By: Hettie Basil Lighttower
More about milkweed…. Last week we talked about two species that saved lives in their own way. But did you know that one of those species (asclepias syriaca aka common milkweed) has a history of being eaten as a vegetable?? I do remember both of my grandmothers mentioning that “back in the old days we would gather it in the spring and eat the new sprouts”. Goodness! Everyone knows, I think,…