The Permaculture landscape is rich and diverse. But we focus primarily only on what we have planted, little realizing that there are vast and varied resources in and beyond the boundaries of our property for the taking. With a good field guide in hand we can garner the yields that the natural world presents to us at no cost or labor. A dandelion is a supermarket of food, utility and medicine. The whole plant is edible. Fritters can be made from the blossom. The root can be roasted and eaten or used as a coffee substitute. The root, taken as a tea, balances both high and low blood sugar and acts to cleanse and strengthen the liver in all its functions. The leaf is diuretic for those that hold too much water in the body. The dandelion is multi-functional and there is not enough roundup in the world to delete as we would a word on the computer. And, we can grow it in our gardens. It is simply a matter of a slight change in perception. Dandelion is not a “weed”. Rather, it is a health giving plant.