The lowly pigeon pea offers many benefits to akamai gardeners. Not only is it a drought-tolerant, small and attractive tree but it also offers an edible crop and fixes nitrogen. As the leaves of ...

Pigeon peas, or as locally known – mbaazi, is a perennial legume that is loved for its nutritional value. Raw, mature green seeds of pigeon peas can be eaten as vegetables but in Kenya, the dry grains ...

If you are itching to dust the snow off the garden and get some seeds in, peas are the salvation you’re looking for. I’ve extolled the power of peas before, but I barely scratched the surface on their ...

During the dry season in Costa Rica, when the vegetation turns brown and the soil hardens, it’s difficult to grow any crops. But there is one plant that provides a bountiful harvest at this time of ...

Growing edible crops used to be so hard for Kazy Zanapijo in drought-prone southern Madagascar that she would often have nothing but wild plants and cactuses to feed herself and her children -- until ...

Here’s a special plant that is perfect for the tropical home garden: the bean tree, or frijol de palo in Spanish. More commonly called pigeon pea or gandul in English, Cajanus cajan arrived in the New ...

Is your veggie garden done for the season? There are a couple things you can do; let the garden go fallow, unplanted, cover it up with clear plastic for 6–8 weeks of solarization or plant ...

ERADA, Madagascar, April 25 (Reuters) - Growing edible crops used to be so hard for Kazy Zanapijo in drought-prone southern Madagascar that she would often have nothing but wild plants and cactuses to ...