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I use it medicinally, but a friend in Austria recommended yarrow as a culinary herb, fresh. It is pretty good - kind of slightly bitter, calamus flavor, kind of peppery. It is actually very good in salads or with fish

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I wonder what collection of oils is in the Austrian yarrow. Ours smells like it would work with fish. Gotta try it.

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I just made a jam with rhubarb and yarrow flowers. Looks not great, but tastes good.

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I am sure it would be tangy!

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Thank you for this wonderful info!! I've yet to find yarrow in the wild myself, but am ready to now!

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Dr. Janie, it's a Midwestern native, and you can also purchase it at nurseries that sell native plants and grow it yourself. I started with one plant, and now it's growing in profusion in a dry, rocky area where not much else will grow.

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Thanks! I'm slowly trying to get all the medicinal herbals I need growing on our property... Will be attempting to plant mullein also. Haven't found nettle yet either.

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Nettle won't grow on our property, possibly because it's too dry. We're upland. I've harvested it in the wild, but only in river bottomlands.

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Yarrow really hides well in the grass of any pasture or meadow. People usually don't notice it without the flowers (unless they're crazy for weeds :-D Flowering plants can be found on edges of the wooded areas that don't get cut down or grazed frequently. Mowing might cut them so short that you see only sticks. Happy hunting!

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I just made a rhubarb-yarrow flower jam as an experiment. It kinda looks like baby poop, but it’s tasty and medicinal!

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Sounds interesting. What inspired you to put those two together? Used to eat a lot of rhubarb when I was a kid. Haven't had it in a long time.

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I had some rhubarb I needed to use, my yarrow has really proliferated this year, and I'd just attended a class on Native American medicinal use. On the whole, they had many more uses for yarrow than they did echinacea.

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Yaaaaaa, It's an absolute dumpster of useful metabolites. Could write a yarrow book, which is what makes it so difficult to write the short stacks. With the haphazard food prep and infectious diseases, it's amazing how some lived to be so old and gray on herbs. Pondering this can adjust a person's relationship with modern health care :-D

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To say the least!

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Also, I’ll be setting up our collab this week. Apologies for the delay.

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Got pics finished.

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I think of Yarrow as spice quantity edible, because it's fairly powerful medicine, with decent % yield of essential oils.

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