Also, depending on your local climate, you might be surprised how quick and easy it is to grow your own turnips. If you’re in a temperate northern hemisphere climate, good chance you can have fresh home grown turnips for 8+ months of the year, if not the whole year. They don’t take a lot of time to reach maturity, you can basically plant a small batch of seeds every few weeks to keep things going.

Yes, they are delicious on their own, fresh cut in salads, and so on. You can roast/bake/cook them, and they take on a taste and texture similar to potatoes. You can soak them in a pickling brine (1:4 vinegar to water with a bit of salt) for a few hours minimum and that will also eliminate most of the “bite” if you don’t like that part of their flavor profile.