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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

3 Ways to Use Dandelions

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Education, Home & Garden, How To, Leisure

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Dandelions are the most common “weed” in our gardens and lawn, but you can use EVERY part of this pernicious plant! Learn how with Rosalee de la Foret.

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Rosalee de la Foret is an herbalist and author of Wild Remedies publishing April 7th. She’s also written Alchemy of Herbs, about how to use herbs in your everyday life.

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0:00.0

What is up everyone?

0:02.0

What is up?

0:14.0

What is up everyone?

0:15.0

Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast.

0:17.7

It is Weed Week, supposedly, although most of the stuff we're talking about you're going to find quickly can be used in many different ways and should not be thought of as a weed.

0:26.5

So we have Rosa Lee de la Fauré on the podcast.

0:29.5

She's an herbalist.

0:30.5

She's an author of the upcoming book Wild Remedies coming out April 7th and

0:35.4

she's also written alchemy of herbs which is really about how to use herbs in

0:39.5

your everyday life and incorporate them. And so today what we're're going to talk about Rosalie is probably the number one

0:46.0

weed that most people struggle with.

0:48.4

They'll battle it in their lawns, they'll battle it on their garden edges and borders, and

0:52.1

that would be the almighty dandelion.

0:54.0

Yes dandelion. Yeah because it's so ubiquitous it makes it the perfect gateway herb, you know

1:00.7

the perfect herb to fall in love with and bring into your life and

1:05.4

and just really enjoy so I love to I love to help people turn into dandelion

1:09.9

lovers yeah I will say that I really didn't have a knowledge of them and what they could and couldn't be used

1:17.9

for before I would say maybe January of last just, they weren't in my mind.

1:24.4

You know, I wasn't thinking about them.

1:25.8

I was focused on my edible garden.

1:27.3

I was focused on my vegetables.

1:29.1

And then having a couple of people on the podcast really turned my mind around about it and I'd love to hear more from your perspective as an herb list.

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