{"id":20,"date":"2006-10-23T20:49:18","date_gmt":"2006-10-24T06:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/?p=20"},"modified":"2009-12-01T10:54:09","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T20:54:09","slug":"yacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2006\/10\/yacon\/","title":{"rendered":"Yacon!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently i’ve discovered a fascinating crop to try growing here. Yacon (prononuced yah-kohn<\/em>) is a South American tuber, a “lost food” of the Incas. It’s a relative of the sunflower, grows to 2m tall, almost completely pest- and disease-free. Yacon produces a bunch of delicious roots which look something like a yam but you can eat them raw, and they taste like a crisp, mildly sweet pear or apple. The sweetness comes from fructo-oligosaccharides<\/a> so although it’s tasty, it has no calories. Here are some good links about yacon: the Wikipedia page<\/a>, an article on the Seeds of Change newsletter<\/a>, on Plants For A Future<\/a> and Mother Earth News article about the Yummy Yacon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago our friend Liza and Josh gave us a couple yacon plants in pots. I planted them in the ground at the edge of the garden and they almost immediately grew into big, happy plants, as tall as a person:<\/p>\n

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Yesterday, on the way back from picking up our Organic Chicken Feed in Laupahoehoe, i stopped by Liza and Josh’s place, and Josh harvested several yacon plants to give me the root-buds for propagating. (Curled around around one of the tubers was a huge scary centipede, another reason i’m happy we live up at a high elevation, where centipedes don’t like it!) Here are pictures of the harvest, the root-buds, and the result: 20 pots of yacon starts:<\/p>\n

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