What was discovered in the Pyramids: Pigeon Pea - an Ancient Superfood...

• Cajanus cajan - Pigeon Pea - existed for more than 4800 year! It's been widely consumed in South Asia, South East Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Documented in India since 2,800 BC; reached Ancient Egypt around 2,200 BC.
• Provides flavorful, nutritious, and healthy food, with potential to become widely popular like Japanese sushi 🍱
• It is a showy perennial woody shrub or small tree, 4-8 ft tall, with soft leaves. Can be grown in container
• Pretty flowers are yellow, with purple or red streaks, pods containing oval to round seeds.
• Many culinary uses: the tasty and healthy beans used in rice dishes, soups, stews, tempeh, tofu. Unripe pods eaten in curries, leaves and young shoots cooked as a vegetable.
• Rich source of fiber, protein, vitamins (B, C, E, K), and minerals (calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium, zinc).
• Medicinal value: various folk medicinal uses for sores, bladderstones, jaundice, skin irritations, bronchitis, coughs, pneumonia, toothache, dysentery, and more.
• Everyone can grow it! The plant is super easy, tolerates poor soils, drought tolerant, improves soil quality like many other beans.

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Why cucumbers grow on a tree? Because they are "candles"! 🕯

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  🕯 This bizarre tree is a conversation piece and every plant collector should have one!
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  🕯 Parmentiera edulis - Candle Tree, or Guahalote - is a highly ornamental tree with interesting leaves, pretty cream flowers and...ready?
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  🕯One foot long fruits resembling a greenish-yellow cucumbers or candles that hang off the tree!
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  🕯Juicy fruit is edible and has a sweet flavor similar to sugar cane. Eaten raw or cooked; used to make pickles or preserves
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  🕯The fruit is a remedy for colds; roots used as a diuretic.
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  🕯Easy to grow and not fussy about conditions. Cold tolerant to light frost.

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Why cucumbers grow on a tree? Because they are "candles"! 🕯

• 🕯 This bizarre tree is a conversation piece and every plant collector should have one!
• 🕯 Parmentiera edulis - Candle Tree, or Guahalote - is a highly ornamental tree with interesting leaves, pretty cream flowers and...ready?
• 🕯One foot long fruits resembling a greenish-yellow cucumbers or candles that hang off the tree!
• 🕯Juicy fruit is edible and has a sweet flavor similar to sugar cane. Eaten raw or cooked; used to make pickles or preserves
• 🕯The fruit is a remedy for colds; roots used as a diuretic.
• 🕯Easy to grow and not fussy about conditions. Cold tolerant to light frost.

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🐈 Cat of the Day - Snitch.

Snitch is our office helper and herbs expert.

"Make sure to tell your cats all the truth about Catnip"

Get some herb tea and have a good sleep!🌜

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18 most popular herbs: where to use each herb? 🍲

• 🌿 Arugula - Green salads, pasta sauce
• 🌿 Balm - Iced drinks, salads, poultry stuffing
• 🌿 Basil - Tomato salad, any past dish? home-made pesto, garnish
• 🌿 Catnip - Sauces and stews, for tea
• 🌿 Chervil - Soups, green salads, as a garnish
• 🌿 Chives - Cream cheese, potato salad, green salads, sauces
• 🌿 Cilantro - Stews, rice, salads, salsa
• 🌿 Dill - Fish dishes, pickles, potato salad
• 🌿 Lemon grass - Oriental stir-fry, for tea
• 🌿 Marjoram - Italian dishes, stews, soups
• 🌿 Mint - Add to potatoes, peas, cucumber, carrots, mint sauce, mint tea
• 🌿 Oregano - Italian and Greek dishes, green salad
• 🌿 Parsley - Butters, pasta dishes, as garnish
• 🌿 Rosemary - BBQ, roast lamb/chicken, fish, fried/baked potatoes
• 🌿 Sage - Stuffing, add to poultry, mix with cream cheese
• 🌿 Sorrel - Soup, serve with fish, pastries
• 🌿 Tarragon - Fish, chicken, sauces
• 🌿 Thyme - Stocks and stews, add to pasta

📸 Basil, Catnip, Rosemary, Oregano, Cilantro, Sage, Terragon, Lemon grass, Mint, Thyme

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