Drought-tolerant and heat-resistant pigeon peas are an easy-to-grow staple food, and they attract pollinators too. lynnebeclu / Getty Images A top ingredient in African, Asian, and Latin American ...

COURTESY HEIDI BORNHORST Gandule beans, or pigeon peas, grow on large bushes or small trees. Boil or steam the pods to enjoy the peas as a snack similar to edamame. The plants will bear yellow ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Is your veggie garden done for the season? There are a couple things you can do; let the garden go fallow, unplanted, cover it up with clear plastic for 6–8 weeks of solarization or plant ...

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 ...

Pigeon peas are high in iron content. It helps increase haemoglobin levels and avoid iron deficiency to support healthy growth in children.