Hold off on the weed spray! That shining yellow flower that pops up all over creation in the spring doesn’t need to be eradicated. Although dandelions are typically thought of as a pesky weed, they are entirely edible from root to bloom and have many other uses as well. So if your world is being overrun by dandelions, check out some of these fantastic ways to put them to use for you!
Using Dandelion Roots:
Harvesting and Using Dandelion Roots
Dandelion Root Coffee Substitute
Using Dandelion Leaves:
Try this Wilted Dandelion Salad
Use them in this Avocado Herb Sandwich
10 Ways to Use Dandelion Greens (includes a recipe for pesto!)
Another version of Dandelion Pesto
Using Dandelion Flowers:
How to make Dandelion Wine and Dandelion Cookies
Another recipe for Dandelion Wine
Medicinal and personal care uses:
Dandelion Oil for Arthritis and Joint Pain Relief
Dandelion Tonic for liver, bladder, and gallbladder cleansing (video)
Dandelion Recipes:
A roundup of Dandelion Recipes Includes recipes for Cream of Dandelion Soup, Dandelion Egg Salad, Split Pea Dandelion Bud Soup, and more.
Get cooking with dandelions with the Ultimate Dandelion Cookbook!
And if you don’t want to eat the dandelions, you can always use them to Feed your chickens!
More information on using dandelions in these articles:
Who knew there were so many fantastic ways to use dandelions? So when those beautiful yellow flowers pop up this spring, try some of these uses and make dandelions a friend instead of a foe!
Keep preparing! Angela
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Super ideas. I had not heard of a few of those! Thanks for sharing.
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I feed my rabbit dandelion greens and grasses in the summer months…in about a week, I will be out picking fresh ‘free’ dandelion greens…my rabbit loves them…its what I weaned him on…in the winter we have to buy store bought versions, which according to Petey don’t taste as nice as the wild ones…I raised a rescued cottontail rabbit from a small kit. He is now 1 year old, and is waiting for me to be able to retrieve the wild dandelions…I saw you can use the dandelion heads with rabbits too, by drying them, first…I have made dandelion wine in my lifetime..but don’t pick too many dandelion flowers, because the wild bees also use them for food…and we need bees, whether kept or wild versions.