Years ago I had milk kefir grains.  We made kefir most days, and we did this for years.  Other than the cost of the milk, it was very cheap....

A few years ago, I started growing a perennial vegetable called Vietnamese fish mint ( Houttuynia cordata ).  This perennial plant is used a...

String of Pearls is a lovely succulent.  They grow long trailing stems, most varieties have almost spherical leaves, some varieties have lea...

Rather than make you read through the entire post to get to the answer I will give the short answer here: buckwheat is safe to eat buckwheat...

Years ago it used to be common to read on permaculture sites how people would grow Chinese water chestnuts ( Eleocharis dulcis ) in those pl...

I grow a few different maidenhair ferns, they are lovely ferns and I really like them.  Each type that I grow are noticeably different.   I ...