and it while the minutes this is one of our favorite salad greens chickweed is awesome because it grows during the offseason so when you might want to be eating lettuce or something like that and it's not around chickweed is pretty reliable it's a very common meat in many people's backyards and I actually encourage to grow in the offseason in my garden beds I had Chinese cabbage planted in here the Chinese cabbage went long ago during a cold spell but the trick weed is still going strong and when I harvest chickweed first I pick the weeds that I don't want out of it like this purple pagoda or dead nettle this does not make a good salad green because it's so fuzzy you can't eat it them and I grab a hunk of chick weed and cut it with my knife and so when you cut the chick weed with a knife it regenerates much more easily and by keeping trimming the chick weed back you can keep it from going to flower for a really long time which lets you have really nice lush juicy leaves that aren't long and spindly for months or maybe just needs to come we are making and the most important thing about making cheeky weed salad is to chop it really really finely so I like to align the stems and then I chop it into about quarter inch pieces with my knife and this is how you make a wild salad palatable to almost everyone if you cut it more like this into big chunks you'll be chewing forever so instead I like to shop it's very very very fine I'd like to add this dressing which we made out of olive oil I threw in just for fun because I didn't have any lemon juice around these preserved salted lemons that I made last year when I went to Florida and then some wrong and so I coat the greens really well with the dressing but where I add the cheese because I don't want it to all fall to the bottom of the salad No so pretty I love how they will shine and then we have some local goat cheese queso fresco works really well for this to just put some dollops on it those are frogs in the background in case anyone's wondering they have a big party this time of year February they're all doing it not too shabby for some weeds this really is the perfect spring salad this video was made by wild abundance where we teach skills for self-sufficiency like homesteading permaculture woodcraft wild foods and tiny house and natural building all in the beautiful mountains around Asheville North Carolina check out wild abundance net to learn more about our classes and consultations