Hello again,

welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast.

We are joined again by Rosalie de la Fore.

She is an herbalist.

She's the author of the upcoming book, Wild Remedies. That's coming out April 7th.

Stay tuned for that. She's also the author of the book, How Camea, Herbs, a best-selling book about how to use herbs in your everyday life and actually that really

speaks to what we're talking about we've gone over some specific plants and now

we're talking about how to turn those weeds and I'm putting my air quotes around

that word weeds into foods now Rosalie we've talked about some pestos some

soups and all sorts of different things I I would love to know, you know, what really are your favorite ways to use these in creating some really healthy foods?

Yeah, well, it's kind of

kind of like any which way and like we mentioned previously I love to be kind of in and out of the kitchen so I like to keep it simple

and of course simple doesn't mean it has to taste bland, it can be absolutely delicious just in that

simplicity.

I think I'd start first with just harvesting, you know, when you're harvesting these plants

just some things to be aware of.

First, you definitely want to know the plant you're

harvesting. Even dandelion can have some common look-alike. So you always want to be sure, you know exactly

the plant you're harvesting because you don't want to make any mistakes there. There aren't a ton of

poisonous plants but they can be very serious so you always want to keep that in mind.

Harvesting too when you're harvesting these weeds because they attract so many different pollinators and other creatures

they can they can definitely have bugs on them so you want to kind of inspect them. I like to do kind of two inspections

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