Ok, something hopeful, about food and the Appalachians..Updated

Forget the Clueless and the Useless and the horribly sad Misguided/Aggressive/Compulsives who "run" things in the world, let's talk about slow food movements and sustainable eating.

Here's something good, healthy and blogworthy.  The salad is made from, "spring greens", and the greens in the corn bread could include the little spring salad greens like dandelion, lamb's quarter if you like the taste, and miner's lettuce.  I like the traditional corn bread greens, spring onions, etc.  When I would play in the woods with my cousins and young aunts, we would gather wild celery and wild onions and make mud pies.  We never ate those but sometimes we took back with us, and ate in soups and salads, the little wild things that grew along the stream.

 Appalachian Cornbread Article from Grist. 

I also just read a "twenty something's" article on how she decided to cook and to eat nettles.  I want to warn people who may follow her in doing this, that they must be sure what they are eating has not been  sprayed with Roundup or some other neurotoxic new generation herbicide/pesticide.  Actually, be careful they are not sprayed with old motor oil, as is sometimes done.

Poor people, and people like me and Euell Gibbons, have been eating weeds-well, he's dead so maybe not a live source- since we were small.  It's a good thing to do with those little plants and gives them a place in the garden, too.

I'd rather be in my garden or my childrens' gardens than anywhere else on Earth.  Someday this might be possible.  In the article above, the Food Industry moved against the age old Appalachian diet with horrible results.  See, there is wisdom in some of the age old ways.