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On to today's featured permaculture tidbit!

Sunchokes! Jerusalem artichokes! Earth apples!

If y'all wanna follow some folks that have been posting about sunchokes lately, look no farther than @papa-pepper, @mountainjewel, and @bghandmade.

I need to get some sunchokes soon. They're supposed to be really nutritious and low glycemic, so they'd be a good potato substitute for diabetics.

As the card says, they're perennial, which is totally awesome. Harvest what you need and they'll be back next year with their beautiful flowers and nutrient dense tuber crops! These guys are badasses in a food-producing landscape, and I bet the bees love the big yellow flowers! I'm actually considering planting a patch along our fence so they can double as extra privacy and a noise barrier from the street out front.

Check here for a quick list of medical benefits of Jerusalem artichokes. From prebiotics to mood swings, sunchokes may be able to help improve your quality of life. It's cool to me how easily food can be medicine, and medicine can be food.

Of course, they're probably not for everyone. The plants put up stems up to twelve feet (about 4m) high, which is kinda big. Almost two Nates tall. But for folks that can, many people recommend growing them. I plan on it, do you? I'd kinda like to see them in a perennial three sisters garden. Wonder how that could work...

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