Wild Greens: Turn Weeds into a Great Salad in Winter or Spring

Here are wild greens and common yard weeds that can be turned into great salads, anytime the weather is cool and wet. Even in the winter, if the ground isn't frozen. They are common weeds of the spring, too, in many lawns, gardens, and untended areas in neighborhoods and parks.

I pick 16 weeds from my yard. I give you tips for making a great wild salad. I top my salad with plants from the wild and from my garden -- even homegrown ripe tomatoes on December 31! And I have a New Year's Eve cocktail made from my Black Locust Flower Gin. Have a great year of foraging and eating!

I made this salad as part of my annual personal challenge to make a wild salad on the last day of every year.
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Wild Plant List (in order of appearance)
Cats-ear - Hypochaeris radicata
Yellow Archangel or Yellow Dead-nettle - Lamiastrum galeobdolon
Cleavers - Galium aparine
Nipplewort - Lapsana communis
Narrowleaf plantain - Plantago lanceolate
Purple deadnettle - Lamium purpureum
Borage - Borago officinalis
Common sowthistle - Sonchus oleraceus
Lemon balm - Melissa officinalis
Hedge mustard - Sisymbrium officinale
Chickweed - Stellaria media
Curly dock - Rumex crispus
Common mallow - Malva neglecta
Wild field mustard – Brassica rapa
Wild chives – Allium vinale
Dandelion - Taraxacum officinale
Yucca – Yucca gloriosa
Black locust - Robinia pseudoacacia
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Videos on specific plants mentioned in this video:
Hedge Mustard - https://youtu.be/6ZMJwylTR7o
Wild Field Mustard - https://youtu.be/aoP7L32q2lM
Wild Chives - https://youtu.be/7nUirr-bEKM
Black Locust Flower Cocktails - https://youtu.be/PzZ0YisLmHM
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Like Wild Salads? Here's a whole playlist of wild salads:
Wild Salads - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEGN8kE_KnjDPp18Eo0HbMT8x3FvGhBhY

If you like your cooked wild greens, here's a playlist about preparing your harvest:
Cooking Wild Greens - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEGN8kE_KnjDsPNTAOuzlyBCCcKTvsF6L

If you want to improve your foraging skills, here's my playlist - Foraging: Real Food for Regular People - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEGN8kE_KnjC46uuOaLL0UtCV0TUQXzbW
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Here are my playlists about specific wild plants:

Dandelions - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEGN8kE_KnjC0D-X7QcfJGzY9wE5vw3lp

Wild Mustard Plants - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEGN8kE_KnjBY1bhUcZwxVzymmyt18ndx

Elderberry - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEGN8kE_KnjDPDOVvA1P8txESkgYB8T0i

Spruce Trees - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEGN8kE_KnjBd5rDAN-0X9fjHsw-GETmr

Pine Trees - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEGN8kE_KnjAUzXslTTRRtOtvxXnP04pg

Redbud Trees - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEGN8kE_KnjBkw17z9Y_PiBoLE-mwuROF

Detailed ID of Wild Mushrooms - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEGN8kE_KnjA-FB7HpMdpXMfI0SaiyYon
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My channel:
https://www.youtube.com/c/HaphazardHomestead
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One Fine Day by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Plain Loafer Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Auld Lang Syne (Instrumental) by Jingle Punks, Touching Moment by Wayne Jones, You Are My Rainbow by Unicorn Heads, all from YouTube Audio Library

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