Mixed in with your greens this week, you will find some green leaves with a thin stem and round-shaped leaf. Claytonia is a cold-hardy salad green, that is also known by the name of "miner's lettuce." During the gold rush, miners foraged for the wild-growing green. It provided a rare source of fresh vitamin C during the winter, thus staving off scurvy for the hungry miners. Claytonia has a mild, but lush flavor. We love to mix it with hardy brassicas and lettuces in the Fall and our shoots in Winter in order to keep us in salad through all the cold Vermont winter months.
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