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10/10/2018 / By Zoey Sky

These backyard plants exhibit many nutritional properties as well as medicinal benefits

Aside from warmer weather and blooming flowers, spring is also accompanied by the growth of weeds that may take over your backyard. But before you start eliminating these backyard plants, here are 1o edible and medicinal weeds that you may want to keep around. (h/t to Survivopedia.com) Chickweed (Stellaria media) – Chickweed, which has heavy seed sets, […]

10/05/2018 / By Zoey Sky

Eat them instead! Those weeds growing in your garden are actually edible (and good for you, too)

Finding several clumps of weeds in your garden can be the most annoying thing for a homesteader. But did you know that some of them are actually edible? (h/t to EcoWatch.com) What looks like clumps of weeds in your garden may be a treasure trove of edible greens. Some weeds belong to the same family […]

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