A vegetable from the tropical highlands of Papua New Guinea, rungi (Rungia klossii) is an attractive, edible, nutritious year-round ground cover for the tropics and semi-tropics.
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Sweet Violet – Edible, Medicinal, Beautiful
Sweet Violet (Viola odorata), is a shade-tolerant, ground-covering edible plant with a long list of nutritive and medicinal uses.
Okinawa Spinach
Okinawa spinach (Gynura crepioides) is an edible, nutritious, prolific, and low maintenance ground covering plant. It looks good enough to landscape with. And the more you eat it, the better it looks.
Stinging Nettle: Nourishment for You and Your Garden
Stinging nettle (Urtica dioica) has a long history of use for food, medicine, cordage, and dye. Here are some ideas for making use of the free food and fertilizer that this under-appreciated weed has to offer.
Homemade Ginger Sauerkraut
About how the ginger growing in our garden has inspired successful homemade sauerkraut in our kitchen, which in turn has inspired better maintenance of the ginger plants in the garden. Sauerkraut recipe included.
How to Harvest and Use Queensland Arrowroot
Queensland arrowroot (Cana edulis) provides food for us, food for chickens, pigs, cattle and goats, mulch and/or compost material, and shelter for other plants. It’s super easy to grow and to harvest and it self-propagates to a certain extent but is not weedy or invasive. And I think it looks beautiful. What more could a polyculture food grower ask?
7 Easy Substitutes for When Lettuce Won’t Grow
6 Salad bowl contenders that can handle heat and high humidity. The 7th plant can make a nutritious salad by itself if you have the right growing niche for it. Plus a tip on getting the most nutrition from your salad greens. UPDATED July 2023.
Choko – People Food, Animal Food, Weed Control, Mulch
I used to think chokos were boring, bland, and not very useful, but I’ve changed my mind. Here are 6 of the ways I use chokos and choko vines since I gained a better appreciation for them.
Real Food does not come from Supermarkets: 6 Steps from Bare Ground to Homegrown Veggies
How I got from “I don’t think I could grow brassicas,” to “Ooh look – a cauliflower!”
5 Cut and Carry Goat Fodder Plants that Poultry, Pigs, Cattle and People can also eat
This article lists 5 plants for a cut and carry goat fodder system, that also serve lots of other needs as well.