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 ...

Question: My son just started at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and we were walking around the pretty tree-filled campus. We noticed a bush or small tree with what looked like eda­mame. But my ...

AVID nature lover and gardener, Natalie Rowles from Ashley, Pinetown, tells us all about pigeon peas and why we should grow them. “I have harvested some fresh, green pigeon peas together with red ...

For gardeners who lament the arrival of summer because it means pea season is over, consider the venerable pigeon pea -- a hardy perennial that can produce successive harvests during the year. The ...

Cook pigeon peas. Drain and put in bowl. Add garlic, onions, lemon juice and mix. Chill. Serve on plates of fresh garden lettuce. For seed to start growing your own pigeon peas try buying dried pigeon ...

Pigeon peas grow in a variety of agro-ecological zones and are well adapted to semi-arid climate conditions. In sub-Saharan Africa it is widely grown in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi and Mozambique.

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 ...

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 ...

ERADA — 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 — ...