Popping up all over the local pastures, roadsides, and waste spaces is a prickly spring weed. Bull thistles (Cirsium vulgare) go by an old Cajun-French name also, chadron (pronounced shadron), and it has a long history as a spring vegetable here in southern Louisiana. Back in the days before grocery stores, after a long winter with few fresh fruits and vegetables, the appearance of the chadrons…
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