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- From: "corvin" <corvin AT cox.net>
- To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Chickweed at Market
- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:57:18 -0800
chickweed = Stellaria media,
http://altmedicine.about.com/od/herbsupplementguide/a/Chickweed.htm?terms=ch
ickweed
creeping charlie = Glechoma hederacea),
http://landscaping.about.com/cs/weedsdiseases/a/ground_ivy_2.htm
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 8:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Chickweed at Market
> 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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Re: [Market-farming] Market-farming Digest, Vol 46, Issue 22,
RaInBoWdAr, 11/24/2006
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[Market-farming] Chickweed at Market,
Allan Balliett, 11/27/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Chickweed at Market, Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 11/27/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Chickweed at Market,
Bill Shoemaker, 11/28/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Chickweed at Market,
Allan Balliett, 11/28/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Chickweed at Market, Sue Wells, 11/28/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Chickweed at Market,
Bill Shoemaker, 11/28/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Chickweed at Market,
John Hendrickson, 11/28/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Chickweed at Market,
Bill Shoemaker, 11/28/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Chickweed at Market, Allan Balliett, 11/28/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Chickweed at Market,
Bill Shoemaker, 11/28/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] Chickweed at Market, corvin, 11/28/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Chickweed at Market,
John Hendrickson, 11/28/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] Chickweed at Market,
Allan Balliett, 11/28/2006
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[Market-farming] Chickweed at Market,
Allan Balliett, 11/27/2006
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