Perennial Edible Plants
These perennial herbaceous plants grow long stems with large yellow flowers. Other perennial veggies provide fertilizer to themselves and their neighboring plants by fixing nitrogen in the soil. 30 Perennial Vegetables We Grow On Our Permaculture Homestead The roots look like small potatoes and you cook and eat them in the same way. Perennial edible plants . Northern wild rice Zizania palustris - an annual plant native to the Great Lakes region and aquatic areas of the Boreal Forest regions of Alberta Saskatchewan and ManitobaWild rice Z. Perennial crops will be different based on your climate since some wont survive sub-zero winters. Aquatica - also an annual it grows in the Saint Lawrence River and on the Atlantic and Gulf coastsTexas wild rice Z. Alfalfa dandelions chickweed red clover sheep sorrel shepherds purse yarrow henbit and plantain are all edible if you know what where and when to harvest. Some are very well known to us yet many others are obscure or only grown...