Foods From Our Site
Edible flowers: Sage: pineapple and fruit salad sage, Pumpkin (Cucurbits), Sunflower (flowerhead can be baked whole), Magnolia, Artichokes, Elderflowers (this needs frost for good scent), Bluebells, Calendulas, Cornflowers, Hibiscus, pelargoniums, Garland, Nasturtiums, Chrysanthemums (medicinal), Citrus flowers, Brassica flowers (such as broccoli and turnip flowers), Borage, Amaranthus, Violets, Fuchsia, Gladioli, Banana flower (cook after soaking), Zucchini flowers.
Sweeteners, Useful Plants, Antiseptic Tea: Sugarcane, Flax, Tea tree, Lemon, Scented tea tree, violets, Orris Root (Melalueca (Leptospermum alternifolia) Petersonii), Lemon grass, Sweet fennel (dulcis var.), Alpine strawberry leaves, Chamomile. Lemon and Aniseed Myrtle.
Poultry feed and medicine: Protein (snails and insects) for healthy diet, Pigeon Pea, wormwood, Accacia, pumpkin, longifolia, clover seed, cleavers, grasses and dandelion weeds, melon and garlic ramblers – after harvest sunflowers, fennel, Evening primrose seeds. Geese are mostly vegetarian (they need fish oil sometimes for medicine). They love eating bamboo leaves and banana leaves and stools, so we fell them after picking and slice the stem open. Maidera vine is feed to the poultry and seed is placed in areas of infestation to encourage the chickens to scratch and disturb young tubers.
Edible Groundcovers: Yarrow (medicinal), Chamomile (medicinal tea), strawberries, New Zealand Spinach, mint, woodruff (flavouring), prostrate grevillia (nectar for cordial), Marjoram.
Smaller trees & Palms: Hazelnut, Tamarillo, Coffee, Tea, Native Raspberries, native raspberries, walking stick palm [Linospadix Monostrachya], Gingko, Lemonade, Italian Pine, Medlar, Natal Cherry, Custard Apple (Annona Cherimoya), Nashi, Wine Palm, Lychee, Walking stick Palm, Pomelo, Carob (not yet fruited), Silver Birch (edible syrup), Pomegrante, Sugar Maple.
Tall grasses, herbs and canes: Ginger, Tumeric, Galangla, Raspberries, Taro, Beans, Peas, Monstera, Spinach, Milo (type of Sorghum), Popping Sorghum, Corn, Wheat, Rye, wormwood, perenial Capsicum, Bush Tomatoes, Sage, Oregano, Sugarcane, Banana.
Vines: passionfruit (sweet and banana), Kiwifruit (1 male, 2 female), Basella, varieties of grape.
Trees: Blue Lilly Pilly, Pigeon Pea – soil conditioner edible fruit, Indigenous, and edible pods windbreak, birds. Mulberry alba and nigra – choose different varieties. Moreton Bay fig, Sandpaper Banana – fruits fig, Bunya pine (huge tree with large and dangerous fruits up to 35kg each, do not plant near homes or paths), Monstera Deliociosa – (many Australians call this Monsterio), Chestnut Avocado – easily grown from seed, Walnut, Lemon – some grown from seed, Chinotto Orange, Native or introduced Hibiscus (flowers) – seed or cutting, Mango, Olives, Macadamia, Illawarra Plum, Mountain Paw Paw, Damson (Babaco, also known as champagne fruit), Pistachio, Hazelnut, Almond, Saba Nut, Pecan (need male and female), Pear, Rambutan, Grapefruit, Native Guava, Persimmon, Orange (including Seville and Valencia orange), Mandarin (try to obtain early, middle and late varieties), Barbados Cherry, Feijoa, Ice Cream Bean, Apple. Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus), Japanese Raisin Tree (Hovenia dulcis), Linden (edible leaves).
Fruit Fly prone trees [Must be planted within chicken forage areas] Quince, Plum, Paw Paw – Papaya, Apricot, Peach, Loquat, Nectarine.
Useful Trees (all indigenous species support beneficial micro-organisms). All trees contribute to wind filtering and channelling.
Illawarra Flame (indigenous) flowers, birds, native bees, mulch, windbreak, deep rooted. Red Cedar (Toona Australis) rare indigenous tree, suited to wetter zone, deciduous, good windbreak. Plant only one by itself. Small grevillia, steep flowers for cordial, bird attractant and other Natural insect predators. Banksia, Casuarina – nitrogen fixing. Lemon Scented tea tree -tea, antiseptic, bee forage. Grevillia robusta – timber and bee and edible nectar. Elm – 2 varieties or more. Boobialla (soft edible fruit) bird attractant, bushy, windbreak and screen. Agati (African tree has edible leaves and pods). Acacia is main winter forage for bees, good pioneer species, soil conditioning and kindling for wood fire. Blueberry Ash (indigenous).
You can find more ideas and lists of plants at PLANTS FOR A FUTURE .
And this project researches underutilized food plants FOOD SOLUTIONS
