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Comfrey A wild flower that starts popping up in April/May that I’m rather fond of. Can you eat it? Well, some say yes but not really, I mean it contains some nasty alkaloids and tbf that’s not exactly gourmet is it? That being said this plant has a myriad of uses including its rather wonderful moniker ‘knit bone’ which alludes to the fact that a paste made from the roots was used to set broken bones…how did they find this out? Trial and error that’s how… I expect they tried jelly and earwax and