She Grows Food

The Sugar Snap Pea is a legume, a variety of pea that can be eaten whole when it is unripe. This variety of pea (along with the Snow Pea) lacks the fibrous lining in the pod of other field peas. Sugar Snap Peas are bright green pod that is almost tubular where it houses its [ read more ]

Soy beans are a legume native to East Asia.  It grows on a bush plant in clusters, its light green beans form in a hairy pod. Soy beans are high in protein, but must be cooked with a wet heat in order to make them edible.  Raw soybeans, including the immature green form are toxic [ read more ]

  Snow Pea is a legume, a variety of pea that can be eaten whole when it is unripe.  This variety of pea (along with Sugar Snap) lacks the fibrous lining in the pod of other field peas. Snow Peas are bright green, thin and flat, its seeds are barely developed and not very visible [ read more ]

Not only is it delicious and versatile, the winged bean also has the potential to be a key nutritional food because practically all of the plant is edible. Officially a legume, the whole bean pod is so tender that it is used as a vegetable in cuisines all over tropical Asia. What’s even more remarkable [ read more ]

Long Beans are a legume, grown for its long, crisp and tender entirely edible pod.  It’s part of the cowpea family and has its origins in China and South Asia where it is still lovingly cultivated and eaten.  It is a vigorous grower in sub-tropical regions like Southeast Asia and Hawaii, perfect for vertical gardens [ read more ]