There’s a secret right beneath your toes. From the ground is where the riches grow. Everywhere in the world where humans live is a free super power that nature gives. Free super power.
You’ve got 13 weeds from which to choose. Use your intuition and you can’t lose.
You are wise so when you take a little bite, ask how much or how little to you feels right.
If you eat these weeds every day, you’ll feel wilder in every way! Look all the animals do it, eat your wild greens and join the zoo. It’s the jam.
Here we go! The whole of the Dandelion is a wonderful food, a little bitter a little sweet puts you in the mood. Play the stems like a singing flute and make sweet coffee from the roasted root. If you need a first aid kit, Plantain leaves and seeds are it. Chew those leaves into a mash, helps with your bites, stings and rash. Three leaf Clover has roots so deep, pulls up minerals from a hundred feet.
When we eat that clover flower and leaf, it builds our bones and strengthen our teeth.
Mallow is mellow and good for your skin. It’s slimy and demulsifying. Blend the whole plant into a goo and make your own lotion and shampoo.
Chickweed is high in Vitamin C, delicate and yummy, tasty in your tummy.
Eat the Dock greens when they are tender and sour. Grind the seeds to make your own flour.
All Mustard plants with their petals of four, are spicy and sweet, enough to make you want more. Their flowers come in yellow, purple, pink, and white to get your creative juices flowing into the night. All the wild Grasses have 8 amino acids as a survival food, it could save your asses. Purslane is juicy and pretty. Grows in the cracks of every single city. Knotweed is a wild buckwheat. It grows low to the ground and it’s hard to see it. It’s nutty and special indeed. The funny things about it is, it’s not a weed. Then there is Lambsquarter and Amaranth, guess which one makes the quinoa plant? Both these two are high in protein. You can eat them for muscles like Mr. Clean.
Don’t be afraid of the prickle of the Thistle, drink down the juice. It will make you want to whistle like a wild seed winging through the air, waving its arms like it just don’t care. Put ‘em up. That’s the secret so now you know where all the wild foods do grow. They grow near you and they grows near me. They are full of wealth and they are actually free. So help yourself as you say a little prayer in thanks to these foods and medicines who care about your ability to survive to live in health and truly thrive.