Wild edible vegetables

Wild edible plants and vegetables were our ancestors' food during the ancient times to survive.

They discovered food growing in the wild or forest.

 

Wild edible vegetables grow naturally strong, pest-resistant, fertilizer free and naturally rich!

Usually they have thick fiber and some taste quite bitter.

 

Some wild edible vegetables still strive even to this day, and they are grow or grow abundantly at Toucheng Leisure Farm.

 

I give you some of the wild vegetables at the Farm's vegetable garden:

 

Denseflower loosestrife herb: (photos 1 and 2)

 

 

 

 

Sweet potato leaves: (photo and 2) 

 

 

 

Wild edible vegetables has unique characteristics, for example purslane (photo below)

has sour taste.

 

 

Others are sticky, has bitter taste and rich in fiber.

 

Wild edible vegetables can save us economically with the rising cost of food, besides it free and

 grows 

around us abundantly. It can also add nutrition to our diet. Wild food can help treat various medical condition. (Ask  professional aid for safety use).

 

Most importantly we can save the earth by consuming more wild vegetables.

 

 

 

 

 

Rice paddies and our environment

Traditional rice paddies are a great help to our ecosystem.

Their presence there also attracted various species of tadpoles, dragonflies and damselflies. Other organism like water bugs, cranes, egrets thus keep coming.

 

Rice paddies also store water and help prevent floods.

 

 

The International Year of rice 2004, provided an opportunity to raise awareness about the valuable contribution of wild aquatic plants and animals species to rural livelihood.

 

Aquatic animals in the rice fields provided an important share of protein, essential fatty acid and micronutrient intake of rural poor people and thus enhance food security.

 

 

 

 

 

Unfortunately, young and some not-so-young people nowadays are decreasing their rice-consumption, thus rice production is also diminished.  The mushrooming of colorful country houses at the once- rice-field areas is another reason for rice paddies disappearance.

 

 

                                                                  
                                            How do we solve this problem to save our environment?
                                            Tell us how?