Dandelions and Civilization (short vid)UPDATED pg 11 Dandelion and Spike Proteins

Excellent to know it is more nutrient dense! This we will surely need!

Thanks, Lance - good information!

Good bump - thanks!

So recently I posted a video and talked about regrowing celery from a stalk from the store.

I cut the stalk and planted it and the very next day I could see a change in the center of the stalk - a bit greener. That's less than a week ago and today I can recognize celery leaves coming up from the center - this is amazing!

The speed at which it is growing is remarkable and this, coupled with what Lance said about extra flavor and nutrition, make this one a no-brainer! Even if you don't want the celery right now, buy one and plant the end for future reference - then you will have your own even if none in stores.

Yes...I was going o wrie more abo sff like his b nl I fix my kb...kind of oinless...lol...soon.

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Thanks OP. It is truly clown world to me when I see people spraying toxic carcinogens all over their yard to eradicate this highly useful edible and medicinal plant. Also dandelion is good for honey bees.

Now THIS is on my "to grow" list!

Thanks for bringing all of this to people's attention, Lance!

Edit: Watched the vid. Knew about the medicinal value of Comfrey. Didn't really know the gardening value of it. Very cool!

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Fingers on the wrong home keys?

no it just takes forever to type on the on-screen kb....

Cut and sifted dandelion root tea helps leukemia. It lowers the blasts.

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It also helps people with colon cancer.


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Tracsicum has traditionally been used to detoxify the liver!

So abundant in nature, is one of nature's blessings.

But I will bet dollars to donuts that the pharmaceutical industry is not interested in you knowing that.

dandelions' are so good for you. great post.

Lawns are totally moronic. Did you know that the way Cubans have managed to survive their communist regime is by small scale agriculture? That is what should happen.

Everyone who owns property should have a garden. They could produce at least one season of vegetables, herbs, and fruits. Most could grow tree crops of nuts and fruits. There would be tremendous savings.

Be careful on wild edibles including invasive nonative species that our ancestors brought over. Many have high amounts of oxalic acid and eating too much contributes to kidney stones. Similarly, the practice of eating salad should be perfectly fine, but many Americans are now having digestion issues like irritable bowel syndrome due to stress. They have poor coping skills and so this adversely affects the mucosal coating of the bowel.

That can easily be taken care of by slippery elm tea. That old standby is what should be used when you have this or sore throats. Nothing else works as well.

Most treatment just anesthetizes which is plumb silly as the issue is a lack of slippery coating.

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Nonsense. I was merely pointing out these plants came from the Old Country as they were veggies eaten there, then since their descendants don't see them as veggies, they grew wild.

Get a grip. Talk to a naturalist. See kudzu and honeysuckle and Common plantain.

I probably posted when I ordered a comfrey root a couple weeks ago, or when I received and planted it. Yesterday I discovered it is already coming up! Comfrey is good for more things than a person can list in one place! Feed it to livestock. Wrap an injury with it. Use it as mulch. Incredible stuff!

Celery is coming up so quickly I could probably hear it grow if I put my ear next to it! This is totally gratifying - I do hope it grows equally well in the house when the weather changes.

Any comments on housing celery, Lance?

I'm pretty sure that in the film Witness with Harrison Ford, the healing balm given to his character who suffers a penetrating gut gunshot wound was given comfrey and linseed oil.

One does not routinely take comfrey internally, but when the SHTF, comfrey might be your herb of last resort with horrendous wounds as it can be near miraculous. Old farmers with a terribly ill calf used to pray and use comfrey. The same with terribly destroyed bone as it can help knit the bone and perhaps stimulate blood circulation and repair it.

Common plantain is soldier's herb used by the Romans but is an invasive nonnative species in America. And the Native Americans called it White Man's Foot as whereveer the settlers went, the seeds got left behind and it spread everywhere. Every meadow east of the Mississippi River has soldier's herb.

Now that is like a 2 on the healing scale but easily identifable even by kiddos and ubiquitous.

But comfrey is a 10 but has to typically be cultivated. Old farms will have a neglected herb patch and that is usually found there.

Chichory is the same way as French settlers brought it over and it once was grown on purpose to stretch expensive coffee so it lasted longer yet had a robust taste. Now those distinctive blue flowers are in most meadows and along roads.

Some of these plants like chichory were used by sheep herders to spin wool yarn and then dye it. Chichory makes a brown color. Walnut husks made a very black dye. Something as simple as red onion skins can be utilized.
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You use salt or urine as the mordant (dye fixative).

I have 2 degrees in permacultre and a teachers cert in it.
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Eat it or feed it to hogs

Honeysuckle not quite as usefull
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I am a naturalist silly. My friend David wrote the book in the link above. He and his wife run this.
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Read the book and get back to me. And take an introduction to permacuture course. Just because people do not know how to utilize the plants doesnt make them invasive. Hence the title of this thread... And we shall not discuss this further. this a useful to humans plant thread not a bow down to monsanto who started the invasive plant gibberish thread.

Go start your own invasive species thread.. 'Science is settled'...if you don' grasp that science is NEVER settled you don't grasp science. I'll just keep deleting you. I gave you an option. You chose to ignore it. So be it. We all have free Will but I have a delete post option.

One of the names for Comfrey is "Bone Knit" or "Bone Set".

Yes. A rather older friend of mine, 66, fell off a ladder and broke his hip '9 months to heal' said his Dr...I had him limping along just fine at 3. the dr asked 'how did you do this?' and he said (for the 3rd time) 'You have to ask my witchdoctor Lance'...and the Dr was not interested at all.

I still don' have a kb of merit so can not wrie long missives...butt I have lots more to share...another few more days. And I don' have o peck at my screen...