Reading the book Honey From a Weed by Patience Gray (1986 Harper & Row).
A chapter on Edible Weeds, how the people (and many young children) in Tuscany, many places in Europe, in Naxos, Greece, (an ancient Greek colony in the Cycledes – islands in the Aegean Sea), begin to forage for wild bitter weeds in February, March & April. And then again after the first frost.
The author writes many of the weeds belong to the daisy & dandelion family. And the most beneficent is the dandelion – flower, leaves, root.
The more bitter the better. When eaten, they vivify the liver after the cold winter.
Foragers have little knives & foraging sacks, two types of sacks – one holds bitter greens for salads. The other for bitter greens needing to be cooked & boiled in water.
All the weeds have a general name – radicchi – which means wild.

So many names.
Wild leeks, wild garlic, sorrel, plantain & dock.
Much of the medicinal value lies in the root. When the wild bitter weeds are picked, what is picked is only a stub or art of the root. Leaving the rest of the root to regrow the plant for the next season.
Borage, rocket, wild fennel. Wild radish, wild lettuce, burnet.
The names of the wild bitter weeds go on forever.

It’s still winter & a bit cold. I walk outside with my book, sit under the pear tree in the sun & see wild things growing here, there everywhere, new shoots popping up. But I don’t know what they are. And I don’t know how to learn. I wish I could.

My thoughts & feelings of wanting to know reflected in the transits (the heavens today).
Venus (5) Saturn (3) today – the gathering of knowledge.
Knowledge Rays.
Mercury (4) Jupiter (2) this evening. (Love Rays).
Expanding the mind w/ real true information.
Love then happens. All by itself.
I return to my book. And make a wish list (Pisces).

Today March 8 2026 – a time change happened in the night —- – a leaping ahead one hour.
Pisces Sun Mercury & Mars today. Blue sky day.
Scorpio moon today – a quiet day – no chem trails (finally seeing the true color of the sky, Ray 2 & Ray 6 – Ray 6 sky blue during the day, Ray 6 indigo blue in the night. Soon it will be springtime – Friday March 20th – 12 days from now – Sun enters Aries & Mercury stations direct at 8 degrees Pisces.

Honey From a Weed: Fasting & Feasting in Tuscany, Catalonia, the Cycledes (islands in the Aegean Sea) & Apulia by writer/author Patience Gray.
Brilliant & a most unusual book w/ stories of her experiences living w/ a sculptor (in search of marble) in the Mediterranean adapting to the ways of the local people, watching, observing, adapting, foraging, learning, often w/ none of the usual kitchen amenities. The writing has an otherworldly quality of another time & place.

Honey From a Weed is a great work, beautifully written, a book that encourages taking the time to read quietly, passages that inspire and inform equally of a life and foods quite unique, far removed from the urgencies and furies of modern life. (The Guardian)

The American chef Samin Nosrat, who gathers her friends every Monday evening for “family dinner,” read Honey in a Weed 12 times when she had a difficult transit. Its words, pictures, ideas, recipes – helped her through the dark shadows of change.
What are you reading? love, Risa