Hairy Bittercress illustrating explosive dehiscence, which is a ballistic type of mechanical seed dispersal that spreads the seeds far from the parent plant (unlike the apple, which doesn’t fall far from the tree). Thank you Althea for being the leg and boot model! #hairybittercress #Cardaminehirsuta #ballistic #explosivedehiscence #mechanicalseeddispersal #slowmo @dustsunn https://www.instagram.com/seedkeeping/p/Bw-mB1El4-A/?igshid=xe9ccdxtxpov

Shabbat Shalom, familia! I pray this day finds you well and that you have chosen to make it a great one despite any obstacles/challenges/opportunities you may have faced. 🌻 This photo is from my foraging earlier today. Halleluyah! I found what I was looking for and some unexpected blessings. 🙌 Totally guided by the Ruach! So grateful I listened. 🥰 Can’t wait to make a special pesto with a secret ingredient for a brother from another mother but we got the same Father… @gil.green 🌱 Please tell me you have seen Fireproof, so you know what I mean… Right!? 💃🏽 #wildonions #wildviolets #henbit #groundivy #purpledeadnettle #hairybittercress #ribwortplantain #garlicmustard #curlydock #BeMadeWell The Before the Fall Diet aka our original food/fuel for longevity and to stay & be made well. “And Elohim said, “See, I have given you every plant that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed, to you it is for food.” ‭‭– Berĕshith (Genesis)‬ ‭1:29‬ ‭TS2009‬‬ Enjoy the day of rest, familia! 😴🌅📖🙏🤲🎼🙌💃🏽🏞 #foraging #shabbatshalom #wildedibles #freedom #freefood #foodismedicine #healthyself #besetfree #lovemore #bemore #domore #bemadell #naturalliving https://www.instagram.com/p/CcHauB9uEGc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Known as the ‘weeds of cultivation’, arable or garden weeds, some people spend a lot of time and effort eradicating edible weeds to replace them with vegetables.

A closeup on life at the farm right now: first, Ground Ivy and Hairy Bittercress flowers; next a grasshopper; then A SWEET POTATO SEEDLING FROM A TRUE SEED (I’m excited - my first time saving and germinating them); water Spinach or Rau Muong seedling (sweet potato cousin) from my watery patch last year. I started the water spinach from bunches of greens from the Vietnamese supermarket, and then saved their seeds and here we are. Your produce is alive!! #truesweetpotatoseeds #sweetpotatoseedlings #waterspinachseed #waterspinach #ipomoeabatatas #ipomoeaaquatica #groundivyflowers #groundivy #hairybittercress #grasshopper #seedkeeping #sexualreproduction

Hairy Bittercress (Cardamine hirsuta) is out and flowering. Apparently, it adds a peppery flavor (like Arugula) to salad, and can make a good pesto, which I'll try before wiping it out from the fields. When it goes to seed and you walk through it, the seeds explode and fly everywhere. #seeddispersal #ballisticseeddispersal #ballochory #hairybittercress #cardaminehirsuta #eatyourweeds (at Newtown Square, Pennsylvania)

Hairy Bittercress. Cardamine hirsuta. Going ballistic aka explosive dehiscence aka mechanical seed dispersal. Note to future self: this is what happens if you wait til mid-April to do weed control in your seed keeping bed. #hairybittercress #Cardaminehirsuta #ballistic #explosivedehiscence #mechanicalseeddispersal #slowmo (at Bartram's Garden)