Field of Greens

How exciting to have an entire field of wild fodder available to me! Well, not just me, but still, readily available. I haven't yet seen anyone in this enormous field, and that's okay, I don't like to pick my wild greens in front of strangers. hehe.

Here we have just a small section. It runs pretty far to the right too. 

So we were having such nice weather, my husband and I decided to take the doggies out for a run, and run they did. My husband was kind enough to take pictures while I spent my time looking around my feet for grasses. There was lots of buttercups, which are not really edible and mostly consider toxic. You don't really want to eat them. But Buttercups aside, there was still lots of wild edibles, and I'm sure there were tons that I don't know! But I did find that I was certain I'd recognize was, wild violet, wild strawberry, dandelion, plantain grass and wild onions. Some of which sounds like something yummy I'd saute with my eggs. 

 My bounty of wild greens! I mostly have plantain leaves since they were more bountiful then the other greens. The dandelion leaves were tiny and hard to find. I saw lots of seed stems, but the leaves were very petite and hidden under a mat of regular grass. Which was really frustrating. I love bitter greens and dandelions are some of my favorite. Admittedly, I have not yet tried plantain greens.

This is how you can tell that they are plantain greens. They have ridges running up the bottom of the leaf.

     

 These are the sad stringy dandelion greens I've collected. I'll keep looking for some more and take pictures of my collection of green finds. I haven't really had much lucking finding purslane or lambs quarter (which is my personal favorite). So next time I go foraging, I'll be studying up to see if I can find anything else. Never eat anything that you aren't 100% sure is what you've picked.

What onions! Look at them! I'm going to chop them up and saute them in some bacon grease with the greens. 💗

Wild strawberries, not yet ripe! And hands covered in paint since that's what we've been up to.

Here I am, digging around in the grass!

So I really wanted to show you guys what the saute would look like, buuuuuut, I left them on the table and went out for a bit. My mother in law thought there was a pile of grass and threw it all out. Which in hindsight is just really funny to me. Can't really be upset because I didn't pay for any of it and it looks So not a big deal, I will go and harvest more and take plenty more pictures and actually show what I cook with it!

So part two is coming. Until then, enjoy the rest of the photos from our day in the field.

                                                 Losing my little dog in the tall grass.

The End!

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