Scott and I were taking the dogs to out of our favorite walking spots out in the middle of nowhere so that they can ram around and run through the little stream and up and down the hills. Right along side one of the kind of dried up streambeds we found these wild beans growing. I looked them up on my plant, identifier thing, and sure enough what looked like beans is actually beans! we picked quite a few and we’re going to cook them up tomorrow.
Well, we have left the last of the elderberries for the birds, but my husband makes kombucha out of just about everything he can get his hands on, and to this date those who have tasted all of his kombucha, always say that his is better than they’ve ever had Well. Apparently this one is the best of the best. He’s been working for several weeks now gathering and cleaning and creating kombucha from our elderberry bush. Elderberries by themselves are not very tasty. I remember growing up having elderberry pie but it seems to me like that there were other fruits in that pie as well as elderberries. It’s also my recollection that it had to be sweetened a lot in order to be tasty. At any rate, if you’ve got elderberries, he might try making kombucha.
I keep a nice stand of lambs quarters growing in the back side of my garden. The tender leaves just keep coming. I use them all summer and spring and it’s getting close to fall now but I use them in casseroles, soups and salads pictured here are both Lambsquarters and sweet potato leaves. Did you know that you can also eat the leaves of sweet potatoes? They’re highly nutritious.
