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“Easy to grow and store, high-yielding, super nutritious and crunchy like an apple, yacon (pronounced ya-kon) is one of the many “new” vegetables coming to us from South America.
In reality, this fruitlike vegetable has been cultivated throughout the Andes for more than a millennium.
South Americans eat it as a fruit; they also use the huge leaves to wrap foods during cooking, in the same way cabbage leaves are used in Germany, grape leaves in the Mideast and banana leaves in the tropics.
Only recently — thanks to some adventurous green thumbs — have North Americans begun to see yacon in produce markets…”
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In all that time an electric wire has never been connected to our house. We haven’t gotten or paid an electricity bill in over 40 years, but we have all the electricity we want. We grow everything we need, here, in our small backyard. We also have a small medicinal garden for tough times. Read More Here...
