My Entrée into Foraging: A Superfood Weed called Purslane
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When my mother visited a few months ago, she weeded my kitchen garden. Because which African mother would sit around with a garden full of weeds? She spared two types of weeds. One of the weeds is called Nkoonko in my native Meru language. It is a thorny weed often used as fodder but has medicinal roots. The second type was Purslane (P
Inakaa... Also check out dandelions, chicory pia.
So nimekuwa nikitupa mboga in the name of weeding?