Dan Boone wrote:What say you clever people: is it indeed purslane?  Because if it is, I'm going to nurture it and plant it in my orchard area and eat of it frequently.

I love purslane, and yes, that is it. The plants can look different depending on the ph of the soil. It seems to like soil that is acidic enough to grow blueberries, but less than perfectly balanced. It grows well up near Henryetta on a friend's blueberry patch and over in Tecumseh, but not very well in Hughes County - at least not near here or on this place. I tried transplanting some from the blueberry patch, but it didn't make it. It also likes a lot of water. It was growing where the blueberry irrigation was and against the house in Tecumseh where rainwater ran off the roof.

It is delicious on salads and in stir fries. And I saw someone feeding their chickens or goats or something with it? I can't remember, but it was in a video on YouTube. He lived where irrigation water would overflow and the purslane was growing in a cement gutter, so he took a scoop shovel and started rolling it up in big bundles and threw it on his truck. Great way to have organic, non-gmo feed for free (assuming the water that was making it grow so prolifically was clean).

I don't know about "Stupid, large volumes", but I ate it on salads at least several times a week for a couple months and it didn't bother me any.