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What if the most resilient winter vegetable was never lost — only reclassified?

This documentary explores chickweed (Stellaria media), a cold-hardy green once grown intentionally in European kitchen gardens for centuries. It contains more iron than spinach, more vitamin C than lettuce, survives frost and snow, and requires no fertilizer, irrigation, or pest control.

For generations, chickweed filled the historical hunger gap — the late-winter period when stored vegetables failed and nothing else grew. It was eaten raw, cooked, added to soups, and relied on when gardens were otherwise dormant.

Today, the same plant is labeled a noxious lawn weed, targeted by herbicides and erased from modern food systems.

This film traces how chickweed shifted from everyday vegetable to enemy of the lawn — not because it changed biologically, but because food systems changed economically. When lawns replaced gardens, and recurring sales replaced self-seeding abundance, chickweed no longer fit.

This is not a story about foraging trends or survival food.
It’s a story about how food becomes a weed when it stops being profitable.

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