Handbook of Edible Weeds

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Duke
Keyword(s):  
Edible Weeds

Edible Weeds in Morocco

1995 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 617-620 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abbes Tanji ◽  
Fatima Nassif
Keyword(s):  
Nutritive Value ◽  
Weed Species ◽  
Economic Role ◽  
Edible Weeds ◽  
The People

Morocco has a large number of edible weeds, but seventeen are mostly eaten by the population, collected for sale in different provinces, or even exported. Eight weeds have edible shoots while the others have edible stems, fruits, roots, flowers, or petioles. Thirteen weed species are marketed either seasonally or throughout the year and generate money for the people. Morocco's tassel grapehyacinth bulbs and products extracted from pennyroyal mint are exported. Further research should focus on the nutritive value of these weeds and their economic role in the country.

scholarly journals Lipophilic antioxidants in edible weeds from agricultural areas

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena ŠIRCELJ ◽  
Maja MIKULIC-PETKOVSEK ◽  
Robert VEBERIČ ◽  
Metka HUDINA ◽  
Ana SLATNAR
Keyword(s):  
Edible Weeds ◽  
Agricultural Areas

Coping with Risk: Subsistence Crises in the Scottish Highlands and Islands, 1600–1800

Rural History ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBERT A. DODGSHON
Keyword(s):  
Risk Aversion ◽  
Crop Yields ◽  
Climatic Variability ◽  
Scottish Highlands ◽  
Farming Communities ◽  
Farming Community ◽  
Edible Weeds ◽  
Routine Basis ◽  
Famine Foods ◽  
Low Order

With their climatic variability and low crop yields, the Highlands and Islands formed a risk-laden environment for traditional farming communities. Yet whilst the major or exceptional famines between 1600 and 1800 are well-recorded, there has been less comment about the more frequent low-order crises that afflicted communities on a regular, even routine basis, leaving them without sufficient meal for a month or so before the new harvest was ready. Evidence for the nature and frequency of these low-order crises is discussed. Continually threatened with the problems posed by them, it is argued that the typical farming community would have been skilled in their response. Two forms of response are explored. First, the paper reviews some of the different ways in which Highland and Hebridean husbandry would have been organised so as to minimise risks. Second, it is argued that when these risk aversion strategies failed, communities buffered themselves against shortage by resorting to a range of alternative famine foods, from seaweeds and shell foods to the edible weeds of arable and grassland. We need to see major famines as occurring not just when exceptional or bad conditions prevailed, but also, when both these risk aversion and risk buffering strategies failed.

Between Plenty and Poverty Foraging in the Salento with Patience Gray

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-66
Author(s):  
adam federman
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Wild Foods ◽  
Edible Weeds ◽  
Ways Of Life ◽  
Greek Island

Patience Gray was one of the first food writers to celebrate the culinary and cultural significance of edible weeds and plants. In 1970 she and her husband, the Belgian sculptor Norman Mommens, settled in the far south of Italy. It was the endpoint of their Mediterranean odyssey, which had taken them to the Greek island of Naxos, Carrara, in northwestern Tuscany, Catalonia, the Veneto, and finally Puglia. Gray’s Honey from a Weed, the product of those travels, remains one of the best texts on wild foods and on edible weeds in particular. Drawing on Gray’s unpublished letters and manuscripts this essay explores the life of one of the twentieth century’s most unusual and often overlooked food writers. The contemporary uses and significance of edible weeds and plants are also discussed through foraging trips and interviews with Gray’s friends and neighbors. Though Gray warned that traditional ways of life were dying out, it is clear that foraging is still an important part of the Salentine diet.

Edible weeds: Are urban environments fit for foraging?

2020 ◽  
Vol 698 ◽  
pp. 133967 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luís Fernando Amato-Lourenco ◽  
Guilherme Reis Ranieri ◽  
Vanessa Cristina de Oliveira Souza ◽  
Fernando Barbosa Junior ◽  
Paulo Hilário Nascimento Saldiva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environments ◽  
Edible Weeds

scholarly journals Weeds as important vegetables for farmers

2012 ◽  
Vol 81 (4) ◽  
pp. 397-403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gisella S. Cruz-Garcia ◽  
Lisa L. Price
Keyword(s):  
Northeast Thailand ◽  
Focus Group Discussions ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Vegetative Organs ◽  
Wild Vegetables ◽  
Rice Farmers ◽  
Edible Weeds ◽  
Edible Parts ◽  
Cognitive Salience ◽  
Local Farmers

The objective of this study was to investigate the multiple uses and cognitive importance of edible weeds in Northeast Thailand. Research methods included focus group discussions and freelistings. A total of 43 weeds consumed as vegetable were reported, including economic, naturalized, agricultural and environmental weeds. The weedy vegetables varied considerably on edible parts, presenting both reproductive (flowers, fruits and seeds) and vegetative organs (shoots, leaves, flower stalks, stems or the whole aerial part). The results of this study show that weedy vegetables are an important resource for rice farmers in this region, not only as a food but also because of the multiple additional uses they have, especially as medicine. The fact that the highest Cognitive Salience Index (<em>CSI</em>) scores of all wild vegetables freelisted corresponded to weeds, reinforces the assertion that weeds are culturally cognitively important for local farmers as a vegetable source. This is a key finding, given that these species are targets of common pesticides used in this region.

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