All of these lovely seeds mean that I'll be digging up a whole new crop of dandelions in the coming weeks. Alas. Dandelion greens salad anyone?
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- If I could have the vocation of my choosing, I would either be a farmer or a teacher of urban gardening. Alas, I am neither of these things, yet! I live in the Pacific Northwest and food security and sustainability are my passions. In a few days I'll begin making my case for why local (food, business, governance, resource use, etc.) is better and far more sane than the complicated, fragile and completely unsustainable system of infrastructure, production and distribution most humans currently depend on. Stay tuned!
4 comments:
Nice Dandelion!
So Dandelion is some sort of corruption of the French for "lion's tooth," no?
Does this mean that Cantaloupe means "singing wolf?" If so, why? Or am I positing a false etymology here?
Thanks!
I believe the French also refer to the Dandelion as "pis en lit" because it's an effective diuretic.
I cannot speak to the origins of the word Cantaloupe. I know that it is believed to be a variation of the French village Cantaloup or comes from the Italian papal estate Cantaluppi, where the melon was apparently cultivated.
Naming a French village for singing wolves is one thing, but the name has more profound implications for the Italian papacy. Why indeed.
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It's on, dammit! It's on. Nice job, by the way.
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