Eat Your Lawn

A new wave of gardeners replants front yards with food.

Seattle residents are skipping the lawn in favor of herbs and vegetables. Is the Victory Garden making a comeback?

It’s been raining like crazy around DC lately and I’ve been noticing quite a diverse range of WEEDS growing all over my lawn and garden, driving me crazy. With that said, I have recently found out that purslane is...

that looked like a lot of lawn clippings with some sliced beef. Entree not memorable enough to recall. Architectural but tasty desert (ice cream and cookie combo, I think). The other direction on Rte. 1 is the Boxing Cat Grill....

A grass-roots movement to uproot the grass advocates growing vegetables instead.

Joi Ito eats his backyard.

Dandelions and other edible plants.

potatoes. Edible, I suppose, but not tasty. The place just got a good review from Newsday, but it strikes me as “dump a bunch of ingredients together and they'll think you're innovative.” The place is noisy...

types of edible mushrooms that can be found on lawns, fields and forests but you really have to know what you’re doing when you pick them. Many look alike or similar and unless you have taken the time to learn about the...

it to a restaurant, but it did. I found a thread on foraged food. http://www.chowhound.com/topics/312373?query=wild%20edible%20plants Any favorite grass, flowers, nectars, obscure berries...etc. you would like to see in a...

Not much. One of the rules that I was taught long ago was to never eat at an establishment with plastic figures on the lawn. If I wanted that kind of food (and I don’t) I would just eat at Roadhouse Grill or...

What you are referring to is probably the wild garlic, a pest in most peoples lawns, but edible. It has a leaf similar to chives, and I often substitute one for the other. The ramp is a whole other animal. I’m not sure...

I’ve also heard it called lamb’s quarters. In German, it is Feldsalat (field salad). It looks a bit like a soft, small edible jade plant. Indeed, unless you buy the pre-bagged stuff in European supermarkets, it seems...

We got a Brown Turkey Fig from Edible Landscaping ( http://www.ediblelandscaping.com/plants.php ) this past July. It’s hardy to Rhode Island. They also offer a variety called Hardy Chicago. We were extremely pleased with...

in the shed by the lawn mowers, but all were empty. So what does he do? He tosses me the keys to his Mercedes and tells me to go get some gas! I drove down to Moodus and filled his tank as well as the gas can and got my car...