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  Greens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Greens are people who support some or all of the goals of a Green Party without necessarily working with or voting for that or any party.
Historically, "being green" developed as a political identity together with the blooming of the peace movement, the ecology movement (see preventive paradigm), and the feminist movement in the late 1970s, the time the first green parties on a local level were founded.
Wild Greens are a youth movement of New Zealand Green Party, committed to direct action and taking bodily risks to protect nature.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greens   (335 words)

  
 Greens, cooking   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Greens should be kept in a chilled display case or on ice in the market, as they will wilt and become bitter if left in a warm environment.
Whenever possible, use the cooking liquid from greens in a sauce or add it to a soup; a significant percentage of the nutrient content of greens is released into the liquid as they cook.
Simmer the greens, covered, in seasoned broth until tender; to preserve nutrients, after the greens are cooked, set them aside and reduce the cooking liquid to use in a sauce.
www.wholehealthmd.com /refshelf/foods_view/1,1523,22,00.html   (1375 words)

  
 Wild Greens
Wild greens are used much more in Europe than in America but they can furnish an interesting and important part of our diet, once we learn to know them.
Of these wild greens, the dandelion is most commonly known, gathered and eaten.
Wild onions and leek can be as good as domestic onions in salads, soups and stews if used in moderation.
www.newton.dep.anl.gov /natbltn/200-299/nb269.htm   (676 words)

  
 Pocatello Idaho State Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The greens were boiled, then sauteed with onion and garlic, finally dashed with red chili salsa and stuffed into a blue-corn tortilla.
Among the farmers selling wild greens is Henry Brockman, who runs Henry's Farm, a small family operation in Congerville, Ill. Brockman sells organically grown produce to some high-end Chicago restaurants and to consumers at the nearby Evanston Farmers' Market.
That's not to mention the wild greens - dandelions, stinging nettles, purslane, amaranth ("otherwise known as pigweed") and lamb's quarters that sprout up each year whether he likes it or not.
www.journalnet.com /articles/2004/09/09/features/food01.prt   (1658 words)

  
 A Taste of Spring   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
As with any wild greens, be sure to gather only those distant from heavily traveled roads, to avoid contamination from auto exhausts, and be sure, also, that the area being gathered from hasn't been treated with toxic herbicides or pesticides.
Widely distributed, both in gardens and as a wild "escapee," day lilies are the odd-plantout in our group; the new shoots (when one to three inches tall) are generally treated more like asparagus than a green.
Wild mustards (top right) have a spicy taste reminiscent of watercress, but steamed lambsquarters (right) are, l think, the queen of greens.
www.motherearthnews.com /library/1988_March_April/A_Taste_of_Spring   (1530 words)

  
 Rutland Herald: Rutland Vermont News & Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Foraging for wild greens and savory herbs in fields, along streambeds and on mountainsides was just one aspect of peasant life.
Taste the various greens before the mix enters the bowl and then again after they have been tossed with a light dressing — because whether the green is wild or cultivated, it will lose some of its natural bite after a coating with olive oil.
This time of year, wild greens are emerging rapidly from the earth, ready to offer up their culinary gifts.
www.rutlandherald.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030426/NEWS/304260314&SearchID=73199074103990   (743 words)

  
 Wild Pantry's All Wild Greens
Among the Appalachian mountain folks it is and was known as a nutritious, tasty spring green.
Wild greens are a spring favorite here in the mountains of Southern Appalachia and are still sought after not only for their taste but for their great nutritional value.
Some wild greens may be harvested fresh in the spring and in the late fall.
www.wildpantry.com /wildgreens.htm   (1076 words)

  
 Wild Greens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wild Greens are a youth movement of the Greens, usually associated with one of the Green Parties.
It began as a wing of the New Zealand Green Party, committed to direct action and taking risks of bodily harm to protect nature - the wild.
The movement has since spread to Canada, and elsewhere in the English-speaking world.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wild_Greens   (91 words)

  
 Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand - Sustainability, Justice, Democracy, Peace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Rod Donald, Greens co-leader, died suddenly on the night of Nov 5th.
The Greens' Caucus has appointed Metiria Turei as the new Greens' Musterer (whip) for this term of parliament, replacing co-leader Rod Donald so he can devote more time to a Buy Kiwi-Made campaign that he is developing in conjunction with the Government.
The Green Party is urging New Zealanders to ‘Buy Kiwi Made’ instead of imported goods in the light of today’s record September-year $5.8 billion trade deficit.
www.greens.org.nz   (523 words)

  
 The Smoky Mountain News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The first wild greens that appeared each spring were avidly sought after and prepared using time-honored procedures.
There was a systematic use of wild greens, gourds, sunflowers, and smartweeds thousands of years before maize was introduced to this continent around 200 A.D. Older members of the Eastern Band of Cherokees still know and use the potherbs their ancestors located here in the Blue Ridge.
By my reckoning, raw or cooked wild greens are to be eaten with vinegar or lemon juice and a helping of buttered cornbread.
www.smokymountainnews.com /issues/3_01/3_28_01/back_then.shtml   (1287 words)

  
 PERCIATELLI WITH WILD GREENS AND RICOTTA - Pasta con i mazzareddi e ricotta
In Sicily, we make this with wild greens and homemade sheeps milk ricotta, Though broccoli raabi is less bitter and cooks faster, it is a good substitilte for the wild greens.
The pasta is cooked in the water used to cook the greens for extra flavor.
Cook the pasta in the water from the greens until tender, Drain, reserving 1 cup of the water, Toss with half of the greens and the reserved pasta water.
www.e-rcps.com /pasta/menus/ea/lz/grns_rcta.shtml   (263 words)

  
 Recipes - Wild or Tame Greens Frittata Recipe at Cooking.com
Lift the greens from the water and drain in a colander.
Salt the water, immerse the greens in the boiling water, and cook, 3-5 minutes, or longer for some wild greens, until tender.
Add the eggs and greens and cook over low heat until eggs are well set on the bottom but still slightly runny on the surface.
www.cooking.com /recipes/static/recipe2966.htm   (406 words)

  
 Diet
These are wild birds who need the kinds of seeds they are used to in their homelands.
Chicks are also fed wild greens by the parents from as early as the fifth day of life.
Basic greens include a lot of dandelion greens and wild chicory, shepherd's purse, fresh chickweed, wild plantain, meadowsweet and all sorts of milky seeds in season.
homepage.mac.com /plowlane/general/Personal233.html   (690 words)

  
 Krinos Recipes -- Cooked Wild Greens (Horta)
Greens are an integral part of the Mediterranean diet, but especially of the Greek country table, where endless varieties of wild greens abound.
Bring to a boil, add the greens, and let simmer, partially covered for 15-20 minutes, until the greens are tender.
Note: The greens may be stored without dressing in a covered plastic container in the refrigerator for several days and dressed just before serving.
www.krinos.com /ind_recipe.php?RId=28   (146 words)

  
 Greens Recipes
Quicker yet, wilt the greens with a hot dressing that keeps largely intact the strikingly attractive greens in the trendy braising, or sauté, mixes that salad mix growers sell at farmers markets.
She mentions what Carolinians call creasie greens (field cress that is a wild relative of water cress), pokeweed and dandelion greens.
Toss the greens into the boiling water; cook until they are almost tender but still bright green, 8 to 10 minutes.
www.seasonalchef.com /greens.htm   (1044 words)

  
 Boston.com / A&E / Food / Polenta with wild greens
Use a mixture of chicory, Swiss chard, beet greens, mustard greens, and kale.
Add the greens and cook them for 5 minutes or until they are tender.
Drain the greens into a colander and rinse them with very cold water until they are cool enough to handle.
www.boston.com /ae/food/articles/2004/12/22/polenta_with_wild_greens   (256 words)

  
 Wild Greens Salads and Pasta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The author boils dandelion leaves with other wild greens to be used in a wild green quiche.
In Sicily, this dish is made with wild greens and homemade sheeps milk ricotta.
Combine the oil, garlic, and chopped greens in a large frying pan and saute, turning until everything is coated.
www.psa-rising.com /~psa/eatingwell/wild-foods/saladspasta1.htm   (767 words)

  
 Wild foods grown by Mother Nature and offered by Wild Pantry
Wild Pantry specializes in wild edible, medicinal and useful plants of the Southeastern United States and some other areas of the United States.
Wild Pantry is a small, family owned and operated company in the rural Appalachian Mountains of southeastern Tennessee that supplies wild foods and other natural products.
All wild food products that we supply are either canned by a commercial canner or ethically harvested or wildcrafted from private land holdings in the southern Appalachian Mountain area by trained wild crafters.
www.wildpantry.com   (790 words)

  
 About the NZ Greens: Youth Greens   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Nandor's speech in reply to the Prime Ministers annual address to Parliament outlined why student debt is an unackowledged time bomb, and why her dream of an ownership society will remain an illusion until student debt is tackled.
The Greens are committed to keeping this issue on the parliamentary agenda.
Green Party initiatives to reduce student debt would include introducing a universal student allowance, phasing out student fees and adopting a debt repayment scheme that rewards New Zealanders for staying and contributing to the community.
www.greens.org.nz /about/youth   (1159 words)

  
 Borders - Feature - Greens Wild and Domestic
Green potherbs, like sorrel, nettes, and wild spinach, are tender and delicate, and the deep reds of the red lettuces, like Merlot, haven't lost their luster as long as there are those nightly temperature dips.
If your greens are tender and not too voluminous for your pan, simply wilt them in a skillet with the water that clings to their leaves after washing, or steam them.
These methods are especially well suited to those quick-cooking greens, such as spinach, young chard, and wild spinach, although tougher greens, like kale, can also be treated this way if simply cooked a bit longer.
www.bordersstores.com /features/feature.jsp?file=greenswildandomestic   (596 words)

  
 Morels Fiddleheads Ramps Recipes - Wild Harvest
In a small bowl whisk together the yogurt, mayonnaise, lemon juice, mustard, wild leek greens.
Add 1/3 of wild mushrooms and all of white mushrooms.
Because it is cooked with wine and wild mushrooms, this makes a very "special" light summertime dish.
www.wild-harvest.com /pages/recipe.htm   (1902 words)

  
 Wild Wings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The quality of the greens at the Wild Wings Golf Club is certainly a hot topic of conversation among those in the know.
Wild Wings is opening in early March, 2005, so if you act fast you can be among the first to test this fun and treacherous layout.
Wild Wings is a 9 hole course that features a unique makeup of three par 5’s, three par 4’s, and three par 3’s, adding up to a regulation par of 36.
www.golftodaymagazine.com /0503mar/wild.htm   (799 words)

  
 Herbs, Greens, Fruit
Modern epidemiologists, physicians, and nutrition experts believe that herbs, wild greens and fresh fruits native to the Mediterranean are “loaded” with solar energy.
The Greeks were mostly vegetarians with their daily diet consisting mainly of cereals, legumes, vegetables, wild greens, roots, fruit and fish.
The proper harvesting of wild herbs is determined by the particular location of the plants as well as their subsequent culinary application.
www.helleniccomserve.com /herbs.html   (1869 words)

  
 David Wolfe - Foremost Authority on Raw-Food Nutrition - Articles - Wild Greens   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
If we lived in Nature, eating 100% wild foods as 100% of our ancestors did just a few thousand years ago (before agriculture), we would find that green leaves would be a big part of our diet.
Wild green foods seem to be a big part of the answer.
Wild green foods definitely reintegrate you to the Earth as they identify for your body exactly where you are on the planet.
www.davidwolfe.com /articles/wild.shtml   (604 words)

  
 Forest Hill Nature Area   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Wild Greens: Most of the leafy greens - live sorrel, purslane, dandelion, pigweed, nettles or lamb's quarters could be cooked as much as you would spinach or chard.
Wild Greens Pie: Use pigweed, lamb's quarters, sorrel, purslane, chickweed, nettles or dandelion greens, cow cabbage.
Nettle Greens: Nettles cooked in small amount of water (salted) 5 minutes with wild onions and 1 teaspoon bacon grease.
www.edzone.net /~fhna/mushroom   (1539 words)

  
 Wild Greens!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Wild greens have at least as much flavor and nutrition as do the cultivated varieties and—best of all—don't need to be sown, watered.
The greens taste quite good served raw in salads or sandwiches, cooked in meat loaf, fried in an egg batter, pickled, and—because the cooked stems and leaves have a somewhat gooey, okra-like texture—added as a thickener to soups and gumbos.
Barbarea vulgaris is also called scurvy grass (for its high concentration of disease-preventing vitamin C), upland cress (since—unlike stream-loving watercress—it grows in such dry land locations as fields and ditches), and spring tonic (because the hardy plant is one of the first edibles to shoot up after winter).
www.motherearthnews.com /library/1980_May_June/Wild_Greens_   (1581 words)

  
 School of Self-reliance -- Why Eat Wild Food?
It was only after marketing Wild Salad (a mix of wild greens) through the local Certified Farmers' Markets that I began to appreciate the broader opportunity that my knowledge affords.
Wild edibles have the opportunity to be naturally strong, healthy, and adaptable.
Wild plants are, for the most part, free of chemical treatments of any kind.
www.self-reliance.net /wewf.html   (5618 words)

  
 Retail Produce - Specialty Herbs Fruits Organic Vegetables   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Huitlacoche is also wild foraged from the ears of corn and is a delicacy from the interior of mainland Mexico.
The area of wild foraged salad greens is exciting to me. We have found an area in East Texas where wild Mache grows along with wild wood violets that are in bloom during the mache-picking season in late February and into March.
These are essentially the greens that have been wild foraged by our prehistoric ancestors and are believed to be partially responsible for the growth and development of the human brain due to the number of essential amino acids they contain.
www.spiceairunlimited.com /RetailProduce01.htm   (1801 words)

  
 The nutritional value of wild greens, herbs & fruit - Health
Herbs and greens rich in flavonoids are: the fennel, leek, poppy flower, sorrel and wild carrot.
The green parts of dandelion are rich in vitamin A. The nettle is a significant source of iron and carotene B. The chicory are rich in vitamin B12 which is necessary for cell function.
The seeds of the wild rosebush are rich in vitamin C and the carob-beans in proteins.
www.gourmed.gr /mediterranean-diet/health/show.asp?gid=1&nodeid=89&arid=6391   (322 words)

  
 Wild Things
After the flowers appear, the greens are more bitter, but apparently this flavor is much appreciated by southern Europeans and particularly people from Portugal and Italy.
The leaves are at least as delicious as the other greens we grow, and since they are perennial, dandelions appear ready to eat each spring.
Actually, many of these wild greens are more nutritious than the cultivated ones.
www.ibiblio.org /intergarden/permaculture/mailarchives/sanet2/msg00109.html   (735 words)

  
 Joseph Powell: "Review of Adrienne Kalfopoulou's 'Wild Greens'"
Wild Greens is a particularly appropriate title for this collection.
Together, the poems make a circular journey: they begin with the broader historical climate of Greece, move into the lives of the poet's grandparents, stake out personal boundaries and claims, and end with the section called "Harvest" that resolves some of the more difficult conflicts in the previous sections.
Wild Greens is a remarkable debut and sends a message from Greece we have not heard so dramatically or passionately expressed.
www.valpo.edu /english/vpr/powellreviewkalfopoulou.html   (1077 words)

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