Daily Harvest 6/12/14 blossoms

Looking on line for current bee forage and finding that black locust trees were blossoming was how I found out about the edibility of locust blossoms. But we couldnt see any blossoms on our trees.

Our trees are so tall. I kept telling Ed that the blossoms on the ground were from the black locust trees but he wouldnt believe me. So we got out the binoculars and sure enough there were the flowers.

So I picked up some of these blossoms

and added some sage flowers from our garden

for a tasty spring salad. They taste slightly like peas.

Unlike their family member the pea, the only edible part of the black locust tree are the blossoms. A the rest are toxic including the pods and seeds.