Why They Call it Bluefield

[unknownfate]

Some of my favorite flowers are ditch weeds. Chicory is just one of the reasons I love to come home in the summer.

Comments

[bane-6.livejournal.com]

We were always told that the Civil War soldiers used it to make coffee when they didn't have rations. Can you eat the leaves? I've heard the greens could be made into salad, but I've never done that either.

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

No idea! All I know is the one and only seizure I have ever had, I had after eating something with chickory root in for the first time ever.

I now avoid it like the plaaaague.

[bane-6.livejournal.com]

Yikes! And no more seizures, I hope?

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

Not a single one. Fortunately. I didn't approve of the one, at all!