Musings on Lamb’s Quarters, Chenopodium Album

I never plant it. It grows like wildfire here in Southern Illinois. It loves good organic soils. An indicator. Sometimes it reaches ten feet tall. It is one of the five most nutritious plants in the US. I eat it for ten months out of the year and then sprout the seeds in the winter in place of the standard sprout. 365 days. The seeds make an excellent porridge. It shows up at will and graces us with a food source that needs no coddling, no special care. How many times can we harvest broccoli? Cauliflower? And all that attention that we have to give these plants that we have babied forever? What, by the way is a weed? Think of all the biomass that the lamb’s quarters produces in its lifetime. For sheet mulching, for the compost bin. Try it, steam it, eat it raw, stir fry it, put it on a sandwich. Check out this link at Plants for a Future for info on lamb’s quarters.

Title