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Chicory
Chicory, also called wild chickory, succory, and wild succory, originally comes from the Mediterranean region.
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Chicory; spindly, maligned and ironic
Chicory, it’s the object of botanical epithets one minute, sold as a hoity toity salad green the next. It’s considered a weed yet its roasted, ground roots are sold in markets as a coffee additive or substitute. It's spindly, maligned and ironic.
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Chicory Coffee
Ever tried chicory coffee?
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Coffee Substitutions
Giving up coffee doesn't mean you're left with nothing to drink in the morning.
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A Walk On The Canal Path
Wildflowers on the canal path.
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Coffee Substitutes
If you want a caffeine-free and natural replacement for your daily cup of coffee, here are a few new things for you to try.
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Growing Mesclun in the Home Garden
Spring greens such as lettuce, spinach, arugula or chicory make a refreshing and easy to grow spring salad.
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Italian Pear and Walnut Salad
Pears are surprisingly versatile fruit: you can use them in desserts, pickle them or, as this recipe shows, use them to make a delicious pear and walnut salad.
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Witloof Salad
An easy salad with witloof as the central ingredient.
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Fava Bean Puree from Puglia: Recipe
This nutritious fava bean puree comes from Puglia. It is easy to prepare and makes a great starter or dip - eat it with fresh chicory.
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Top Ten Edible Weeds for the Kitchen
Learn about edible weeds that can be added to a variety of recipes. Most of these weeds can be purchased from garden centers as either established plants or seed packets.
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Prebiotics & Probiotics in Dog and Cat Foods
Prebiotics and probiotic bacterias are essential to the digestive and immune systems of dogs and cats. Here we'll look at what they are, and how they work.
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Three Late Summer Wildflowers
Take a small walk across a September field in Eastern Massachusetts and note the wildflowers growing around you.
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Foods to Lower Your Blood Pressure
A study has suggested that eating plenty of vegetables may help reduce high blood pressure. With a little imagination it's easy to produce plenty of tasty leafy dishes.
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Growing Herbs in Containers: Light, Life Cycles, & Propagation
Lists of herbs that can be grown in containers, with info about their light needs, life cycles, and best methods of propagation.
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Colonial America: How Coffee was Prepared and Brewed
How beans were prepared and brewed for coffee in 19th century America.
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Early Spring on the High Plateau: More Cousins of Familiar Things
More cousins of familiar wildflowers on the High Plateau
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Growing Herbs and Spices
Herbs are easy to plant, easy to grow, and respond well to benign neglect.
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Natural Treatments for Flatulence
Although flatulence is a common occurrence, some individuals suffer excessively, causing discomfort or embarrassment. Activated charcoal can be used to help bind the gas.
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Waterwise Garden Glossary
Here is a resource for Desert Garden readers, along with links to definitions and articles on Desert Gardens topics. Please feel free to use this list.
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What is Inulin?
Inulin, a low-calorie carbohydrate found in certain roots and tubers, barely affects blood sugar and improves digestive health as an unusual type of fiber and a prebiotic
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Wild Salads
...there are many, many edible plants out there, in the woods, along fencerows and old railroad embankments, in prairies and wetlands and bogs and in the backyard, which not only provide the gatherer a wonderfully organic meal, it fills a person with a real sense of being a part of the earth, of knowing it, of understanding it, of partaking of it...
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Wildflowers and Butterflies, a Bit of Nature's Delicate Balance
Butterflies and the wildflowers they depend upon for survival provide us a snapshot of nature’s delicate balance.
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The Salad Days of Winter
Grow a tapestry of leafy greens within steps of your kitchen to harvest fast fresh salads and nutritious snacks for the family.
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Cobb Salad -- Start the New Year Right
This salad is named for Robert Cobb, the owner of the Brown Derby restaurants in Los Angeles in the 1930s.
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Glossary of Greens
Salad Dictionary
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Bible Herbs, Spices, Fibers
This article begins a series on plants from the Bible which can grown in many climates.
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California Cooking - China Beach Salad
Seafood Salad recipe from a state in the pacific rim. Let's try to eat light and healthy.
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Celebrating Summer: Herbs of the Solstice
Whether you acknowledge the Solstice in your own life, or how you do, may not be something you've yet considered this year. But I urge you to take notice on a personal and spiritual level in some way, and let the following herbal folklore guide your way...
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A Heart Healthy Diet
Foods high in polyphenols have antioxidant, antiviral, anticancer properties. An antioxidant food list for a heart healthy diet, cardiovascular disease prevention.
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Herbal Diuretics
Herbal diuretics can be used to reduce water retention, and treat a variety of health problems safely and naturally, without unwanted side effects.
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Hot Coffee Cocktails
When the weather turns chilly, a warm cocktail is the perfect choice for holiday parties or quiet evenings at home.
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What's New in 2001? Part 2: Beans to Eggplant.
New vegetable varieties introduced for 2001.
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How to Harvest the Same Vegetable Multiple Times
Growing vegetables which can be harvested more than once is like winning the fresh vegetable lottery.
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Carrie Allen McCray: a Special Celebration
An overview of a celebration for author Carrie Allen McCray.
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Two Ends of an Elephant
...this week, I'm going to dabble with wildflowers named for two ends of an elephant: Little Elephant's Head (<I>Pedicularis attolens</I>) and Elephant's Foot (<I> Elephantopus carolinianus</I>). (Phew! Elephant’s Foot and not, well, the other.)
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Worldwide Short Film Festival Announced
Cartoons invade Toronto's Worldwide Short Film Festival, happening June 16 - 21. Here's where the animation action is.
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American GIs Liberate Huy, Belgium from Nazis
On the 5th of September 1944, American soldiers triumphantly entered the city of Huy, Belgium, putting an end to its suffering and humiliation under Nazi German forces.
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Be Your Own Herbal Expert - Part 5
In this fifth session of the Be Your Own Herbal Expert series, we will find out how to help ourselves and our families with herbal vinegars, one of the green blessings of the Wise Woman Way.
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Dandelion
Traditionally, dandelion leaves are eaten as a spring tonic, to gently cleanse the body with the change of seasons, but they are also edible in summer and fall.
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Foods that Detox the Liver
The liver works tirelessly to cleanse the body, but an overload of toxins can leave it overworked. Certain foods contain nutrients which cleanse and protect the liver.
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How to Make the Vegetable Garden Beautiful
Most vegetable gardens are hidden at the back of the house. But a kitchen garden need not look ugly. Why cover up the natural beauty of vegetables and herbs?
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Insalata Caprese Recipe
Insalata Caprese is the classic easy Italian salad, made from tomatoes and mozzarella
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Natural Remedies for Melasma
Discoloration mostly on areas of the face may be mild during pregnancy, but medications cause a more lasting form. Painful and costly treatments are not the only option.
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Negative Calorie Foods and Dieting
There are certain foods, which are rich in vitamins, cellulose, and other useful substances but have low energy value. These foods can help dieters a lot!
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Negative Calories
These foods produce more enzymes than necessary for digestion, what happens to the excess, does it enhance your metabolic rate burning more calories.
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Paddling in Louisiana
Louisiana provides paddlers with a unique experience in their bayous and rivers.
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Probiotics and Prebiotics for Dogs
Feeding probiotics and prebiotics in the canine diet have been shown to improve digestive function and overall health.
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Salad Dressing Recipes
Recipes for Creamy Avocado, Blue Cheese, Sweet Mustard , Herb Vinaigrette and Marjoram and Balsamic Vinegar Dressings
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The Composite Family
The Composites have floral parts consisting of multiple tiny flowers--complete with minuscule pistil, stamens, petals, and sepals--merged into one head or disk.
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