What to do with Wild Chicory?

[tinknal]

I have an abundance of wild chicory growing here. I know you can grind the roots for a coffee substitute or extender. Does it have any other uses? Is there a demand for seed? It really is a very attractive flower.

[geo in mi]

Blue chicory flowers and buzzing cicadas tell me summer is halfway gone. I'm going to leave some on the bank by the new roadway--along with the wild daylilies the county dumped there to make the slope. I think I got all the neighbors' daylilies hehehe. Maybe they will fill in and I won't have to mow.....

geo

[tinknal]

Anyone know how and when to harvest the seed?

[Patt]

This says it makes a good fodder crop: http://www.botanical.com/botanical/m...cor61.html#par

[Navotifarm]

I do not know what actual use it is but two years ago I broadcast deer patch seed I bought at walmart and what I had as a result was a field of closely spaced blue blossoms and a deer with two fawns who visited a lot. I thought it spread by the roots but not much came back this year.