{"id":55121,"date":"2020-09-22T18:15:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T23:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55121"},"modified":"2020-09-22T18:15:40","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T23:15:40","slug":"edible-weeds-on-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55121","title":{"rendered":"Edible Weeds on Farms"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header-outer\">\n<div class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permaculturenews.org\/2020\/09\/22\/edible-weeds-on-farms\/\">Edible Weeds on Farms<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"entry-sub-title\"><strong>A Free E-book<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content entry clearfix\">\n<p>The word \u201cweed\u201d has negative connotations to many people.<\/p>\n<p>As such, some humans go about disturbing the landscape, poisoning and removing what they perceive to be valueless plants, a nuisance, a pest. \u00a0In some cases (if not many) these actions are carried out without fully understanding the true value of the said \u201cweed\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But some \u201cweeds\u201d are actually very nourishing and as any experienced forager will know, some \u201cweeds\u201d are culinary delights. \u00a0It could be that the roots, leaves, shoots, flowers, seed or fruit of a \u201cweed\u201d that is being treated as worthless is actually edible and nutritious. \u00a0On the other hand the \u201cweed\u201d could be playing a valuable roll in the ecological system, one that we just don\u2019t see with the human eye.<\/p>\n<p>Edible weeds, now that sounds a little less negative. Spontaneous vegetables, that sounds even better. Self-growing vegetables, that sounds like a no-brainer!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Tusha Yakovleva (and funds from the northeast sustainable agriculture research and education grant) there is an informative and free e-booklet all about edible weeds on farms. \u00a0Learn more about the gifts of edible weeds, making a livelihood from weeds, cooking with weeds and much more in this great e-book:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.sare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/20200605155526\/EDIBLE-WEEDS-ON-FARMS-2020-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Edible Weeds on Farms: Northeast Farmers Guide To Self-Growing Vegetables<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edible Weeds on Farms A Free E-book The word \u201cweed\u201d has negative connotations to many people. As such, some humans go about disturbing the landscape, poisoning and removing what they perceive to be valueless plants, a nuisance, a pest. \u00a0In some cases (if not many) these actions are carried out without fully understanding the true [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[30352,30351,30353,9358],"class_list":["post-55121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-ebook","tag-edible-weeds","tag-free-ebook","tag-permaculture-research-institute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55122,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55121\/revisions\/55122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}