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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Chickweed at Market
  • Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:01:51 -0600

Just to be sure we're talking about the same thing, isn't chickweed the same thing as Creeping Charlie? It's a member of the mint family (square stem cross-section) and inhabits many lawns as a difficult weed. I've always hated the smell when it's bruised. Are they putting it in salads? Sorry to press you for details but I'm a little surprised.

Bill Shoemaker, Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
University of Illinois - St Charles Horticulture Research Center
www.nres.uiuc.edu/faculty/directory/shoemaker_wh.html


>I'm curious now Allan. What does the chef do with the chickweed. And good
luck building that market.

Bill - It's recently become popular in cool season pestos and has for
some time been an ingredient for both regular salads and baby greens
salads. That's all I know so far. People in cities thinkig tastes
GOOD! Aside from this, it has a nutriceutical component and is valued
as a salve and as an ingredient in salves and in green drinks. -Allan
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