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 ...

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 ...

Pigeon peas are excellent nitrogen fixers and increase the availability of phosphorus bound up with iron in the soil. This benefit alone is a good reason to plant them.Deep-rooting pigeon pea bushes ...

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 ...

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 ...

When I first met Florence Warrick-Joseph, there were two things I didn’t know. One, we were related in that pumpkin vine way only Caribbean people can be. Two, the doubles I had just bought from her ...

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 ...