Josh Clark

That is a word for monastery storeroom.

So a bitter herb in a monastery storeroom basically is telling you, hey, we use this plant in a very productive way.

Yeah.

The whole disorder thing is totally insensible if you ask me.

Yeah, I agree.

So one of the other great things, so humans use dandelions, as we'll see, in a lot of different ways and have for a very long time.

But our animal friends love dandelions, too.

Those flowers, even though they look kind of flimsy, if you think about it, they're rich in nectar, packed with it.

So bees, butterflies, basically any kind of pollinators love dandelions.

Like you said, the reason the stalk falls to the ground after flowering and as the seed heads are developing, that's because birds love the little dandelion seeds.

And one of the other things that's important about them, too, is they basically...

Flower and seed almost around like the whole year, depending on where you live.

So at times where there's not a lot of food sources for birds and pollinators, the dandelion's there to kind of keep them going through the, say, you know, late fall.

Yeah, yeah.

And I think it's one of the first guys to get going in the spring, too, right?

I believe so, yeah.

So we're going to get more in detail about, you know, how it's been eaten.

But actually, let's save all that.

Let's just tease it then and say it has long been eaten, is now being eaten again due to the sort of foraging movement happening in the culinary world.

It's a great tease.