The Lowly Dandelion Becomes a Star

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="9ee285a1erlcgo.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><B>PERRY VALLEY GRANGE #1804, INC.</B></FONT><B>  </B><B> </B><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B> |     </B></FONT><B>  H</B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="PERRY VALLEY GRANGE 1804, INC."><B>ome</B></A><B>       |     </B><A HREF="id356.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="index"><B>index</B></A><B>   </B></div> <div> <A HREF="id528.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Dressing the Dandelion"><B><IMG SRC="9f20e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="down" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></A><B> </B><A HREF="id528.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Dressing the Dandelion"><B>  Next</B></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="9edd2c00dkelyh.png"> <bR> <div> <B>Click on the navigational arrow   above to view more pictures about the Ham & Dandelion (public) Dinner.</B></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I><B>The Lowly Dandelion Becomes a Star</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="f714f8f0.jpg" border=0 width="591" height="399" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B>Before these yellow flowers appear in lawns each spring, </B></div> <div> <B>Valley Grange uses bushels of the green leaves of the dandelion</B></div> <div> <B>to serve at one of its popular public dinners.  Eating the young </B></div> <div> <B>dandelion greens is a Pennsylvania Dutch tradition.  Actually the</B></div> <div> <B>dandelion greens are now grown commercially by a local produce </B></div> <div> <B>farm especially for the Grange's use.  This year 50 pounds - </B><I><B>or </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>about five bushels</B></I><B> - of dandelion was served.  If you think digging</B></div> <div> <B>it out of your lawn is tedious work, try cleaning this much.....luckily</B></div> <div> <B>it didn't take long thanks to the efforts of about a dozen volunteers</B></div> <div> <B>at the pre-dinner work night.   </B></div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="id321.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Public Dinners"><B>Back to Public Dinners main page.</B></A></div> </td> </tr></table></body>