Eat Your Weeds: Tips for Picking and Cooking Dandelions

There are a few basic rules to follow when going on a DIY weed harvest. Langdon Cook, author of Fat of the Land: Tales of a 21st Century Forager, offers a few tips while to forage for dandelions, including the following:

1) It is absolutely essential to avoid areas where weed killer might be sprayed: "Never pick by a freeway, or train tracks or telephone poles."

2) Before picking in parks, check the rules. "There was a case years ago of the famous forager Steve Brill being arrested in Central Park for picking dandelions," Cook said.