Lamb's Quarters

Lamb’s Quarters is also known as Wild Spinach, Pigweed and Goose Foot. It is a wild perennial green found in gardens, compost piles or areas with rich soil. Lamb’s Quarters can be harvested and used as a salad green. It has a spinach-like flavour with a very pleasant nutty aftertaste. It is one of my favourite salad greens and I use it very frequently in my mixed wild salad greens. Like spinach, it contains oxalic acid and should be consumed in moderation. The seeds it produces at the top of its stems are also edible if harvested when still tender, and the plant is sometimes grown for its grains.