Coronavirus got you sheltering in place? Then there is all the rain on top of that which may have you trapped inside, preventing you from getting you garden planted. No worries because there are lots of wild edibles growing in the spring. Many of which are as nutritious, or even more so, than what's growing in your gardens.

We have a ditch full of one such wild edible. More on that in a second. For a few of reasons, our yard is WILD during the spring. First, we let it go wild intentionally as all the spring flowers and 'weeds' are a great nectar and pollen source for our honey bees. It also makes for great tasting honey according to our repeat customers. The second reason is something we don't have much control over. The rain. We couldn't mow if we wanted to for all the standing water. Specially the ditch! For an added bonus, many of the weeds growing in our country yard are edible for us as well.

This might be one of those 'weeds' you transfer to a safe growing area in your yard before mowing them all down. Who knows, there may be a run on onions in the grocery store some day. These days, you never know.

Couldn't resist the urge to try and capture the sun in a jar last week!  While heading out to change the church billboard, it was necessary to walk through a beautiful patch of dandelions.   After just seeing a recipe for dandelion jelly... I knew what must be done.  So I found a shopping bag in my car and began picking!!  Hope you all have been eating plenty of dandelion greens and drinking dandelion tea since our May 25th post last year.  There are so many nutritional benefits!  (For details, check it out in the Food & Recipes blog category.)  I have now discovered a sweeter way to enjoy this herb.  A couple of jars from my first batch of dandelion jelly are pictured above.  This was a fun project for a sunny and warm Texas winter day!  I'm going to share the recipe, along with some pointers, so you too can enjoy a jar of sunshine!