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

I have been growing watercress ( Nasturtium officinale ) for a little over ten years, I wrote a blog post on it in 2014.  It is a simple pl...

I have been growing Vietnamese Fish Mint    ( Houttuynia cordata )  for years, yet for some reason I have never written a blog post on it be...

I find myself fascinated with the concept of perennial grains.  While many appear to be inappropriate for large scale cropping, perhaps they...

For a few years I have wanted to grow vegetable fern ( Diplazium esculentum ).  This is a beautiful and ornamental looking fern that is comm...

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 wrote in an earlier post about saving asparagus seed from my purple asparagus plants .  It was a bit of work, but the result was worth the...