Thriving The Future Podcast Ep. 27 - Choosing the Right Plants for Your Land

Continuing our site survey of a friend's land - an off-grid property. We focus on what we would plant on this property to stabilize soil, improve "curb appeal" on the SE facing slope, and provide perennial vegetables and medicinals for animal and humans. We want things that look good at different times a year.

Perennial vegetables

Perennial vegetables definition:

- Living three or more years

- Used as a vegetable, not a novelty crop

- Use the leaves, stalks, shoots, flower buds, tubers, corms, rhizomes, roots, beans, or other above or below ground parts that are eaten raw, or cooked as a meal, or as a side dish.

- Not destroyed by harvesting - harvest some, replant some (like sunchokes)

List from A Global Inventory of Perennial Vegetables:

http://www.perennialsolutions.org/a-global-inventory-of-perennial-vegetables

Perennials that we cover:

- Asparagus

- Jerusalem Artichokes (sunchokes)

- Cattail

- Sunflower

- Showy and Common Milkweed

- Ostrich fern

- Perennial Leek

- Wild Onions and garlic

- Walking onions

- Solomon Seal

- Ramps - add to the oak tree area

- Sea beet

- Turkish Rocket

- Sea Kale - perennial kale

- Wild arugula

- New Zealand Spinach

- Maximillian Sunflower

- Goji Berry

- Marshmallow

- Mulberry

- Elderberry

Episode website: https://thrivingthefuture.com/choosing-plants

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