You can eat it raw as you would any salad green, or you can eat it gently blanched with a traditional hot bacon dressing. It’s in season now, it’s green, and you can harvest it yourself or go to a ...

It is spring in the Great Lakes region, even if we did receive a healthy dose of snow for Easter. While the lilies and snowdrops are fighting their way through the snow, the herbalist in me is craving ...

FORAGED FOOD: Even though its often considered a nuisance, dandelions offer an easily identifiable and plentiful source of nutrients in spring. As I look up from the mailbox, my gaze catches on the ...

Spring is in full swing, and a sure sign in Michigan is yards as far as the eye can see painted in bright yellow dandelions. Dandelions, regardless of how common they are in Michigan, are not a native ...

My eyes tell me that it is a banner year for dandelions. Dandelions are easy to kill with a broadleaf weed killer. But should you put your lawn and the ecosystem around your home into chem-o-therapy ...

There's no arguing spring with the dandelions. When they bloom, I know that winter's finally outta here. By May, my fields and yard are dusted with that mellow dandelion yellow. I don't mind. I keep ...

Imagine six months of winter with nothing to eat but salted meat, moldy root cellar vegetables and grains. As spring approached, these stores were often riddled with fungus or pantry bugs, or supplies ...

Spring is in full swing, and as Georgians manage their yards and gardens, they may encounter several yellow flowers or fluffy white balls popping out of the yard. They are both dandelions. Want to get ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A handful of adults in a field picking flowers with their children on a sunny afternoon might not raise many eyebrows in Boulder. But look a little closer.

While it is true that dandelions are helpful to bees in the earlier months of spring, there are other pollinating plants that are more nutritionally beneficial to the insects. In essence, bees don't ...