Foraging edible treasures: Nanna Anna’s guide to the dandelion flower

There is an abundance of edible weeds and flowers everywhere, you just need to know what you’re looking for and where to find it.

‘Nanna’ Anna has spent her life foraging for all things edible and shows us what and where to find it and what you can do with them.

In this episode, we look at the dandelion plant and see what uses the plant can be used for. Everything from making a forages tea, to a weedy green pesto with other foraged greens.

To learn more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlq7sbj0LhM

From The House of Wellness Season 7, Episode 38.

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There are edible foods all around us many of them in unexpected places I’m Anna the urban Nana and I’m going to show you some of them one of the first species that people tend to learn about when they start foraging is dandelion it’s actually a part of a pretty large family

That has many different edible species in it so it’s good to know who’s who what we’re looking at here is probably what you recognize as true dandelion it tends to grow in a sort of rosette of leaves coming out from one central place and it’ll have one or many flowers

Coming out now the way to tell it’s a true dandelion is to have a look at the leaves they’re really strappy and they’re quite tender a bit like a lettuce leaf really and they have these fairly sharply pointed loes and that’s actually where the name dandelion comes

From it’s from the French phrase don’t Deon the tooth of the lion what we’ve got here is one of dandelion cousins and a lot of people do confuse use it with dandelion because it has similar yellow flowers this plant though is what’s called sour thistle

Sous oracus and we can tell it’s not a dandelion because it’s growing really tall and it has a stem that sort of tends to be a bit purple and the flowers grow in clumps you can use this in the same way that you use dandelion using the greens as salad Edibles or adding

Them to soups and stir fries and you can also pickle the flower buds to make what’s known as Poor Man’s capers one of the things you can do with dandelion is use it in tea you can use them fresh or dried and you can also add the dried roasted roots of the dandelion

Root into something like a forages tea blend which is really nice to have when you’re out foraging but if you’ve got an absolute abundance of wild wedy greens the best thing you can do is add a bit of oil some nuts and make it into a

Weedy green pesto you can keep this in the fridge for months or you can even freeze it in ice cube trays and it love last you all the way throughout the year and you’ll be catching and storing the energy and nutrition of those weeds to use whenever there’s a bit of scarcity

In your garden it’s important when you’re starting to eat green weeds that you don’t introduce too many at the one time your gut can have a bit of a hard time digesting it when you’re learning what they’re like but also they tend to have a bit more of a bitter or good for

You taste and as the old saying goes if in out just leave it Out