Dandelion Greens

An article today about dandelion greens and their upcoming popularity for salad greens prompted a childhood memory. My father, orphaned at an early age, was sent to live with an aunt's family. This aunt, my Grandma Marion, was really ahead of her time in the 50's as an independent woman. Once she was widowed, she worked at a local newspaper and traveled all around the world (I remember that she went to Spain, in particular, as I have some of the souvenirs she bought on that trip).
Grandma Marion also was known for bluntly saying what was on her mind, regarding my body shape/size, my brother's reading skills and comments on anything else that probably should have been kept to herself.
But she was a food nut before they existed. My father used to have to eat (and complained about it) dandelion greens and baby ferns as vegetables at their dinner. Not sure if she grew them or where they got them, but I remember my father talking about that as clearly as if it were today.
I will try the dandelion greens in our salads soon, in her memory, and I am quite certain I can grow them since they are a weed! We are already fans of another new/old herb, antioxidant-rich pursulane.