by Julia | Jan 26, 2014 | Edible Weeds & Flowers, Healing Plants, Recipes
Magenta Spreen – Chenopodium giganteum This is a beautiful plant to grow with it’s soft green goosefoot shaped leaves that have a splash of magenta-pink on the newest leaves of each stem. It is an annual, meaning it grows for one season, and then dies down. ...
by Julia | Jan 5, 2014 | Edible Weeds & Flowers, Healing Plants, Raw Food, Recipes, Sustainable Living
Amaranth, Green Amaranthus viridis or Purple Amaranthus lividus Description These are summer growing annuals found in disturbed, impoverished places and cultivated nutrient rich places like our vegetable gardens or animal pens. They have densely clustered...
by Julia | Jun 12, 2013 | Edible Weeds & Flowers
Galinsoga – Galinsoga parviflora Description This leafy, upright, summer annual has the common name used by my Dad ‘gallant soldier’ and is cursed as an invasive weed, yet it is valued as a pot herb in other parts of the world. I find it a pretty plant with its...
by Julia | Apr 18, 2013 | Edible Weeds & Flowers, Growing Food, Healing Plants
Greetings everyone, Exciting news that I’ve had a little movie made about my work and my love of weeds and eating them. Aaron Smart a professional film maker has created this lovely little film which was entered in the Byron Bay Film Festival and which made the...
by Julia | Feb 5, 2013 | Edible Weeds & Flowers, Healing Plants, Raw Food, Recipes
Purslane – Portulaca oleracea Description This has to be one of the least appreciated edible weeds with huge hidden benefits. It has 4mg per gram of Omega-3 fatty acid, compared to .89mg in spinach, so I had to include this gem. Purslane is a bit like a...
by Julia | Sep 30, 2012 | Edible Weeds & Flowers, Raw Food, Recipes
Weed Pesto Play around with this recipe and invent your own version with whatever plants you have most of and love to eat. 5 rosemary sprigs 12cms (approx) long handful of parsley big handful of chickweed handful of NZ spinach 4 large nasturtium leaves handful thyme...
