As I posted yesterday....a wonderful use of dandelion

I would definitely love to try that new jelly.

It is delicious.....even to meat or fish one can use it.

It sounds like it may have healing benefits as well.

Of course. But look for plants Away from roads, so that you have no CO 2 pollution

10-4. I'll grow them in my yard.

Yes, I do too. Gardening could be very useful for the future

Every city needs spaces people can use to grow food.

In the UK, they are called allotments, America needs the same.

Taxes spent to provide space and help keeping the soil manageable, instead of stupid city agrandizement, and corrupt political persons projects for relatives and money laundering.

Schools should have GARDENING clubs, instead of stupid expensive sports departments. Millions of dollars spent on equipment and facities to kick a bloody ball about... sick.

Land is so scarce in the UK that waiting lists for allotments can be years, our waiting list was one day because God decided it we were astonished.

Any surplus must be managed in advance with knowledge of blanching/freezing, canning, dehydrating, pickling, chutney making, preserve making.

Allotment holders need these skills.

Learning one at a time is best, this will guard against being overwhelmed with knowledge.

Having said all that, in times of scarcity for all, I fully expect any hard work growing and producing food at the allotment to be ransacked by the ill-prepared.

I will not begrudge them this because they have families too.

Even now the local badgers treat it like a supermarket, but thats what wildlife does, so I will not complain.

If these skills were taught in school - and land allocated, instead of given over to housing invaders - there would be much less stealing of the fruits of others labors either directly, or indirectly... but then, so many have been acclimatized to doing just that, via welfare purchased by taxation - that it is no longer considered stealing... workers become the slaves of non workers.

They have inverted everything.

We purchased 2 acres 7 years ago, and now have a decent plot worked (soil is terrible, rocks and clayso raised beds and sifting), thanks to the chicken and horse contribitions we are now starting to see produce we can store for winter. Last year tomatoes, onions, beans, peppers, potatoes, carrots, melon, strawberries squash.

But it has taken all that time to get it to function half way decently - grasshopper invasions, plagues of beetles, rabbits, mice, gophers, torrential rain, high winds, late frosts, early frosts, been through the mill.

It is a process.