EatTheWeeds: Episode 12: Chickweed, Stellaria

http://www.eattheweeds.com/chickweed-connoisseurs-2/

Learn from Green Deane how to identify and prepare chickweed, short-lived spring time green and wild food.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Foraging
• wild
• food
• edible
• plants
• Thistle
• raw
• herbs
• survival
• medicine
• bushcraft
• permaculture
• Stellaria
• wildcrafting

[123JumpingJacks]

HAve you spent extensive time in the woods? If so under what circumstances? Camping?

[EatTheWeeds]

@123JumpingJacks I was a latchkey kid and spent most of my time in the woods growing up.

[auggiedoggy]

When cooking chickweed do you chop up the stems and cook them also or is it just the leaves? I think I have this plant growing between the patio stones in my yard. Are small ferns edible? I noticed some small fern plants bordering the patio area as well.

[EatTheWeeds]

@auggiedoggy All of the chickweed above ground is edible. As for ferns... it depends on what fern it might be. Some are edible, many are not.

[ohiofarmboy77]

I just wanted to say you are putting out some GREAT videos!! I have really enjoyed watching them. Also... the birds singing on your intro drive my cats NUTS! I have to turn the volume down for that part because if they hear it they are all over my laptop!

[EatTheWeeds]

@ohiofarmboy77 Thanks... at video 101 I changed the format and dropped the bird call at the beginning.

[123JumpingJacks]

Sorry for my ignorance but what is a latchkey kid?

[zholyrebel]

i have tons of this in my yard

[auggiedoggy]

@EatTheWeeds : Ok, I'll leave the ferns alone. Thanks.

[Teoroy]

thank you so much!!!!!