Jenny Solidago Mansell takes us on a mini yard tour of edibles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3HmA5kf4YE&fbclid=IwAR3BItA8ASeYV7zTYjsOyZNaIG3TFH_zL-4rOU5R-nij1AHrorH-aey8oGw

Things to do with your kids during a quarantine

Here is a great idea for families to do together while being stuck at home. Of course adults can do this without any kids present also. I am proposing a scavenger hunt of sorts. I’m going to send you a photograph of the different edible plants that I have growing in my very own yard right now. Some of these you’ve probably not heard of before so I’m also including a website where you can look them up and see what they are supposed to look like. Let’s see how many of these you can find in your own yards. I might suggest that you pick some of them grind them up and throw them in your next pot of soup. If the kids do this themselves they’re more likely to eat it :-)Also you can look up lots of different recipes to use these plants on your own but for me and easy way to use them it’s just how you would normally use other greens. Some of these you’re going to like and some of them you will not. Some of them are great in tea and some of them in soup and some of them, like the violet looks so pretty in your salad and you can eat the flower. ( you can also eat the blossoms of most fruit trees... check before you eat though)

See how many of these you can find.

I am only going to give you the names so you have to do a little detective work, find cooked and raw recipes, find out the nutritional value of what you have in your yard. ( look them up on the USDA website... you will be surprised, I bet) Then make some tea, add to your favorite recipe that includes greens, toss them in your favorite soup.
dandelion, henbit, chickweed, dead nettle, cleavers, violet, wood worrel, wild onion. Here is a great website that has these pictured and tells you a little about them.