Biodiversity Salad -- Extreme Eat Your Yard

Bear here... Ever wanted a big salad and been out of salad fixings? That kinda sucks. It sucks less if you have weeds in the yard instead of grass.  Yep... everything on the cutting board (above) is "weeds" from our yard.

WE HAVE
(above, from left to right)

• Violets for the base. Use the leaves and flowers. The stems are soft so I used them too.
• Dandelion greens for a little bitter taste.
• Creeping Charley for some mint flavoring (Yes, you can eat it, although Theresa says it has a strong flavor, so don't use too much).
• Garlic chives and onion chives, yum.
• Thyme, because I like it.
• I forgot Theresa cut Lambs Quarters earlier in the day or they would have been in the salad too.

Notes: 

• Make sure you pull out all the plant matter you don't want before cutting. (We found a couple pine needles.... oops.)
• Use scissors to cut the plants rough or fine as you like.
• If you harvest a lot of plants put the leftovers in a big bowl in the refrigerator. Easy pickings for your next salad.
• Crunchy toppings that could be added from our yard include sliced sunchokes, walnuts, or ground nuts. I used pita chips (Not from the yard, but they were too good to resist)
• Here's the link for our homemade salad dressings.
• Here's the link for our other pages on how to Eat Your Yard.

There you have it. Anybody think grass is the only thing that should be grown in a yard? Heh... look up.

Type at you later.