{"id":5311,"date":"2024-05-09T08:36:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T15:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dawningsart.com\/shop\/?p=5311"},"modified":"2026-03-04T10:29:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T18:29:46","slug":"miners-lettuce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawningsart.com\/shop\/miners-lettuce\/","title":{"rendered":"Miner&#8217;s Lettuce"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Miner Lettuce grows in the wild all the way from the West Coast to the Great Plains but is most commonly found in Washington, Oregon and California.\u00a0One of the most forager-friendly greens you can find, and was named for its high vitamin C content, which reportedly protected miners on the Pacific Coast from succumbing to scurvy.\u00a0Miner&#8217;s Lettuce\u00a0flourishes on the Coast, one species bearing unusual cup-shaped leaves and another with heart-shaped leaves. They crop up in early spring, and the leaves can be consumed raw or cooked in salads, stir-fries and soups.\u00a0Miner\u2019s lettuce can be found near clear-cuts where the plants also have access to water. Low canyons, shady and damp riparian areas, and drainages are also great places to hunt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miner Lettuce grows in the wild all the way from the West Coast to the Great Plains but is most commonly found in Washington, Oregon and California.\u00a0One of the most forager-friendly greens you can find, and was named for its high vitamin C content, which reportedly protected miners on the Pacific Coast from succumbing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[317,319],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wild-foraging","category-natural-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawningsart.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawningsart.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawningsart.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawningsart.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawningsart.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dawningsart.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5313,"href":"https:\/\/dawningsart.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5311\/revisions\/5313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawningsart.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawningsart.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawningsart.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawningsart.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}