I have never found chicory around here, although it's supposed to be here. I always wanted to try the leaves. Have you seen it growing there? I remember having coffee with chicory in it and didn't care for it that way, but that was a long time ago. 

Pat:

Have you seen it growing there?

Honestly, I could have walked all over it and never known. I didn't even know chicory was a plant like that.

Pat:

I remember having coffee with chicory in it

My great-grandparents drank nothing but a chicory blend coffee made in Louisiana. I drank it as a child mixed with milk and later would drink it as an adult when I visited them but I didn't really care for it. This past year, the local grocery store was giving free samples of a chicory blend coffee and I actually liked that one. I have no idea what the difference was though.

Brandy:

This past year, the local grocery store was giving free samples of a chicory blend coffee and I actually liked that one. I have no idea what the difference was though.

It might have been the difference of the coffee base or how much chicory was in it. I don't drink coffee any more except for dandelion coffee or something like that, but I'm always curious about things like that. 

Pat:

It might have been the difference of the coffee base or how much chicory was in it

That is possible.

chicory womder if thats a type of a wild bean of some sort or smaller wild bean I looked at the wild plank book and didn't have it in there might you the internet for your search...

wonder is misspelled

 Don't worry so much about your spelling, or typos, really.

Chicory is a ragged looking plant that has blue flowers (sometimes white or purplish, I read). It's not a bean, but more like a wild aster. 

 Chicory from Wikipedia

Ok a wild type of aster ok I get it just didn't think it was an herb thought it was a bean but now since I got a look at it I can pick that up at a heath food store now to have some good stuff for a change thank you...

On prickly pears:  Pick them when they are good and red with a good set of salad tongs, and wash them on gentle cycle no soap in your washing machine.  The thorns will come right off.  The jam tastes a lot like yellow tomato jam.  You can steam the very young leaves and dress them with lemon juice to cut the slime, or chill them.  They are reminiscent of green beans.  

Chicory will be a small bright blue fringey flower which grows on a 1-2 foot high plant by the roadside.  The blooms open in the morning only, and close in early afternoon.  

I love Jerusalem artichokes, shepherd's purse leaves and seed pods in salads, sheep sorrel leaves and pods (looks like little okras), purslane, sassafras,  blackberries, huckleberries, and any kind of nuts. I often mix my dried mint with dried wild rose leaves to stretch the supply.  Dandelion greens are OK when they are young--I've eaten them when I could afford no other salad, or shredded them into ramen noodles. 

If I could cultivate ramps, I would.