Eat Your Weeds!

Wild greens have long been valued for their ability to restore vitality, detoxify and nourish. Being one of the most alkalinizing foods they also help regulate proper body pH.

There are many ways to incorporate spring's abundance of wild weeds into your daily diet.

Supplement your own lettuce with wild greens to give an ordinary salad a mineral boost.

Dandelions are a particularly nutritional spring treat, providing loads of highly assimilable minerals and antioxidants. Because it is high in vitamins and iron, this herb is useful for treating anemia.

A bitter, appetite stimulant, this herb increases production of bile to help relieve constipation, gallstones, hemorrhoids and IBS.

Dandelion leaves can be chopped finely and added to salads. You can also add flower petals to salads, soups and stirfrys for a dash of spring color.

Try this Dandelion Sesame Sautee Recipe

Nettles are another wild weed abundant in nourishment! This is largely due to nettles copious amounts of minerals like calcium, magnesium, iron, potasium, phosphorous, manganese and silicon. Not only that, they are one of the highest plant sources of iron and vitamins such as C, beta carotene and even protein.

Nettles lose their sting when cooked. They can be used instead of spinach in most recipes.

I love them steamed and tossed with a clove of minced garlic, a splash of olive oil and a dash of a dash of Fire Cider

You can also try steamed nettles dressed in a lemon vinagrette and crumbled feta. Yum!

In addition to dandelion and nettle, here are some wild weed options to try:

Chickweed, Sorrell, Catnip, Plantain, Dock, Violets, Lamb's-quarter and Purslane.