I 💗 Grass

My nephew Mathias made me a shirt that says: "I 💗 Grass" for Christmas.

The story behind the shirt:  when I played kickball with the kids in the yard, I would pick dandelions growing in the grass and eat them. Not only are dandelions nutrition and delicious, there was the extra advantage of grossing out my sister's kids. I like being the weird uncle that eats "grass."

There are about 400,000 species of plants in the earth, and more than half are edible; yet human beings eat only a very small number of them. Only three provide more than half of the plant calories people consume, corn, rice, and wheat.

I love to discover a new wild edible and taste it: harebell, wild onion, fireweed, wild stawberry, etc. I also got from my sister a wild plant recipe book. What a joy it would be to make a whole salad of weeds plucked from my yard and freak my nephews and nieces out.