Cook with weeds

Weeds probably have a bit of an inferiority complex. How could you not, if you were defined as a valueless plant growing wild, especially one that grows on cultivated ground to the exclusion or injury of the desired crop (dictionary.com)? One way to show your appreciation of poor underappreciated weeds is by ruthlessly devouring loads of them. You can find information on collecting and cooking dandelions, nettles, chickweed and other fun-sounding organisms at http://fat-of-the-land.blogspot.com/search/label/weeds. 


By all accounts, weeds pack a quintuple punch: 
- free
- abundant
- nutritious
- environmentally sensible (otherwise this useful food source might get wasted) 
- tasty (after all, there are plenty of currently trendy foods, like watercress and rocket, that   were once considered only lowly weeds) 

Effort involved: less than farming, certainly.


Image from http://animalol.com/funny-pictures-animals/dogs-pictures/dandelions-pictures-2795