Comments by "Bo McGillacutty" (@Mrbfgray) on "Dandelions and Civilization: A Forgotten History" video.

  1. I seek them out for salads, nice replacement for the likes of endive but for free.
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  2.  @golwenlothlindel  Why would you get rid of them? Manipulated by advertising for toxic boring monoculture lawns?
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  3. Hard to imagine they need help spreading rapidly. I keep an eye out for them in my yard (don't use any stupid pesticides nor promote a grasshole in anyway) and pick leaves for salads. Lawns are mostly a boring waste of space.
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  4.  @seigeengine  Point 1 is completely false for ME. 2 is true but correctable and it's not about living off the land entirely it's about incremental diet supplementation. 3 is laughable, my yard is vastly cleaner, healthier than 90% of American commercial farming, I use essentially zero pesticides and rare exceptions are organic. Wild untrodden lands all around. Surely you are aware of some of the nasty persistent toxins used in modern agriculture, grain silos are fumigated with stuff you don't even want to think about. I hope you buy nothing but organic and never eat out. Americans are extremely unhealthy due to sugar, grain oils, over processed foods, etc., certainly not from foraging their food which would also cure the rampant sedentary problem.
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  5. Also excellent source of nutrition.
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  6. Often considered a "superfood" there's no reason we shouldn't eat them today as some of us do.
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  7. As home gardener it's welcome addition for salads and purported to be one of healthiest things we can consume.
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  8. People allow advertising to control them, lawns are useless and boring dandelions improve them.
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  9. I use the leaves in salads, not alone necessarily but as a readily available replacement for mild bitters like endive.
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