Cooking Weeds and Tasty Recipes

This really intrigued me, so I decided to look into it myself. I came across a number of interesting sites that all discuss cooking with weeds from your garden. Some look kind of tasty but for the most part they look … err… interesting. Here’s a list of links that I found helpful:

Eating Weeds for Health – How weeds are good for your health

Edible Weeds and Recipes – A great article about weeds that are healthy and tasty

Species of Weed and Cooking Instructions – Types of weeds, recipes and how to cook them.

These sites were really very helpful in my search for weeds to eat. They provided hope for me that I could find a veritable farm in my backyard. Not so…

Don’t Eat Weeds You Can’t Verify

I did a bit of looking around and I couldn’t find a single website around weeds in my backyard. The weeds I found on these sites were all vastly different to what I have encountered before. So naturally, when I ventured into my backyard, all I found were the usual bunches of crows feet and other not-so-tasty looking plants. Since I couldn’t find any information about what Australian plants to eat, or positively identify the plants from websites, I decided to do something intelligent.

Not Eat Them. If I did, I could end up quite sick.

Eating Australian Weeds

Unfortunately I couldn’t find any websites out there that specifically dealt with Australian Weeds. That’s a pity for me as the Australian environment hosts a lot of poisonous plants and animals. Particularly those that have been introduced by European settlers.

Forward Australian Weed Eating Articles Onto Me

I realise this is a bit of a weird call to arms, but if you happen to find any information about eating weeds, please let me know via my contact page. I’ll happily post about it and give you credit for your help.

Rob
Your Local, Native Weed Eater

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It’s just in time for the holiday season, so why not give someone the present of sustainability, in the form of a Kindle, this Christmas. You might say it will Kindle their concern for saving the environment, time and money.

Happy Holidays, Mother Earth!

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It kind of makes you feel pretty guilty when you realise that you’re living such a cushioned lifestyle at the expense of the environment but that doesn’t stop you from becoming more green. In fact it will act as motivation to consider your behaviour when contributing to the betterment or demise of the environment around you.