeds? The earth can give some mighty good food from the wild...we just need some knowledge of what and what not to gather for our table. My kids could gather Polk Salad when they were very young :) They came to me one day many years ago with a arm load of it...I cooked it too!