Old Shaw Farm
South Peacham, Vermont

October 11, 2004

Beautiful

One person's weed is another person's tasty salad.

But seriously, this fits in with my thinking that farmer's should grow what the ground will give them, and then worry about marketing it later. For example, dandelions grow like wildfire up here, and sure enough, we grow two varieties of Italian dandelion cooking greens for market. And my friend Richard grows another variety of dandelion for medicinal use.

The point being, if our climate and soils want to give us dandelions, we should figure out a way to take advantage of that, instead of trying to grow mangos up here in VT. Now we just need to figure out how to market ice and snow . . .

Posted by peter at October 11, 2004 08:03 AM
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Hi Peter, my german friend always makes his dandelion salad exactly that way, with croutons and hardboiled eggs. I really thought it was an original german rezipe. But who cares as long as its tasty, and it sure is !
Greetings Grete

Posted by: Grete at October 13, 2004 10:04 AM
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