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Foraging Chickweed
Mild cool-season green with a corn-silk taste. Best raw in salads.
What to do with it
- Pile raw into salads & sandwiches
- Blend into a pesto
- Wilt briefly into eggs
Ways to keep it
- Best fresh
- Freeze in pesto
- Chickweed vinegar
About Chickweed
Stellaria media, chickweed, is an annual flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae. It is native to Eurasia and naturalized throughout the world, where it is a weed of waste ground, farmland and gardens. It is sometimes grown as a salad crop or for poultry consumption.
From Wikipedia.
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