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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Fennel
  • Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:19:34 -0800 (PST)

If you don't mind; are you complete vegetarian? do you eat fish? or cheese?.
I really need to move away from red meat. Most vegetarian foods (except for
fresh produce) don't taste good, in my experience ......bobford


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--- On Mon, 11/17/08, eureka AT hctc.net <eureka AT hctc.net> wrote:

> From: eureka AT hctc.net <eureka AT hctc.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Fennel
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Monday, November 17, 2008, 9:15 AM
> We use the bulb in many recipes from different vegetarian
> cookbooks and like it. There are some butterflies whose
> larvae use it as a host plant, so we don't have much
> luck
> growing it for seed. It's mostly grown for the
> butterflies
> around here.
>
> I use the seed more as a medicinal herb than I do a
> cooking spice. I put them in a tea ball and steep in hot
> water to make a tea, which I then cool and use by
> eyedroppers full in my and my pets eyes. It will clear up
> itchy red eyes and eye infections. If you have tried the
> oily opthalmalic ointments prescribed by doctors and
> thought they were gross, and couldn't wear contact
> lenses
> because of them, then this herbal medicine is for you. It
> stings slightly, but then brings great relief. Eye
> infection is usually gone the next day.
>
> --Sage
> Way Out in Texas
>
> On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:47:16 -0500
> EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > What am I missing here?
> > When I think of fennel, I think seeds. I've never
>
> >used/eaten anything
> > but the seeds.
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