I’ve written before about my project to look to sourcing my food directly from my homestead first. Today I thought I’d share just a bit of what that practically means with a bit about two fantastic perennial vegetables that tend to get ignored by most despite how awesome they are. They both provide an abundant supply of highly edible produce over a wide range of the growing season. As perennials once established you don’t need to do much of anything to maintain them. I don’t even weed around them. They seem to grow in natural polycultures just fine, thus they promote the building of topsoil instead of its depletion. Pollinators love them so in growing these you support the insect populations so critical to our ecosystems. One is extremely beautiful, generally used as an ornamental. The other is super fragrant, in a good way I might add. Oh, and they both taste great too. To the best of my knowledge though, you can’t buy these in stores, or at the farmers market. There’s a decent chance however, that they are growing near you, if not in your own yard.
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