Awesome posts HG, I share your love for natives, and I admire your passion. In the fall I was out on my front lawn (it's a lawn on its own accord ><) picking lambs quarter leaves to finish off stir fry with, after eating some raw of course. We probably had 5-6 5 foot tall plants that grew on their own accord. We have a lot of London rocket mustard, and cheese weed growing around the yard as well that we love to eat. And Various natives we've planted that have yet to deliver the goods.
With a simple walk around the neighborhood there are wild currants, acorns, mesquite pods(need to do mesquite harvest this year!!!), hackberries (do not crunch the seeds!), sunflowers, Jerusalem artichokes(so I'm told, yet to identify them), yucca flowers, prickly pair fruits, agave, ocotillo flowers, and roots that make a tea I've yet to try, and probably 2 handfuls I can't remember. Most natives around here don't give up their bounty easily, or in large quantities
This is going to be our third year of trying to teach ourselves to garden with little to no experience hehe. We grow annuals(when they choose to grow), and more standard fruit trees in our back yard, but you gotta love those easy to grow natives, and unruly weeds
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