Embracing Invasive Plants.
Last night I made a pesto using the invasive Sahara Mustard - Brassica tournefortii. Each spring in th Mojave Desert everyone is batteling to weed this invasive. I don’t use toxic chemicals so hand weeding is how I control it. I can’t weed fast enough. So I began to embrace the invasive plants and seeing them in a different way, like as food and medicine is a helpful way to look at weeding. Usually folks dump toxic chemicals on weeds looking to remove the annoyance and true