Dandelion roots and more: finding food at our feet

05/23/13 - 10:05am

Ellen Zachos is a modern-day forager, gathering wild foods to enrich her cuisine.

New York’s Central Park provides the fixings for much of her larder, which includes wines, pickles, jams and jellies made from flavorful weeds.

“Many of the most delicious wild edibles are invasive weeds,” said Zachos, an ethnobotanist, instructor at the New York Botanical Garden and author of the new “Backyard Foraging” (Storey Publishing).

Garden planning to cope with water runoff

02/28/13 - 5:04pm

Stormwater runoff can quickly drain a homeowner’s wallet. The flooding erodes yards, soaks basements, pollutes streams and wastes a precious resource.

But rainscaping — an integrated system of directed water flow and settling basins — can convert those losses into gains by providing new wildlife habitat, beautifying properties and in some cases providing food for the dinner table.

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Dandelion roots and more: finding food at our feet

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