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What stops us from processing weeds into tasty and edible food?
Faith Anstey
Dalguise, Perth and Kinross, UK
Because then they wouldn’t be weeds any more – they would be vegetables. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said: “What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.”
Bryn Glover
Kirkby Malzeard, North Yorkshire, UK
Just about every plant cultivated for human consumption began life as a “weed”.
As someone who often forages for wild morsels, my experience is that few are worth the effort. Most are tough, stringy or bitter, and given the relative ease with which anyone can…
