I wanted a proactive and fun show today and shows about useful plants are always subscriber favorites. Last night on Episode 5 of Unloose the Goose we discussed the food system and it has a lot of this churning in … Continue reading →
Huauzontle is often referred to as lambsquarters and that is a generic name for a family of plants that huauzontle is part of. The scientific name for huauzontle is Chenopodium nuttalliae while the common variety of lambsquarters known to most … Continue reading →
Joseph Simcox was awesome on yesterday’s show and after talking to him I looked up more of his stuff. I found this amazing 3 part garden tour on YouTube and listened to all of it and selected 12 plants inspired … Continue reading →
Well the dang Baker Creek catalog showed up and I got sucked in. As I paged though it thinking about all the new grow space I will have in the coming season I started dog-earing pages. As I did so … Continue reading →
Big thanks to Nick Burtner at School of Permaculture (https://schoolofpermaculture.com) for posting about this plant being edible on Facebook. Been growing it for years and never knew it was that type of resource. The seeds are pretty good raw, I … Continue reading →
At the presentation I just did at the Self Reliance Expo there were two main things people had major questions about when it comes to food forestry. The first was “what trees and plants work in Texas” and that really … Continue reading →
Recently I posted a photo on facebook included here in the show notes. The photo is of a plant called huauzontle (pronounced wah-zont-lay), a relative of lambsquarters. While only one person guessing the plant species got it right what actually … Continue reading →
