The vanilla equivalent of Southeast Asia. This bush started as one single plant in a pot. I couldn’t decide where […]
Yam 芋頭
My neighbour came this morning, bearing a gift from his garden, a yam plant. The root has many tiny new […]
Taiwan’s indigenous quinoa, Djulis or Hongli 紅藜
Decide to write a piece on this amazing food, since I have been in love with quinoa since 2013. The […]
Orange Hibiscus with double layers
Who is prettier? Flower, me or Yosifu?Discovered this beautiful double layer orange hibiscus opposite Yazi’s Japanese Grill 美浪居酒屋 in Donghe.
Building edible garden (Part 2 Soil Preparation)
The soil is from our rice paddy and it is clay soil. Clay, silt, and sandy soils all behave differently and have […]
Building our edible garden (Part 1 Construction)
There is something satisfying about honest hard work, as the phrase “bread labour” coined by Scott Nearing. This is an […]
A beautiful find on my morning walk, silvergrass 五節芒
This is a common perennial grass in Taiwan, Miscanthus floridulus 五節芒, commonly known as silvergrass. http://tai2.ntu.edu.tw/PlantInfo/species-photo.php?code=628%20083%2002%200 They grow all over. Depending […]
Awapuhi, a gift from nature
Thank you Paul Mitchell, who introduced Awapuhi from Hawaii, to Ping 30 years ago. In November 2015, P and I […]
Awapuhi from JPMS Awapuhi farm in Hawaii
The roots I brought back from the farm that Paul Mitchell started years ago in the Big Island of Hawaii, […]